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
I’d like to start by making it clear that the vast majority of people who have looked into the effects of being vegetarian don’t believe the types of statements made by the author. I would encourage everyone to leave their comment here so we don’t get an unfair representation of commenters. For what it’s worth, my rebuttal:
1) The majority of meat is mass produced, being fed by grain. It takes (something like) 3 kg of grain to produce 1 kg of meat because the animals need to use some of the energy to keep warm and walk and frolic, not to mention all the extra water, hydrocarbons and land area required. So if we accept that producing grain kills organisms (let’s face it, mass produced grain probably does at least a bit), then eating animals = more grain produced = more animals killed.
2) “We have studies that conclude that eating meat “may increase” your risk of heart disease, but this doesn’t mean crap.”
Really? Why? We have studies showing that there is wind on Mars, do we say that also doesn’t mean crap? Nothing backing up that point at all.
Unfortunately I’m not familiar with the China Study except by name so I’ll leave that for someone else.
3) To me, the first part doesn’t fly as an argument except to say; but I like my current lifestyle too much. Sure, that’s ones own choice, but to use that as an argument for saying not eating meat is stupid is like saying non-smokers are stupid because, come on, they don’t get to smoke (srsly).
As for the last part that’s such a generalisation it’s almost not worth covering. Loosely translated it reads “There are some vegetarians who don’t eat healthily, clearly vegetarians don’t actually care that much about their health.” As if all vegetarians only eat bread and cereal (which is actually quite healthy though??).
4) “Humans are part of a big cyclical ecosystem where sometimes plants take nutrients from animal excrement so they when they eat a plant they are indirectly eating an animal. But like, vegetarians say they don’t eat animals, but they’re still doing it indirectly, so they should just do it directly instead!” (loosely paraphrased)
Bonus comment: “Vegetarians aren’t saving their health since there’s absolutely zero scientific proof showing that meat is bad for you [except for those thousands of studies I mentioned earlier].”
I absolutely agree Micheal. This statement by FitMole is retarded. There is plenty of proof that Vegetarians have a more healthy diet. Doctors have even recommended this diet to plenty of people. The guy on FitMole is “fucking stupid*
Thank you, if he wanted to raise a valid discussion, he should have raised valid arguments. While some studies are false or unbalanced, there are a great deal that do have actual data. Some of the omnivores can get a bit crazy on the fumes though, so we can expect the fiery battle to continue into the future.
Seriously? You have to be kidding. How stupid can one man truly be?
That’s one shit article. We don’t do it for those reasons you dickhead, but we do it as we don’t agree with animal slaughter for the fucking pleasure of eating them for no reason; we can easily live without meat you dick, oh and by the way, why are you more important than those thousands of living animals you ate because you felt like it? Don’t you ever think animals have there own feelings to? Don’t you ever think that they get upset when their innocent live is taking to be crushed and ate. Let’s put it this way you bastard, if you had children, how would you like it if a turkey ate them for Christmas? I know that may sound like shit to you. But think about what you’re doing next time you bastard.
That’s why I hate about vegetarians… Like… For example a vegetarian goes to a non-vegetarian person’s house and he asks the non-vegetarian person to prepare him food that will not contain meat… But when a meat eater asks a vegetarian to make them food that contains meat they will not return you the favour and will just start to complain about the unhealthy lifestyle you’re living… And you… You’re only being more of a dickhead insulting a person that actually had the courage to say something…. You know what? Just because you eat only grass dosen’t mean crap, kay? I will not judge your lifestyle as long as you won’t judge mine… And now really? I heard some of you saying that whenever they see meat or even FREAKIN CHEESE they feel like their going to puke… Now really… YOU’RE BEING TOO DAMN MUCH!!! Awe and just so you lil fuck now… MEAT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR SKIN CAUSE WITHOUT IT YOU’RE LOSING THE DAMN COLLAGEN THAT IS IN YOUR SKIN!!!
In conclusion… You just eat your grass okay? Imma eat meat and that’s okay? The internet is full of vegetarians and vegans who pretend to be nutritionists, while this one article is one of tne few that are actually against this lifestyle…. Unless it’s for a religion or a disease, being vegetarian or vegan is just… It just dosen’t make sense…
PEACE!
collagen is mostly the fibrous protein constituent of bone, cartilage, tendon, and other connective tissue this basically means if you boil these parts up in a pan you get gelatin, not really skin !!
also being a vegetarians has it benefits and Cautions just like being a meat eater
Where the hell did you get the impression that all we eat is grass? If a meat eater goes to a vegetarian/vegan’s house then wouldn’t they expect to get food that doesn’t contain meat? By the way you are using a very big stereotype if you think all vegetarians criticize meat-eaters. Have you even met a vegetarian or been to their house? Because based on your views I doubt it. Finally, yes I do agree with you about the cheese thing, that is over the top.
