Note: This post is not meant to target those who are vegetarians for religious reasons or those who are vegetarians because they have some chronic disease that doesn’t allow them to eat meat. Instead, I’m targeting every single idiot out there who is a vegetarian for reasons like animal cruelty and health benefits.
Edit 9/10/14: Alright time to clear some air here. I started FitMole back in June 2011 and wrote this article in Aug 2011. Back when I started the blog I was trying to discover the best way to generate more traffic. So I thought to myself, “what’s the best way to get people talking?” So I came up with this article and the slightly edgy, and some might even call immature headline. And yes, I know the article can be seen as a bit offensive and ignorant. I still stand by my claims 100% that going vegetarian isn’t healthier than eating meat, but I do take full responsibility for some of the slightly ignorant comments I’ve made about animal cruelty. Other than that, can the person who keeps sending me death threat emails stop now 🙂
First off I just wanted to say I’m sorry. I normally don’t swear in the post title, but I just have to emphasize how stupid it is to become a vegetarian. It’s stupid, ridiculous, unnecessary, stupid, and did I mention it’s FUCKING stupid.
I have a couple of friends and family members that are vegetarians, and don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate them. I just can’t understand why they decided to follow this lifestyle.
When I ask them why they decided to become a vegetarian, they give me reasons like “Oh, it makes me feel good,” “Because meat is bad for your health,” or “I don’t want to harm animals.” Whenever I hear these reasons, I just put on my best “nod and pretend to agree with you” face.
So why is becoming a vegetarian stupid? Lets take a look:
1) You aren’t saving the lives of animals
I get it. You don’t like it when the heads of baby cows and pigs are chopped off, but do you really think eating that tofu burger is saving lives.
Fruits, vegetables, and grains are a staple among vegetarian diets, but did you know that millions of animals die just so you can enjoy that piece of bread? Eating foods like grains means destroying ecosystems and all of its inhabitants. It means killing all the little animals, birds, bugs, and microorganisms that live among the fields.
Do you know how many little animals and microorganisms die when farmers use machines to plow through wheat fields? The answer is a lot more than 1 cow.
As cheesy as it sounds, everything in life requires sacrifice. Animals are killed to get meat and ecosystems are destroyed to get grains. So the next time I’m eating a steak, don’t you dare judge me for killing a cow.
2) There is absolutely zero scientific proof showing that going vegetarian is healthy
When I want to believe something, I need proof. I need definite scientific proof.
And no, proof doesn’t mean reading a quote in Shape or MensHealth magazine. In order to convince me about anything I need to see a scientific study that shows causation not correlation.
For example, eating less food will make you loss weight. This is a stone cold fact that will remain true no matter what.
However, there is absolutely ZERO proof showing that going vegetarian will decrease your risk of heart disease, cancer, or whatever nasty stuff you can think of.
The only thing we have are thousands of studies showing a correlation between an increased risk of disease and an increase in meat consumption. We have studies that conclude that eating meat “may increase” your risk of heart disease, but this doesn’t mean crap. It’s inconclusive and doesn’t prove anything. Saying that your risk of heart disease “may increase” from eating red meat is like saying you “may” be able to breath fire if you eat enough jalapenos.
And yes, before you get all crazy on me, I have read the China Study a.k.a the vegetarian’s wet dream. For those who don’t know, the China Study was a big study conducted by Dr. Campbell who basically concluded that meat is killer.
While the China Study garnered a ton of media attention a couple years ago, it is also an incredibly flawed study despite it’s massive scale. But talking about all the flaws in the China Study is beyond the scope of this article, so let me turn you over to a great article written by Denise Minger of Raw Food SOS. She did an amazing job in analyzing the China Study and basically debunked every single aspect of it.
People need to stop believing the mainstream media, and need to start looking at the actual research and facts.
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3) You don’t get to eat meat
I know this is a bit obvious, but being a vegetarian means that you don’t get to eat meat. EVER. That means no steak, bacon, horse, or BBQ ribs. The closest thing you’ll ever get to meat is some glued together crap made of wheat and soy.
And please, don’t tell me that your veggie burger tastes better than my double bacon cheeseburger, okay? Don’t tell me “Oh, but it tastes just like the real thing.” No it doesn’t, you rationalizing crazy person. It doesn’t matter how hard you try, a piece of tofu will never taste as good as a greasy piece of beef.
So if vegetarians are so concerned about their health, then why do they opt for highly processed foods likes breads and cereals that are not found in nature as opposed to real animal meat which has been around since…. forever. It makes no freakin sense.
