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
The fact is the human body is not designed to be vegetarian. Here is why.
1st
Hair on the head. Male vegetarians go bald, it is a fact. Female Vegetarians hair is always thin and flat.
2nd
A true vegetarian will go blind, a true meat eater will die. This fact alone lets us know, we are intended to eat both to some degree.
3rd
The argument of Carnivore, Omnivore, Herbivore does not apply to humans because we have the ability to reason.
There is no other animal that can make a weapon to hunt with, not one.
We our the only ones capable of making a conscious decision on what to eat.
We have the ability to adapt by eating as a carnivore, omnivore, herbivore. No other animal can do that, therefore, we cannot be classified with any other animal group.
4th
Humans can make an animal eat whatever we decide they will eat.
There is not one single animal that can decide what we eat.
5th
The list of one hundred longest living people, Forty Six of them lived in the United States, with the next closest being Japan with Twenty Two.
The China study and other vegetarian non sense proclaims how being vegetarian is so healthy. Let me count how many Chinese are on the top one hundred list, let me see, the answer is “Zero”, Yeppers, “Not One!”
In the top ten, the United States has four.
Weston A. Price says in his exhaustive studies none of the world’s healthiest people groups were vegetarian. “None, Not One”. That is because they do not live very long.
BTW, the one female on the top 100 that said she was a vegetarian. She ate a lot of Cashews. Know that Cashews have Saturated Fat, and this is the main thing the China Study points out as being the culprit to bad health.
First baldness is a genetic problem. Second I refused to read the rest of your bullshit.
I stopped reading at the first part.
I am a vegetarian and i can honestly say I still have my hethy hair.
Gtfo with your ignorance.
typical vegetarian response. you ignore everything that disagrees with your silly ideology, while running around calling everyone else ignorant. gtfo with YOUR ignorance.
Lollll im sorry, i could only read your first reason before i bursted out laughing. Im a female vegan and my hair is probably the thickest most gigantic hair you will ever see in your life, proving that your theory is completely incorrect.
I dunno, I’ve seen some pretty big bushes in my day. Are we talking like 1930’s bush here?
People who just want to generate traffic by spreading ignorant opinions are fucking stupid. Sure, let’s all just post offensive titles and such on the internet because all we care about is traffic and not content. I’m a big girl, I really don’t fucking care if you don’t like vegetarians. I care when people post things that are so blatantly wrong it is absolutely appalling.
1) You aren’t saving the lives of animals. Vegetarians support the destruction of ecosystems.
Yikes. Well, yes you have to clear land to farm. Animals are displaced and some of them die. So what’s your fucking point? That clearing farm land (most of which is cleared already) is somehow equivalent to the horrible conditions animals are raised and slaughtered? Could have found a better argument. More animals are displaced by commercialization. Ever watched a documentary on how we farm animals today? Won’t make you become a vegetarian but will maybe open your mind (if that’s possible?) Also, farming cows is awful for the environment, which is why many vegetarians end up being vegan (among other reasons).
2)There is absolutely zero scientific proof that vegetarians are more healthy.
Another yikes. Ever logged into a scientific database? Maybe give it a try and you’ll be amazed at the results. Also, with some basic inferencing and math skills, you can calculate that vegetarians eat more vegetables and less grains. More vegetables, less grains = less imflammation = lower risk of diseases. Not hard to prove scientfically. Like buy the $40 subscription to scientific articles before you claim there’s no evidence. Absolutely ZERO proof? Maybe take a look 🙂
3) You don’t get to eat meat.
Yay! That’s kinda the whole point. Also, if you believe in any way that pork is healthy for you, then you really should buy that journal article subscription. You went to college, your school should have one.
4) You actually eat meat without knowing it.
We’re not fucking stupid. And it’s not meat. How about I go grab a handful of soil and put it between a bun and call it a burger? Makes sense. Dirt = meat, after all.
By far the most disappointing argument thus far. You could have picked something like: “Oh, but feedlots aren’t that bad!” “Being a vegetarian doesn’t change anything.” “People who are vegetarians don’t get enough protein.”