What he’s talking about is the double standards.
Vegetarian goes to Meat-eater’s house. Vegetarian complains and demands vegetarian meal.
Meat-eater goes to Vegetarian’s house. Meat-eater is forced to comply with Vegetarian’s diet.
That’s not a double standard. In one scenario a person is given food that they do not eat, and in the other, a person is given food they do eat but don’t prefer. If the meat eater ONLY ate meat and made a lifestyle choice to never eat vegetarian meals then that would be a double standard if the vegetarian insisted that they eat it.
Like the same double standard when a bee keeper exploits bee’s to pollunate the crops for their farms lol that veggies love so much lol
An increasing number of crop farmers are using bee keepers to allow their bee’s to pollinate their crops.
Anon, you do realise that animals eat plants right? It takes ~3 kg of plant to create 1 kg of meat. So by eating meat, you are actually ‘consuming’ more plants and making this supposed problem even worse.
Also, yes some farmers may do this, but bees don’t need to be kept in a central location in order to pollinate (but perhaps it’s arguable that it’s more efficient? I’m not sure). In any case, saying that eating plants because some farmers use ethically questionable practices is wrong is like saying wearing clothes because some manufacturers use ethically questionable practices is wrong.
If a Chnese person came to your house and wanted to eat dog, would you make some for them, or would you refuse?
If a smoker goes to a non-smoker’s home, he/she may refrain from smoking. That deoesn’t mean that the non-smoker should smoke when visiting the smoker’s home.
I have never in the decades I’ve been vegan have I EVER visited someone’s home and they have prepared vegan food for me. They always have their usual. E.g. Beef, potatoes, carrots, peas, sprouts. I have everything with no beef.
Do meat-eaters have some religious, ethical, or other objection to fruit and vegetables? No. So my eating their potatoes, carrots, peas etc. does not upset them in the least. However, eating meat in my home WILL upset me.
Most of the time I go to meat-eaters’ home, as I’ve said, they prepare nothing for me specially. I don’t expect it. Why do you expect something special when you visit me?
Really. Do think about what you’re saying before you ramble.
Well said Josh. I was going to say something similar but you nailed it.
Thick as two short planks. You are not going out of your way to buy vegetables and pasta because even meat eaters eat vegetables and pasta, the vegetarian isn’t asking you to fund something you ethically disagree with, but asking a vegetarian to buy meat and support animal cruelty just for your greed is asinine.
Thank you intelligent person! Those god fucking vegans think they’re so great and compassionate and shit, when really, they just think that because they’re mentally ill due to the lack of proteins people get from eating meat, those dumbfucks…
Especially with their double standard bull shit, one laughable example is the exploitation of bee’s. I mean an increasing number of crop farmers are looking for bee keepers expertise in moving their bee hives to their farms temporarily to allow the bee’s to pollinate their crops.
Some of those more inane PETA supporters are so full of double standard bull shit it’s unreal, they really think those bee keepers are going to do that for free? ROFL
Oh how these people do make me giggle into hysterics 🙂
Is that your only argument? You actually can’t seem to find anything other than that to back yourself up, when there are plenty of ways to find good food that doesn’t exploit bees. Its not like you can say “Bees! Bees Bees!” and just have a valid argument.
Quinoa, uncooked, 1 cup: 24 grams of protein
Quinoa, cooked, 1 cup: 8 grams of protein
Amaranth, 1 cup: 26 grams of protein
Dried Lentils, 1 cup: 52 grams of protein
Edemame, 1 cup: 16 grams of protein
Soybeans, 1 cup: 29 grams of protein
Tempeh, 1 cup: 31 grams of protein
I proved your ‘not enough protein’ insult wrong with 7 foods and a website
http://www.heartspring.net/list_of_vegetarian_protein_foods.html
I am a dumb fuck because I respect animals.
Well it is for a religion…. Christians are not supposed to eat meat. They reword phrases from the bible to ensure they can eat slaughtered meat. Also you realise Vegans/Vegetarian hate the sight of meat, it is disgusting.
Are you saying that predators like a lion eating a gazelle is horrible? It’s nature. People are animals. I’m sure a cow might have feelings but it’s happened since the beginning of time. Do you care that primitive humans in the first years ate mammoths or what ever other animal? No probably not because it doesn’t matter. It’s in our nature to eat meat and eat vegetable and fruits. So it’s not heartless to eat meat. I’m sure you don’t think George Washington was a dick for eating a steak. So why would it matter if people do it now. There is no real scientific proof that says being a vegetarian is healthier plus also half the time they end up supplementing the things they need from meat yet claim it’s an amazing healthy diet, supplements should not be in any natural healthy diet. And so what if an animal died so that a family can eat.
