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
To be fair, I googled “Reasons against vegetarians”, so I knew what I was getting into.
How funny, when someone like this blogger use rationality and logic to PROVE that vegetarian diet is just wrong/bullshit, vegetarians have nothing to say and don’t post. Vegans are so funny really, they’re like mad people saying that sane people are mad. Funny.
Point 2 is just wrong.
Point 1 and 4): we know that some animals still die to support humans lifestyle, we just want to keep that to a minimum, and be part of that to a minimum.
Point 3: Yeap…. If you don’t feel bad to kill an animal just because you like the taste but you do not need to do it, we have a personal disagreement and argue is futile,
This is the dumbest thing I have ever read In my entire life. You people that agree with this person are seriously living in your own bubble.
Explanation:
1) You aren’t saving the lives of animals – Yes you are! Meat works as a product. The higher demand there is for meat – the higher the production of meat gets. (To simplify, more animals gets killed if more people eats meat. OR If there where no vegetarians in the world, more animals would get killed.) Simple math! A vegetarian saves about 1 animal a day. That’s 365 animals a year! Source? http://www.countinganimals.com/how-many-animals-does-a-vegetarian-save/
And killing ecosystems as a vegetarian is NOTHING compared to what the meat industry does to our land. About 90% off all soy production goes directly to feed animals who then will be slaughtered for us to eat. This is simple as well: Why not just eat the soy directly instead of feeding animals first? Our livestock is more well fed than the starving people in the third world countries. 20% of all humans on earth live of 80% off all resources on earth!
2) There is absolutely zero scientific proof showing that going vegetarian is healthy – YES there are PROOF that a vegetarian diet is more healthy! According to the ADA, vegetarians are at lower risk for developing heart disease, colorectal, ovarian, and breast cancers, diabetes, high blood pressure and more!
Read the following articles based on scientific research:
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Womens_Health_Watch/2009/October/becoming-a-vegetarian
http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Health_Services/Health_Education/nutrition_&_eating_concerns/being_a_vegetarian.php
http://www.eatingwell.com/nutrition_health/nutrition_news_information/why_a_vegetarian_diet_is_good_for_your_health_and_the_health_of_the_planet
3) You don’t get to eat meat – I don’t even know what to respond here. You are simply an egoistic person. But it does not surprise me that you think this way. Reading this article makes me sick how uneducated people can be. Please watch the move Earthlings with Joaquin Phoenix. You will do all of us a favor.
4) Vegetarians are actually eating animals without knowing it! – Yes, and meat eaters eat vegetables without knowing it since the majority of all vegetable and grain production are going to the livestock. This is also one of the stupidest reasons I have ever heard. This is the circle of life and has nothing to do with why you should not eat another living being.
I apologize if my english is bad, it’s not my main language. Just had to write this. It’s so sad knowing that there are so many people who think like this person who wrote this article.
And PLEASE se the movie: Earthlings <3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce4DJh-L7Ys
Seriously appalled that people like him manage to write articles and spread ignorance and BS labelled “scientific proof” and “logic”. The root of all the trouble they go through is all about avoiding the guilt of their gluttony that they convince themselves is the goal of a vegetarian. They get angry at the idea that their eating habits are losing a popularity contest when compared to the vegetarian diet so they scrape up whatever biased and/or far-fetched points they can – resulting in things like this monstrosity. Most of this article is just anger. Oh the distances people will go to avoid change and effort.
Not angry because our diet is ‘losing popularity’; dont assume shit on people. I hate vegetarians and vegans because they can’t seem to mind their own fucking business and stop bashing meat eaters and try to convert people into becoming like them. SHUT THE FUCK UP I EAT WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT AND IM STILL LIVING AM I NOT? I love veggie and fruits, but i also love meat and fish. I eat all of them moderately, i dont have heart disease, im not obese or whatever so please stop saying that its bad. Do you know i love animals? But do you know that cattles are allowed to increase in numbers for the human consumption? I hate the fact that there are too many industrial farms. But people will continue doing what they want. Call me a hypocrite because i am. But i’ve never personally seen a meat eater trying and begging a vegan or vegetarian to ‘go back to eat meat’.
