WHY are you a veggie?
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There are many different reasons why I have decided to become a vegetarian as of a month ago. One is that I never felt right about eating meat, it also made me feel quite ill at various points in the last few years. Watching a video of chickens being slaughtered has put me of poultry for life,
however I suppose Paul has in a way directly influenced me to go veggie and I would like to thank him for that as I have never felt healthier and i feel better!
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I have now been a vegetarian for about a month! As I did post that I ate fish due to my parents saying I shouldn't go from eating meat to eating no meat at all. But I finally managed to convince my parents to let me stop eating fish!
(I don't think they actually thought I was going to keep this veggie thing up! Well they were wrong!) I am actually not missing meat. I feel a lot better without it!
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Sunset 22:
I have now been a vegetarian for about a month! As I did post that I ate fish due to my parents saying I shouldn't go from eating meat to eating no meat at all. But I finally managed to convince my parents to let me stop eating fish!
(I don't think they actually thought I was going to keep this veggie thing up! Well they were wrong!) I am actually not missing meat. I feel a lot better without it!
Yeah Sunset
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Sunset 22:
I have now been a vegetarian for about a month! As I did post that I ate fish due to my parents saying I shouldn't go from eating meat to eating no meat at all. But I finally managed to convince my parents to let me stop eating fish!
(I don't think they actually thought I was going to keep this veggie thing up! Well they were wrong!) I am actually not missing meat. I feel a lot better without it!
Good to hear it Sunset 22!
When I told my parents they did this annoying thing where they rolled their eyes and thought I would give it up in a week, glad to say I proved them wrong!
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I'm an ovo-lacto-veggie. I still eat eggs and cheese, so I'm not a vegan. The main reason is because when I first became veggie to try it, I felt so much better without eating meat. Eventually I just stopped altogether, and I do think it's healthier. At least I don't think you'll find many obese vegetarians. It's cheaper to be a veggie than a meat eater, too. Now I don't even like most meat or fish, and there are enough protein alternatives that I do not miss it. As for newbies who don't know if they can continue to be one, it has been 35 years for me. As Paul and Linda would say...GO VEGGIE!
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i'm certain this has been posted before; i have seen the peta videos in the past; so very hard to watch... "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." Paul McCartney
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femaleanimal:
Because I don`t want to be a part of cruelty. I`m a vegan. No offense, KimL, but, if you eat fish, you are not a veggie of any sort.
but nature cruel isn't it? I had a fawn taken by a cougar or linx's the other day in my yard. Not to say it not unsetting but it nature's way. If man/woman lived on veggies alone than explain how they survive in winter. I think it a choice but hardly saving the world from cruelty.
It's nature to take what you need lions don't lock up their prey and treat them horribly like humans do. We don't NEED to eat meat we eat it for pleasure. Also out in nature they don't kill so many creatures as we do a day. It makes me sick how much meat we produce
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I became a vegetarian because i love animals and hate cruelty and inflicting pain onto others. I became a vegetarian when i was 8. I used to volunteer at the local farm and became very attached to all the animals especially the piglets (i've always loved pigs). Oneday i went to the farm to find all the piglets had gone
so i asked where they'd gone and that was the moment i realised i'd been eating animals and i think i cried. As soon as i got home i begged my parents to let me be vegetarian they said i had to wait a month thinking i'd forget and change my mind but i can be stubborn and didn't forget. So i am 16 now and been a vegitarian since i was 8 and am planning to be a vegetarian for the rest of my life. I will be a vegan when i leave home as my parents wont cook vegan food for me. I'm a normal vegitarian don't eat: meat, fish, gelatine anthing that is made from an animal. Paul is such an inspiration making amazing music and being so caring for the world and it's creatures
xx
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I've been mostly vegetarian for almost 30 years. The thought of eating a dead animal upsets me. Even growing up I faired best when it was in an abstract form i.e. ground beef. Thanksgiving is the worst for me as I wrestle with a big dead turkey in my kitchen sink for the family. ( My dog watches and thinks I am a god then.)I personally, do not need to eat meat to be healthy so I choose not to.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was 14 because I'm an animal lover & felt like a hypocrite ... telling my Dad to 'stop fishing ... you're hurting them' & then eating meat. So, I decided to give up meat at 14 ... I never ate the meat that was 'named' meat, if that makes sense ... like, fish is obviously a fish, lamb is an animal, as is chicken. I ate burgers & sausages, because they were just words to me ... but, when I realised what they were & where they came from, I start to 'grow a consciounce' My Dad is bugging me about this for the past 16 years ... & I *need* to prove him wrong, so please give me the answer to this!!! If everybody stopped eating meat, what would happen to the animals??!! Dad says that if we all stopped eating meat, that the animals wouldn't exist ... I suppose, there wouldn't be as many animals bred each year!! I adore all animals & I agree with SO MANY of your earlier posts. What gives us humans the 'right' to kill an animal for meat?! There are SO MANY other food products, you don't HAVE to eat an animal. And, I'm sorry, I totally disagree ... I think fish DO have feelings. Why shouldn't they?! And, do you know what, so what if they don't!! Does that give us the right to 'hook' them & bash them on the head?? I must admit, the way I got my Dad to stop fishing was I threatened to get my lip pierced (my eyebrow was done at the time, so he knew I wasn't bluffing!! haha) & he promised to 'cut back' ... eventually, I got into his head & as he hit the last fish on the head, he actually threw up a little. I'm glad I got inside his head because my Mam & I were begging him to stop fishing for years!!! I even hid his rods, but he found them. He claimed to want the 'peace & tranquility' that you only get down by a quiet river ... I told him to bring a bloody camera & take pictures!! Anyway, sorry about this loooooong message
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clayer_jackson:
My Dad is bugging me about this for the past 16 years ... & I *need* to prove him wrong, so please give me the answer to this!!! If everybody stopped eating meat, what would happen to the animals??!! Dad says that if we all stopped eating meat, that the animals wouldn't exist ... I suppose, there wouldn't be as many animals bred each year!!