The animal in this case would have had a happy life. Assuming they’re wild, then the animal wasn’t raised on food that literally came from the local dump. The animal didn’t have its young taken away, the youngs genitals being cut off (if male) without any sort of painkiller and sometimes fed back to the mother. The animal would have been able to feel sunshine and live. Personally, I dont object to eating meats if I know it came from a source that treats their animals humanely. But as it is, we live in a world where meat is optional. The lion doesn’t have that.
If your argument is that lions eat gazelles, than kill everything you eat yourself, and don’t hide behind the plastic packaging you find animal corpses in. A lion needs meat doesn’t have some of the same body as a human. Humans couldn’t survive just eating meat, just like a wild lion couldn’t survive just eating plants.
Humans can survive just eating plants, so how is that different to the situation where we can’t survive just eating meat? I can survive and thrive without meat.
3 of these “Facts” are bullshit (1,2,4)
1….
lets say that a for some unknown reason most of the population became Vegetarian then there would be a smaller market for meat, which would in effect (or affect ) would save lives (lets say that the reason was infection and some places in the world didn’t get infected but the infection doesn’t really effect(or affect) animals because they are just the carrier
2…..
OK for this one you need to have a brain because in your diet you need all the things from the food pyramid ,carbohydrates,fat,sugar,VEGETABLES,meat and dairy however by having less meat you lower the intake of fat and there are many ways to gain protein like beans and lentils,even meat tasting things like Quorn
3…
this is honestly true as i was once a meat eater but now i left that life,i became more fitter and felt better
4….
the food chain does go like that but you absorb energy not the thing that eat that kinda like this example that i made below
now the sun emits light –>now the planets absorb the light as well as the nutrients by the soil –>rabbits eat the plants and take in about 10 percent of the energy—> same for the foxes but they poop the waste products that the body can not use (your body can not use all the energy we use or we would be fat) now that poop has nutrients that help the plants grow
in conclusion you can do what you want but for sure this guy only has one valid point (3)
im only 14 years old but this guy must be younger but in any case we all have a option you can agree or disagree but this guy must be a moron
When you’ve got the slightest clue what you’re talking about let us know
When we find the slightest clue of you being able to read at a fourth grade level, let us know
Jesus ate animals, fish (Luke 24:42-43) and lamb (Luke 22:8-15). People who are “vegans” are no saints at all for “saving” animals because the animals we eat are meant to be killed for our own health and goodness not because we enjoy but because of our ancestors ate many animals to live off. Look at the bible people our lord was no vegan, he cared of the animals and plants around him but also ate those animals and plants to live.
Fuck yo couch and fuck yo fake as bible, fuck christ, except for god but he doesnt care 🙂
I mean, if you’re religious, sure. Something that I think is more compelling evidence is that no (I mean none) primates are naturally vegetarian, and that we don’t have the right digestive system to handle a purely plant diet.
Insects and other proteins are a small amount of their diets, so you can’t compare them with the majority of people who eat some meat or other proteins with most main meals. Our body systems have evolved past that of many primates, and we can adapt to different diets just like we have been able to adapt to different environments.
An example of this is the way different ethnicities from different areas of the world deal with food. In some areas, they substituted meat with other proteins, which is how vegetarianism became a valid part of some religions. Another example is how the some Asian cultures lived without dairy, a central part of western diets, without any adverse affects because they had other foods in their diet that had the same purpose.
So saying we have to continue to have meat in our diet is silly when we have other sources we can choose from for any nutrients we get from it.
Im not religious, but the way animals in the business isn’t christian. Aren’t we supposed to look after the animals as God looked after the people? Aren’t we supposed to take care of the animals like Jesus did with the mule? Because as it is, we have cows getting their throats slit surrounded by the cows they grew up with, and the throat slitting is often ineffective, so they stay there for minutes, blood dripping down their fronts, as they run around in a panic. Pigs get their genitals cut off without any painkillers. The animals never feel the sun, or live in a world with dirt.
All animals are supposed to be respected as well according to the bible. Also where does it say to eat slaughtered meat?
Not everyone can hunt.
Vegan pussies can lick my scrotum. Youre never going to change the world and make everyone vegan, dont fuck with my right to eat meat, and i wont mess with your right to safety. Boom bitches
Human ancestors were genetically designed to eat meat. We are designed to eat meat. So don’t try to convince people by fake arguments.
Btw, I swear that if apocalypse happens, and there would be food shortage, I swear I’m going to hunt a vegetarian and eat him. Eat or be eaten – that’s a Darwin’s law.
Actually, humans were not designed to eat meat. When we eat, our mouths move sideways, unlike a carnivore would eat with their mouth going up and down.
….are you retarded? Since when the fuck does mouth movement tell us whether or not we’re carnivores?! Even then, our mouths move both vertically AND horizontally. We’re fucking omnivores you dumbass! We eat fucking anything!