Are you serious?! There’s a bunch of ignorant people who ALWAYS bash me for being vegan and it’s fucking annoying.I’ve never tried to convince some one into becoming vegan or vegetarian even though some of my pals have decided to turn vegetarian on their own, since they’ve seen my health improvement. If you want to continue eating meat then do it. Not all vegans and vegetarians are the same but the majority of all the meat eaters I’ve met are so fucking ignorant! So irritating and close minded they’re the ones who can’t seem to mind their own business. It’s pointless to argue with them cause they’re so hard headed. Even if you show them proof that this life style is actually healthier they’ll still say “they’re right” Let people fucking be if they decide to not eat meat good for you if you want to continue eating meat well then go ahead it’s your life you can do whatever the fuck you want with it.
Seriously died after reading this article, the author brings up many valid/logical points that completely counter many of the so called vegetarian’s most common claims. To the angry vegetarian poster above, you’re counterclaim contradicting the article’s notion by arguing that being a vegetarian does in fact save animal lives is completely unfounded given the source’s credibility tl the claim that it saves the lives of one animal per day because of how the law of demand works. This is why…have you any scientific findings or statisticay significant findings that the overall supply of meat production would decrease because of vegetarians rather than simple changes in the price levels consumers pay? Unless food in general is not an overly abundant resource (the millions of starving people accross the globe would probably have something to say about that), then because of the high levels of demand for the most important resource along with water for human beings the quantity supplied will not decrease whatsoever, instead the fluxuating levels of demand will be offset with a change in prices. Unless you try to counter with the “if everyone were a vegetarian crap then there would be no demand at all,” then that logic you provide is completely false and therefore another illogical notion put forth by you self righteous morons. If everyone were a vegetarian, I hate to break it to you, but most of the world would freaking starve to death and the average life expectancy would greatly decrease due to malnutrition because of the limited, and I mean extremely limited supply of available resources (food not produced from animals) because even efforts to increase the output of food produced would only have minimal effects on the overall quantity supplied vs. demanded. Obviously most vegetarians weren’t economics majors or they would start making rational decisions and arguments versus emotional and self serving ones. Oh yeah and Fuck PETA.
“If everyone were a vegetarian, I hate to break it to you, but most of the world would freaking starve to death and the average life expectancy would greatly decrease due to malnutrition because of the limited, and I mean extremely limited supply of available resources (food not produced from animals) because even efforts to increase the output of food produced would only have minimal effects on the overall quantity supplied vs. demanded.
Why would most of the world starve to death? The vast majority of crops grown are used as feed for farm animals. For every one pound of meat produced, that cow had to consume 16 pounds of plants. If everyone went vegan, as we go on, the amount of crops grown would adjust accordingly to the amount of people that eat them, considering we’d no longer have people growing feed for farm animals.
Malnutrition from living on a plant based diet? If you think that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Heart Association, and the American Diabetes Association are all wrong, then you can sue them.
But you don’t even need those associations! Just look at the facts. Meat and other animal products have a lot of saturated fats and cholesterol.
Ask yourself how meat ends up on “top cancer-causing foods” lists.
And dude, calm down. 🙂
I agree with Hanna 100%!!! I’m NOT a vegetarian and I eat very little meat and that from free range, humanely raised animals and responsibly harvested fish. Article written by Keith above encourages and more factory animal consumption, ignorance about what really this “ecosystem destroying grain” is (yes, the factory meat eaters are the one who are really destroying the ecosystem by eating grain fed factory animals).
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/is-the-livestock-industry-destroying-the-planet-11308007/?no-ist
http://earthlings.com/?page_id=10
Number 4 is bullshit.
