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.
[The leaders of anti-vegetarians]
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
Personally, I do it for animal cruelty reasons. I can’t just be like, “Oh I feel bad animals are raised to be slaughtered just so that we can eat them,” if I’m going to eat them myself. The way I see it, animals aren’t killed directly so that we can eat fruits and vegetables.
We’re all entitled to our opinion, you can say vegetarianism is wrong, but I won’t insult others for eating meat.
Why is this guy so jumped up about other peoples life style choices no one gives a shit calm down
He most likely had a bad experience with a vegan. May be they called him cruel because he decided to have ham on his sandwich. I honestly think that the thing we need to work on most is the amount of forests that are cut down to grow crops.
why would you want to judge someone’s lifestyle? if people don’t want to eat meat for the hell of it, don’t get mad by it. the fact that you would take the time out to go through the research of being a vegetarian, criticizing it and writing a long ass essay on it is really sad. in one part of your explanation you said don’t judge me if i’m eating steak. firstly, no one is judging you. vegetarians aren’t banging on your door and telling you not to eat it. you’re the only person here doing the judging. do something better with your life than criticizing people’s decisions. its really low of you.
As someone who is calling another person low and sad, you’re pretty low and sad yourself. You could have let it not bother you. You could have walked by, but no, you just had to set this guy straight. He has very valid points and honestly, vegans are stupid.
Valid points? *laughs*
I just really wanted to say…FUCK YOU. STUPID CUM SUCKING PEST. First of all heck yeah we are saving animals. Even if you didn’t kill it. You participate in the action by buying/eating it. Too bad there are so many people like you who clearly had their brain removed. Would you eat a dog or a cat? Why not? If animals are here to be eaten then go ahead. And If you have ever in your whole pathetic life said “I love animals” You my dear can go shout your self. You wan’t proof that it’s healthy? Think of a cage. In that small cage there are 5 pigs in it. Those pigs have a bunch of health problems. They are slaughtered in that dirty tiny cage. Then they lay in a truck somewhere for God knows for how long and then are deported to your supermarket. Where you buy them and serve them on your table and hopefully your kids. (if you have them) So when you say vegetables and fruit isn’t healthy. I say FUCK YOU. Also if you feel so bad for small bugs why don’t you feel bad for cows? Your stupidity amazes me. I don’t know what to do. Laugh or cry because I share a planet with creatures like you. Hope you burn in hell.
Sincerely, me.
You dont burn in hell for killing animals, bro… If you want to religiously punisb him, try again.
Vegans are dumbasses.
You’re not saving any animals by going vegan, and you’re definitely not saving any animals by going vegetarian. You’re just taking yourself out of the equation. If you want animal abuse to be gone, then work to make animal abuse gone. Do something about it!
You ARE saving animals by being vegetarian or vegan. Supply and demand. The less demand, the less supply. One person who is a vegan saves about 50 animals per year. Do you research
Oh yes just remind me who is taking care of that 50 animals…. You maybe??
I would but im 11. Yup i’ll put some money together and set out to make people vegetarian.
That’s sure gonna do it.
Im gonna do this with £200.
Sure that will work, wont it?
I just can say that you don’t know what you are talking about. And makes me sad that are people like you in this world that can’t see how much animal farming are suffering, just because you just care about yourself and your appetite. Very sad! You can’t see a baby calf take away from his mum when he born and just because you want milk and cheese. And he has to die chain in a cage for 4 months just you to have tender meat and cheese. And the cow have to suffer so much. I just I think you don’t see beyond your pleasure for food. :'(
I agree. However, if it bothers you so much; DO SOMETHING! Don’t just take yourself out of the equation, and don’t antagonize people for eating meat. We are omnivores, and we can choose to eat whatever. But this isn’t a matter of diet. It is a matter of intelligence and our power in the world. It’s always better to do something than just quarantine.
People, I eat meat from reliable sources within my community. No, I don’t eat veal. I eat full grown cows and avoid McDonalds because of chicken abuse, but I can eat meat whenever I want and you can’t call me stupid for doing it.
So I must imagine you take care of all the animals you are saving? You have a big house full of cows and pigs as pets? Where do you think they live? Free in the wild? Or what do you think it will happen if there is less demand and less breeding? The cows will go extinct? Please explain me if you know the answers
Before the advent of agriculture the human diet would have been largely, meat. Gathering wild fruits and vegetables would have been nowhere near enough to sustain even a small group of people, the high quality proteins found in meat is what allowed our brains to grow and evolve to what they are today. I’m not trying to offend anyone, this is just my point of view based upon my study of paleontology.
