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
Alltough all your articule is utter bullshit, I would like to enlight you a little about the first point you make.
Ok so you are saying that for agriculture you need to kill animales because you have to destroy their habitats in order to produce. A little fact for you: Cows dont live in the air, the farmers have to destroy others animals habitats in order to make space for that cows AND you have to feed them (as you would imagine animals eat).
SO eating meat not only destoys habitats (to make space where they get to live) but also consumes greats quantities of food(vegetables) that also get to destroy habitats.
In conclusion the BEST way you can contribute the environment is to be vegan you shithead.
No offense but all this is bullshit. Nothing u said is true and plus being vegan is good because the more ppl go vegan the less ppl need to kill animals.oh and what u said about vegans eating animals even if they don’t know it is not true because once the animal dies it decomposes making its vitamins go into the plant and helping it grow but just cuz it’s vitamins go into the plant doesn’t mean we actually eat the animals. Damm that just being stupid. Plus we plants just don’t get vitamins from dead animals they also get it from humans trash or waste . Plus if u don’t know there is alot of benefits in becoming vegan.
The more people eat less animals, the more we will have? EITHER way animals will die. If no-one in this world ate meat, we would be FLUSTERED with animals. In fact, there would be so many animals that workers would be hired to exterminate some. Animals reproduce so much that our world would become so hungry for more crops, more soil, MORE FOOD. Sorry vegans, but eating meat is actually keeping our World stable wether you believe it or not.
Vegans need to be exterminated from this planet
You should finish your 101 Biology course, and then move on to writing articles that actually make sense. Basic principle of compassion is that you do not kill or harm other sentient species. If you find that wrong, disturbing or incomprehensible, you should take more courses at the community college like philosophy or ethics so you can understand an argument.
D’awww look how compassionate this cow is, warming up this baby chick with its mouth and tongue. Brings a tear to my eyes! :’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vxHN8_jSE
Newsflash: If you were 4 inches tall all of these poor little animals that we oh, so, so, so, so mean humans eat would GOBBLE us up without as much as a flicker of sympathy. So, remind me again why I should give a semblance of a shit about eating an animal as long as it was euthanized humanely (Don’t go on a tirade about how rare this is — I’ve seen these videos you watched too, so spare us both your spitting back and forth)
(Also, I don’t really care that much about whether they’re killed humanely or not. It’s not the same thing as a human being killed. Period.)
There is no scientific proof that what u writing is true. And no, proof doesnt mean an article written on fitmole. Use ur brain please, whats wrong about eating healthy plants?
Dont create a hate page, no one tells u to stop eating meat ist everyones personal decision so stop wastin your time and love ur family or do oder thing that are actually good.
You should form a coherent sentence and not use “ur” for your and you’re if you want anyone to even remotely take your internet ramblings seriously. (Hint: nobody will regardless.)
Even a 13 year old girl like me can realize how fucking stupid it is when reading this fucking stupid article, it doesn’t make sense. Idiot! How can you and people like you can be so mean to vegans and vegetarians? You may graduate university but your freaking brain doesn’t. I feel really ashamed of you, and your friends and your family members and even more ashamed of this fucking article. I hope you will have fun in hell when you die.
This is a terrible, completely biased article. As such, it cannot possibly be taken seriously. This article is chock-full of fallacious argumentation and grammatically incorrect sentences. How embarrassing… Had he provided reasonable claims backed by evidentiary support and correctly written sentences, it may have been easier to digest. This was sadly one of the more uneducated articles I’ve read in a while.
Wow!!! You really are uneducated, must be a Trump supporter. Also article is poorly written with no references or sites sources to back up your article based clearly off of your opinion.
A person’s opinion shouldn’t have anything to do with what presidential candidate they support. What a narrow minded, empty conclusion.
I find this article awesome , fuck all these cry baby cuckholds just crying constantly and complaining like estrogen filled little females
about all those animals killed in the combine harvester……. Most grain in this world is fed to animals raised for food. U.S. Could Feed 800 Million People With Grain That Livestock Eat, Cornell Ecologist Advises Animal Scientists. So if someone cares so much about the mice and locusts that get killed during harvesting, they should stop eating meat and animal products as a first step
Let me take nutritional advice from the jackass that bullshitted through BIO 101.
Why are you so angry? You sound incredibly angry that anyone should be a vegetarian, and I wonder why you can’t simply eat the foods that you enjoy, while allowing others to do the same?
I think this stated assumption sums up where the author’s rabid anti-vegetarian sentiment is coming from:
” So the next time I’m eating a steak, don’t you dare judge me for killing a cow.”
Who ever said anything about judging you just because you age a steak? That’s quite a loaded assumption, isn’t it? It kind of reminds me of the people who get angry with teetotallers for “judging” their enjoyment of alcohol. Don’t misinterpret my distaste for steak as “a judgment” on you.
I already know that I’m not saving any lives. Let me also assure you that I’m very aware that eating meat is perfectly healthy (although there’s also no evidence to show that vegetarianism is “unhealthy” in any way — as a biologist, I’m aware of how silly it is to invoke empirical evidence when trying to defend one’s personal food preferences. In fact, vegetarianism is about the same as an omnivorous diet from a health perspective; attempting to argue for which sort of diet is “better” is moot.)
But, it’s not really a question of “health.” It’s really a question of taste and enjoyment. Would I be willing to eat a less-healthy diet for the sake of sensual pleasure and enjoyment? Sure. Am I willing to eat food that I hate for the sake of “health?” Probably not. So, the argument that “meat is healthy!” is going to be lost on most vegetarians.
I’m a vegetarian because I don’t like meat — simple as that. It doesn’t taste good. It turns my stomach. It smells bad, and it’s off-putting. Can you accept that other people don’t always share your personal food preferences? You’re coming at this from an assumption that all humans universally agree that steak and bacon are delicious, that tofu is gross, and therefore, vegetarians are denying themselves for the sake of “health” and “moral righteousness.” Are you judging me for enjoying the flavor and texture of tempeh? It might be hard for you to wrap your brain around the idea that everyone doesn’t enjoy the taste of steak and bacon, but let me assure you that my vegetarianism is really as simple as that — tofu tastes good; steak doesn’t tempt the tastebuds. I don’t see how you’ve conflated any of this with “health” and “morality.”
I eat get what I find delicious. My food preferences are of no concern to you.
You get to eat what you find delicious. Your food preferences are of no concern to me.
Can we agree on that?
No scientific research showing the health benefits of becoming vegetarian or vegan? LOL
There is a 150 page reference list of scientific research in the book called “How Not To Die” by Dr. Michael Greger…..
Not 150 pages of research being explained – but a 150 page list of titles of research.
It would take you decades to read every one of those research papers in that list. And that is exactly what the author spent his life doing.
THE MORE YOU KNOW! 😉
Why are you so upset with people who don’t eat meat? It makes me think maybe you’d like to be vegan but don’t have the strength of character to hack it, so you have to justify the fact that you eat animals.
You think that becoming a vegan will save a lot of cows or chickens? Think again, plus, you’re not making the world a better place to live. I’m not stopping you from becoming one of them but good luck getting your ass mocked by lot of people who are not vegetarian.
I’m truly feel sorry for you. You have clearly never experienced the revolution that makes people become vegan. There are a lot of people that feel the same way about christians, or people of other religions… and it’s only because they don’t understand. They hate for no reason. The only person you are affecting is yourself. You’re letting something make you bitter, something you’re not apart of and don’t get…. I feel bad for you.
Fuck veganism LOL.
wow you… really… showed her. wow.