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
1) Vegan diets never sustained any traditional culture
2) Humans are supposed to eat meat and veggies. We are omnivores after all.
3) Vegan Diets do not provide Vitamins A, D, K2, or B12 naturally. These are all obtained in the best form through meat and animal fat.
4) Animal fat offers unique nutrients!
5) Veganism promotes processed foods to supplement meats as opposed to a paleo or whole diet.
6) Cultures like the Masai who eat primarily animal based products have been found to have prolonged generational health and great bone structure.
The goal shouldn’t be to eat exclusively meat or veggies but a sustainable and green amount of both. I am sure Veganism has its merits but meat has its merits.
This is one of the most retarded forum threads I have ever read. i think i lost IQ points while reading it. I think I can feel brain cells committing suicide because of you. Thanks for the retarded comments too.
Then just die …bugs would be happy to eat you when we gonna burry ur dead cells ..
After reading, I only have one question for you. Why do you care so much about a vegan, or vegetarian’s choice? You can say, or write anything you like but at the end of the day, fresh, whole foods are better for you than a greasy burger. So if someone wants to care about your health by saying hormone injected beef is bad for you than at least they are trying to be positive about helping you. You don’t have to take the advice but what is YOUR advice? Because meat “may” cause heart disease, broccoli never will. I just don’t understand why you’re so upset, unless you’re one of the many who get upset because they know deep down it’s ethically wrong and bad for your health but are so conditioned to believe a greasy burger is perfectly okay and fine to eat. Plus it just tastes so good, right? That tasty burger is loaded with seasoning. You wouldn’t want to eat unseasoned burgers. Nobody would, and I promise I’ve eaten black bean burgers better than the best burger in town. Just relax when it comes to others choice because no one cares if you eat meat, unless they care about you. 😉
“You can say, or write anything you like but at the end of the day….” people need both greens and meats to live a sustainable healthy life. this article is exactly what people like you need to read AND UNDERSTAND. Don’t look down on anyone for eating a greasy burger every once and a while, hell maybe it’ll make you feel better every once in a while. Eat meat, work it off, and be healthy. Its a food pyramid for a reason, because you need all of them!! Any info you find that says vegans can survive without it or don’t need much is just there otherwise “vegan” products would be too much make and no customers to buy. Vegan foods are more expensive to produce basically because of the dumbasses who are willing to buy them…hell bet you’d buy a carrot that was grown with “natural spring water” over tap for 20 dollars more. Morons, the lot of you!!
Stupid imbeciles, they even have vegetarian ice-cream, they wont even allow milk being taken from a cow.
Those stupid imbeciles who made vegetarian ice-cream are (surprise surprise) All of the PEOPLE. Most, if not all, ice-cream is vegetarian (unless it has bacon or other animal products in them). Clearly, you don’t know the difference between vegan (not eating meat or dairy products) and vegetarian (just not eating meat).
I guess it must be tough to find that out in today’s world of limited resources, what with the internet and all. Oh, wait, that’s not true – it’s super easy to look up information on the internet! Guess that makes you the stupid imbecile, then.
By the way, I do eat meat, so please don’t write more ignorant comments directed at me with my assumed eating habits. Just educate yourself before you spout insults towards others. Realize everyone is free to their own lifestyles – wish the writer of this blog realized that and actually had accurate information. The argument that vegans and vegetarians have about animal cruelty is completely valid and based on accurate facts and statistics. Most vegans and vegetarians don’t judge others for their eating habits, so why judge them. And even if they did, learn to be the more mature person.
*VEGAN ice cream. Get your facts right. Vegetarian is when you don’t eat meat, VEGAN is when you don’t eat any animal products. This article says vegetarians are misinformed, but in reality, everyone else is misinformed on what is means to be vegetarian.
This is complete bullshit… holy shit! where did you get this information?! I really hope that you don’t have some kind of brain disease but maybe you should check because this is really something to worry about!
But more importantly, where did YOU get your information?
ALRIGHT. I just decided to become a vegetarian. Anyone who has access to any form of social media or media period should have an idea about the abuse going on in the food industry. Animals are tortured and do not get to experience joy in life. If it were financially reasonable to consume grass fed, cage free animals who get to experience and enjoy the life they had, then I probably would not be making this decision. Animals know when they’re about to die. In my senior year environmental science class, I learned that cows know when they are going to die. Their bodies release adrenaline right before they are killed and it is trapped in the muscle fibers when they die. This is what we eat. The last moments of fear. We actually eat those hormones… And, because the food industry is being exposed, many people have chosen to become vegetarian….. And it is saving lives. Last year 400,000 less cows were slaughtered than in 2014, due to lack of demand. So this article is completely bias due to personal opinion. I know we evolved to eat meat, and I am not saying is as humans shouldn’t eat meat…. We just shouldn’t support the abuse, torture, and playing of god. There is only one way to stop something. If you continue to think your voice, or opinion, or purchase doesn’t mater, you’re one less person helping to change the situation.