4) Vegetarians are actually eating animals without knowing it!
This past summer, I took a Biology 101 class at a community college to fulfill some general education requirements for my degree. While the class was a complete waste of my time and I pretty much bull-shitted my way through it, I did learn something quite interesting.
I learned about the food web, which is basically description of “who eats who” in the environment.
It goes something like this:
fox eats rabbit => fox poops into the soil => the living soil then absorbs the poop(which includes the rabbit) => fruit and vegetable plants absorb that exact same soil to grow => humans eat those same fruits and vegetables
This process happens EVERYWHERE in nature.
So even if you’re a vegetarian, you’re technically eating dead animals, albeit in a more indirect liquid form. But last time I checked, vegetarians were all about saving lives no matter what.
Don’t be a vegetarian
Despite everything you’ve heard, vegetarians are NOT the health conscious animal saving saints that they’re made out to be.
Instead, vegetarians:
- Support the destruction of ecosystems to obtain their food
- Kill millions of small animals, bugs, and microorganisms
- Aren’t saving their health since there’s absolutely zero scientific proof showing that meat is bad for you
- Are actually eating meat without knowing it
- Are simply misinformed about every aspect of the vegetarian lifestyle
So if you’re a vegetarian, then hopefully I’ve done my job to piss you off beyond belief, and if I converted you, then that’s cool too.
Once again, the only reason why you should be a vegetarian is for religious reasons or because you have a some chronic disease that doesn’t allow you to eat meat. But even if you’re a vegetarian for religious reasons, you might want to start questioning the logic behind your beliefs, just saying.
Alright guys, be sure to share this article with every single vegetarian you know, and to close out this article I have 3 parting words:
FUCK YOU PETA
For someone who needs proof to do anything why choose a side? You yourself said there is no conclusive evidence that vegetarianism is healthy. But on the flip side there are about a million studies and articles that the standard American diet (SAD) are terrible for your health. Which is no doubt the diet you are on. So a diet that there is no concrete evidence that it’s good or bad, or a diet that is just about sure to kill you young. And even if you aren’t on the SAD there is no evidence to support that any meat diets are healthy. My big question is why so much hate? You really sound quite ignorant. Oh and just an afterthought. If we are eating rabbits because the fox eats it and poops out some waste from it and then the plant absorbs some nutrients from it then you and I are both big shining starts out in the cosmos my friend. You may need to go back and retake the bio class because the only thing that plant takes from the fox poop is nutrients, not any actual flesh. May want to check your “facts” before you try to talk down to others.
So I’m a 15 year old girl, I just wanted to let that be known to put into perspective how ignorant this “blogger” is. I have been considering becoming a vegetarian at an early age and I thought I’d read up on the cons of it. While reading this I probably threw my phone down at least 5 different times. Every “point” this person made was completely ridiculous. I would contradict these statements with the actual facts but I see several other intelligent people have already done that. I would like to say that all vegetarians aren’t looking to save every animal’s life. I personally know that animals are still going to die whether I become a vegetarian or not. A lot of vegetarians know that, yes, cumulatively they are saving many lives but they are more concerned about protesting the inhumane ways of obtaining the meat that does in fact clog your arteries. Have you ever heard of anyone having a heart attack after eating a salad? Also, correlation is a very solid form of proof that vegetarians have a longer life expectancy and lower risk of heart disease. Maybe you should retake that biology course and not bull shit your way through it. I apologize for seeming rude in the comment, I don’t like being anything but nice to people who have done nothing to me personally but I don’t take kindly to people who talk down to others based on personal opinion.
Becoming vegan is very stupid. The blogger is quite right. Meat over fruits and vegetables is just retarded. Plus, vegans always try to make other people stop eating meat and join them in their “cause”
Retarded, adjective: characterized by a slowness or limitation in intellectual understanding and awareness, emotional development, academic progress, etc.
Always, adverb: every time; on every occasion; without exception:
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I assume by retarded you mean mentally retarded, and I know several vegan people, all of which have not tried to, in something you would say, make me a f***ing retard.
How about you stick to a fucking balanced diet a worry mote about kids in africa who have nothing you mindless prick
There still exist true men who are not spoiled by the vegy religion crap…
http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-brave-men-who-ate-nothing-but-meat.html
”Animals are killed to get meat and ecosystems are destroyed to get grains.”
What do livestock survive on? Cosmic energy? ecosystems are destroyed to grow animal feed.Infact, growing a kilogram of meat requires more than 10 times the resources (land, water, fuel) than growing a kilogram of grains.
