The counter poll to this one (no disrespect to Stoid or any of our veggie friends).
I like the taste of meat and don’t really care enough that animals die to supply me with it.
I will become a vegetarian when they stop making animals out of meat.
I don’t object to eating meat. I do have some qualms about how cows and chickens are treated before they get to the table, but not enough to stop eating them.
I have killed and butchered my meal so I have no compunction about eating every part of an animal and not having it go to waste.
Via one of my food blogs, I received this lovely message regarding my love of milk:
I don’t necessarily anthropomorphise the animals I consume to the extent that I believe they contain any emotions about their existence.
And I eat foie gras too.
I’d like to be a vegetarian. Especially lately … I’ve been eating like a pig.
I’ve gone mostly without red meat for quite some time, just as a ‘let’s try not to eat quite so much fat and at the same time avoid colon cancer’ precaution. But I totally went off that wagon this fall. Sausage pizzas, Wendy’s Baconators, Hamburger Helper. Yeah, I’ve been a little indulgent.
So now I’m going back off red meat and trying to eat a little less. But I just can’t go full-on vegetarian because I can’t stand the taste/consistency of most vegetables.
So basically, option one, don’t like vegetables, and option whatever, I’m a bad person because I could eat them if I wanted to … I just don’t want to.
I selected “meat is delicious” from the poll choices. A more accurate statement is that I see no reason to be a vegetarian. I’m fine with eating vegetables, grains, and fruit. I’m not fine with being limited to only non-animal based foods.
Other. Too expensive.
I was just thinking about this the other day. I wouldn’t mind going vegetarian at all, but I know that I’m the type of person who would want faux-meat products such as Morningstar burgers, fake chicken, things like that. If I had a constant supply of those I would happily be meat-free for the rest of my days.
But those things are too damn expensive! $4 for 4 faux chicken patties?! Jeebus! A lot of the stuff in that area looks interesting and I muse over giving them a try until I see the prices and then head for the real meat.
Meat is delicious. And I even eat veal and lamb. Yes, I am an evil, evil person. I would prefer we treated our meat better, but I don’t really have any moral compunctions about slaughtering and killing our livestock. I do not like eating “rare” foods - I think we should endeavor not to wipe creatures out, absolutely, but pigs and cows and sheep? We got plenty.
I was vegetarian for 5 years.
But I missed fish, chicken and beef and so I started eating them again and actually feel better.
Meat is delicious, don’t really care. If I have an objection to eating meat, it’s a sustainability one: you can feed ten times as many people per square mile of land with soy as you can with beef.
I love meat and I’ve never really considered giving it up since none of the reasons for doing so mean much to me.
Other - I used to be a vegetarian, and it gave me health problems.
Other. Not quite motivated enough, and also, it’s a bit difficult in this area . . . not a lot of decent vegetarian options in restaurants and grocery stores. It’s just not important enough to me to avoid animal products completely.
But if meat disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn’t mind it much. We don’t cook meat very often at home, and when we eat out and there’s a nice veggie option on a menu, I’m likely to order it. For example, I order tofu whenever it’s available as an option. We also use a fair amount of fake meat, like Boca patties and TVP.
Occasionally I will go on a kick of buying only cage-free eggs and/or chicken . . . the rare times when they’re available. That’s not often, though.
If we were to go vegetarian, it would be for a combination of the usual reasons: anti-cruelty, environmental, health . . .
There are various reasons for becoming a vegetarian. One of the reasons is that it’s immoral to eat animals. Taking a life is bad, m’kay? But plants are alive too. So if taking life is bad, then it’s equally bad to take the life of a plant as it is to take the life of an animal because ‘life’ is ‘life’. Plants fight, and hunt, and kill just like animals do. It’s just slower and not so obvious. So it’s really just a matter of where you draw the line. Eating only plants that don’t have to be killed seems too limited to me, so I’d be taking lives anyway.
The other thing I think about is the amount of resources required to grow plants for food vs. growing animals for food. Plants are much more efficient, and it would be better for the planet if we didn’t eat so much meat. But I’ll go on eating meat anyway.
I’m careful not to include animals in food when I’m cooking for some of my friends. I’ll happily eat animal-free foods they make. Everyone’s happy.
‘I don’t have a moral objection to eating meat’ wasn’t an option in the poll, so I chose ‘Meat is delicious’.
Other then “meat is delicious” I’m far to picky of an eater to be a healthy vegetarian.
Other than meat is delicious I am anemic and take iron supplements already. I do eat a lot of dark green veggies and other vegetable sources of iron but if you removed beef from my diet I would have to increase my supplementation. The side effects of iron supplementation are not pretty or comfortable.
Other: Used to be vegetarian, but my weight loss strategy over the past few years has been to go very high protein and it got to be a major drag. Plus I just didn’t feel as strongly about it as I used to.
I like meat, fish, dairy and eggs. I also like stuff which is neither meat, nor fish, nor dairy, nor eggs. It’s all good in moderate doses.
I selected “Meat is Delicious” because that is just a fact, Jack. But that doesn’t really cover why I eat meat. I eat meat because I am, as a human being, evolutionarily designed to do so. I (speaking for the entire human species) have to two eyes in the front of my head for stereoscopic vision to make it easier for me to hunt, kill and eat meat. I have canine teeth, and opposable thumbs to make it easier to hunt, kill and eat meat. I have the ability to run upright with my head and vision stabilized so that I can hunt, kill and eat meat. I can run long distances, even eating and drinking on the run, so that I can hunt, kill and eat meat. I have a huge brain capable of invention, imagination, organization, language, and speech all so that I can hunt, kill, and eat meat. I eat meat because, to do otherwise, would be inhuman.