I couldn’t resist, Yes thats exactly what he is saying, its bullshit. You are eating bullshit. 🙂
hahahahahahhahahah
that is the best thing I’ve read in a while….hahahhaha
We are omnivores. The problem with our diets isn’t ooooohhhhh, you eat meat. It’s the preparation and the quality. Along with a lot of misinformation by food companies, for instance soy products. If you can say you’ve never felt bloated after eating soy products you are a liar or a ruminant. Want to see what real healthy eating for an omnivore looks like? Check out this article. Unless you are a head in the sand vegan, then you will puke and cry before you get through the article.
http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional-diets/guts-and-grease
Side note. Had a neighbor that thought her vegan lifestyle would be good for her dog, dog died of starvation despite multiple daily feedings.
“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
“Eat pussy not animals” ~ Des Revol
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” ~ Albert Einstein
Don’t eat anything you aren’t willing to kill yourself. ~ Lorene Lavora
“We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” ~ Henry Beston
This article is mostly bullshit.
Fuck you.
-A vegetarian.
You didn’t actually disprove anything in this post, just quote a bunch of people that high school kids would think is awesome and an insult that makes you look even stupider. Way to truly represent the maturity of vegans, lol!
you all should watch forks over knives documentry
there is proff and fact
Amazing. I came into this from a totally neutral perspective (i.e. not a vegetarian), and it’s obvious that your arguments are stupid and simplistic. You’re so much worse than the the idiots who don’t want to hurt cows etc.
Lol! This article was clearly posted by a troll, though I’ll treat it like it wasn’t so I can refute the “arguments”.
With that said, here is the author’s list of “reasons” why being a vegetarian is ‘fucking stupid’ ;D.
Apparently us vegetarians/vegans…
•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
Bullets one and two can be refuted with the same knowledge. For every one pound of beef produced, that cow ate approximately 16 pounds of plants. Also, approximately 70% of crops grown are used as feed for farm animals. What I’m saying is, we’re having a lot less crops grown by eating them directly, therefore having a lot less ecosystems destroyed and a lot less animals killed. Oh, and FYI, microorganisms aren’t animals. They are bacteria. Bacteria don’t suffer like animals do, no vegan or vegetarian is going to be bothered by the death of bacteria.
As for bullet three… Animal products are packed with saturated fats and cholesterol. Ask yourself why meats wind up on the lists of the top cancer causing foods. Ask yourself why the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics all have stated that correctly-followed plant based diets are healthy.
Bullet 4- First of all, it’s not technically “meat”. Maybe it’s decomposed animals, but so what? We didn’t cause the animals to be killed. Us being affected by this is merely a by-product, kind of like how we eat fruits that have been pollinated by bees. The bees weren’t pollinating the fruits for us. In the same way, the animal didn’t die for us. This is different then purchasing meat because meat is actually having an animal be killed. Buying plants that may have traces of animal in them isn’t.
As for bullet number five, vegetarians “Are simply misinformed about every aspect of the vegetarian lifestyle”, well, I feel no need to address that. It is an insult based on no logical basis, therefore I see no reason to listen.
There is one thing you throw in there that I feel the need to address. You state, “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.”
First of all, vegetarianism can be about health, animals, the environment etc., or a mix. A vegetarian is simply a person who doesn’t eat meat. Assuming that health is involved, many breads and cereals are very healthy. Either way, vegetarians still eat other things. Now, the way humans eat meat hasn’t been around ‘since forever’. We cook the heck out of it, put it with processed foods, and then we eat it. We don’t eat the eyes and tendons like carnivores do. We try to disguise the taste of the decomposing flesh. That’s not natural. And even if humans ate meat like real carnivores, that’s not why you eat meat. You eat meat because you like it. PARAPHRASED QUOTE: “If you want to do something natural, go take a dump in the woods.” If you cared so much about being natural, you wouldn’t eat meat from slaughterhouses. How are they natural?
