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
Yay for meat! Reading this does make me want a double bacon cheeseburger.
Spot on, the vegan society was startled as a cult in England by people that didn’t understand what pasteurized milk was, eat more plants from farms that exploit cheap immigrant labor in the fields but don’t eat meat crazy, vegans are mostly weird liberals who think they are pious.
What a dickhead
You fucking stupid? From a baby cow to your steak destoyes the nature much much more. There is nothning that makes sense in your sayings. Cows need grains to live 😀 fucking idiot :Dddd
I have, never in my life, heard something this stupid.
I’m sure your IQ is pretty damn low.
Lol, You have zero understanding of the scientific method. There are tons of studies showing that vegetarianism has PROVEN health benefits, and your fallacious argument of the loss of invertebrates and micro organisms being worse (both ethically and environmentally) than the beef and dairy industry. I’m no vegetarian, but I am a biologist with a severe intolerance to self-righteous anti science.
Good day.
Can you provide any links to the scientific research you’re talking about?
There is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian/vegan. Why are you so interested in what other people are doing with their lives anyways? This was a very immature approach. Your reasons are completely stupid too. ( just because plants grow from nutrients in the soil that may be from animals doesn’t mean we are eating flesh. And in 99.9999% of the case , those animals died naturally like you stated in your food web so they were not slaughtered so there was no life to save. It all happened naturally.) Anyway thanks for the laugh. You really made a fool of yourself.
Well aren’t you a fucking Saint. Fucktard. I’ll sleep well knowing you’ll die of heart disease or some other animal consumption related diseases.
You, my dear, are the typical vegan idiot. When your health issues from lack of proper nutrition begin, think back on this stupid comment you made.
FUCK VEGANS AND VEGETARIANS BUT VEGANS MOST OF ALL
I hate vegans so much. They look so dead in public because they does not get enought vitamins. They look so sick! And another thing i hate is that they force non-vegans to become vegans.
I am vegetarian. I am quite fit and healthy. I get all of the required vitamins and I haven’t forced anyone into becoming a vegetarian/vegan. You should be embarrassed of how you stereotype. Honestly so naive and thoughtless. Shame, I pity your lack of knowledge.
Seriously, how old are you? One cannot force change in another person’s diet. Some provide insight, and that makes some people consider a vegan diet. But no, people don’t force others to join their lifestyle. Vegans are not communist acting people.
So some of your comments make sense believe it or not. BUT when you stated ” (vegetarians) Support the destruction of ecosystems to obtain their food” this was the most stupid agrument ever. There are 1.5 billion cows in the world, 80% of the agriculture land in the US is used to feed and raise livestock! That’s 50% of the land in the US! So you arguing the farming kills ecosystems, livestock does the same thing. The environmental effect of livestock is crazy. 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions is from livestock. Your diet probably requires more land, and eviornmental sacrifices than a vegetarian, and you should know this. Be informed don’t just pull stuff out of a hat and say it’s true!
You really don’t know shit about ranching, and farming. First off farmers grow stuff, ranchers raise cattle. Some people do both, but they don’t run cattle on farm land. Cattle are raised on pasture, or in feed lots. Wheat, grains, and lentils are grown in plowed, and seeded fields EVERYWHERE. Farmers don’t want cattle in plowed, and seeded fields. It ruins the field. Your facts(MYTHS!) are so fucking stupid, you should really go research this stuff. Agricultural land is for growing, not to raise cattle on.
Furthermore, I have no fucking clue where you came up with the myth that cattle produce 15% of all green house gasses. Let me ask you something. How do you figure they measured that??? You think they went around, and stuck a gas meter up a cow’s ass??? You should really just shut up, go chew on a stick of celery, and maybe do some research. Try doing some factual research based on real facts, not made up ones. Practice what you preached right at the end of your comment.
P.S. Livestock raised on grass pastures do no such thing in killing eco systems. As long as the rain falls, and the sun shines, the grass grows right back. Their waste is reabsorbed into the ground, and fertilizes the grass. Just like every other living fucking thing on the planet, they are a part of the ecosystem, and the food chain.
Yeah, but if you are wrong…then people gonna die bro…you may lead morons to the slaughter…of course…you can say that they are responsible for their own lives, but you are purporting to provide a reasoned conclusion that they should follow.
WHO has come out and said processed meat causes cancer…perhaps they have been infiltrated by the weird liberals…
China study is not the only study around…
Human eating is not scientific…its emotional, cultural, habitual and semi scientific in it’s application.
The truth is out there..I can’t say one thing or another, but I do recommend people way it all up for themselves and not just eat what their mother gave them or what is marketed through mass media.
Your food is based upon what is good for a 70 year life with expected ill health as you age..
Who benefits…economic combines, not from individuals, like murder, but by a constant slue of patients to big pharma, you have funded the processed food companies, dairy, cattle industry. Like a good little boy…you will die in a hospice, but you have been a good citizen.
Congratulations.
If someone kills this moron and serves him up at a BBQ, I’ll become a meat eater for that one event.
I have thought a lot about this topic, and have come to some conclusions of my own. Which are not intended to argue with the author of this topic. I agree with this article.
1: Human beings have incisors, and molars. You can’t argue that we were genetically designed to eat meat, and plants. We are omnivores plain, and simple. That’s just a fact. Herbivores have grinding types of teeth, like our molars, but they lack fangs, which are very similar to incisors. It isn’t too fucking hard to figure it out.
2: Before grocery stores existed, What the fuck do you think people ate in the winter after all their rabbit food was consumed??? Unless they live in a tropical climate, a vegetarian couldn’t survive without a goddamn grocery store.
3: I believe a person with no existing health conditions should eat a well balanced diet, and enjoy everything in moderation.
I have no problem with people being vegetarians at all. It just means more meat for me. Do the rest of us omnivores a favor though, keep your stupid comments, and bullshit myths to yourself.
I agree that we humans have teeth that are “meant” to be used for eating meat. But we as humans have evolved. Why exactly do you think that eating things like raw pork can make you sick and possibly kill you? Not a single human today can be put into the wild and use the nails that we have to rip into an animal’s flesh. It would also be complicated to chew through layers of skin like other animals do. Our teeth have evolved, we are not “built,” so to speak, as we used to be.
Yes I agree with reason number 2. So many vegans don’t seem to realize that in a natural survival lifestyle you pretty much NEEDED meat to survive. In most climates worldwide, living directly off the land ONLY from naturally occurring plants will not provide enough calories. And that’s why early humans hunted for meat, and then later developed agriculture/farming. Vegans can live off of a plant only diet now, but that’s only because of our modern mass production plant farming.
I couldn’t even finish this bloated yet somehow empty garbage rant. You’re a fucking idiot.