Why do vegetarians see meat-eaters as murderers ???

Vegetarians stick strongly to there beliefs. They do not like to eat any type of meat, so therefore they do not want others to eat any type of meat. I eat meat, and nothing will change that, to me meat is very healthy, the days that i have tried to eat nothing but vegetables, it made me sick. I have nothing against vegetarians, but they do not need to dislike me because I am not going to become a non-meat eater. That is like anyone though, when you strick strong enough to some beliefs, nothing will ever change the way you act or what you believe in.

Good topic to bite into..*grin* Has anyone thought about the circle of life with animals and plant life? One cannot live without the other! Animals (people too) eat plant life, grass, leaves etc, to live and grow, they eliminate their waste, the plant life needs this to live and grow. Animals die and they decompose or rots and it goes into the ground for the plants to live on. Many fertilizers are blood and bone.. You throw out vegetable peelings etc into a compost pile to later decompose and you can throw this onto your garden to add more nutrients etc and grow bigger and more healthy veges, flowers etc. Some animals will eat other animals - is this cruel? It is a 'dog eat dog' world we live in and it is a survival of the fittest. Should humans be vegetarians, Yes if they want to..Nothing wrong with that. Should humans be carnivours, Yes if they want to..Nothing wrong with that either.. Should humans 'picket' each other on their choice of eating meat or being vegetarian...No.!!! We were given freedom of choice, trend or not trend, leave each others choice alone and be respective to each other. If you are a meat eater and you invite someone to dinner knowing they are a vegetarian - be respectful and cook more varieties of vegetables so they will feel comfortable. You can even go further and ask them for some recipes and perhaps have a vegetarian meal for everyone. One night will not hurt you to eat vegan.

About time someone brought up that point. If you are going to eat, something has to die. It can be the animals, or the plants. Yes, plants do die when they are picked. They stop growing and stop living. So maybe when people protest places that serve meat because it is inhumane, maybe they will think about poor little plants being ripped up by their tender roots. The life force being ripped away from them at their prime.

my own opinion is eat what you want to eat and DONT condemn others for their personal choice. The God who gave us vegetables for food is the same God who also gave us meat for food. i see no harm in a vegetarian diet as long as nutritional needs are met, the same as i see no harm in eating meat. if cholesterol and fat cause problems, then one should take a hard look at the AMOUNT of meat in a particular diet. anything in excess is bad for you. in my opinion, a healthy diet can include lots of veggies AND a moderate amount of meat or animal derived protien. but what one choses to eat is just that, one's own personal choice.

lol. I love that argument, that plants are living things too. We just can't see their pain. Personally, I think there are way too many who become vagan for the social aspects of it, the status, the 'coolness'. Granted, not all of them are like that, but a lot are. I, too, am a meat-eater. Though I'm careful for my health and only eat meat sparingly. Which is how it should be done. I think the majority of Americans, at least, over-eat meat. I eat chicken on occasion. And fish (salmon. yum) every so often. I tend to avoid beef, and eat it only once a month or so. (a nice juicy Red Robins burger. Oh glory be. lol) But, I wont diss Vagans. because they have a bit of a point. Most meat consumed by americans comes from highly mistreated animals. It's not like we went hunting and caught our own animals. I try to buy my meat from local butchers and such. But it's very difficult to find salmon locally, for me. We do need to rethink our meat-eating habits. after all, veggies are SO much more healthy for us. I think Vagans are a result of America sucking so badly at our health. So these people go to an extreme to get the point across. And also because that extremeness gets them clear of meat eating. A sort of "all or nothing" philosophy. Personally, I think vegans have gone a little too far. Milk and cheese, to me, aren't a result of animal cruelity, especially if you buy it locally. I just think most vegans, most TRUE vagans, that is, have a problem with our mass-production of meat products. And I agree. It's a little bit extreme.

