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
what an absolutely ignorant self centred waste of space you are……
have any of you meat eaters ever been to a slaughter house…..??? No thought not….
Watch ‘ Meet your Meat ‘ on youtube…… all good is it……
If you think this cruelty is acceptable then you are one sick individual…..
Reading the above comments just proves my view that most of the meat eating posters (and the ignorant SOB who wrote the article) have zero intelligence….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oKx8-5itH0
Have you watched the above yet…… Do any of you have pets …. would you be upset if your pets were treated so cruelty?????
Whats THE BLOODY DIFFERENCE…….
Yes to everything Mark. And author go find a life and stop basing your knowledge off some biology course in a community college.
Dude (yes assuming gender here, dont care) its the height of hilarity youre attempting to label rhis fact filled article as “ignorant” so suck down a soy smoothie, get your man breasts and jack off to CNN.
Keeping animals for your entertainment as a ‘pet’ is cruel. Dogs should run in packs, birds in the air and fish in rivers. Stop your idiotic rant.
Getting rid of meat eaters will mean getting rid of animals all together, as they will have no value and are expensive to look after. That also means getting rid of the countryside, as it is no longer needed. Vegetarians and vegans are ignorent, want the world paved over and animals kept as pets and seen only in zoos, presumably in an enclosure with a cow in a replicated natural field. Very natural.
Eat organic, pay more so the dead animal had a good life and stop being an idiot.
Lol
It’s always the same “arguments” with you people. Clearly, it is YOU who has never seen a slaughterhouse, the vast majority of which are clean operations.
Also, your OPINIONS about cruelty and categorizing animals are wrong. Your moral code doesn’t mean jack shit to the world as a whole.
Eat some meat. You’ll turn out to be less aggressive and ignorant.
Yeah I don’t really care. Livestock is bred for human consumption. Meat is delicious. Vegans and vegetarians need to be gassed to death or slaughtered like livestock and fed to livestock.
Have ever thought that not every gets meat raised in a slaughterhouse, even though most slaughterhouses aren’t even that bad? Some people only ever hunt their own meals, and if not, they get it from the local farm and not a large operation. Wakey wakey!
The human race is just as animalistic as the rest of the animals on this planet.
Would a lion eat you if he was hungry. Hed probably slice your ass up with those sharp claws of his, and then canabalistically eat you up in a gang lion feasting.
People should be concerned with what is happening to us humans worldwide – wars, starving people instead of concerning themselves with what people want to eat. You vegeterians are worse than religios groups. Stay out of our business like we stay out of yours. Dont push something you do, on me. You make me sick, all of you Vegie fucks!
Time to go cook up a fat American Tenderloin on my grill 🙂
I absolutely loved this !….you are sooooo right I have a few in my family. and they are wack jobs !
This is a great article and people like “Mark” should actually read instead of being so biased and close minded. you are literally eating the animals ecosystem which will affect. and I will also include that many of the animals killed would not have been even born in the first place since they were born to be eaten. much different than going out in the wild and killing chickens. The chicken was created to be eaten.
I cannot stand how stupid this is. I should have left after the first 5 spelling errors in the first paragraphs. Let me help you by peer-editing your work.
1) yes, we are saving the lives of animals. If you are really concerned about agriculture killing the environment, here’s a thought: don’t the animals eat plants? YES. They do. Every second an acre of the Amazon Rainforest is cleared for grazing land for livestock. AND entire ecosystems are being destroyed by the greenhouse gases made by cows. Animal livestock is the leading cause of global warming, and every year cows do 260X more damage than carbon emissions.
2) UHHGG this one I can’t even stand how stupid it is. By eating a Tofu burger, you are paying companies to increase their sales in tofu burgers. By paying for a hamburger, you are paying a company to increase the number of cows to kill because they are getting more profit. It’s simple supply and demand. My nine-year-old sister understands better than you.
3) … omygodddddd I can’t even
Have fun dying young
4) :’( how sad. There are meat replacements that taste exactly the same.
5) That is probably the most idiotic thing I have ever heard in my life. Maybe if you had understood the class you wouldn’t be so stupid. The fox does not need to be included in that chart!!!!! Here, let’s see if this works.
Rabbit poops=> Poop fertilizes the soil=> plants absorb the same soil to grow=> humans eat the plants.
Crazy, right?!
Animal livestock is not leading carbon emissions,that was some crack pot vegan funded study debunked 18 years ago. Good to see you still regurgitating it without question.
There are no meat replacement products that taste like meat. And if they were and meat repulses you, why are you wanting a meat tasting anything.