I find it very interesting that one of your 4 points about why being a vegetarian is ‘fucking stupid’ is that vegetarians ‘don’t get to eat meat’. You act as if people need meat to be happy. They don’t.
Sincerely, a vegan
Hey Mr,
Don’t create this type of sites and make people mad.
It’s obvious that your arguments are stupid and simplistic. You’re so much worse than the the idiots who don’t want to hurt cows etc
What you know about vegetarian? Can you just difference between the vegetarian food & Non-vegetarian food?
First you decide whether you are animal or Man?
If you are animal means then what you said may be right, but, if you really feel you are a man, then you don’t have rights to kill any animal.
Even cruel animals also kills other animals because of their survival purpose only.If they have any option for their survival other than killing, they are ready to follow the same.
Now, can you understand what’s your position? Your position is worst than the cruel animal & never think you know every thing & you are a great sage.You are a stupid only.
If you want to eat non-veg food, eat. That’s it. Nobody will disturb you. But don’t show out your idiotic nature by cursing that all vegetarians for their nature. You don;t have rights, knowledge & capacity also to do so.
Who said to you that vegetarian food will not give good health? It definitely gives good health.Scientists proved it. If you don’t know, try to know it by now at least.
Don’t be idiotic & convert other ignorant community also become idiots.
God only has to help such an idiotic people like you.
Sankar
beside the crap this guy is talking, I think the funniest point in that text is, that the author says “the only reason why you should be a vegetarian is for religious reasons”.
whoever believes, i mean REALLY believes, in any old, white bearded man living in the clouds and judging you after your death, … i´m sorry but how can a rationally thinking, modern person STILL believe in fairytales like that?
so if “KEITH” thinks religious reasons are okay, that shows his personal step forward since the stone age. none.
also very good in my opinion: “But i’ve never personally seen a meat eater trying and begging a vegan or vegetarian to ‘go back to eat meat”
and why? because they don´t have any argument that really fits, and probably because they do already know it´s wrong but are too lazy to change something.
but it tastes so good! i´m sure you also would <3
Most of the grains are raised to feed livestock — 30% of the earth’s surface is either used to produce food for livestock or house livestock facilities. So, no, we are not the ones destroying ecosustems.
There is enough proof that decreasing animal protein in your diet can improve ones health. My husband has cut his cholesterol levels to the point he no longer needs medication and I have done the same with my blood pressure.
It IS hypocritical to still eat dairy and eggs if one is ethically vegetarian as these factory farms treat the animals worse than slaughter facilities. But we don’t need milk from a creature that did not birth us. Even a baby cow is weaned off her own mother’s milk so there is no reason why we should be drinking it for our entire life. Humans wean their children as well. And calcium comes from the plants they eat — we don’t need a middleman to get calcium. Eat the damn plants yourself.
And the thought of eating the ground up carcass of an animal and topping it with some strips of pig carcass no longer appeals to me, so, yes, I do prefer my non-gmo, organic and minimally processed meat alternative. My heart and other vital organs appreciate it too.
So get the big chip off your shoulder. I don’t judge those who eat meat — I did so for the better part of my life. I have just done enough research that supports MY reason to eat the way I do. And the planet and my health are better served by eating plant based v. animal based. Anyone who wants to keep eating saturated, cholesterol laden meats bad enough will find someone to support their philosophy. I suspect that you are young, and I also suspect when you are older and death’s door is no longer so far off that you feel invincible, you may reconsider your diet.
Sigh…
1. It’s pathetic and childish to purposely post something like this knowing it’s just going to upset people.
2. You chose gwar you eat and judge nobody for it. Unless of course you’re a pushy frat boy who gets off on trying to make everyone just like you.
I bet you bullied kids in school also.
I also bet that you have some deep down closet homosexual tendencies.
You don’t want anyone to think you’re gay so you bully others.
Way to go you.
Keep being awesome.
There’s nothing wrong with being gay. You can come out.
Only idiots act like you to cover it up