Can nobody help me with this?!?!?! xxx
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clayer_jackson:
clayer_jackson:
My Dad is bugging me about this for the past 16 years ... & I *need* to prove him wrong, so please give me the answer to this!!! If everybody stopped eating meat, what would happen to the animals??!! Dad says that if we all stopped eating meat, that the animals wouldn't exist ... I suppose, there wouldn't be as many animals bred each year!!
Can nobody help me with this?!?!?! xxx
Hmm well i think he may be right sadly cause i reckon the farmers and people who breed the animals would start to run out of money to look after them and most of them would probably be killed =( buut maybe there would still be a few farms or places where farm animals woudl be kept. The animals that we eat are the animals that have been bred for meat and other certain uses so those animals don't exist in the wild but of course there are wild pigs and cows. I'm really not sure but my parents have said to me that they would all probably be killed. Anyway i'm not sure what i'm going on about lol so i will shut up now xD xxx
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Well, I think that there would still be some people like us veggies, who would assure that cows, chicken and other animals that were formally eaten, would still be bred to assure that didn't become extinct. I think that it would be cool to have a pet chicken, pig or cow!
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The simple answer is that thes animals would die out in the countries to which they are not native.
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DawnD:
I think that it would be cool to have a pet chicken, pig or cow!
OMG ... me tooooo
I've been saying for years, when I finally get my own place (house preferably, but whatever I can afford!!) I'm gonna get a micro-pig, or if I marry a man with land (ahem ... James McCartney!! ... hahaha
) I'd love a pet cow
xxx
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Are you a veggie just because Macca is
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Not yet! I plan to be once I've left home though, as I don't want to be a burden by being veggie. I do have Meat Free Mondays, and have done for over a year now, and that is because Paul "told me to". However, I do also believe that being veggie is a good idea, and killing animals is unnecessary.
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ah as a veggie and Macca fan I have that tag stuck to me everytime I'm around my friends/family or new people that arent Macca fans or veggies. I've been a veggie now for 4 years, I think my love for Paul opened up the idea to it, but I think really to stick with being a veggie you have to have your own reasons for it, so much bigger than liking a musician, I had to really think about it and whether that was the right direction for me to go in. So I temporarily took on the challenge, see if I could take on not eating much, I used to eat a lot of meat with my family so it was quite a big step and not one I have regretted...I think if I only lasted a few months it probably would have been because Paul is a veggie, but I have my own views why I do not need to eat meat which is nothing to do with Paul
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DCBeatle64:
ah as a veggie and Macca fan I have that tag stuck to me everytime I'm around my friends/family or new people that arent Macca fans or veggies. I've been a veggie now for 4 years, I think my love for Paul opened up the idea to it, but I think really to stick with being a veggie you have to have your own reasons for it, so much bigger than liking a musician, I had to really think about it and whether that was the right direction for me to go in. So I temporarily took on the challenge, see if I could take on not eating much, I used to eat a lot of meat with my family so it was quite a big step and not one I have regretted...I think if I only lasted a few months it probably would have been because Paul is a veggie, but I have my own views why I do not need to eat meat which is nothing to do with Paul
but how can you resist a haggis supper from the chippy with the vinegary broon sauce?
actually fair play to you 'dc'. im not sure i could do it myself for fear of never eating a proper meal and just snacking on junk all the time. good for you
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lazydynamite88:
but how can you resist a haggis supper from the chippy with the vinegary broon sauce?
ah yes it is stuff like that I miss, thats the hard part.I still have thoughts sometimes that I wouldnt mind tucking into stuff like that, but I normally overcome that. However its mainly when I am hungry that I feel like that