Is there any scientific proof for the goodness of eating meat and can any one say that only eating meat will make a man healthier and stronger what are the specalities of meat makes that really eating meat is good for health
and one more question why do many of the old people cant digest meat even though they are not vegetarians and why they loose their power of digestion of meat at old age
We have evolutively adapted to eat both meat and plants. And the plants were , in evolutive times WILD!!! Even the grains, BASE OF OUR ARTIFICIAL FOOOD CHAIN, are not a good choice. I do not want to say that we should eat just partially decomposed food, as we find in nature, but all our FOOD CHAIN HAS BEEN CHANGED, have you notice that , for example , the tomatoes loss their taste? We still have OMNIVORE DIGESTIV SYSTEM , WHICH IS TOO IMPORTANTTO CHANGE IN LESS THAN HALF A MILLION YEARS!!!!!!! Being vegetarian is MADNESS, I think it’s OBVIOUS. And our animals WAS NO MORE WILD FROM THE BEGINING OF AGRICULTURE!!!!! They should eat what they eat millions of years, not maize (or any other kind of corn), but grass. And, VERY IMPORTANT, IF YOU CHANGE SOME LIVING THINGS’ METABOLISM , IT WILL GET ILL!!!!!!!!! I am VERY SERIOUS!!!!!!!
Spell right please if you want to be taken seriously. It’s obvious you are saying this because you are to lazy to becoms vegan. Everyone I asked said they where to lazy to give up meat or just didn’t care anymore and just gave up on life. They all come up with these lies and false facts to self justify their actions (like this article) and it annoys me that someone even spent any amount of time to post this atrocity to the human race.
History is full of left-wing pansy nincompoops like AMBER that are self-deceiving bigots and sociopathic sadists like Dr John Harvey Kellogg was.
You want to reduce animal suffering? And your ONLY way is to take away something normal people (more than 90% are NOT vegetarian) need and enjoy? Egomaniacal little tyrants!
Try this one on for size. START YOUR OWN FARM. Treat your animal charges with love and respect. Bonk them on the head when they are ready to eat and make a ton of cash, while giving people what makes them happy, instead of your dishonest, sickening vomitous bile load of a miasma inducing guilt trip.
Who is lazy? YOU ARE!
This whole thing is kind of bizarre, so I’m only going to address the first part which is a common misperception. You are correct in stating that industrial agriculture destroys habitats and grinds up small animals. However this does not mean that by going vegan you aren’t saving animals’ lives. Producing meat is an inefficient process, using several pounds of grain and/or soy feed to produce a pound of meat. This means that replacing the calories from meat in your diet with calories from plants causes a significant *net decrease* in the plants required to obtain those calories, thereby decreasing the area of land used and the number of small animals who are shredded by industrial land tending equipment during the process. And that’s on top of the animals who didn’t get eaten. So your second point really should read “You aren’t saving the lives of *all* animals displaced or otherwise killed at every point of the supply chain unless you grow your own food, although you are significantly reducing the death involved in the whole process”. You are correct that it is impossible to completely eliminate the suffering you cause others in the world; few would deny this. But if you are interested in *reducing* it, then removing animal products from your lifestyle is one way of accomplishing it.
Well said 🙂
https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=nDYosdBwI8o
Also how dare he say veggies don’t taste good I tried ^these^ myself and I agree with the kids. And for the haters fyi the fishless fish fillets doesn’t have tofu in it.
fuck this article. Its full of shit and so are you
Eating meat is agreeing that innocent animals should be murdered. It does not matter how they are murdered. Nobody cares if their death is painless or brutal; it is and always will be murder, for the sake of humans having a snack. And as far as what you said about vegetarians not caring about other animals eating corpses, most vegetarians do accept that, because animals must eat other animals to survive. Any reasonable vegetarian would approve of humans eating animals if it were for survival. But we do not have to do this anymore, for we have all the necessary nutrients we need to live a healthy life.
Nice title bait.
