People who don't eat meat or fish. To be clear : there is no such thing as a vegetarian who eats fish. That's a pescitarian.
Many vegetarians have to put up with idiots telling them that they are any and all of the following : fanatics, insane, fascist, obsessive, selfish, assholes, bullshitters...It's pathetic. If I told you that I didn't eat spinach (I don't - yeucch, spinach), would you feel compelled to sermonize on the 'fact' that I worship the People for the Ethical Treatment of Spinach society, try to force others to give up spinach, and am self-absorbed in my decision to avoid spinach? I don't think so.
People who choose to eat meat, do. Nobody stops them. Are they scared that the big bad vegetarians will come and take their steak away? And then they'll waste away to nothing because they’ve no protein? The average person in the western world consumes around 4 times the amount of protein needed, and some substitutes like soy and Quorn actually contain more protein than meat, not to mention virtually no fat.
A vegetarian is someone who has made an informed life choice not to facilitate the slaughter of innocent animals. A meat-eater is someone who, sometimes for good reasons, but sadly sometimes through ignorance and selfishness, has chosen to prioritise their own preference for meat over the suffering of the 11,000 sapient innocents that an average person eats in a lifetime. If one group should be angry with the other, then in my view, it shouldn't be the second.
Many vegetarians have to put up with idiots telling them that they are any and all of the following : fanatics, insane, fascist, obsessive, selfish, assholes, bullshitters...It's pathetic. If I told you that I didn't eat spinach (I don't - yeucch, spinach), would you feel compelled to sermonize on the 'fact' that I worship the People for the Ethical Treatment of Spinach society, try to force others to give up spinach, and am self-absorbed in my decision to avoid spinach? I don't think so.
People who choose to eat meat, do. Nobody stops them. Are they scared that the big bad vegetarians will come and take their steak away? And then they'll waste away to nothing because they’ve no protein? The average person in the western world consumes around 4 times the amount of protein needed, and some substitutes like soy and Quorn actually contain more protein than meat, not to mention virtually no fat.
A vegetarian is someone who has made an informed life choice not to facilitate the slaughter of innocent animals. A meat-eater is someone who, sometimes for good reasons, but sadly sometimes through ignorance and selfishness, has chosen to prioritise their own preference for meat over the suffering of the 11,000 sapient innocents that an average person eats in a lifetime. If one group should be angry with the other, then in my view, it shouldn't be the second.
I am a 15 year old girl living in the UK and have been vegetarian since I was nine. I have a few friends who are vegetarians, also, though most of them have only recently decided to give up meat.
I have not once regretted my decision and though my parents and two brothers eat meat they are (mostly) understanding of my decision. I am perfectly healthy and enjoy food just as much as I ever did. The only thing I don't enjoy is needlessly-angry-at-the-world imbeciles choosing to criticise a personal, ethical decision which does not affect them in any way whatsoever.
I have not once regretted my decision and though my parents and two brothers eat meat they are (mostly) understanding of my decision. I am perfectly healthy and enjoy food just as much as I ever did. The only thing I don't enjoy is needlessly-angry-at-the-world imbeciles choosing to criticise a personal, ethical decision which does not affect them in any way whatsoever.
by SuitUp! July 18, 2010
Get the vegetariansmug. an amazing person who has the self control to not eat meat, which is viciously slaughtered in filthy surroundings. a vegetarian is someone who believes animals have the right to live and do not deserve to be exploited for their meat. meat eaters are terribly selfish, simple minded people who do not know what goes in in slaughterhouses. there are laws that allow slaughterhouse animals certain rights, and slaughterhouses often overlook these laws until they are caught. the sadistic and disturbed workers take their frustrations out on the animals in absolutely malicious ways.
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oh and for the guy that commented about how plants are living organisms so being vegetarian is pointless... YOU need to read a biology book. vegetarians do not eat ANIMALS, no one ever said anything about organisms... plants may be organisms but they DO NOT feel pain, and they are not animals in any form, they feed through photosynthesis, divide their cells by mitosis (not meiosis as animals do), and THEY ARE COMPOSED OF COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KIND OF CELLS THAN ANIMALS. (plant cells have a large central vacuole, cell wall, and chloroplasts.)
LEARN YOUR SHIT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY YOU mercutio000000000000
BY THE WAY VEGETARIAN IS NOT SPELLED VEGITARIAN.
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oh and for the guy that commented about how plants are living organisms so being vegetarian is pointless... YOU need to read a biology book. vegetarians do not eat ANIMALS, no one ever said anything about organisms... plants may be organisms but they DO NOT feel pain, and they are not animals in any form, they feed through photosynthesis, divide their cells by mitosis (not meiosis as animals do), and THEY ARE COMPOSED OF COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KIND OF CELLS THAN ANIMALS. (plant cells have a large central vacuole, cell wall, and chloroplasts.)
LEARN YOUR SHIT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY YOU mercutio000000000000
BY THE WAY VEGETARIAN IS NOT SPELLED VEGITARIAN.
here is just ONE disgusting company that abuses animals... KFC!!!!
"Employees of Kentucky Fried Chicken, one of the biggest fast-food chains of poultry, were caught in July 2004, torturing their chickens for fun. Workers were videoed stomping on chickens, kicking them, and slamming them violently against floors and walls. Workers also ripped the animals' beaks, twisted their heads off, spray-painted their faces, and squeezed the chickens' bodies until they would die."
tchnews.com
"vegetarian"
"Employees of Kentucky Fried Chicken, one of the biggest fast-food chains of poultry, were caught in July 2004, torturing their chickens for fun. Workers were videoed stomping on chickens, kicking them, and slamming them violently against floors and walls. Workers also ripped the animals' beaks, twisted their heads off, spray-painted their faces, and squeezed the chickens' bodies until they would die."
tchnews.com
"vegetarian"
by greenandgreener April 21, 2010
Get the vegetarianmug. by Bob the Vegan September 3, 2007
Get the vegetarianmug. dude- why rn't u gettin a burger?
vegetarian- cause i'm a veggie head
dude- so u don eat meat
vegetarian- nothing living
dude (who is smarter than 1 might think)- so u don eat plants
vegetarian- actually, my mistake, i don eat anything with a face
vegetarian- cause i'm a veggie head
dude- so u don eat meat
vegetarian- nothing living
dude (who is smarter than 1 might think)- so u don eat plants
vegetarian- actually, my mistake, i don eat anything with a face
by Lexy "Veggie Head" December 6, 2006
Get the vegetarianmug. someone who doesn't eat anything to do with animals. people are NOT vegetarians if they eat fish, gelatine, wear leather etc. they are sad. yeah i'm elitist, so what?
1- "hey look at me and my hot-ass leather shoes, tuna sandwich and PETA shirt. i totally believe in animal rights and i'd never eat one."
2- "so.....you'd never harm a living animal?"
1- "never, it's wrong."
2- "so that dead cow on your feet and dead fish on your hands didn't die for you?"
1- "..............fiddlesticks."
2- "so.....you'd never harm a living animal?"
1- "never, it's wrong."
2- "so that dead cow on your feet and dead fish on your hands didn't die for you?"
1- "..............fiddlesticks."
by mhairi April 7, 2005
Get the vegetarianmug. The subject of conversation that people use to bribe you into feeling bad about yourself,because vegetarians are often thought badly of,but are actually doing what they know is right.
by SomeoneNew June 16, 2012
Get the Vegetarianismmug. by Alfonzo February 11, 2004
Get the vegetarianmug.