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@Sick_J0ke said:

"Shit the average college student is practically a vegetarian with their diets of pizza, ramen noodles, and mac & cheese. "

Quoted for truth. I could practically be considered a vegetarian if it wasn't for grabbing sushi at least once a month and I don't consider myself or try to be one. I enjoy chicken and beef, but it's just so expensive I seldom buy it, sticking with other sources of protein instead.

Having worked in a "health food" store, I could list off TONS of alternative foods you could buy that are full of protein or help prevent any number of diseases. (Just don't get me started on "Organic" food... seriously, if people who buy this stuff new how much gets shrunk and thrown out everyday.... ugg.)

One example of an alternative source of protein is edamame -- a type of soybean. If you ever get the opportunity to try out an Arame (seaweed) & Edamame (soybean) salad, give it a shot! It might sound unappetizing but it's really good and I consider myself to be someone with a "normal" taste in foods.

Try reading up on the subject instead of getting information from your redneck republican dad. Vegetarians get plenty of protein. Meat consumption is linked to many kinds of cancer. High fibre diets (aka vegetarians) reduce your chance of getting numerous forms of cancer.

If you doubt my supreme knowledge, go read up on the topic at the American Cancer Society, or any other cancer society around the world.

Then read up on how meat is produced, and about the legal quantity of pussing tumor that is allowed to be sold as consumer grade AAA meat.

If yer still reading, we could go into peace, non-killing, and love... but thats probably a bit out of your league!

 Meat isn't the only source of protein, and some vegetarians do eat fish or eggs sometimes.

vegetarians are no fun to eat with.

I usually keep a package of the driest, most tasteless soy patties in my freezer in the off chance that I have a vegetarian over for a barbeque. Don't want one of those delicious steaks or tenderloins I'm grilling up? Sure, I'll heat you up a rubber patty.

I hate vegetarians because they are (or at least the ones I've met) very stuck-up and annoying. For instance, I'd offer to have lunch at some restaurant that serves meat with a group of people, and if one is a vegetarian, they'd make some snarky comment like "Oh no, I don't eat flesh." They seem to think they are single handedly saving the world, and that they are the only sane people. Obviously they're not all like that, but quite a few are.

I'm not sure what this whole vegans/vegetarians deal is, and I don't care, but I also find it immature: just because I don't like carrots, doesn't mean I'll never eat a carrot again... I'll cut back, and have minimal carots. Likewise for vegetarians: if you don't like meat, or you find it immoral or w/e, cut back. No need to eat ten pounds of hemp plant to substitute the protein every day just because you're a prat. Eat minimal meat, maybe stick to fish, but for gods sake, why the hell stop eating it altogether.

And the last reason that I hate vegetarians, is that (the ones that find it immoral) are kind of wusses. I hate to say it, but we are at the top of the food chain, and this is how nature works: eat or be eaten. If nature has flourished for millions of years, why all of a sudden become a total wuss: "how would you feel if someone ate your dad, it's like that for eating cows". No it's not! Cows don't have the capacity to have in-depth emotions: sure, maybe basic ones for survival purposes, but they're frankly too dumb to care to the extent that humans do. They have done scans of cows brains during different situations, and the only part of the brain that kicked up, was the part that deals with fear. Not sadness/anything else.

EDIT: I should also mentioned I don't force this on vegetarians: they can do what the hell they want. I just highly disagree with it.
EDIT2: Reading back in this thread makes it clear to me that the vegetarians in this thread are just as snobbish as the ones I've met in real life. Go figure.

@pirate_republic:

Yeah I get that attitude shoved at me a lot, I have one simple response "Go fuck yourself" I don't have the time or the energy to argue with twats like that who think they are superman/woman because they don't eat meat. I do know a couple vegetarians who aren't like that though, but I know (not assuming, they have told me) they feel just as superior and hold much the same views as the asshole vegetarians except they don't say it out loud.

@Sick_J0ke said:

Shit the average college student is practically a vegetarian with their diets of pizza, ramen noodles, and mac & cheese.

When I was in college, I used to eat the Italian Meats Trio pizza from Papa Johns. I had no idea I was still a vegetarian!

@bennyboy said:

"@Sick_J0ke: uh oh watch out now they're gonna start calling you a "preachy vegetarian" for defending yourself"

There's a difference between defending yourself, and constantly acting as if you are better than everyone else, or constantly reminding them that you hate them. How about, nobody fucking cares that you're a vegetarian, get the fuck on with it.

I'm not gonna go around telling vegetarians they are stupid, misinformed or whatever else I might happen to think of them, so why the hell do vegetarians have the right to proactively 'defend themselves' it's fucking bullshit.

Now, of course i'm only speaking to those who proactively shove their opinions unto other people, if you aren't one of those vegetarians I wholeheartedly apologize, i'll even cook you up a vegetarian lasagne with courgettes and stuff. But if you are, go the fuck away and stay there, normal people hate you.

@The_A_Drain: u mad

@bennyboy:

I'm not mad. It's the same as what always crops up in the religion arguments, noboy minds what you beleive/don't believe, it's the shoving it in peoples faces they mind. Without that we can all get along. Like I said though it works both ways, this topics OP for example is stupid and misinformed. But so are many many vegetarians who persist in annoying people by preaching to them.

Ok so this topic isn't the best place to have any sort of logical discussion because it's just degenerated into vegetarian hate, but in normal surroundings (in my personal experience, so not all of them, just the ones i've had the displeasure of meeting) vegetarians are the first person to say something stupid or misinformed around the dinner table, and then follow it up with something preachy and superior sounding, after that point i'd rather punch them in the face than eat with them. I'm sure you would get the same feeling if I came and sat down at a table of vegetarians scoffing a burger and saying "Green? Fuck, thats the same colour as poison, wouldn't catch me eating any of that shit".

But the ones that don't do that are awsome usually, just like the people I know who are religious, we get on because even though I vehemently disagree with their beliefes, they aren't shoving it in my face all the time, and i'm not shoving my beliefs in theres.

by the way, if what you've said is true,  you've only met mostly preachy vegetarians because those who don't preach don't make themselves known to you as vegs.  I'm willing to bet the ratio of non-preachy to preachy vegetarians is a lot higher than what you've experienced.

@bennyboy:

Well, theres been a couple of stupid threads like this lately, and my response in all of them has been almost exactly the same. A lot of people are ignorant and stupid, this is the internet. So some asshole starts up a veggy hate thread? It should be obvious from the original post that the thread is going to be full of ignorance and stupidity from people only barely old enough and intelligent enough to have an opinion in the first place. So why even bother to 'defend yourself' from morons like that? You don't need to plain and simple, everyone can see how stupid most of the people in this thread are so by responding you're only further enforcing the attitude these people have, especially by responding in such a sarcastic and preachy manner as some people have.

I've seen other threads on other forums where vegetarians tell me how stupid I am for eating meet, but you know what I do? I go and talk about videogames instead, or a topic that I actually give a shit about. You should probably do the same.

Although tbh this just raises the question why am I here? Hypicritically, i'm bored out of my fucking mind because my gaming chair is uncomfortable as hell right now because of some stitches in my back, I want to be playing Dead Space ;_; but I can only play half hour or so before it gets too uncomfortable again.