Next time, get your fact right ,meathead!!!
How about you shut up and think of all the african children starving to death right now
If people didn’t eat meat there wouldn’t BE any starving African children.
http://gentleworld.org/could-veganism-end-world-hunger/
“[…]Even in the case of maximum efficiency, in which all the grains grown are dedicated to feeding humans (instead of livestock, which is an inefficient way to convert plant energy into food energy), there’s still a limit to how far the available quantities can stretch. “If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,” Wilson wrote.
The 3.5 billion acres would produce approximately 2 billion tons of grains annually, he explained. That’s enough to feed 10 billion vegetarians, but would only feed 2.5 billion U.S. omnivores, because so much vegetation is dedicated to livestock and poultry in the United States.”
http://www.livescience.com/16493-people-planet-earth-support.html
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Alright, number four, really? You needed a college level biology class to teach you about the circle of life? Yes animals die, decompose, and ultimately fertilize the soil with which all things grow. But, with that sort of logic we are all cannibals and coprophiles.
You also say that by not eating animals a person is not helping the animals. Well actually yes in theory farms raise and sell meat based on demand. So if the demand is diminished the meat supply consequently diminishes. According to the USDA the average American eats 195 lbs of meat annually. And as there are said to be 7.3 million vegetarians in America that means there is approximately 1,423,500,000 lbs of meat NOT being consumed by vegetarians. So yes, well over a billion pounds of meat, it does make a difference.
Young readers or readers looking to learn more about a vegetarian lifestyle please consult nutritional guides, peer revised articles or blogs written by educated bloggers.
I like how a bunch of butthurt people are commenting now.
I’m a vegan Lol… I’m just having fun with y’all cause I was in the mood… Even while my comments are true… But I also feel sorta sad for how ignorant and brainwashed many people are… I mean… Its not your fault… I was brainwashed too before… Its been deeply indoctrinated into us and our bibles and academia and even medical complexes… James the just… Jesus’ brother and successor was vegetarian living on plant foods alone as were all his closest followers like Peter… And others… Also James was brought up that way by his mother and was vegetarian even from the womb which is proof that James and Jesus’ were part of a vegetarian family… Only when Paul… Who never even met Jesus converted the bible to suit and convert roman Catholics to Christianity… Did Christians begin eating animal foods… But Paul was against the vegan diet that Jesus’ closest and earliest followers kept to… But in the earliest books of the bible… Its quite clear that Jesus and early Christians were vegan and strongly against eating or harming animals… Books by the Ebonites and Nazarenes, called the lost books of the bible… Humans were meant to be good… Loving… Merciful… Animals were meant to be our friends and helpers… Treating animals as food or harming animals defies and contradicts everyone of those things our purpose and our basic nature…. I pray goodness for you and I have faith that god will one day bring you out of your darkness…. Which is not your fault… That you’re in… And enlighten you to the truth which will set you free, because what you give is what you get, and when we give peace a and happiness and love to other beings we will attain the same heavenly gifts… So god bless you and good luck brother… You are good… And you will find the answers to the truth you seek… Sooner or later. Love and peace to you. 🙂 :-*
Its god’s arrangement that you left this post so you can realize how ignorant you are on the subject… Now you can find out…. But I never understood why any superior species such as humans… Would want to cross breed themselves with a Lower species, by eating animals… No matter what way you look at it, no matter what you eat… You’re eating vegetables somehow… Seeing as somewhere down the line either the animal itself ate plant foods or its prey did if you’re eating a carnivore… And you are what you eat… So when you eat meat, you’re crossbreeding yourself with a lower species… Then you’re no longer even HUMAN… But some sort of hybrid, mutant freak…. Its just UNNATURAL… 😛
PS brother or sister… We’re not butthurt… Although that’s comical Lol, good one! 🙂 we’re actually just trying ta bring some light where there’s darkness… And we do it for you, starving brothers and sisters all over the world, the mother earth whose resources are seriously wasted on dairy and livestock products for animal based diets, and for the animals… Don’t believe me, seek for yourself. I invite you to prove me wrong… And wish you peace and happiness… We do it for love 🙂 :-* 😉
I personally think you all need to shut the fuck up and get high on some mind blowing weed. Then you wouldn’t care what you eat and it would open your minds to reality. I personally, when it comes to food don’t fuck around. I eat anything and everything .Besides you morons should know that the best diet is a balanced diet. Also, if disciples in the Bible like James ate only vegetation it was because meat wasn’t readily available to them. Since they were always on the run avoiding persicution since they were all considered heretics. They had to eat what was available to them.
