Are you a vegetarian or do you eat meat, and why? I'm a vegetarian because I believe slaughtering animals is wrong and that meat is unnecessary for humans. You can disagree with me, as long as you actually have something interesting to say. For example, don't say something dumb like "meat tastes good".
Scientific studies have shown that people who don't eat meat are more likely to suffer from a smaller brain later in life. Fake proteins like Soy and vitamins don't make up for the real protein you need in meat.
i do not enjoy vegetarians pushing the whole "meat is murder" thing at me. let me live my own life.HUMANS EAT MEAT life has been that way since we were Australopithecus.vegetarians are actually missing out on important nutrients and while some claim that being vegetarian makes them healthier it is NOT true. it is a fact that humans need meat.
I find it hypocritical when a vegetarian thinks that killing animals for food is different than killing plants for food, but I don't mind if they don't try to convert me.
Actually, humans DO need meat. It's one of the main reason we evolved into a civilization - because meat promotes intelligence. The stupider people who could only eat vegetation died off because they were less intelligent, and the smarter humans who could get meat evolved into more and more intelligent beings. And slaughtering animals is not cruel, really - there is nothing 'unnatural' about killing animals for food, because humans are animals and all omnivorous and carnivorous animals kill other animals and consume their flesh - it is just how it works. Humans are nutritionally built as omnivores. And about us farming animals and such? There is a lot of animal cruelty there, yes, but we're working against it and trying to prevent it from happening - and saying we can't use our intelligence to our advantage to get food is like saying that it's unfair for a wolf to use its claws to kill a deer.
It's just how the energy pyramid works - energy is made by the producers, the producers are eaten by the low-level consumers and then the low-level consumers are eaten by predators. It's how energy is passed throughout the population. And nutritionally, humans need the proteins from meat, as Listman proved earlier. There is simply no viable moral reason to be a vegetarian, because meat is a natural part of life in the animal kingdom. we don't have to be better than that - we can't transcend our nutritional needs and we can't transcend the fact that we're animals.
Seeing as everyone is pro meat i'll be pro veggy for a moment.
Meat is has bad impacts, look at all the obese people suffering from cardiovascular diseases. If you eat veggy in excess your BMI will not rocket up and you won't get as many health issues. There is an argument about nutrient deficiencies if you don't eat meat. e.g. protein however there are some veggies which are rich in protein like seaweed and nuts.
Red meat contains very high quantities of iron, when compared with plant origin foods. It is loaded with high quality protein and contains all the essential amino acids that the body requires. And the phosphorus content present in meat gets much more easily absorbed than that present in cereals and legumes. There is a popular misconception that red meat is bad for heart due to the high cholesterol and saturated fat content. But there is no relation between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. Since body regulates blood cholesterol and there is no confirmed scientific basis that saturated fat or cholesterol can cause blood cholesterol to rise.
It's certainly possible to stay healthy if you're a vegetarian - however, it requires so much more effort to do so than if you just chow down on some meat every now and again (it doesn't have to be every meal or even every day - some studies show eating meat a few times a week is good enough).
Okay, i understand that meat is good medically. But looking at the environmental cost:
A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.
If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint by up to 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to research by the University of Chicago.
