If you're the only person in your household who is vegetarian, it probably is not doing much because the other members are still buying meat products and contributing to the industry, amirite?

I'm the only person in my household who is vegetarian (ok admittedly there are only two of us) but I don't want to push my personal choices on others. But he does buy a lot less meat anyway because I mostly cook and he is happy to eat what I make, because vegetarian food can be fucking delicious.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

no

by Anonymous 11 years ago

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I didn't become vegetarian in order to cripple the meat industry, I became vegetarian because a) most meat is gross and b) I'm not a huge fan of unnecessary death.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

b) You're killing animals by taking their food.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

JimiHendrix: Some sort of death is neccessary for humans to gain nutrients. Until we have the technology to create individual organs from raw materials, we'll need to kill plants, animals, or both to live.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

JimiHendrix: So, let me get this straight- you've never eaten a vegetable in your life? Plus, I think you'd be more upset if someone killed your dog than if they trampled your veggie patch.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Jimi was being sarcastic...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

He clearly wasn't.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You said you weren't a fan of unnecessary death, so he asked you if killing plants was unnecessary death...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh. Well, shit, now I look completely retarded. I do actually have people say that to me though, and I have a prepared response. The dog thing was meant to illustrate that most people value the lives of animals over those of plants, so killing an animal seems worse. Also, some meats are absolutely delicious. A good bacon burger is the food of the gods. I just don't want to be inconsistent.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Woo, off topic! I think that the very fact that humans can debate the ethics of meat eating is reason enough for vegetarianism. It's really hard to get my point across in words, though. I'll just have to leave it at that.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I became a vegetarian because I wanted to see if I could restrict myself from eating something that I actually enjoyed. Not because I wanted to stop the world from eating meat, if a person is starving they don't really have the choice to refuse a juicy chunk of pork.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Whether you live alone or with 100 other people, your transition still has the exact same effect on the industry. Perhaps I am missing the point of the post.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yea, pretty much what everyone else said. I really just don't like the taste

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Im definitely not a vegetarian, but it can help in a number of ways. Say you live with 1 roommate. Instead of buying 2 servings of meat for the both of you, they would buy only 1 serving of meat. This builds up to animals being saved yayy

Also, vegerarianism may inspire others to become vegetarians.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

lolno

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What difference does it make if you live with other vegetarians or not? There are still the same amount of vegetarians and meat-eaters, no matter what their living arrangements are.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I know it depends on how a family would react, but for me, the household meat consumption went down at least 60%, despite me being the only one out of three to be vegetarian. and two more things: 1, my parents know that I would eat meat if it's put in front of me, already made, but they don't take advantage of that, and 2, I inspired my sister, who is at college, to be vegetarian on campus.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Vegetarianism isn't always about changing the flow of the industry. A vegetarian can just be someone who doesn't want to eat meat.

by Anonymous 11 years ago