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
Wow, you’re a fucking stupid “omnivore”.
Yeh we are fucking stupid omnivores, it’s the reason why some of us can’t fucking understand that we aren’t herbivores or carnivores. There’s a fucking difference.
Actually being vegetarian for Religious reasons is the absolute dumbest idea. Where is the proof in that? At least non-religious vegans have some points. Religious vegetarians have ZERO points, nothing, nada. It’s all based on believing in fairy tales.
None of your points are valid. Vegans aren’t stupid.
this article makes me lose hope for humanity because they are people like you, such a shame.
” We have studies that conclude that eating meat “may increase” your risk of heart disease, but this doesn’t mean crap ” LMAO OKAY
It doesn’t mean crap. All the studies are inconclusive BS that a middle schooler could’ve thought of. I don’t agree with many of his points, but that is quite true.
Not valid arguments. You didn’t convince me.
How dare you compare the killing of microorganism and bugs that don’t have feel pain/don’t have feelings to billion of intellient animals killed and TORTURED? Even pigs and cows can be domesticated like our dogs and cats. And they are intelligent which mean they feel pain and fear before death (we can even see that on videos from slaughterhouses). It’s just not moral!
How dare you compare vegan’s/vegetarian’s impact on ecosystems while 51 percent or more of global greenhouse-gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture and it is the number-one source of water pollution? Humans have to eat something in order to survive, therefore human impact on ecosystems is inevitable. But we can extremely reduce it by stopping producing meat.
We don’t need meat to survive (I’m vegetarian since 9 months and healthy, my friend since 10 years and healthy as well. I know a lot more vegetarian people and they are healthy as well!!!) so why destroy our planet and allow unnecessary suffering? I think this is so stupid bcs we don’t need all this pollution and suffering, we can live without it, but people are ignorant, selfish and dumb bcs believe everything society tells them since their birth. I think meat industry is stupid the same way you think vegetarians are stupid 🙂
You desperately try to justify yourself as many omnivores nowadays. Can you finally admit that you eat meat because it’s tasty, bcs you’re egoists and prefer to live an comfortable life without doing efforts for the planet and other living beings? Admit that you eat meat bcs you’re selfish instead of trying to find dumb excuses…
I’m not hating, I just wanted to expose my point of view because I’m sick of all this ignorance.
Peace and love.
Wow! Thank you! <3 You just made me even prouder to be a VEGAN! To be the opposite of "humans" like you 😉
And that’s why people hate vegans. Self-important twats who don’t care what people have to say. Nobody gives a FUCK that you’re vegan. Don’t know how you got here anyway.
This article isn’t about vegans it’s about vegetarians so get yo face out of here. Also not that I am a vegetarian but come on seriously if you want to go the route than go vegetarian! At least you can eat ice cream!
Nope
Okay, for one, it is IMPOSSILBE not to kill microorganisms becaus they are literally everywhere! You probably accidentally step on ants everyday and it’s too impossible not to do that. If we all ate wheat, animals would still be able to live because we’d all have so so many wheat fields which by the way, humans make the wheat fields!!
http://www.animalvisuals.org/projects/data/1mc/
I’ll just leave this here
well that was 2009, a lot has changed since then.
Being vegetarian is actually unhealthy because meats contain vital nutrients not found in plant based foods. Mainly vitamin B12 which is required by the brain. Without it can cause reduced brain function or even brain damage. Which means vegetarians are less intelligent because of lack of meat in their diet. The only way vegetarians can get B12 is taking B12 supplements. Basically we humans evolved to eat both plants and animals.
Have you ever heard of a B-12 supplement? You can by them in the vitamin section at Walmart.
you need supplements… thats exactly why its bullshit. imagine the past before supplements were even invented. where do you get b12 then?? see.. we do need to eat both things. stop being closed minded and accept that you are NOT doing the right thing, its just that you prefer to eat vegetarian stuff, or vegan, whatever the fuck
B12 actually comes from a bacteria in soil. Most factory farmed animals are injected with, or fed, B12 because our farming soil is not as nutrient dense anymore. It would be more effective to take the supplement ourselves rather than inject it into an animal, kill it, then eat the animal.
