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
Ok am not vegan and am not vegetarian in fact i love meat and more chicken 😀
The things is that i have a roomate and she is vegan but she can’t not smell the meat when am coocking or something like that and she everytime want me to change my lifestyle and eat “healthy” the things is she speak and speak when i eat something for example if i eat a cookie she take the pack and start with this have glutamin, palmovi oil bla bla bla and is anoying she know that i will not change my life style but she still try it, and i listen to hear because in some points she is rigth but the probelm start when i speak and when i proof that eat meat is no bad that we need some kind of vitamins from meat that you cant get it from plants, as well i proof to her that plants are alive too same as animals and humans, but there is the problem she get mad she dont want to listen to me becuase she think that am wrong, what can i do for explain her that we both are anyway killing lifes it does not matter if is plant or animal or human or insect right 😀 ? why she dont listen to me a tell me that i speak shit ? 😀 why vegans defends so much their life style? (you eat meat? good for you, you dont eat meat good for you but not for me that why i eat meat) and i dont feel that am killing life what happend in the jungle? the lion eat apples ? i dont think so 😀
You have to be one of the most ignorant people I ‘ve come across, including the author of the article.
1) what kind of vitamins do you find in meat that you can’t find from plant ? Don’t get me started on vitamin b12, it comes from bacteria and not animals.
2) plant are alive, but they are not sentient … They can’t feel pain, there is 0 scientific evidence for it as they lack a nervous system and a brain. We have the moral obligation to not kill sentient beings.
3) we defend our lifestyle because it is the logically consistent way of living. If a rapist adopt your logical reasoning he will tell you the same, why do you defend your lifestyle, I like to rape young children so don’t tell me what to do.
4) lions and other carnivorous animals lack a moral agency, and even if they had one they NEED meat to survive, they can’t process plants, on the other hand we do not need to survive as the longest living people on eat are mostly vegans ( blues zones ).
Please educate yourself and listen to your roommate.
1)One that i know is vitamin D3, which makes your bones stronger. It can’t be found in any existent plant.
Hahaha. What a retarded article. I agree though. Vegetarianism makes absolutely no sense. It’s inconsistent and hypocritical.
Go vegan!
lol fucking triggered vegan got rekt, your lifestyle is shit and you are just about as unhealthy as your average american
Agreed, Vegetarians are retarded and thinking that they could save animals for being a vegans. Seriously, even most of their grand parents are eating animals happily.
You’re calling vegetarians retarded in the same sentence that says “and thinking that they could save animals for being a vegans.”. Read that out loud.
Hahahah yes! half these hating fools can’t even speak English – let alone spell. Keep eating your meat it’s doing wonders for your IQ! Idk it just may be a correlation though hahahah
Wow u really think that VEGANS have higher IQ just cuz they don´t eat meat.
This is one of the most ignorant, blatantly false and misleading “articles” I’ve ever read. Talk about fake news. Wow.
All you Vegans are autistic and butthurt of the truth.
Deal with it.
Toto69, you are a joke.
Get off the moral crap. Call me a murderer but I am not going to stop eating meat. I love it! Call me a killer. That’s okay with me.
I eat meat to survive and I eat meat for the health benefit. Canada food guide recommends eating meat and I agree.
Your morals don’t align with mine. I’ll gladly kill that cow that you won’t.
To all the meat eaters out there, throw this crap right back in the face of extreme vegans who want to try and make you feel guilty for eating something that mankind has been eating since our inception. Oh and toto, understand one thing: you are the MINORITY. The overwhelming majority of humans eat meat, we love it, and we aint leaving it.
Real talk
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.
And cows produce milk&meat using energy only from sun light, not hay, soy and grains?
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.
Very well. So I can come tomorrow and eat your liver with some fava beans and chianti?
y’all are dumb, k? bui
Ok so I totally respect your opinion however you a graciously wrong – actually in order to keep the slaughterhouse animals fat and force fed they use fat more soybeans and grains than a single vegetarian would use for themself. So a single cow is taking in probably a 6lbs of grain a day..so in fact slaughter is ruining the ecosystem and our water conservations sooo
Imagine what would happen to the US economy if the vegetarian lifestyle was adopted by the majority of the population; ranchers would have to become farmers for one, then there would be too many farmers, too many vegetarian restaurants. Let alone over population due to people staying healthy and not needing a dozen prescriptions to keep them alive from a dozen diseases they have (diabetes, heart failure, cancer, low immune system all at the same time). People would lose a lot of money folks. “BUYER BE AWARE.” The writer of this article states that he got nothing from Bio 101 he took in a community college, how would we trust such a person to speak on nutrition who simply didn’t even grasp the concept of METABOLISM and what a negative effect toxins and fat have on healthy cell function. This article it’s like an old time radio cigarette commercial. As far as scientific proof that an animal product diet is bad for you (ALL MEAT IS DEADLY DUDE NOT JUST RED,- *ALONG WITH ALL DAIRY PRODUCTS* WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD A CHOLESTEROL LEVEL CHECK,REALLY? – LET ALONE THE NATURAL CARCINOGENES IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS + THE HUMAN ADDED TOXINS along with HIGH SODIUM AND CHOLESTEROL), it is SO ABUNDANT THAT ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD CANNOT AND WILL NOT STIFLE IT. DUDE GET A GRIP ON BIOLOGY 101 AND NUTRITION then write an article about healthy diet.
YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A WEAK CREATURE WHO DOES NOT DO PROPER RESEARCH BEFORE SPEAKING THERE USELESS MIND. I WOULD EAT A STEAK BEFORE A TOFU BURGER ANY DAY OF THE WEEK AND I WOULD KICK YOUR VEGAN @SS ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. IF AMERICA STOPS EATING MEAT AND JUST CONSUMES VEGGIES OUR CIVILISATION WILL NOT LAST. PROTEIN IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL NUTRIENT OUR BODY NEEDS AND MEAT IS THE GREATEST SOURCE FOR PROTEIN. MEAT WAS THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF SURVIVAL FOR OUR ANCESTORS WHO WERE A LOT STRONGER THAN THE POPULATION OF TODAY. IF SOME HOMOSEXUAL LIKE YOURSELF WOULD HAVE PROMOTED THIS VEGAN BELIEF SYSTEM TO OUR ANCESTORS YOU WOULD BE LYNCHED IN NO TIME AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT SHOULD STILL OCCUR BECAUSE OF THE DAMAGE YOUR IDEOLOGY WOULD HAVE ON A STRONG NATION.
This whole article is not based on any facts at all, but rather an emotional rampage because the author is feeling attacked for his choices. Eat your meat, do whatever you want. But know that you are severely misinformed.
BTW- that bit about vegans causing more destruction because of their consumption of crops is just so ignorant. You do realize 80% of our crops goes to livestock we raise for meat? And without that, all the grains could go towards feeding people. It takes up much more land, resources, crops, and devastation to the environment to raise meat.
But continue to believe the lies that the dairy and meat industries feed to us so they can profit off of your ignorance 🙂
you are retarded, if cows are raised properly they will eat grass not grain. if it were up to greedy libtards like you yea then they eat grain. if all the world just consumed plant food the human race would die off from becoming so weak and genetically inferior to their ancestors. go cry in your tofu burger that will give you brain damage and breast cancer while some fat millionaire profits off the cheap soy he sells you.
Lol… that cheap soy you are talking about is fed to your holy red meat, not to vegans. So you are the one eating it.. .OH THE IRONY!
Your cows are fed grains because of the current system that’s in place that you worship.
You stupid meat wastes food because enable to feed your poisonous meat we have to grow 7 times the amount of crops then would be needed for humans you dumbshit. Do the fucking math, or is your brain littered with too many parasites from all the meat you eat.
Stop worshiping killing animals like a savage and start living a healthier less brain damaging, artery clogging diet. Maybe your anger will subside and you will start talking like a human being again.
Your damn meat industry has a monopoly off of slavery, and causes more cancer than cigarettes. They employ the same tactics big tobacco has been using for decades, and they don’t sell you edible food… (ever hear of meat glue?) they sell you doubt. And as long as they can make you doubt the mountain of evidence against meat, they make an easy buck off your pea brains.
This guy is bat shit crazy for this article…
I understand those of you who want to eat meat and never plan to become a vegetarian, and I respect that. But you should also respect vegetarian’s decisions to become vegetarians, and not be so quick to judge. I have never eaten meat in my life, and I am perfectly healthy.
Okay I’m not vegan and I’m not a meat lover either.
This article is based on emotions saying “fuck you! I eat what I want.” True we eat whatever we want.
1. In the article you wrote and let me quote; “. We have studies that conclude that eating meat “MAY increase” your risk of heart disease, but this doesn’t mean crap.” Meaning it is possible. Haven’t you thought the word MAY is just to make things look pretty and not worry consumers? Let me ask meat MAY cause that. Had you seen any plants that said; “MAY increase” your risk for blah blah blah”? Nope!
2. “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.” If this is true, let me ask you. If you need solid proof, why not just observe them? Are they actually healthy and rarely get sick? Do the look weak without any strength? Are they still living? You don’t have to be a scientist to gain scientific proof when you can see it for yourself right in front of you.
3. You talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. You are talking about something you never tried before. It’s true saving animals, and few things can seem foolish. Not all vegans and vegetarians live that life style just to save animals. Some simply does it to become healthier.
4. “There’s no scientific proof eating plant base is healthy.” Did you know people can go to jail for being activist or do something that affects the business of beef industry and much more? People only care about money not health. You think industries will reveal something that will make them lose money? Nope! Will a hospital make profits if they don’t have any patients? Nope, because they need money to survive. Meaning people with bad health will benefit them more. If you are actually smart and open minded. I do suggest to watch the documentary; What The Health? If you think it will be a waste of time because you are right and everyone is wrong. Then you my dear friend are ignorant and the part you need solid proof part was a solid lie.
5. You do know animals on farms that are raised to make food products need to eat plants also right? So either way the ecosystem is still being destroyed. The proteins from meat. Where does meat comes from? Animals. Where the animals get their proteins and vitamins from? From plants. What does this mean? The proteins and vitamins that are in the animals actually comes from plant. Meaning the proteins from meat comes from plants. If I’m wrong the how does the animals get those proteins? Magically appear in their body it’s not an answer. The reason some people say plant base foods are more healthier than meat it’s because you are eating from it directly and not what’s recycled in the meat. If I’m wrong do proof me wrong. If we need animals to get proteins. Don’t you think animals needs to eat something to get theirs?
6. People eat what they want is their choice not yours. If people want to waste their life eating plants. Let them be. If people want to waste their life eating meat, let them be.
ACTUALLY PLANT FOODS CAN GIVE YOU CANCER SO F OFF. https://www.dietdoctor.com/vegetables-proven-to-cause-cancer
Vegans get triggerd easily. I dunno why tho. fgts
So in order to be a vegan and stay healthy, one MUST take supliments. The human body can not create DHA without consuming meat protein which is essential for proper brain function and to not end up with alzheimer’s disease along with dementia. Without supplements a vegan will get sick and die. Like it or not that is the truth.