And as an archaeologist, I’m disagreeing with you–partly. Yes, before the agricultural revolution, a good portion of our diet came from meat. But it wasn’t as difficult to forage as you might think. No, there were never any food surpluses of the kind associated with agriculture, but it was relatively easy to pick and eat your food as you walked or went about your daily life. Think of it as the original fast food.
But the important thing here is the QUALITY of meat being eaten. Wild game is far more nutritious than any domesticated animals we eat today. Even free-range or grass-fed meat and poultry contains more fat, less protein, fewer nutrients and minerals, and a poor balance of fats and cholestoral, not to mention more calories in general. The meat that our ancestors were eating was far healthier than the meat we eat today, which when coupled with their active lifestyle, would allow them to eat more of it (though this doesn’t seem to be the case if you read the literature).
For the record, I am a mostly vegetarian. I eat lots of fruits and vegetables because I think the Western meat-centric diet does not coordinate well with our sedentary lifestyles. I eat meat when I know the history of it; in other words, I’ll eat the venison I’ve shot myself but not a Big Mac. My boyfriend is not a vegetarian and I don’t condemn anyone for it. I love meat. I just want to be sure it was ethically sourced and supports my local economy, not the corporation. (And I’m a conservative, so don’t get on me about my liberal bent against capitalism yadda yadda yadda.)
Bill Pearl
You have done a good job concentrating and finding points to write this article. Attracted good traffic indeed. But we all know the points you mentioned were totally waste of time and meaningless. They pointed nowhere 🙂 Thanks for wasting my 5 minutes. Please make sure you think, analyse and take suggestions before you write and publish.
You’re so correct. His points weren’t valid. You can read about it on my comment 🙂
Before the points you iterated, there was a statement by you “I just understand why they decided to follow this lifestyle”. Well, good morning to you since this is not a lifestyle, this is a choice made by a vegetarian.
Answers to your points below:
1) Yes, we save lived of animals and off course the cruelty done to them. If you read the farming practices, fields are plough during the day time when most of the small animals like rats etc. are not resting inside the soil or in their holes. They are out, another thing; only dry fields are ploughed, not wet. So the damage is not there like the way you exaggerated.
2) Here is the link that comes from a fitness website followed by lot of body builders and sportsmen, and this was a result of the research done, I hope this will answer your question in second point:
http://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/what-to-eat/all-meat-vs-vegetarian-diets
3) I agree with you here, that meat is tasty to eat. However, being vegetarian comes with no guilt and trust me at least we can say there is no one getting tortured for my food.
4) Your stupid 4th point is exactly same as 1st point. Also, the way you wrote ‘process’ (rather calling it ecosystem) and then you topped it off by describing food chain with the help of ‘poop’, I just wish your parents had sent you to school, it wouldn’t have come to this discussion.
I hope you realize that rather than instigating any kind of civil debate you’ve perpetuated exactly the kind of hateful relationship between vegetarians and meat-eaters that you say you don’t. I eat a plant based diet. None of my friends or family do the same, and I don’t lecture them like you’ve done. But I will respond to your points.
1. Yes, natural ecosystems are destroyed to make room for crops. They’re also destroyed to make room for pasture and grazing land. And the purification plant that cleans your water. And the city you live. And the roads you drive on. My point is that human manipulation of the environment has been going on for as long as we’ve been around. Making wild claims that the grain we eat is more destructive than the chicken we eat is uneducated and unfounded. If anything, the grain-fed meat we eat is more damaging to the environment because of all the energy that has to go into sustaining both the animal AND the grain used to feed that animal.
2. The meat eaten today is not healthy. Or at least it isn’t as healthy as it used to be. As hunter-gatherers, we ate a diet with a large amount of meat, yes. But that meat was fundamentally different from what we eat today. Hunted game is leaner, less calorie dense, and contains a more balanced assortment of minerals, fats, and cholestorals than domestimated animals. Those are just the facts.
3. Um, do you see any vegetarians complaining about not being able to eat meat? It’s a choice. If I decide to change my mind and start eating Big Macs again, that’s my choice. But don’t belittle me for sticking to my guns and don’t you dare berate me for not conforming to your standards of taste.
Also, as a vegetarian, I don’t eat processed cereals and breads, at least as much as possible. I buy whole fruits and vegetables, make my bread from scratch, and do everything I can not to pollute my liver with man-made preservatives.
4. Um. Yes. Duh. You know what else is in the soil? Dead humans. Does that make us all cannibals? At the risk of sounding like a hippie, it’s the circle of life, man. It’s a natural process and doesn’t conflict with any of my moral ideologies concerned with vegetarianism.
Please eduacate yourself. You just sound like a jackass.
