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
That’s brillant man ! it’s just a shame it’s so insane, perhaps next time you want to look clever you should try to use your brain instead of your sphincter to build théories… But, don’t be ashamed, at least you gave a lot of people a bit of entertainment and a good laugh !
If I was a pig, I wouldn’t want to get as fat as possible for my own pleasure and die without anyone eating me. I would eat and get as fat as possible in order to be the most delicious piece of pork and bacon as possible! It’s been proven that if you start eating healthy, it’ll prolong your life. But what they haven’t proved is that a prolonged life is a GOOD THING.
“It’s been proven that if you start eating healthy, it’ll prolong your life. But what they haven’t proved is that a prolonged life is a GOOD THING.”
Priceless. I wish I’d thought of this myself.
This is absolutely stupid. Were not changing anything, people still produce meat, but if everyone was vegetarian people wouldn’t produce meat. Anyway, you wouldn’t like being fattened up and killed would you? Lets disprove all your things in one go, shall we?
1. we aren’t saving lives, but we don’t want to join in with the cruelty. If everyone was vegetarian the world wouldn’t be like this. people would have something called EMPATHY for animals maybe? Has anyone thought about their feelings? Vegetarians are generally better people.
2. I dont care if i die earlier, i would prefer to do that then eat meat, and that’s probably the same for many other vegetarians. Because i have empathy for the animals. and i would be in rage if i knew what had happened to me after my death, if i was an animal.
3. So what? there’s much more food in the world. Plus it’s just a food, there are alternatives (yes they may not be as good). I would prefer to eat different food then eat animals. It’s like “This pig dies if you eat this pork, or eat this slightly less good alternative, which do you pick?” “Pork.” it’s stupid and cruel.
4. Ok so were all cannibals now, aren’t we? Humans go into the ground and it’s nutrients go into it, so that means were eating humans. you could say that about anything, that doesn’t really mean were eating meat. And if it does, most people would of figured out were all cannibals by now. This point is downright stupid.
So are all the other points.
To make it clear, eating meat is cruel and inhumane. Being vegetarian is for people who are Empathetic and Kind. i guess you guys aren’t…
Surveys show that in the Western world most vegetarians are high maintenance teen age girls who want rebel against their parents and get more attention at meal times than their brothers.
Oh please, share with us more on this study of yours. A URL code would suffice.
Amen brother. Truth seems to be a hard pill for the vegans to swallow, which is priceless.
Dude, you are so fucking stupid. I’m not even a vegetarian but I can absolutely guarantee that you are brainless. I’d be here all day if I had to explain why.
lets see… where can we start…
“you may breathe fire if you eat enough jalapenos” now you can’t be serious… that’s the worst example i’ve heard in my life…
saying that you “may have an increased risk of heart disease” if you eat meat is TOTALLY DIFFERENT than saying you “may breathe fire if you eat enough japalenos”.
you will never be able to breathe fire, no matter what you eat. but there is a staggering amount of data out there that very much shows the correlation between lower disease and vegetarianism.
whether that disease that is caused by the meat itself or by the many different hormones and chemicals pumped into the meat of the farmed animals is a different issue, which you don’t address at all…
you are a fucking idiot… totally waste of fucking time reading this article… people are looking for real information because many people actually prefer to eat meat and are looking for good insightful information as to why they should or shouldn’t.
your bullshit article does nothing for either meat eaters or vegetarians… you are a fucking moron loser!
This is pretty rude. Calling people out and ALSO being so hurtful against their own desicion? Vegetarians probably know they arent making a whole lot of change, but they know that it at least makes THEM feel better about themselves. Also, WHO THE FUCK CARES?? Its a fucking diet. Being a vegetarian, is really a form of DIETING. WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH? Youre getting mad and being an asshole over a food someone doesnt eat. Its like writing a whole article ranting on how this one person doesnt like to eat beans. OH SHIT! I mean, Come on…Plus, No one likes to know/see that the animal they are about to eat was treated horribly and slaughtered. How is that pleasing to anyone? Some people just take it differently and choose to make themselves feel better by no being associated with that. Whats so bad about that? Nothing! Personally, Im considering becoming a vegetarian because , first of all, I dont like the thought or like seeing the videos of the animals being killed and treated horribly just for my meal. Second, as i said before, this is basically a type of diet. I believe I would feel better about my self, not just mentally/emotionally about the animals, but i would also feel healthier physically. And lastely, “Eating animals without knowing”? Thats stupid. Thats like a human or any other dying and a plant growing from its decay, means im eating what had died? No, Im eating the fucking plant. And an animal naturally dying vs. being slaughtered by man, is different. Im sure alot of fat ignorant hillbilly men are probably going to reply with how fucking stupid i am and blah blah blah-uhhh i dont give a fuck? This was just to at least give some facts/opinions to eliminate your retarded claims.This is a chosen diet/lifestyle and people shouldnt be tryng to rid of it or hate on people for it. GET YOUR OWN FUCKING LIFE! If you seriously have nothing better to do than to rant on someones diet, Youre pathetic. Go live your own fucking life and stop hating on others. Thats all I have to say. Have peace and be happy.