There were a lot of people I know of and used to know that were vegetarians. I didn't try to convert them and vice versa and I am a meat eater myself :-) But if I ever encounter someone that tries to convert my meat eating habit and/or my lifestyle, I would ask them "Why are you trying to convert me to be a veggie eater? You don't see me converting you to eat meat?!" I guess the veggie thing has to do with religious convictions or something in that nature. The reason we humans have canine teeth is to help grind the meat. Otherwise, our teeth would be stub looking :-) Along time ago, cave people and homosapiens ate meat to survive, if they didn't, then humans would have been extinct a long time ago.

lets recognice that every system in this world which has growth is a living being. Basically we have being which give response and which doesnot give response. So, in this world are murderers. rite. As non-vegitarians hav no response from vegetables, they are rite at they are doing and people who eat the food which has sence of response are murderers. My dear friend, no one is murderer, untill he/she consider it for soul satisfaction. I think you can understand what i am saying.

Not all vegetarians act in this fashion so generalising is quite inaccurate here. I am a vegetarian and I don't do anything or say anything to popleI see eating meat. I don't try to preach to them about my philosophies because I live by the credo "To each his own." This means that I accept that everyone has a different opinion and I am not the one to try and force another on them. With that said, I have never seen any sort of studies that say you can go insane by eating only vegetables. That is completely asinine because for thousands of years there have been people, tribes and cultures that were vegetarians and they have had no problems. You should state your source to make such a claim.

hey, i am also vegeterian, but i never feel so that people who are eating meats are murderer. How do you feel so?....well well the way you started discussion , it lokks like you really ahte vegeterian anda bout their eating habbits, is not it?....be honest?....As i dont eat meat, but can have a food with one who is eating meat on sam e table, i really dont bother, and dont have any feeling for this!!

they don`t see meat eaters like murderers,they are vegetarians because of diffrent personal reasons....at some point u may be right...most of them are also marching for animal rights,because let`s face it,often the animals are mistreated and killed in horrible ways just because they are ment to be a future meal.

Wow I never thought of it like that. I dont care to not "Not" eat meat. But I have a cousin who is pretty strong a vegetarian. Some people just arent comfortable with meat though. I dont blame them, sometimes its gross. But I dont eat all meat, just the ones I love. I'd never give up cheeseburgers or pizza and stuff. I believe we are allowed to eat meat as well as veggies, God gave us both to have. Its not bad to eat what was given. But I respect those who dont want to eat it. Maybe its the fact I know one personally. Oh well.

That is a great question! I love when they say but animals breathe. WELL so do plants!!

Did you know that just as many people choose to be vegetarian for health reasons as do for animal rights activism? I actually don't know many veggies who decided to be veggie because they don't want to murder animals. I know several, though, who are veggie because it can be a much healthier lifestyle. And if someone doesn't want to kill animals, that's a valid choice, and you shouldn't criticize them for it. Especially if you don't want them to criticize you.

i think that it's more than a trend than a real conviction. it's probably en vogue to eat vegetables because some clebrity said that eatting meat is like murder or something. and besides that. you don't kill anything if you eat cheese or drink milk. and not all eggs are soon to be little birds. beside it's not like if you eat meat you are eating some endangered species. we eat especially grown animals. just like you grow crops. and it is true that there are a great deal of minerals, proteins and even vitamins that you can only get from meat and not from plants too.

