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. "My friend didn't believe me when I told him that she was cheating on him. He tried to started beef with me but I went vegetarian on him and I just walked away."
by Silver36013 September 30, 2009
Get the Vegetarianmug. A person who doesn't eat meat for moral or health reasons. Some people think that one person being a vegetarian doesn't make a difference when in fact, 1 person being a vegetarian for 1 year saves about 100 animal's lives. YEs, it is natural to eat meat, but now it is completely unessasary to kill animals because we have alternatives. People are jsut to lazy to try tofu.
by veggiesssssssss May 30, 2009
Get the Vegetarianmug. a person who does not eat meat, and sometimes other animal products, esp. for moral, religious, or health reasons.
by Wordiewordielove March 28, 2013
Get the Vegetarianmug. someone who doesn't eat ANY meat. pescatarianism is kinda lame-o. despite, what most guys would think, girls LOVE veg dudes. they think it's wicked hawwwt.
art student: "I wish more guys were vegetarians, I don't want to raise my kids with some bacon-eater"
gal pal: "I heard tim, from painting seminar II is veg."
art student: "oh my god, that is SO hot. I'm totally gonna bang him laterrrrr."
gal pal: "I heard tim, from painting seminar II is veg."
art student: "oh my god, that is SO hot. I'm totally gonna bang him laterrrrr."
by thesupposedjew December 29, 2008
Get the Vegetarianmug. Vegetarians are people who are so against the killing of animals for food, that they condemn themselves to eating vegetables for the rest of their lives.
Carnivorous Person: Hey man want some bacon?
Vegetarian: Sorry, I don't like the fact that someone killed the animal that it came from, therefore I will continue to eat this lettuce leaf
Vegetarian: Sorry, I don't like the fact that someone killed the animal that it came from, therefore I will continue to eat this lettuce leaf
by 1nfinitycraft November 30, 2013
Get the Vegetarianmug. Someone like me, who doesn't eat any meat or fish. I actually get a lot of stick for being one.
Vegetarians tend to live a healthier lifestyle, no matter what people say. We generally live an extra seven years because we are not eating "meat" from places like McDonalds. There are many reasons why people become vegetarians, and it's not always because they think that eating animals is cruel. Also, it is not as restricted as quite a few people think.
Vegetarians tend to live a healthier lifestyle, no matter what people say. We generally live an extra seven years because we are not eating "meat" from places like McDonalds. There are many reasons why people become vegetarians, and it's not always because they think that eating animals is cruel. Also, it is not as restricted as quite a few people think.
Guy: So, do you wanna go to McDonalds and grab a burger?
Girl: No thanks, do you know what is actually in there? There are chicken claws and all other left over parts of chicken in there.
Guy 2: Good thing I'm a vegetarian.
Boy: You want some turkey??
Girl: No thanks.
Boy: WTF, are you one of those chicken lover vegetarians?
Girl: I am, actually *walks away*.
Boy: Hey, wait! *thinks* Ahh crap, how was I supposed to know she didn't eat meat? And I was just gonna ask her out...
Girl: No thanks, do you know what is actually in there? There are chicken claws and all other left over parts of chicken in there.
Guy 2: Good thing I'm a vegetarian.
Boy: You want some turkey??
Girl: No thanks.
Boy: WTF, are you one of those chicken lover vegetarians?
Girl: I am, actually *walks away*.
Boy: Hey, wait! *thinks* Ahh crap, how was I supposed to know she didn't eat meat? And I was just gonna ask her out...
by X_Natasha_X June 25, 2008
Get the Vegetarianmug.