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
I don’t give a shit about any of the other points, but the first one is just retarded if it is supposed to describe all vegans. I wouldn’t give a shit about some bugs. It’s the suffering and minds of the emotionally intelligent animals that are the problem.
So you get to pick and choose which LIVING CREATURES DIE FOR YOUR PLEASURE. That is of course, assuming you find ANY pleasure in eating. however if you don’t enjoy eating, then maybe you should change what you eat?
If you do like what you eat, than wouldn’t it be hypocritical to tell others what to eat? Or is your dogmatic doctrine of food fascism the only way to go?
Your actually a retard the 1st point is bullshit because 50% of the world’s land is used for agriculture and alot of crops are used to feed animals who are involved in farming. So if everyone went vegetarian there would be more fruit and vegetables for all of us and it could also stop world hunger. And all your other points are shit.
World hunger is never going to “stop”. The U.S has enough food in storage to feed everyone. Do you know why they don’t? It’s because it’s just not profitable. Also the worlds farmland is closer to 40% than 50.
Lmao stop world hunger? Bitch please.
1) Sure, vegeta*ians don’t save lives. They just abstain to participated in the murder of trillions of animals every year for our joy.
You forgot to mention that both animals and ecosystem are killed to give us meat.
Meat production uses way more water and grains than the actual plants we humans eat.
2) I agree with you. Nutrion is a young science and can’t be trusted yet for most aspects. Plus, studies on vegetarians may be biased because people who become vegetarian also usually become more aware of what they eat. They eat less junk, more healthy food.
3) I don’t quite agree on this one. Sure vegetarians don’t eat meat and “miss” on the taste but there are so many things available nowadays that it isn’t that much of a bid deal if you don’t just stop eating meat without adding tasty things (fruits, veggies, chocolate, nuts, etc.) in your plate.
4) Vegetarians are about saving lives we don’t need to take, not saving all lives on earth. That’s just a plain stupid argument…
In a nutshell, you just brought back all the misinformed arguments there are out there, good job. You could be a journalist!
You talked about vegetarians are already eating dead animals.
But the whole point why they are vegetarians is because they don’t want to KILL animals merely for humans.
Also I am sure you don’t want to eat a dead human flesh. However, soil also includes not only dead animals but also dead human bodies. (just letting you know)
https://youtu.be/lG9upLaThv0
Idiotic article in every single way and you facts are fake too..
Vegetables are good but not as good as meat
This is the stupidest piece of crap I have seen since my shit today. Did you get your research from an 5th grader? Join the movement or shut the fuck up with this horseshit. All of your facts are utter trash arguments or downright lies. Go back to school and pick up a book.
cunts like you shouldn’t be allowed to express opinions. Utter trash.
Yo I seriously thought that this was the EXACT thing I was thinking when it came to vegetarians and ESPACIALLY vegans. This guy makes some pretty good pionts, and all of you idiotic “aliens” are trying to save animals when in reality, to grow your vegan foods animals habitats need to be destroyed for farming land. So the animals that your trying so desperately trying to protect are being killed either way.
This article is so entirely factually unsound. I just don’t know where to begin! Well maybe with a plant-based diet not being healthy…
http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/becoming-a-vegetarian
Wow, the person writing this “informative” and “reflective” article seems so intelligent. Seems extremely reflecting, very much able to think and see things from different perspectives. Not… “Dont listen to mainstream media”
I believe 99% of people eating pork skin, wouldnt do so if they didnt learn it from their culture and mainstream media. Mainstream media have teached us all to laugh at people who dont eat meat. You know this to, but as i undestand from this read, the author is ignorant, and dont want facts. You only want to keep eating what you think taste good. I am no muslim or jew, i just have a mind and soul that understood at one point that pigskin had to be toxic. I then said to myself that i was going to try to keep myself free from it for the first month in my whole life, and when i tasted pig afrer that month, i felt sick and was not able to think as clearly as i was in that month. I understand that i CANT be healthy just by seeing the world from a third eye or a random birds perspective. Outside of my own culture and body. And then it just seems crazy to take the skin off of a pig, clean it and put it in a freezer for weeks and then cook it. And then eat the skin of an intelligent animal with your mouth. Yuck. I know its bad, there is no question about it.
Are you trying to troll yourself? This article is filled with insane assumptions. First, most vegetarians don’t eat “tofu burgers” trying to “pretend” they’re eating meat. You assume that most vegetarians have a deep desire to eat pigs, and are repressing this desire–nothing could be further from the truth. Some people actually have a natural repulsion to meat. There is no proof one is “healthier” eating tons of meat, and in this modern era, much meat is factory farmed, which means that intelligent animals live in a hell hole of feces, caged off from their species, basically suffering their entire lives, while they are injected with disgusting HORMONES & ANTIBIOTICS, which you then ingest–immediately taking these repulsive chemicals into your body, plus a giant dose of the factory animal’s fear/stress hormones. If you’re going to advocate for meat, at very least, please educate yourself about good stewardship–the bug argument is weak. Why assume most health conscious vegetarians are eating a mountain of “grains”?…Another irrational assumption.
Dear writer,
Educate yourself then kill yourself. Life is about spirit & love not ego.
Oh, you mean the great “spirit and love” that just made you tell this guy to kill himself?! LMAO. Wow, you vegans really are fucking nuts, aren’t you? You also don’t understand irony, apparently.
God created certain animals to be eaten.
Oh wait…vegetarians are scientologists who don’t believe in God.