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Who here doesn't eat meat? :P

I'm eating a huge delicious bag of jack links beef jerky right now.
mmmm...

Honestly, the reasons I could never be vegetarian are that meat tastes too good, vegetables are yucky, and I don't care about the cute animals being slaughtered and fed to me.
 
jujuju said:
You made a very strong point and I respect you for that, but here is where I see that you are wrong. Humans dominate this planet, I think we can all agree on that, and yes we have altered the food chain to suit our own desires. Therefore the current state of the food chain is dependent on the things we do. Let's say we did stop eating meat. Each year there are approximately 75 million more people living on this Earth, each requiring food and nutrition to stay healthy. Now lets also assume that you are able to obtain all of your nutrients from plants, which by the way is not true. Now add the increasing amount of people in the world to the number of animals that would be eaten each day, but kept alive due to the fact that the entire planet has stopped eating meat. This is an unbelievably large number of life forms relying on a limited amount of plants in the world. Factor in the lack of nutrients in plants and it all equals world wide malnutrition over a certain period of time. I agree that humans have messed the entire balance of things up. We overpopulate ourselves, thus we are forced to overpopulate the animal world as well. Unfortunately, this is all in the past and at this current time, the food chain most certainly relies on humans.
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The current state of the food chain is dependent on what we do in some areas, not all areas, we maintain it in a way that suits our own needs rather than maintain it in the way that it should be. Of course in the world's current state, if everyone suddenly ceased to eat meat and all animals were set free there would be a problem, but that isn't going to happen. If there was a sudden global decision to go vegetarian, I don't think we'd just set free all the animals we've been breeding for consumption. We managed to drastically increase the population of certain animals, I'm sure we could decrease it through various methods as well. We can alter the food chain to suit our own desires, you agreed on that, so we could also alter it to suit the alternative option of not eating meat. So there wouldn't suddenly be a massive population of animals, if we stopped breeding them then they could return to their natural population number in time. There wouldn't be a lack of plants in the world, because all the funding that goes into the meat industry can be redirected to farms that produce different kinds of food in order to feed everyone. Or we could just build ~giant greenhouses~ to replace slaughterhouses, that would be kinder on the eyes too I think.

Vegetarians do not only eat plants. Vegetarians only exclude meat and can eat anything else, there are more things available than just meat and plants. People can follow a vegetarian diet and still remain perfectly healthy, I'm not sure why so many people think otherwise.

I'm not saying this is a viable option though. Obviously there would never be a global decision to go vegetarian, and such a process would be too much hassle. I'm just saying, if the world did suddenly go entirely vegetarian, it would not turn into some chaotic global starvation crisis.
 
I consider myself a pseudo-vegetarian.
I live on a farm so I have seen some pretty gruesome stuff in RL, which has put me off Mutton, Beef and Pork. Mostly I still eat chicken and shaved ham, sometimes fish but it has to be fish fingers, but other than that, no meat.
 
I enjoy meat and eat it, but I am not fond of pig and chicken. Although every month I go one week without meat.
 
I've always eaten meat but this last couple months my big brother and I have cut out red meat, like steak, hamburger, ect because their'll not very healthy but we will eat them on occasion. Instead we eat chicken.
 
Meat isn't something that I don't have everyday, but I do have it often. I freely admit that eating meat isn't something that's too important to me, and it's not due to animal-loving reasons.. it's more of the fact that it just doesn't sound too good to me. When I do eat meat, it's usually small amounts.
 
I can't say I like eating meat, but I do. I don't like the thoughts that come with eating meat. Shredding into cooked flesh just isn't something I really like to think about, and unfortunately anytime I eat meat, that thought comes to my mind. Not really controllable with that, from what I can tell. I used to be a vegetarian most of my senior year, but then it just got to the point where it was too difficult to manage and I gave up trying to uphold that. But I'd take some vegetables over a bucket of meat any day. I don't really like red meat at all, though. Except London Broil in Wishishere sauce.
 
I just started eating meat 2 years ago, I used to be a complete vegetarian :x
 
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