That's why I'm vegetarian, but people do it for different reasons.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My cousin is pretty much a vegetarian because something happened to her stomach and now meat hurts her.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*lose

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i was gonna see if someone had said it...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

being a vegetarian to lose weight makes no sense. without the protein that red meat has, your body will actually gain weight, and you become less healthy..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Spanish :)): You still eat protein, just in another form (dairy, tofu, nuts, etc.). Avoiding things like red meat has many benefits. As long as you keep a balanced diet, you do actually loose weight.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

LOSE. As in, because you cannot determine the difference between lose and loose, like the OP, you lose.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Spanish :)): Actually it does, I know someone who was very overweight and totally eliminated red meat from their diet, and they lost about 50 lbs in a short amount of time. (:

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Spanish :)): There's a lot of protein in beans though

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh yes, stop eating the things that create methane and carbon dioxide and start eating the things that get ride of the carbon dioxide. Reduces carbon foot print! Psht. But... if we stop eating the cows, maybe people will stop breeding them? But they'll still be raised for their milk products, so we'd have to be vegans. But who will keep their population under control if we aren't preying upon them? And chickens would still be raised for eggs, so again, we'd have to be vegans. There are already so many chickens, how would we downsize their population? Killing them? Deers are overpopulated, so we have eat them, prey upon them to get their population under control, or they starve to death. If we stop preying upon livestock, will their population go out of control? Will it go down? We can carefully breed them and control their population now... mostly. What if it screws up the whole food chain, populations go out of control, and the carbon fp goes crazy? At least you'll lose weight.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

tl;dr

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Your+name+(optional)): tmi;idc

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i always was told dairy cows are different than the cows we eat, because they put so much shit in the meant cows. so if we cut dowen on the meat we could reduce the amount of cows. that's the problem with so many people, they don't realize that if you just eat a vegetarian meal [which doesn't need to be some obscure bean dish] like three times a week you're doing good for the world.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They give beef cows growth stimulants. Which is honestly kind of disgusting, but most of the food we eat is genetically modified, so no matter what, everything is tampered with from its natural state. In the U.S., they don't even have to label it because it's such a large percentage. Even then, predators kill only about 5 percent of cattle or something close to that. This means we are their main consumer. I always thought about the whole vegetarian thing this way: animals kill other animals and eat them in the wild. Food chains are a vital part of ecosystems. Humans are at the top (most likely) of the food chains, so I'm just performing my natural role. Also, with all the contingencies you'd have to account for in whether or not eating animals reduces or raises your carbon foot print, makes it impossible to really know. We already have so much livestock, how would we control their population if we stopped eating them? I'm not sure if I buy into it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I just don't like the taste of meat. It's the circle of life and I get that, I would just prefer not to eat it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago