<p>or vegan and why? I am a vegetarian (no meat or fish) because I just don't like meat. I think it is gross, probably because deep down I don't like the idea of eating animals</p>
<p>I am. last april my sister took me to an animal rights conference (she's a vegan), and they showed a film call "meet your meat." i haven't eaten meat since. i'm thinking of becoming a vegan, but it seems hard. i've recently become more involved with animal rights, and i volunteer for a few animal rights nonprofits.</p>
<p>I'm vegan (obviously....).
I have been for about five years now.</p>
<p>I'm actually really surprised about the amount of vegetarians on CC.</p>
<p>I'm... a pseudo-vegetarian. I eat fish. So I'm a pescetarian. I'm the only person in my (half-Scandinavian, island-dwelling) family who is averse to eating meat, so it was hard not to make some concessions... so fish it was. We always pay attention to which kinds are overfished and we don't buy farmed fish, so I figure I'm doing the best I can. Those fish have led a pretty good life before being slaughtered... I guess... :(</p>
<p>I'm vegan. I love animals and believe that if I don't need them or by products of them to survive then I shouldn't use them in any way, because I can easily prevent a lot of suffering.</p>
<p>i too love animals; grilled, fried, broiled, baked, blackened, smoked, seared, raw(sushi), roasted...</p>
<p>I absolutely ABHOR the idea of eating meat. It's cold-blooded murder and nothing less.</p>
<p>But uh, I'm not a vegetarian. I'm not really sure why. I've tried, many times. It's not that I couldn't do it; I just chose to end up doing other wise. I'm like the Samuel Beckett of vegetarians.</p>
<p>Oh, and re: Meet Your Meat. I watched that (thanks to Morrissey, well, my Morrissey-obsessed sister) and UGH. Everytime I have to watch someone slice beef at work I think of those poor cows, hanging by a hoof on a conveyor belt. Or baby calves being beaten for veal. Eugh eugh eugh.</p>
<p>could we actually just have one thread for vegetarians without stupid comments from meat eaters???
every thread that vaguely mentions the word vegetarian turns into arguments.</p>
<p>EDIT: that wasn't aimed at hemingway... we posted at the same time. but you really ought to give vegetarianism at least one more try...</p>
<p>^ boo, diesel! </p>
<p>TheVeganActress: I'm not surprised by the number of veg CCers. Studies have shown that vegetarians/vegans have better concentration and do better in school!</p>
<p>I'm definitely going to have another go at it in college (two months!), which will probably be successful. Just would be SO much easier and veggie meals so much more accessible. My sis is vegetarian, and it'd be awfully expensive to have to accomodate half the family as vegs and half carnivores. My school's cafeteria only sold fries and, sometimes, cheese pizza as the non-meat options too.</p>
<p>I think being a vegan is unnatural..."Studies have shown that vegetarians/vegans have better concentration and do better in school!" - Bias nonsense...</p>
<p>I think raising animals in insane numbers, feeding them feces, same species animals, blood, etc, pumping them with medicine so they grow faster and stay alive in conditions where they would otherwise die, then hanging them upside down on a conveyor belt to their death is unnatural. But I don't know that's just me.</p>
<p>THANK YOU S0ad!!!!!</p>
<p>i dont think there is any one perfect or natural way for humans to live. might as well do what makes us happy.</p>
<p>If doing what makes us happy means harming innocent creatures, how fair is that?</p>
<p>Is the problem eating them b/c of their treatment when they are killed or is it eating them because they are killed period?
Because you can get around eating maltreated animals especially these days w/ more options. I don't think that's a good excuse for vegetarianism. But if it's because you don't like it that they are killed, that makes more sense to me. </p>
<p>But no, I'm not a vegetarian. There's a food chain and we're at the top. It's only because we have emotion combined with reason that we feel bad about our position.</p>
<p>I don't eat animals, because I don't condone their unnecessary deaths. The torture they must go through makes it that much worse. These animals do not want to die. They have as much of a right to live as we do.</p>
<p>So it's the second part of my question--that it's because they are killed period? That makes more sense although I don't agree with it.</p>
<p>question for the vegans: if you had your own pet chickens that you took good care of, etc, would you eat the eggs that they naturally laid or would you still not eat them. (keeping in mind that the eggs don't have the potential to become chicks unless you had a rooster)</p>
<p>I've thought about trying being a vegetarian, after all I dont like the idea of animals being slaughtered and it seem like it may be more healthy. However, I actually really like meat, just because I've always been raised eating it.</p>