To all you good bible beaters out there who doesn’t think God wants you to eat meat and you morons who think your cross breeding with animals by eating them. You obviously have never read the book Ezekiel in the Holy Bible. Where god appears to Ezekiel in a chariot of some kind, full of beasts and reveals to Ezekiel that no longer animals of any kind are off limits to humans to eat.
WOW, perhaps you should of paid more attention in college. There is no proof that a vegetarian diet is healthy? Totally incorrect. There are literally hundreds of studies that shows that the vegetarian diet is 100% healthy. In fact, all major organizations have also stated that the diet is perfectly healthy. Oh yea, also, there are MANY studies that proves the vegan diet is perfectly healthy as well. There is actually some research that indicates humans are not naturally meat-eating.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formally the ADA) notes that a vegan and vegetarian diet is “healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.”
Some studies that proves your ignorance and biases include: Ling & Hänninen, 1992; Key, et al 1999; Orlich, et al. 2013; Key, et al, 2009; Appleby, 2002; Roger et al. 2012; Resnicow et al. 1991; Brown et al. 1999; Smit et al. 1999. We actually have studies dating from the 70’s proving you are wrong; Sacks et al. 1975.
For someone to make such statements as “in order to convince me about anything I need to see a scientific study that shows causation not correlation” and “people need to stop believing the mainstream media, and need to start looking at the actual research and facts,” your lack of understanding and reliance on empirical research is embarrassing.
Argument 1, 3, & 4 are completely ignorant and common anti-vegan/vegetarian people who actually believe it’s not a meal unless there’s a piece of dead animal on your plate.
Dude, the only fucking stupid thing is the big amount of bullshit that you wrote. But please, don’t get cocky thinking that you can actually piss off a vegetarian saying these things. Yoy should be right in order to get somebody rethinking his or her “beliefs”. By the way, you sound yourself pretty pissed off, think about it. I only feel pity for you, for how stupid people can be to feel good killing animals unnecessarily. I am not gonna refute your lies, use the fucking Google if you don’t wanna be stupid all your lifetime. I can disprove each one of them but I don’t feel like it and also I don’t speak English as a first language and I get tired.
Just one thing, you respect religious beliefs but you don’t do the same with an actual reasonable philosophy of life that provides real facts (not the bullshiit you just puked).
Have fun in the land of ignorance.
What an ignorant twat. This is the dumbest article I’ve ever read! Reading the points made actually makes me feel like I’ve lost brain cells, and valuable moments of my life. People need to stop sharing and liking posts to this page and stop the publicity for it.
To be honest, this article is stupid as fuck and sounds like a 9 year old wrote it, but for the most part, I agree. I honestly don’t give two shits about animals being slaughtered so I can have my meat. I really don’t care. I love my burgers, my steak, my fried chicken, my BACON, etc… I don’t care if people are vegetarians, it’s just annoying when they constantly feel the need to say it and try to convince me to be one. I tried. Lasted 2 weeks before I decided it wasn’t for me and I gorged on a all you can eat steak buffet. I wouldn’t eat a dog or cat, because I just wouldn’t feel right, but I don’t care if anyone else does. Just not mine lol.
I came across this article by accident and… what??? I feel like I just lost half my brain cells. WOW, did a vegetarian ex break your heart or something? I could almost taste the bitterness coming out from my computer screen. Not to mention your extremely stupid points. If you wanted to attack vegetarians, you could’ve done much better. I’m not even a vegetarian, but I know some people who are. Who cares what kind of lifestyle choices other people make? What in the world happened to make you so offended by people who don’t eat a certain food? Damn lol
Everyone is so quick to jump on either side of this. Bigger problems in the world people. Statistics prove being vegetarian has its pros and it’s cons, but if your entire reason is based off the cruelty to animals, I have one question for you. Have you ever shown your support for other organizations that involve helping your fellow humans? Examples being sex slaves all over the world or the starving kids in Africa or the wounded warriors project. Seriously if you say no then maybe you should focus on your humans first. Believe me I’m on board with the whole abuse to animals. It’s sickening. But equally sickening is people who care more about the damn animals or than their fellow humans. All I have to say is if I had to make a choice I would pick to help you instead of a cow.
This is false logic. Because someone cares about animal welfare does not preclude them from caring about humans. That’s just plain foolish.
I think this is the most retarded thing I have ever read. Quite embarrassing to be honest and why do you care so much? It’s other people’s life choices.
-vegetarian