This article is so stupid, it actually makes me wanna be a vegetarian.
One obvious thing to point out here…
“Aren’t saving their health since there’s absolutely zero scientific proof showing that meat is bad for you”
So you are claiming that as there is “absolutely zero scientific proof showing that meat is bad for you” you KNOW that meat is GOOD for you despite a lack of evidence? So you are making the opposite claim for the same reason that people make the claim with the same lack of evidence? I can’t take you seriously because you sound like some religious fanatic.
BEST FUCKING ARTICLE EVER.
vegans is really a stupid decision im sorry for all of the vegans out there but sometimes truth hurts , even PLANTS eat meat.. there are some plants that eat meat as well.. human bodies need protein and there are lot of vitamins that arent in vegans food which might make you live shorter.. before you calling me im a ” fat meat eater” i actually gym.. i eat chicken breast and egg for the gainz so… yeah i dont want to be skinny af like vegans i know there are some vegans bodybuilder but they actually use creatine or steroids which is really dangerous for your body
if youre going to say ” im a vegan because i support animal and agains animal cruelty” hey folks this is life.. world is cruel come to africa you will see cheetah chasing another animals everyday
UNEDUCATED MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE!
this is fucking hilarious. you say that there is zero scientific evidence that being a vegetarian is healthy because you don’t even bother to research and there is also zero evidence that meat is healthy. ever heard of dr. mcdougall and dr. greger? no? maybe because your head is stuck too far up your are and you’re literally going “LA LA LA” every time someone proves you wrong like an immature 5 year old. did you know the animals you eat also eat plants too? so you technically kill more animals than a vegan/ vegetarian. being vegan/ vegetarian is about causing the least harm you possibly can do as it is inevitable to cause harm but the least you can do is minimise. you really need to research, you targeted this article at the wrong people. vegetarians still support child kidnapping, rape, the slaughter of 5 year old cows and younger, the veal industry, prisons where chickens can barely move around, the killing of one day old chickens, and the destruction of the ecosystem while vegan supports none of that. did you know that all of transport makes up 13% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions while all of animal agriculture makes up 51% of all greenhouse gas emissions? and that the sewage from the land animals pollute the oceans resulting in dead fish so the marine animals like sharks and whales don’t eat as much resulting in less oxygen for every thing on land? and that 30-40% of everything caught from the oceans aren’t actually fish but bycatch like sharks, whales, dolphins, turtles, etc., and they are tossed back into the water and most die resulting in species extinction and endangerment and less sharks and whales resulting in very few that go into the depths of the ocean and resurfacing so we can get oxygen when 70-80% of the oxygen you breathe are from the oceans and if we don’t stop animal agriculture all together, the oceans will be empty of almost all marine life , including all whales and sharks who provide everything on land with oxygen, by 2048 making it that every child under the age of 5 will not make it to the retirement age? you and everyone else (humans) who consumes animal products will all be equally responsible for it so you should shut up and go vegan. did you know that us humans have zero omnivorous instincts and features making us herbivores? did you know that our digestive is WAYYY TOO LONG to be of an omnivore’s? did you know some non human herbivores have canines just as small as ours and some have massive ones but they’re still herbivores? did you know that our jaw moves side to side in a grinding motion when we eat and that’s something ONLY A HERBIVORE can do? did you know all animal products are filled with cholesterol when our bodies make cholesterol itself and plants contain none?
I hope you find some peace in your own mind. You need to focus on other things rather than making an entire article online in hopes of offending millions of people. We, vegetarians, and vegans, find peace in keeping meat out of our bodies. We feel more connected and less guilty every single day. Not to mention it makes us try more food! I have made the best decision of my life at 22 years old and I will never go back to eating meat. People like YOU mr/miss rude article writer…are why I stay in at night. Haha. Goodluck friends. To all the veg heads out there: I LOVE YOU! 🙂
Damn, all that meat is really getting to your head, huh? Pathetic that a person can be so far above it all that they feel the need to write an entire article based on their ignorance towards another person’s choice.