Well I've been wondering what the point of being vegan or vegetarian is? i mean why not eat meat...there is nothing wrong with it. Some say its against animal rights or we shouldn't eat them because it isn't right but animals eat each other all the time. So it would be nice if this could be explained to me in a way that actually makes sense...its just been bothering me for a while.

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haha i dont think there is one specific reason rather than numerous, e.g. religious, personal, or just deciding to try it out. however one reason that i have heard which i find rather interesting and actually makes some sense, although does not convince me to give up meat is that eating meat is not agriculturally sustainable. In basic bio you learn that energy is dispersed as you move further up the food chain. Therefore, a lot of energy is lost from feeding grain to cattle for example, which would have been more efficient if we were to eat the grain itself. Not to mention there is a problem with diversity, as beef is a big part of where we get our meat we create a monoculture of cattle, check out CAFO's, and we create these huge plants that only house cattle, which is also not very good for the environment.

There are many reasons for a person to not eat meat such as for their religion (it's against the Muslim tradition to eat pork since they consider pork to be impure), don't want to kill animals...etc. However, meat does provide some of the amino acids not produced by the body, so I am not persuaded to stop eating meat cuz we kill living organisms all the time, but only hesitate when it comes to animals.

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I've been vegetarian for 15+ years, mainly because I don't feel right killing animals for food when there are so many other good things to eat.

In addition, being vegetarian has a lot of health benefits *and* is more environmentally sustainable (as chris930421 explained).

Edit - we do eat eggs & dairy, which supply some of the nutrients that can be hard to get from a purely vegan diet.

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Personally i just really do not like chicken, beef, fish.... or really anything...
It taste bad.

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Be a little more open-minded. Some people just don't live the way you do.

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I guess...because it makes me feel good knowing that there's always a way to do something without killing someone? I don't know if that makes sense...but it does to me and I feel proud to be a vegetarian ^^

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People are all different...
Making this post won't make it anymore easier for you to understand why vegetarians don't eat meat because people would have their own reasons that is different from others.
+ what daisukidesuyo said.

Though I am in no ways a vegetarian, there are some types of meat I just cannot eat (any of those lunchmeats, ham, some chicken, etc) because just looking at them disgusts me. I'm sure they taste fine, but I just get sick thinking about eating them.

Which is slightly strange, because I used to have no experiences like this. Oh well, we're all different.

Edit: To clarify, for me it isn't because of some sort of connection to animals or emotions, but simply a matter of taste.

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What is the point of eating meat? It's the same question really.

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Just remember to eat healthy kids.
Moralism won't defeat biochemistry.
People go vegan when they are exposed too much to aggravated confrontation and Disney movies. Everything we eat is alive in some sense. Just because plants and such are less like us in structure than animals does not make it any less an ethic choice to end their lives to prolong yours than to eat animals.
You do not eat for an ism, you eat for your body. No matter what you eat, you are directly killing something by eating it and indirectly killing something by competing for food sources.
No matter what you eat or when you eat or how it was born and for what purpose, all living beings aim to stay alive. Every choice you make limits some other life. Even if you grew that stuff yourself, you eat food that some pest could use for the brood.

I just can't stand th idea that I may be eating something that has feelings - that has a mother, that has emotions so pure humans older than 7-8 can only dream of them.

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This invites the idea of consumption of children.

Should've used a comma, but sure, everything has
parents. : D

That's kinda what we do when we eat meat, don't we?
This - http://www.google.co.in/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q =http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jTQNmLGBIFU/RwOxEKv3Y9I/AAA AAAAAArw/iEge5rKpAgA/s400/61727_doroffy_the_lamb.jpg &sa=X&ei=5sejTbIYxOisB5SZ5eEJ&ved=0CAQQ 8wc4Bw&usg=AFQjCNFMfw8scLNvyZbiXXvRB-JTYpZf9g
becomes this - http://www.google.co.in/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q =http://www.englishmeat.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/org anic-lamb-cuts-english-meat.jpg&sa=X&ei=6MejTanUB pHRrQeJ0M3gCQ&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNE Z0r5kRrDimR3jlT6iIDf2rB3K1A
which becomes this - http://www.google.co.in/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q =http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_scVH-hYZkYU/S8Jf6wiUiJI/AAAAA AAAAM8/RD8IRoJnRSI/s1600/DSC_1035.JPG&sa=X& ei=78ejTc6hF8LlrAfHopXwCQ&ved=0CAQQ8wc4EA& usg=AFQjCNHKNNmuJ7dn2s_te57pWHd2CEqpfA

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