Why do people think it is okay to eat meat?

I am trying to convince my new neighbors to stop eating meat, but they told me that it was okay because it was food? That is their only excuse.

I know about what time they get home from work so me and my friends are going to be waiting on them in their driveway when they get home. We spent several hours on some nice signs showing the truth about this so called "food" they think is okay to eat.

My question is this, what approaches have you used on meat eaters to get them to stop eating meat?

Because we have canines and our eyes are facing forward.

Please don't bother your neighbor. THey might put up sings attacking your beliefs.

If you really want to do something, invite them over for and all vegetarian meal.

I alway show them how disgusting meat eating is by char broiling some meat on the grill, in the front yard. I then devour the meat before their very eyes. I make sure not to use good manners, just too be sure I disgust the neighbors.

How arrogant of you!
Has anyone ever questioned your belief that eating vegetables only is correct? Are you aware that there is plenty of evidence that plants feel pain?
If you were my neighbour and you acted like that I would take out an injunction against you!

God said so. So I believe it.

Stop trying to convert meat eaters! You are as bad as Christians!

If you don't want to eat meat, fine, don't. But stop trying to convert those of us who do want to eat meat. Our position in the food chain makes us omnivores. So shut the f*ck up and let us eat meat!

I used to think you were serious but Im not convinced anymore. I think you are a clever troll who uses th V&V section to wind up meat eaters, and I have bitten on many occasions.
But just in case you are serious. If you turned up on my driveway telling me what I can and cant eat. I would punch you in the face and shove your posters where the sun dont shine.

You cant tell people what to eat no more than they can tell you to eat meat !
Your neighbours are going to start avoiding you if you keep bullying them.
If your not care full you will end up in court for harassing your neighbours, i can understand how you feel but bullying isn't the right way to go about it

You can't stop people eating meat just because you don't like it. I'm vegetarian but would never ask someone else to stop eating meat. You're being foolish if you believe you can change someones eating habits to suit your own.

Because people have a freedom of choice when it comes to what they want to put in their bodies. There is nothing illegal in eating meat, it has nutritional value, and humans have been eating it since there have been humans.

Why does it bother you what your neighbors do? Are they BBQ'ing in YOUR backyard? Would you let them stay a week in your home and then have THEM school YOU on something YOU do that THEY don't like?

If I came home and a bunch of stick women were waiting in front of my house with signs I'd say two things:

1. Get the $&%! off my property.

and

2. Why are you still on my &*#$!% property?

News Flash: You are not a moral authority on what people can and can't do with their time, their money, with their bodies, on their property or in public. Next time I'm at the corner store I am going to pick up some beef jerky just to spite you.

Well, why would you bother your neighbors like this? Do you really think you are going to win them over like this? Because the answer is that you won't. The only thing that will come of this is that they will be annoyed by vegetarians.

Ask a lion why he eats mean and try him to convince that it's wrong to eat poor bunnies or antelopes. Humans are meat-eaters just like many other species. I am not going to supress my natural desire to consume meat. There is no need to persuade me not to eat meat, it's very likely that I won't be listening to your bogus arguments about how 'evil' it is to eat animals. Hey, but we can still be friends, ain't we??)

lucky neighbours

Well, if you waited on my drive when I got home and tried to convince me to be a veggie i would say no. Bothering them is not going to do much good and people are allowed their own opinions. It's called free will.

Your behavour Ashley is what gives vegans/vegetarians and other minority groups a bad name.

The other day I read about some poor fellow whose family did not respect his choice to be a vegetarian. When he came home to visit all the food had a meat product in it - even the potatoes had been whipped with suet. I was truly disgusted at his families lack of respect.

What you are doing is the smae thing - you are NOT respecting your new neighbours decision to choose what they want to eat. If people want to eat meat let them - its not illegal and in fact your neighbours may not like new foods or are set in their ways. I have a mother inlaw who was amking my family dinner (we were visiting her) and all she could think about vegetarian was a chunk of white tofu which she thought " What do I do with it - just put it on the plate?" and so she just made me chicken with vegies and left me to decide whether to eat it. Some people have no idea whatsoever to make for food except meat and yes its not healthy and yes its killing animals but to them "Its a food source". So my advice to you is leave your neighbours alone. You have no right to harrass people into eating what you deem is right.

How would you like it if you went to visit someone and you announced "I am a vegetarian". and they tried to put meat into your meal because they thought it was "helping" you because you don't know any better. Or gave you a bean soup with chicken broth or animal rennet cheese because they thought " Poor thing she knows no better". And that is waht you are doing to your neighbours. You are patronising their lifestyle and down playing their choices because of a moral high ground you have adopted.

A few years ago I knew this fellow who was a christian. I am not a christian - I have my on beliefes. He tried sneaking his christian books into my bag, giving me fatherly advice. Basically he did not even recognise my spiritual beliefs as valid and wanted to tell me his views and make me adopt them. thats what you are doing. please leave these people alone.

its everbodies personal choice if they want to eat meat or not. if i were your neighbours i would get a asbo against you and your friends so you would stop hassling innocent people! GET A LIFE!!!!!!