We are not even made to eat meat. Look at our fucking teeth and those of a lion. Wanna eat meat? Dont cook it then. Do not put down another lifestyle because of your own greediness and try to make excuses for it. Because the world has idiots like you it is difficult to make a difference but my conscience is clear and i grow most of my own food.
dude… you people are so closed minded. most vegans are like muslim extremist forcing their beliefs on to other people. face the facts, please, stop being so closed minded and do some real research. SCIENCE!!! we are a fucking omnivore okay, and we are humans meaning our brains are much more inteligent than those of animals, we dont look at a bird and feel as though we want to eat it because for hundreds of years we have been taught to cook it first. and if youre thinking “youre the closed minded one” i say fuck off, i eat both meat and veggies and i think theyre equally healthy. oh and there is soooooo many picture comparison of a vegan and a meat eater.. haha meat eater looks wayyy more healthy. a lot of vegans look like zombies with pale skin, disgusting teeth, just over all very ugly. not enough protein and calcium i think.
We can eat raw meat if it’s just been killed. You can’t eat raw meat from a supermarket because it’s been dead for too late long
Vegetarians and abortionists believe that humans at certain stages in life and certain animals are not considered as “living”.
Most Vegetarians and vegans are hypocrites who crow themselves as saints for animal rights. I believe in animal rights as well. Yeah we should test then with respect, but if they want to use the argument about natural cycles and life styles Save how animals are a part of nature, then it does not work because animals eat eachother on a daily basis. So meat eating is also a part of nature as well.
That’s the whole point, like you said. We want to give them respect and they will not get it if we continue paying money for meat and dairy products. Obviously we can’t save all of the animals, we know this. But every little bit helps.
Humans eating meat is not a part of nature though. Do you see a dog walking and is your instinct to eat it? Do you get hungry when you see a bird and want to bite it?
Unthoughout, unresearched, ridiculous article. I couldn’t finish reading it because the bits I did read were head-achingly inane.
helen if your a vegetarian i want to tell you this your a fucking idiot and kill yourself ok im sorry that was harsh but no seriously if humans werent meant to eat meat why have we eaten for 1000’s of years and look at us now were fine so get over your little vegetarian phase your not helping anything animals will kill animals to eat them and so thats why humans kill animals cause HUMANS ARE ANIMALS TO SO THATS WHY WE EAT THE ANIMALS WE KILL but i hope you’ll think about what ive said today and have a change of mind thank you
OK. look, if you were supposed to eat meat and be an omnivore, you would have much more pronounced canine teeth in your jaw, along with claws and other attacking mechanisms that could kill others. stop hating on people for not eating meat. You don’t hate on people for following a different religion, going to a different school or reading different books! its a choice that someone wants to make and if it makes them feel good about themselves, who are you to tell them that they’re stupid or its a big mistake! you do you and let others live their lives without your unnecessary mean input.
What about the pig? It doesn’t have claws like a lion or a tiger, but it is an omnivore, not a vegetarian like some people think.
I once thought the pig was a vegetarian, but I got wiser 🙂
I was a vegetarian for 3 years and a vegan for 4. I’m back on the meatwagon after a declining health on the vegan diet. And by declining health I mean, I got Plantar Faschiitis as a vegetarian and it continued while I was a vegan. Eating some meat here and there stopped the pain in my feet. I was very sensitive to cold and warm weather, and I was also super sensitive to arguments against veganism and I got really angry. Now I have a rational mind and think more clearly. I’m not so super sensitive anymore.
We used to have bigger canine teeth before agriculture took off. And we don’t have claws and brute strength because we started using tools and weapons which meant me didn’t need those things so evolution phased them out
I agree. Ignorance at its finest.
Dumbest post of the day award goes to…
some people IQ is lover than animals – you just proved it
Oh you mean “lower”?
FUCK OFF ANYWAYS