Why do Vegetarians get so much hate?

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Just like with religion, gaming, etc, there are normal people and then there are crazed lunatics who try to force on you what they like or advocate and keep you away from what they think is bad.

The latter are the ones I hate.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Vegetarians are hated because they're not really people.

DUH-NUH! Alien Invasion~

 

[Mattersmasher]

I'm not a vegetarian but I don't have anything against vegetarians

This answer does fine for me.

The good thing with plants is they always grow back...unless my cat sits on them.

On another note, why does your cat sit on plants? :O

Mr. Paws has but two goals in life: To find the ultimate comfortable place to sit and to cause as much mischief as possible while he does it.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I do not want to be apart of animal cruelty at all.

Animals are meant to be eaten. Circle of life and all that.

I have nothing wrong with vegetarians, just the ones who think they're better than us.
Oh and do you eat fish?

Why all the flack?

Today's fun fact: It's actually FLAK. Short for FLiegerAbwohlKannonen, the German anti-aircraft guns in WW2.

 

[Rekuiem]

I think people have really taken this issue to the extreme, being a vegetarian isn't just about saving animals. Peronally, I'm a vegetarian because I was born into a vegetarian household and never really acquired a taste for meat. As I've aged I've learned to enjoy some white meat, however, things like beef and pork smell awful to me. Just throwing this side out there beacuse a lot of people seem to think that being a vegetarian is about riding a high horse because so many dolts give it a bad name.

A people who converts the most is the person with the least faith.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

I'm not a vegetarian but I don't have anything against vegetarians

This answer does fine for me.

The good thing with plants is they always grow back...unless my cat sits on them.

On another note, why does your cat sit on plants? :O

Mr. Paws has but two goals in life: To find the ultimate comfortable place to sit and to cause as much mischief as possible while he does it.

Sounds like Mr. Paws gets around if he is sitting on plants because he is uncomfortable.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I find not eating meat wierd. It tastes fantastic and who cares if some animals have o die for it. Its the natural order of things. Animals eat other animals. Its not cruel. It also keeps animal population under control, preserving the environment and all that bs.
Basically, meat tastes nice, vegiterians suck because they dont eat meat Its not natural people.
-Throws steak at vegetarians-

 

[Eric_Autopsy]

Because they dont eat meat.

 

[Xbowhyena]

I'm not a vegetarian, but I hardly ever eat meat, just a choice, but I will eat it if it is being served. Also, I have never and none of my friends have ever thrown any hate at vegetarians.

 

[scotth266]

Vegetarians? They're cool.

Vegans? Not so much. This is personal bias speaking though: the vegans that I've met were all intensely annoying people. If I met a decent vegan, I'd change my mind in a heartbeat.

 

[Amanov]

Because a lot of people become vegetarian because of the "cruelty" inflicted on animals during the slaughter process. If that's the case BUY YOUR MEAT FROM A KOSHER SHOP, sure they won't sell everything, but it ensures that the animal had as quick and painless a death as possible, otherwise it wouldn't be Kosher and they wouldn't sell it.

Also, I see it as part of our evolution. The Cheetah evolved with powerful limbs to help it run fast to kill its prey. Evolution provided us with great intellect that enabled us to consume part of our NATURAL DIET. It's nature, get over it.

You either believe in God in which case you should eat meat because you believe he put it here for us to do so OR you believe in evolution which, through the survival of the fittest, helped us come up with new and quite frankly kinder (after all we're not sinking teeth into an antelope's throat and dragging it to the ground) ways of consuming part of a natural human diet.

Perhaps we should chastise all the other carnivores out there? The lions, the cat, the wolf, vultures etc. after all, they all eat meat don't they? If we're animals and what we do is "wrong" then I guess what they do, what with them being animals too, must be "wrong" also.

Overall I don't give a fuck whether you're vegetarian as long as you don't try and push your views on me or make out that you're so much better than me (which a hell of a lot of vegetarians and vegans especially do), because YOU'RE NOT and if you do try and force your views on me then I will bloody well push all the hate I can your way.

 

[A random person]

Peta
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Our eating meat is just as evil as what many animals do in the wild, if not less evil. At least we try to make their death less painful, instead of ripping their heads off like many animals. Not a big fan of veal, though.

 

[A random person]

You dont eat meat? Beacuse animals are being sacrificied for our own leisure. (I get your point, and respect your decision)

You dont drink milk or Eat egss? Now thats what dont understand. Sorry dood but thats just INSANE

Don't cows LIKE being milked? I never saw how that is cruelty.