I agree with you, especially on the section about indirectly eating animals. I am a going to quite The Bible/Torah. It is Leviticus 17:15. “And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or of that which was torn by beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger,… other words… And be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean”
So for anyone who is Jewish or Christian, it says that you are not even supposed to eat meat that died a natural death. And if those animals get absorbed into the soil, why would we eat those plants and break a commandment. Unless a certain omnipotent being had already thought of some certain 7th grade biology to counter that.
#1 Not eating animals does save animals, that’s like saying that not using water doesn’t save water anyway, holy damn
Cows, pigs and chickens eat tonnes of grain every day. There are giant fields full of grain dedicated purely to growing grain for livestock, as well as that, they’re fed fish pellets and the like- not eating meat saves plant crops and animals. “Omg, slaves are going to suffer anyway so what’s the point in not having a slave.”
#2 Yes, there is science, literally everywhere. How about Heart disease is our #1 killer in the West and 1 /3-1/2 of people will get cancer in the course of their lives, but in countries where people eat almost no meat those diseases are nearly unheard of.
#3 That’s the point of vegetarianism, omg If you think about it like I do, some dead body sounds absolutely disgusting for a meal, who needs that pile of cancer? Naked-ass carnivores, not 7 billion pretentious fucks pretending they’re like the lions and omnivores (who don’t even hunt with their hands or mouths? There are goddamn herbivores with bigger teeth than humans).
#4 so… having a few foxes shit on your carrots is equal to shooting a cow in the face after keeping her pregnant for 4 years, whilst slaughtering her babies so you can steal her milk, and eating her dead body. Yeh… Totes.
It’s frightening that the majority of our country has the same ignorant ideas about animal cruelty in our food industry as the author of this ridiculous diatribe. Thankfully people have begun to remove the blinders and realize how horrific it really is for the animals. Anyone with a trace of empathy should understand that no creature deserves to be tortured and slaughtered mercilessly purely for the enjoyment of humans. Hopefully one day our children will be able to look back on this time in history and cringe at how ignorant and barbaric humans were. Take responsibility for your personal choices and make a difference for our future.
What these vegans/vegetarians can’t understand is that if we didn’t raise cows on a farm to be slaughtered later for food, they would be out in the wild being slaughtered by wolves; most likely at a much younger age! In the slaughterhouse, the cows are rendered instantly brain-dead so they don’t feel any pain. The wolves on the other hand show them no mercy! A wolf will rip part of the cow off and eat it while the cow helplessly bleeds to death.
I don’t believe that nature would let so many cows exist in any environment in such a great number. It is almost impossible I would say. If we have so many cows, it’s because we decided to have so many cows. Also death is not what a vegetarian/vegan is trying to avoid, death is part of life and accepted, we kill our carrots and cucumbers, what matters is the life the animal had before it was slaughtered, look up some slaughter houses videos and tell me if it wouldn’t be better to live at least one year in the wild and die killed by wolves than living just 2 weeks in a slaughter house without being put to death. Actually the best treatment given to the animal who lives in a slaughter house is death, because it means it’s finally over.
And you really can’t tell anyone that a cow is happier in a slaughter house than in the wild. Meat is extremely tasty, incredibly tasty even, but are the 10/15 min of enjoyment worth the years of pain of one animal who was born in the wrong place.
If I’m a vegetarian, it’s because I want to tell my kids, when humans will finally decide that any life has to be treated with decency until its death, that I wasn’t part of the animal genocide.
You’re all so mean. Why can’t people have an opinion? I read this so instead of smiling and pretending to listen to the same stuff I hear from most vegetarians I meet. It gave me nothing. The comments reenforced the fact that pushing your view on someone else is a terrible thing. Also why read this article if you know why you want to be vegetarian and you’re clued up to the facts you believe in. Geeeeeeeeeez people
It’s unfortunate that you lack the ability to understand why someone would choose to live a compassionate lifestyle that doesn’t involve eating animals which are often subjugated to horrific treatment in their sad, short lives only to be killed for their flesh.
Many of the livestock (especially the mammals) that we eat have the same cognitive abilities of a 2-year-old human. I’ve had conversations with 2-year-old children and to think that meat comes from creatures intelligent enough to form thoughts similar to humans’ ability to ask ‘why,’ just saddens me.
It takes a whole lot of ignorance (either purposeful and proud, or unintentional) to consume animals for protein better obtained through beans and lentils paired with whole grains.
I hope your brain grows along with your muscles.
You probably should have wrote a better “FUCKING” article, you sounded like a retarded 16 year old. Such edgy m8
You are a fucking moron.
A literal idiot.
Micro-organisms (almost certainly) dont have the intelligence to experence suffering, whereas cows demonstrably do. Thats the significant difference on the ethical standpoint.
The second big ethical difference is that from an ecological point of view, it takes way more of the earth’s resources to sustain a meat, than a vegetarian diet.
I respect your right to choose, but logically, you’re not presenting a good argument on ethical grounds.
cheers
Rich