I think it would be very exhausting being a vegetarian. It would be so hard to try to stay on top of not coming off like a hypocrite on a daily basis especially if your reasons for being a vegetarian or vegan are more on a moral basis. If its for enovironment reasons then you probably will have to be careful with everything you do environment-wise or people are gonna give you that look, that "you fucking hypocrite" look. Which may not matter to some people, but the pro's of eating carrots over steak aren't worth me being considered, and in fact 'being' a hypocrite. And I know I would be a hypocrite and judge myself as one, being a vegetarian wouldn't be worth that label from others or myself.

Also, it is not some established health fact like some seem to be arguing that eating vegetarian is good for you. Many physicians and medical leaders argue that the vegatarian/vegan lifestyle can be an unhealthy diet especially if you are not taking the vitamins you should be taking on that kind of diet plan, and believe their patients who have that kind of diet have more medical complaints than those with a more balanced diet.

Also, someone mentioned (I forget who and am too lazy to check since the thread is so long now) that we shouldn't see ourselves as superior to animals, so therefore shouldn't eat them. So if we're not superior to animals then wouldn't it be fair to say that animals aren't superior to plants? Using the same logic...Plants dont have a voice either and are living creatures which some have argued feel pain...

Sounding silly yet?

I may not consider myself as more important than others, but I am more important than plants and animals, and I feel that my desire to eat them gives them purpose they otherwise wouldn't have.

Animals are nummy nums. Especially cow. I love cow. Enjoy the pic.


Look, I know animals can suffer and I dont know that about plants. Besides, the point is for me, just this; to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs in the world and that goal is easily accomplished even if one is occasionally a hypocrite.

Do what you want, but saying you woudn't want to be a vegetarian because it's hard, or because you really, really like meat, or because you dont want to be seen as a hypocrite if you occasionally eat meat, well, that doesn't seem very moral to me. You'd have to first shrug off the suffering like it was nothing. Say, Oh it's not happening to me or my kind, so why should i care? If you were to truly rationalize the situation, you'd see plain as day that you contribute in a big way to the suffering of other sentient beings and that it would be a simple thing to cut down on the amount of suffering you contribute to. I think you should care more. I think I should care more, but unfortunately i'm becoming more and more desensitized.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. (paraphrased)

Oh and I'd be willing to bet that something like 90 percent or more people on this earth are hypocrites in one way or another, whether they know it or not.

By the way eating meat is not necessary in this day in age for the likes of us, all that is needed can be supplemented.

And guess what? I'm a hypocrite! I eat meat. I know it's wrong, and i still do it. I've cut down, and i was a vegetarian for about 12 years, but i still eat meat on occasion.