Hi, I have some questions for you. I eat meat, not a lot but I do. I’m not anglophone so I’m not super fluent. Ok so here are my questions:
1) what do vegetarians or vegan think about the life of farm animals? I mean, cows pigs chickens etc they are considered pets. The animals we now eat used to live in the wild, but not anymore, they come from different breeding and choices that the humans made. So what about them after every person on the planet stops eating meat? Who is going to take care of them? Obviously the number will hugely decrease because of the lack of demand. So do you think it is positive or negative the fact that the population of animals like those will decrease? And who is going to keep them? They’re not able to live in the wild. Although there are wild chickens turkeys etc, they are considered different species from the ones we eat.
2) I don’t actually see vegetarian or vegans complain about not eating meat, but what about food that copy it? I don’t know the English word, in Italian is surrogati. What if it is a more subtle thing? Why do I see so many vegans buy soy hamburgers or seitan turkey? Why do they have this need of buying vegetal products that seem like and taste like meat?
That I really don’t understand, why not just eat vegetables as they naturally are? Do they know that is not healthy eating highly processed food like seitan and tofu stuff?
3) even if people say that vegetarians don’t complain about people eating meat, I think it’s not true. I’ve seen many times vegans say to omnivore people they are murderers, killers etc. saying that they don’t have to eat meat etc I’ve seen protests here in Italy that don’t actually have sense. I really love animals but I think we are animals too and this is our nature. We are not herbivore.
4) I know you wrote about you not eating processed food, but I just want an opinion about other people that do.
5) last thing. I think that it is not actually possible to not kill an animal, even if we are vegan. It’s full of foods and things that we think are not from animals but they are. There are lotions, materials and even that innocent cake with fruit and jelly. I think that many people don’t know that jelly it is often made from animal’s bones (I talk about the clear one that is used for cakes and other desserts). There is even a liquor which is red because of tiny insects that are used to make the color (alchermes). Another thing, I’ve seen how wine is made, and I’ve been helping a person I know collecting grapes from the vineyards. So you collect them and throw them in baskets, after that you put everything in a machine that smashes everything. The problem now is that, by everything I mean everything, even spiders, insects, small lizards.
Thank you for the answers I hope you will give me
being vegetarian is not about saving lives, that ur biased opinion, but the direct moral responsibility of an animals life.
Meat u know loses it allure when u realize its flesh, as in a animal that has guts, and screams.
So even if u say u don’t get its because ur just being biased.
Also being vegetarian is not unhealthy vegans probably, their are other scorches of protein so no biggie.
True biological residue is recycled into all systems but the chemical form is DIFFERENT and last time i checked plants did not TASTE like meat. Plus theres only such a extent we can go.
I mean no plants what else is there to eat that does not contain residue.
There is no such thing as a vegan. See picture above. There are only delusional people that think not eating meat saves animals but using products that contain animals or taking land for the use of farming is somehow superior. It is not. You kill animals and insects everyday of your life. Unless you get off this planet and live off the blackness of space your all hypocrites.
Hi, I do eat meat but I have to correct you in one thing. Actually eating some king of meat is bad for your health. So there are two things, first one most of the meat we buy at the supermarket comes from places where the food they give them is not good, the conditions are bad so there is the risk of illness for the animal and they are full of antibiotics, hormones etc.
second thought, red meat is not actually really good for your health because even if you don’t see it with your eyes, it is full of fat!! So that fat can harm you, you can have high cholesterol, and from that you can have heart diseases. So from this point of view it is better to reduce the amount of red meat we eat.
If we talk about fish there are risks there too. From one side it is better to eat fish that comes from the ocean and that is not bred (raised? I don’t know in English), but it is full of bad metals like lead, mercury etc especially big ones like tunas. On the other side the raised one are not super good because of the food they give them.
So there are pros and cons in everything we eat, even eating only vegetables is not good, for exemple there are people with diverticulosis that cannot eat them. We just have to choose what we think is best for us, and not listen to all the insane things they tell us. But mostly we don’t have to bother others saying they have to eat one thing or the other.
2 words: Caldwell Esselstyn.
The fact of the matter is that we humans are a superior species. Our technology and ability to create further complexity outside of natural processes makes us so.
As such, I think animals, as inferior species, are ours to do with as we please. I don’t think it matters whether we’re killing animals or not, because we are the superior species, and inferior species are there to be used as we please. Animals don’t have sentience, so why should we bother making their lives better? We shouldn’t.
Don’t conflate this as advocating abuse, that is purposelessly causing damage to a complex system without any (logical) reason for doing so, which is a negative action in and unto itself.