Profetu, you are an eediot! firstly, since when does culinary diversity dictate an adversarial paradigm? secondly, plants produce foodstuffs specifically intended for animal consumption in the course of varied strategies to enhance the plants' survival and propagation. The birds and the bees all suck flower nectar, and orangutans and humans all suck fruit. The same can hardly be said of animals which are consumed by other animals - quite the contrary, most animals srtrive specifically to preserve all their bodily parts rather than offer them for mastication. And if you have the brainstorm of arguing that milk is an example of animals offering themselves for consumption by other animals, think again - and see point six... thirdly, despite cultural conditioning and commercial brainwashing to the contrary, humans are not designed to consume meat. As a species, the closest thing in the entire animal kingdom to the gut of a human is that of an orangutan - which happen to be fruitarians in the main, and vegetarians beyond that. fourthly, the human metabolism is quite capable of accomodating a departure from the fuel for which it has been designed, but that departure comes at a cost of an increasingly acidic metabolism which fosters the onset of accelerated ageing and degenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis and cancer, to name but a few. fifthly, who said anything about "murder"? I wouldn't kill an animal because I have no desire to do so - but that doesn't mean that I won't eat a chicken sandwich. But just because I would actually eat a chicken sandwich has no bearing whatsoever on the truth of everything else that I have said here. sixthly, if you drink milk, you will die of osteoporosis. Milk is mammalian cellular secretion intended for the nourishment of the juveniles of the species from which it is produced. In all other respects, it is a mild poison if consumed by the adults of the same species, and more so if consumed by the juveniles or adults of other mammalian species. Cow's milk causes a long list of chronic diseases in the Western societies that have become so accustomed to consuming it that health and dietary authorities actually support the commercial cartels in pushing it on the population, and promote it as a remedy for the very disease that it causes - osteoporosis! All the little old ladies will keep right on chugging the stuff down until they end up crumbling in a palpitating sodden mess down into their graves. But don't take my word for it -do a check of the incidence of osteoporosis across the nations of the world and compare this to the incidence of dairy consumption. In summary, eating plants isn't murder because plants don't recognise the concept. Eatng spiders might be, but that's fully justified given their generally homicidally psychotic tendencies.

At times I do not understand why these days some get so angry at the ways animals are slaughtered. I believe in this modern time animals die quicker during slaughter, than back say in the caveman days where many animal's deaths would be long and carried out, with hunters running them down and in some cases would have many spears stuck in them before dying. I think better things could be said about animal rights activists if they went after more of the sport hunters, than slaughter houses. I'll always love animal, but I'm not vegetarian. I know which battles to fight and which are better left alone, cause in my opinion slaughter houses get it done with quicker than most sport hunters do.

Where from you get the meat? does you grow meat like crops on land? You have got meat by killing an innocent animal, thats y vegetarians call Non-Vegetarians as murderers.. Do you think that murder means killing only human beings.. Killing animals also i feel as murdering only..

I am vegetarian, and I don't view meat-eaters as murderers. It was my decision to become vegetarian, just as it was their decision not to. If other people are happy to eat meat, then that's fine. Personally, I don't want to, so I don't. My main reason is because I don't like the way in which the animals are slaughtered - I worked in the meat industry, and so have first hand experience of what happens at slaughterhouses. Vegetarianism is, in some ways, healthier than eating meat, though it obviously has it's disadvantages. I'm anaemic, which is partly caused by my vegetarianism. I control this with iron tablets, and am happy to continue not eating meat. I think that it is a moral decision, for most people, and some people just like to rub that in. Sort of like, 'Look at me, look how thoughtful and caring I am'. I don't really care if other people eat meat or not. It's not up to me to try to change the views of others.

Hello fellow meat eater. I eat meat and love it. I don't mind vegetarians. It's when they force their attitudes and methods of eating upon that really makes me mad. For this I believe they should be punished by having a raw sirloin steak rubbed in their face. I can understand why people want to be vegetarian, but I think when they choose to be vegetarian they choose to eat unhealthily. As an ending point to this argument I believe that all vegetarians should be forced to have their canine teeth removed. These teeth are here for a reason, and one reason only - to tear meat, and as vegetarians don't need them they should be willing to give them up. It also provides a great method of identifying vegetarians in a crowd of people. We are superior beings, start acting like one!

hey i m a vegetarian..n i dont know what you r so complaining about...if you know the studies regarding just negative of vegetables why dont you read this... www.vnv.org.au/whybevegan.htm.. u might get some of your answers...