Vegan diets are horrendous, look at India’s largely vegetarian population and it’s 60% of anemic females!!! Or Asia’s less than manly soy filled men.
Vegan food is lady food. It is not good for men’s hormones or mental health.
Vegans eventually get sick, go on supplements derived from animals or eat a bit of meat every now and then. Just like we all should.
i agree *sigh* GO SOCK THEM MEAT EATERS
In nature animals kill each other all the time for food, if vegans want to stop animal cruelty go talk to a lion and convince it to not eat zebra. You can give it a tofu burger while your at it.
What a retarded argument. Does a lion lock animals up and lead them to their death in terror in a wholesale manner? No. I would hunt and kill an animal if I needed to. Thing is, I don’t need to at all, so I show restraint.
Riiiiight. A lion hunting prey is not scary for the prey? Most animals do not kill their prey, they eat them alive with their hearts still beating.
You’re ignorant. Do research on both sides of the subject or even just your side. You fool. Just look up what factory farms look like. I know it won’t change your mind, but that is what is expected, furthering the eveidence that you’re just a silly insignificant fool. I would never even suggest someone becomes a vegetarian because people can and will do what they want and should be allowed to. I think it’s great that you were allowed to write this clearly uninformed article. You silly, silly fool.
I didn’t chose to be a vegetarian for any other reason than wholesale, brutal slaughter of animals in terror. I would hunt and eat an animal if needs must. I don’t need to though. Restraint is what it’s called. Which is something most people do not have.
Vegetarian means that you EAT DAIRY AND EGGS too!
Definition of vegetarian. 1 : a person who does not eat meat : someone whose diet consists wholly of vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, and eggs or dairy products.
Fitmole YOU ARE CONFUSING “VEGANISM” (lack nutrient diet) with VEGETARIANISM (includes eggs and dairy so nutrient-rich or nutrient-dense diet)
Fix the word “vegetarian” please. Correct word is “vegan”.
Wow, you are so defensive. Has a vegan or vegetarian recently broken into your home and pried a pork chip out of your puffy fingers? It seems like it from the vitriol of your post. Everything you say is actually having the counter effect because it proves how uneducated you are about this topic and how little research you’ve done. It’s a shame.
I am no longer vegan. I rescued animals instead. Any vegan who can handle the desert heat, lift heavy things and shovel animal crap is welcome to help out. Oh, and yeah, the hay I have for the horses sometimes has small dead animals in it. All agriculture kills small animals. Hey vegans, this includes soy, wheat and all the things vegans eat. Baby bunny heads anyone? You should see the garbage in the fields you get your vegan foods from. How is your food fertilized? Chemicals! also cow crap and bone meal etc. Meanwhile, I have pets to feed and care for, and my dogs who are carnivores are fed meat as nature intended. Want to save animals oh pious vegans? Save the money and adopt a herd of cattle. Ranchers don’t care if you eat the cows or let them live in your house. Instead of sucking on that green smoothie or overpriced wheatgrass shot, give to a no-kill shelter. And yes F.U. PETA who collects money and does nothing with it. Again, come over and shovel some sh*t. Be close to nature! (horse crap is totally edible as my horses are not fed any drugs or chemicals)
Unfortunately stumbled across your moronic ranting whilst searching something more meaningful. Couldn’t resist a comment tho. That said, Shut the fuck up you fucking cunt. Haha ok over & out
Karl works for Peta
intention is the most important fact that drives a human to perform his or her activities in day to day life. Farming is not meant to kill animal. And the suffering of a animal like cow cannot be compared with a unintentional killing of micro animals. If you wish to eat flesh please do it without making useless arguments. Yes this is the habit of greediness people who love meat. Yes, you can keep on eating meat, but if you go to push forward it as a philosophy then you show your own ignorance.
Did you even read what you wrote?
Well, being vegetarian just because of religion is bullshit. They set arbitrary restrictions and do more harm than good both to their bodies and to animals. Eg: some religious vegetarians eat eggs but don’t eat onions/garlic etc just because religion says that can’t be eaten. And that’s bullshit because the egg industry is inherently cruel which people who are religious SHOULD want to avoid, but aren’t. And alliums are vegetables and helps with absorption of nutrients but some arbitrary religious guideline makes it forbidden.
Then again everything about religion is basically bullshit and religion is the worst reason to become vegetarian, unlike what you have written.
Stop being vegetarian. If any vegetarian reads my comment, go eat some scramble eggs with a lil bit of salt.