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
I fell into the vegetarian fad back in 2010 when my sister-in-law convinced me it was a much cleaner and humane way of life style. I maintained a vegetarian diet until 2015. The first year and a half really wasn’t too bad and at one point I did feel a little bit better about what I was doing.
After the second year I started to notice some health issues like drastic loss of weight, I was always tired no energy and my physician actually told me I was losing muscle mass which is a dangerous thing. She strongly suggested that I quit this lifestyle but of course I thought I was not only changing myself but helping change the world.
Fast forward to March 2015. I went from a beautiful curvy 127 pound girl to a rack of ribs pushing the scales to a whopping 91 pounds. My husband could barely stand to look at me, my kids we’re scared I had some kind of cancer and my new physician warn me of pending high blood pressure and hypertension do to this vegetarian lifestyle.
Needless to say I gave the vegetarian life a quick kick in the ass! Now in 2018 I’m back to a very healthy 125 lb I feel great with tons of energy and there’s nothing better then cutting in to a great big porterhouse steak! Besides all the horrible health risks that come with being a vegetarian my grocery bill alone from my local co-op and Farmers Market had literally tripled! That didn’t include the good food that the rest of my family was eating!
Fruits vegetables and nuts are a great part of any diet but to make it your main food supply is absolutely and proven stupid! So from a former hardcore vegetarian I say eat meat of the redder the better!… And by the way my sister-in-law who still is a vegetarian and only 3 years older than myself has had to quit work because she can no longer perform the physical demands needed and has a slew of health problems. She does at least eat dairy products now though.
I would like to know where you got all of this information from, or, who are your references in this article.
lol what a troll article
My friend
why is this bothering you/?.
I am vegetarian because here in uk EVERY supermarket is hallal for the Muslims and I wont eat non stunned animals who have watched each other struggling into death.
Only morrisons and McDonalds and M and S are safe
You need to champion this my friend, everything in uk is halal.they even force our kids to eat it at school in uk.
Why not champion this cause??thanks mate.
So being hit with a hammer is soooo more humaine than falling asleep slowly? I have learned from my butcher brother that hallal meat IS healthier. And all the animal feels is like a paper cut then they fall asleep. PS. I am not muslim, just educated.
Who the fuck eats horse ribs?
Who the heck eats horse ribs?
My dear friend, I would ask you to receive a bit(a lot) more information about veganism before writing articles with this kind of statements.
Not trying to insult you but it seems you don’t know anything about the reasons and intentions of vegan lifestyle.
Sorry for my poor English.
I have made biological studies, and every scientist knows that vegan’s have vitamin deficiencies, undeveloped muscles, and less brain activity. You yourself don’t know anything about the “intentions of vegan lifestyle”. Imagine a scenario where everyone in the world would convert to veganism. California would become a massive desert with constant drought (it already is thanks to soy farming), The Amazon rainforest would be completely cut down for agriculture, earths lungs would be cut, animals would have less and less space. All lifestock would be released into the wilderness to be killed by wolves and other predators.
A rather blood thirsty dream, eh?
srsly imma vegan for the animals and im just sayin im never being a meat eater because if they are this mean and hateful against people that dont believe the same as you do and discriminating against them i dont want any part of this. i get you dont understand but you dont have to make a whole “troll article” on this if you are going to be mean and hateful be serious about it. but seriously why are you so argumentative about veganism? is it because you are to cowardly as to give up your cheeseburger? and about the ecosystem and every plan you eat tears it up OMFG lol are you really just that dumb plants grow back after planting them, but once you kill a life of an animal that species is 1% more to being extinct and never to come back very unlike plants who as i mentioned earlier do in fact grow back. and honestly if veganism is bad for you and there is no scientific research done on it being good for you then why do doctors recommend this diet for people with certain disease?. and if im killing bugs id rather kill just bugs then animals and bugs. and you said and i QUOTE ” It doesn’t matter how hard you try, a piece of tofu will never taste as good as a greasy piece of beef.” yes saying greasy beef makes meat sound extra healthy. meat contains cholesterol wich leads to disease. so yes my friend you are unhealthy. p.s im a sarcastic vegan not all vegans act/talk like i do
Yur a stopid cunt. Pussy ass bich
Once you pick and eat a plant it is gone forevermore too. You are replanting with a different plant. They breed more animals and send the steers to slaughter, so the animals are replaced just as the plants you so ruthlessly digest.
Bro, just WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ?! I MEAN FOR REAL…how can you be just so stupid ?! You know this show me once again how dumb people in america are. ( im sorry to all americans ) and for real?! your arguments are so dump i mean:”Kill millions of small animals, bugs, and microorganisms” ?!?! or “Are actually eating meat without knowing it ?!,
c´mon.
Maybe you might know if you read this that i am a vegetatrian and u know what? fuck you mate! im proud of it and ill fight for a better world with less meat.
You mad as hell my guy, and you make 0 sense what’s so ever.
Americans are so dumb they way they have the most inventions, freedom, money, peace keepers, kerp saving Europe, donate the most to world charities, disaster relief, feed other peoples, and everyone ditches their homelands to come here. You’re a moron!
Your country is not even close to being the most free.
You have the highest debt in the entire Milky Way, you do not keep peace but start wars wherever you see the opportunity to, you sure as hell do not keep saving Europe lol (where the fuck did you make that one up), you have different laws around every corner and to top it all off an unschooled judge with no knowledge of the law whatsoever can decide whether you are guilty of a crime.
What a wonderful country indeed
Vegans and vegetarians are retarded and this article made me laugh so hard. Everything is true. humans are at the top of the food chain stop acting like little bitches about Bambi’s mom. She tasted good
Wow…thank you for posting this. I’m doing an analytical essay and I need a terrible, unreliable article to compare to one that actually has citing sources and facts..this is perfect.
This article did make me laugh, so thank you for that..but really??
Being vegetarian kills more animals than eating meat? Please..where do you think all of the food to feed the animals you’re eating comes from?
You mean those vegetarian animals that would be eating that anyway and even more so if we weren’t eating them? Please retake math clases.
This article makes me want to die of laughter. As a vegan, you obviously don’t know anything. This article was written by a heartless, uncompasssionate a hole. Just like one in America wouldn’t dare to eat a dog, as vegans, we refuse to eat any animals because we are all equal. The entire world would prosper if humans died. The amazon is nearly gone due to the animal agriculture industry and the need for animal exploitation. While I am vegan 100% for the ethical treatment of animals, my body has never been in better shape. The main culprit was cheese/milk. It’s disgusting both for the body as well as for the animal exploration. If you’re reading this and you’re not vegan but rather vegetarian, make the switch! I was vegetarian for 6 years before going vegan 2 years ago and feel so much better. Plus, in terms of animal exploitation, vegetarians aren’t really doing much considering they are still supporting the dairy industry where close to 90% of the dairy cows go to the slaughter house to be made into beef once they are no longer reproductive age. Same with the baby cows; they are made into veal directly as a result of the dairy industry. Not hating on vegetarians because at least they are trying to end animal cruelty,but, when it comes down to it, the dairy and egg industry are equally as harmful to the environment and the animals if not worse since they need to endure a long and drawn out suffering their entire lives, only to be slaughtered at the end of their days.
Yeah cause being well fed and being made sure you aren’t sick before you die is such a suffering
the Amazon is gone because of the palm oil industry too
The only thing I can think right now: holy shit, this is ignorant… I know this has been written 7 years ago, but none of these things are facts or simply no longer true.
What a stupid arsehole!