Alright, so first of all I totally agree with you that torturing animals is extremely inhumane and cruel, however a person has to say, do animals truly enjoy a “nice” life before they are slaughtered? Think about it… Do rabbits feel like they are in paradise when they are killed in a much more inhumane way when they are killed by a fox? It will be exactly the same is we brought up that rabbit then killed it. Is it actually bad for us to eat “adrenaline filled” meat? Or is that a fact you just made up?
You do realise that those cows that were “saved” died an even more of a horrible death, they died for nothing, they starved or got slaughtered ten thrown away for nothing. For No ones benefit. So which do you think is better? Benefiting from the natural process or killing things for no reason.
Food for Thought
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Great perspective Emily,
I absolutely agree with you. I am not a vegan but I think there is something totally wrong with the way meat products are produced. I would happily reduce my consumption of meat and pay a higher price for a good quality piece of meat which is produced ethically and sustainably.
Yes Alex, go and get your expensive piece of meat in your favorite bio store …..and then u gonna tell people who are starving to do the same because animals are suffering ..you are all vctim of a trend and its damn fucking hipocrite …its a RICH thing …U just fallow it like a sheep in the dark …no need to become vegan ..its a question of balance but if some people are happy to be part of a ” movement ” a ” family ” a ” fashion hypocrite show” good for them ..but no moral please
If satirical, this article would be great. If serious, very poor argument. There is nothing inherently wrong with eating meat. However, the fact is that Americans eat it too much. Over consumption is the moral delemma we face. The fact is that the meat industry IS contributing greatly to the destruction of the environment. Livestock emit more greenhouse gasses than all motor vehicles in US. The Wheatfield “ecosystems” mentioned provide food for livestock. So by your logic of eating meat without knowing it because of circle of life, than the ecological cost of one burger is not one cow. Personally, I only eat fish due to chronic illness. I believe temporary vegetarianism can teach people to depend on meat less and get more creative with their diet.
This article proves people can do anything for attention.
Yea, and he say it in his article ( how to make people come and talk on my blog ) …and u read and now u comment …He got you so you should def shut …the …fuck ..up …Sarcasm is not for u
That is the most retarded thing I ever read on the internet
And do you propose Mister Marques?
Okay, lets talk logic and not crap like “you are idiot and die”
1. there is now a scientific study to prave that vegan food is healthier than non vegan
2. The only reason i am veg is ‘the smell’. I cant stand the smell from fish market or non veg raw items
3. To answer your third point of “you dont get to eat meat EVER”, you dont get to taste the delicious and yummy veg food EVER.
4. In your own way of saying that vegans are eating animals via plants, i will say that animals are living creatures and have a proper digestive system, which processes food and produces poop. So if you eat a chicken or cow or pif, arent you eating their POOP? How gross is eting poop!
Otherwise, feel free to debate on any topic whether about god or science or anything but politics.
Okay, lets talk logic and not crap like “you are idiot and die”
1. there is now a scientific study to prave that vegan food is healthier than non vegan
2. The only reason i am veg is ‘the smell’. I cant stand the smell from fish market or non veg raw items
3. To answer your third point of “you dont get to eat meat EVER”, you dont get to taste the delicious and yummy veg food EVER.
4. In your own way of saying that vegans are eating animals via plants, i will say that animals are living creatures and have a proper digestive system, which processes food and produces poop. So if you eat a chicken or cow or pif, arent you eating their POOP? How gross is eting poop!
Otherwise, feel free to debate on any topic whether about god or science or anything but politics.
edit- i guess there was a problem publishing my original comment, so, not to publisha duplicate comment, i will post this.
“1. there is now a scientific study to prave that vegan food is healthier than non vegan” I’m not taking any sides here, but if you want to get your point across you should link to a study instead of telling us there is one, it’s easy to just make up shit. “There is now a scientific study proving that veganism is a death-sentence.”
“you dont get to taste the delicious and yummy veg food EVER.” People who eat meat have no moral obligations preventing them from eating “vegan” food.
I’m not even going to address #4..
What are you fucking on about? That is the most idiotic and dumbassed thing I have ever heard. What the fucking do you smoke mate?
Mann Fuck You.
Dude, I’m a meat eater, but you have really shown yourself as being totally ignorant. A class at a Community College and suddenly your David Attenborough. Man, stick to doing whatever it is you’re doing, but I advise you to keep away from debating this topic cos it’s out of your league.
SO please, show us the light Babba …if you don t understand sarcasm just go away and yea , we are OMNIVORE ..and Vegan is just another trend for victims who adore to be fuck edby the market which adore having new stupid rich trend …And this blog adore guys like you who like to spread their knowledge
Fuck off man and don t say to other people to keep away debating ..( im french, don t panic if my english is wierd ) but still ..fuck off
“destroying ecosystems” please tell me how your meat eating diet saves so many acres of rainforest. the meat industry has a direct correlation to pollution and deforestation.