 

[Xanadeas]

Vegetarians/Vegans are just a bit silly in my eyes is all. Many vegans preach about how they're worried about harming animals and how what they eat doesn't cause harm to anything... Plants are in fact quite alive and they DO DIE when viciously ripped from the ground or cut to pieces so that parts of them can be harvested.

Now on to your claim of wanting to help animals... Frankly you're not helping them at all. The idea that if enough people switch to eating non-meat products only animals will no longer be killed is outrageous. You as a single entity are not aiding in the fight against animal cruelty at all. In fact you likely don't do anything about it. IE: Protesting, investigations into how animals are treated in particular slaughter houses, actually going out and doing something if these animals are in fact being treated in an unnecessarily cruel fashion.

A simple thing such as not eating meat isn't going to help any animals. (Except maybe help you avoid problems related to eating too much red meat.) People will still breed them, raise them, and then kill them. Then they will eat them.

 

[Loiosh91]

vegetarians are fine its just that they wont shut the f*** up, i dont think im better than them because my skins the right color, so why do they think they are better than me because they eat rabbit food?

 

[DazZ.]

I lived with 2 veggies and they were alright because they didn't mind meat and blood on the counter. (blood was rare, but i am shit at cooking things properly.)

Plus I could leave open boxes of burgers unguarded and know they are safe.

Edit: If we were a vegetarian species, I hardly think wed be alive now. Without fending off predators and then finding we could eat them and survive.
Killing for fun is cruel, killing to eat is how alot of nature works.

 

[Falconknight06]

we have evolved much beyond our animal roots, if I can survive without having to have something die for me, then it makes me feel a bit better inside, I don't choose to have these feelings and beliefs, I can't ignore them, its gotten to the point, where I couldn't physically eat meat, I dont mind people eating it around me, but the thought of it in my mouth makes me sick.

But you can't survive without something dying for you. That's the whole point. If you eat plants, those were once living and died for you. Likewise, the animals that would have eaten those plants didn't get to eat them. Also, the land used to farm those plants could have been used as unspoiled land, which animals could have lived on (and eaten more plants). In addition, the plants harvested (if machine harvesters were used) probably killed a lot of small rodents. Not to mention the insects that die to pesticides. When you eat plants, you validate/perpetuate this whole system and allow this process of multiple deaths to continue.

When I eat an organically-farmed chicken, the only thing that died was the chicken... And any bugs the chicken ate, but at least that made the chicken happy.

It's fine to be vegetarian for health reasons and such, but don't use the "not killing things" argument. Life is about living off of other life. Proof? Food consumed closer to the state of "alive" is actually healthier (assuming it was killed in the wild, not in a factory). The "higher morality" of vegetarianism is an ill-defined and slippery slope. That's why I get angry when I meet preachy ones.

There is a lot more to my vegetarianism than just not wanting the animal to die, its much better for the environment, its a healthy lifestyle, Plants are alive and do respond to light and water, but they don?t feel pain. The ability to feel pain requires a brain, a central nervous system, and pain receptors. All animals have these things. Plants do not

Ummmm, not all animals have central nervous systems or pain receptors. Generalizations kill logical arguments. Also, using the argument that plants feel no pain is not exactly legitimate either. Plants release different chemicals when under stress and attack. Though the title seems to be too sensationalist in my opinion, here

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37768/title/An_electronic_nose_that_smells_plants_pain

I am a junior in college studying Plant Biology and I have many fellow majors who are vegetarians and none of them give me flack for eating meat. None of them espouse it for being less cruel either. I think that is why we get along. They don't feel the need to defend their decision about their diet. Your problem seems to be your need to add to your statement of why you're a vegetarian. Merely saying you're a vegetarian shouldn't give you any flack, but throwing statistics in other people's faces as to reasons why will make them resent you. Don't give people a reason to dislike you for being a vegetarian by just leaving it at the statement, "I'm a Vegetarian/Vegan" and leave out the qualifiers.

 

[Lord George]

I couldn't stand being a veggie myself, I love my meat too much, also your going to be pretty weak if all you eat is vegetables, unless your eating a hell of a lot of pasta and rice.

Also if the entire world went vegetarian then all the Pigs would be slaughtered along with sheep and cows (depending on how much milk becomes worth) because farmers would simply not make enough money off them to justify keeping them around.