I hope they sue your @ss and take you for all it's worth, what you are doing is harassment(not to mention trespassing). You really are on a hard-core quest to make veg*nism look bad aren't you?

ur an idiot, we need meat = protein = BIG MUSCLES

From an ex-vegetarian.

Meat is necessary for quality protein, iron, Vitamin B12 and fat. The human body needs meat. Humans have always been omnivores. What's wrong with today's diet is the excessive consumption of empty starches, sugars and questionable types of fat. People do not choose lean cuts of meat and then braise or barbecue them. They don't bake salmon in a barbecue sauce but in oil or else, coat it and deep-fry it. Excessive salt is also bad for you along with chemicals and preservatives. Excessive eating and no exercise is a terrible combination.

People naturally crave animal flesh. People have always hunted and fished. It helped out because grains and vegetables weren't always in season. It was a part of traditional Native culture. The differences were: they didn't waste, it was natural and lean, they took only what they needed, they shared and it wasn't based on a marketplace. Animals lived in the wild and didn't have chemicals, fat and pesticide tracings.

When I was a vegetarian, I had colds, weight gain, exhaustion, infections, the flu, low-iron and dry hair, nails and skin. Now that I eat meat in moderation along with eggs, I feel much better. I also believe in dairy. You don't need a 10-oz. steak every night. People should eat more whole grains, fruits and vegetables and less overall white starch, fat and sugar.

Im a vegeterian for the sake of animal crulety. The way they are killed is just horrible and i dont want to have fatty bloody flesh in my body.
But i'm not going to FORCE anyone to agree with my beliefs just like i dont want anyone forcing me or bugging me about their beliefs.
I DO give them polite information about cattle slaughter and the bad things many meats do to you and if they want to learn more and do something about it i'll give them some websites to look at and everything else is their own decision.
Seriously, stop bothering them - "because its food" is a stupid excuse but c'mon - you're being ANNOYING and making us look bad!!!!!!!!!

You sound like the vegan equivalent of a Jehovah's Witness.

honestly you cant push your own beliefs on other people. If you dont want to eat meat that's your own thing but you shouldnt try to force people to stop eating meat. People think its okay to eat meat because they feel as if the animals ( cows, chickens, etc.) have been domesticated, and it might be true but im not saying its right either. Do you really think that the animals people eat can live in the wild, on their own? They wont be able to last very long. In fact, lots of people still eat meat because the animals that they are killing are not going extinct, if they were that would be a whole different story. Maybe if that was the case you can force your beliefs on others but thats not the case! You should just stop! It's like if someone was trying to force you to eat meat again.

I don't understand how you can disagree with eating meat, it's natural, animals eat other animals and that's the way it is, it's no different us eating chicken or cow than an owl eating a mouse or something, it's normal and natural.
Plus just because you are against eating meat doesn't mean you have the right to interfere with other people's opinions and diet, leave your new neighbours alone, they can eat what they like!!

im happy ur veg(so am i) but ur harrassing ur neighbors. they could sue u. just leave them alone. maybe u could invite them over 4 a veg meal tho

You should mind your own business. You can't dictate to people what they should eat.

I tried to convince my friends that meat cannot be food for various reasons;

1.Since it comes from other animals,who feed upon all sort of rubbish which is converted into their body mass.

2.They are infected with various diseases and pathogens.

3.It causes untold sufferings to these creatures.

4.Meat consumption is not required when alternate food source is abundantly available.

5.Meat cannot be tasty in any way.You see, take the case of any fruit,say mango.Mango if taken either by a vegetarian or a non vegetarian tastes great.Why? cause it is tasty.But meat/fish if taken by a vegetarian,makes him sick ? Personal experience---I tried to see How it tastes and believe me, the foul smell,rubbery taste and the most revulsive thing, made me sick for days.Even imagining of it makes me retch.So it shows that it is not at all tasty.

6.Without meat we vegetarians have been enjoying a healthy and disease free life since generations.No protein supplements are called for as alleged by some.

7.We in India apart from being vegetarians also have not been taking onion and garlic(which smells horrible).Of late some members of my family have taken to onions.

8.No religion preaches to kill animals.

And this is how vegans get a bad name...

why dont you mind your own business and let other people do what they want to do,stop trying to play god with other peoples lives. idiot.

In blood there is life. People are omnivores by nature, that means herbivores as well as carnivores. If your neighbor hasn't picketed your property by showing up with flame throwers burning all plant life and forcing you to ingest meat, leave them alone. What they put in their bodies is their business, and as long as they haven't declared themselves cannibals and put you on the top of the menu, it is really none of your business. So if you feel the need to wait for them with signs and protests about their lifestyle, don't be surprised if you come home someday and someone has painted your doorframe with blood. Back off and go chew your cud somewhere other than your neighbor's driveway.

Tell them that is a cadaver.

These are the beasts which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, the hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. And every beast that parts the hoof and has it divided into two and brings up and chews the cud among the beasts you may eat. (Dueteronomy 14:4-6)

These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.
(Dueteronomy 14:9)

Of all clean birds you may eat.
(Dueteronomy 14:11)

Because they haven't gotten sick yet!