So basically you just called thousands of people stupid for believing something different that you. Who are you, God?
If he existed, maybe c;
My boyfriend is deciding to become a vegetarian and got me annoyed and I was looking for something to back me up with my thoughts and that’s how I found this page. I always support him with his endeavors in life, but not when he does not make sense to me. Seriously? Will not eating meat save the animals? How long have this been around and how much has it succeeded? I’m not even gonna study on that for I am so not interested. I would understand if he’d say he wanted to eat healthier but nooo it’s because of the cows and pigs dying for our cause. I thought he was kidding at first. I stopped arguing as he does not seem to listen. What do you think are the fishes and the stuff we eat are created for? Why dont you hate the bears and lions and tigers and (you get the point) that eat them? BECAUSE THAT IS THE FOOD CHAIN. We’re not at the bottom of the food chain that eats plants, we’re at the top remember?? Someday the cows will all be gone and we’ll have to eat humans he says. WTF? How twisted can one go? Okay. Let the animals live and populate the earth if vegetarians win over the world. I hope I won’t be alive then. I don’t wanna be trying to steal veggies from my neighbor cows and horses nor would I want to find them stealing my cabbages for they don’t know how to plant their own. We’ll all have one food source. Good luck.
The way animals are treated is wrong. Within the slaughterhouse, you have male pigs whos testicles are cut off and fed back to their mothers. You have chickens who live their entire life on steroids in the space taken up by a sheet of paper. You have cows who can’t stand up because they’re bones are to brittle, and you have ‘rape racks’ because they don’t prouduce milk unless pregnant. Now please, if your boyfriend makes a choice about his life, don’t go ripping into him on the Internet of all things. It’s his choice.
He deserves better than someone as ignorant as you
Lol wow just fucking wow. I bet u live in the south don’t ya?
You sir are a retarded hillbilly
1) You aren’t saving the lives of animals
This is true if you are eating Grains and farmed Vegetables. many Worms and bugs get killed when plowing and harvesting. However making Hey and farming grain to feed animals for meet production has a similar effect. This can be avoided by Meat eaters and Vegans alike by earing wild edibles and fruit if you are a vegan or wild game if you are a carnivore.
2) There is absolutely zero scientific proof showing that going vegetarian is healthy
Actually there is, but writing about it would fill a book which would spawn a endless debate as to which studies are right. So I will leave it and just say I am Vegetarian for the sake of animal welfare.
3) You don’t get to eat meat
That s fine I don’t miss it and I was never that fond of it in the first place. Except for maybe Salami and smoked sausages which did taste very nice.
4) Vegetarians are actually eating animals without knowing it!
Humans also poop out the old material out of which their own bodies where made. The poop goes in to the soil and plants grow they get eaten by vegetarians or a cow which gets eaten by a non vegetarian. By that logic we are all Cannibals.
had you taken a Physics 101 instead of Biology you would have discovered that whenever we eat we are actually eating a star which fused the heavy elements which we and our food are made of.
I had a few laughs from your article. I think that vegans are fucking stupid. Their bleeding heart reasons for not eating meat are borderline mentally ill. Life feeds on life. More people should listen to Anthony Bourdain instead of insipid organizations like Peta. Peta is a terrorist organization that should be as reviled as ISIS. I have no qualms with people being veggies if their doctor recommends it because of a medical condition. However, it’s common sense to have a balanced diet of meat and produce. Vegans are just insane with their views on food and pretty much everything else in life. The most miserable people I know are vegans and it’s really sad that a person would willingly want to ruin their life being that way.
Miserable? I feel great.
You Sir are a Grade-a ignoramus. This is one of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever read. If anything, you’ve probably convinced people to go vegan! That’s the solution to all of your health problems, people – you are what you eat 🙂
Go vegan!
I’m vegan. If you flatter yourself to be of high enough importance, or original enough to have “angered me beyond belief”, I’m afraid you’re self-delusional.
After decades of being vegan, I have seen absolutely every impoverishment pile of crappy argument to bash people. All I can say is: Stay angry with us. Because it’s only you who it’s hurting.
“I once heard Joe Rogan mention that he isn’t vegan because small animals can be killed by the large farming machines that harvest fruits, vegetables and grains. Yup, that’s some productive logic. Better not wipe your ass because you may get some shit on your hand.”
” Better randomly mention something about the food chain, that’ll convince my ego that i’m not in the wrong!
Can humans be healthy and survive on a vegan diet. Yes. Okay, all those ridiculous arguments are moot.
It tastes good
Oh okay, fuck the planet, your taste buds are the most important thing on earth. You can see the level of effort the subconscious put into that argument. It’s just a notch above, “meat be good.””
http://veganchowhound.com/rants/people-hate-vegans-freud-could-explain-why/3/
Your rebuttal was already published a whole year before you decided to spew your nonsense.