Is being vegetarian dumb?

Sorry to boil it down so simplistically:

It's very dumb, you need meat and vedgetables, not just one of them. I mean eatting only meat isn't a good idea either.

No because it's a personal choice, and it doesn't hurt anyone. 
 
If you want to make that choice I don't think you're dumb.

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It's very dumb, you need meat and vedgetables, not just one of them. I mean eatting only meat isn't a good idea either.

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" No because it's a personal choice, and it doesn't hurt anyone.  If you want to make that choice I don't think you're dumb. "

These threads ALWAYS end well.

Yes, meat rocks! 
 
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Yes, it is dumb. It is a personal choice. In my eyes it's a stupid personal choice.
  

A.) If you're going for the moral standpoint, then yes, because either option involves killing things.
B.) This:
 

I don't have a problem with people who choose to be vegetarians, but I don't agree with it. We're human beings and animals, it's in our nature to eat other species.  That's just how life is. 

I don't really care if someone is or not, but personally life would be 100 times more dull if I couldn't eat sweet hamburgers.

" @DanielJW said:

" No because it's a personal choice, and it doesn't hurt anyone.  If you want to make that choice I don't think you're dumb. "

Personal choices can be dumb. You just don't think it's dumb because you don't want to offend someone. "

I don't care if I offend anyone or not. I think Red Dead Redemption looks like ass.  "

" @jNerd said:

" @DanielJW said:

" No because it's a personal choice, and it doesn't hurt anyone.  If you want to make that choice I don't think you're dumb. "

Personal choices can be dumb. You just don't think it's dumb because you don't want to offend someone. "

Yes personal choices can be dumb, but this one isn't. How are you hurting anyone by not eating meat? Personal choices are only stupid if they harm yourself or others.  
 
I don't care if I offend anyone or not. I think Red Dead Redemption looks like ass.  "

I wouldn't call it dumb, but it's kind of a pointless gesture. A random individual not eating meat doesn't save the lives of the livestock that have already been slaughtered or even those who would be slaughtered in the near future, it just means someone else ate their share of meat or that it went to waste. This is from a developed world standpoint, though.
 
Overall it's just personal preference. If people don't like eating meat, they don't have to, and vice versa.

I see both sides of the argument.  Meat is certainly tasty and healthy in moderation (though most people do eat WAY too much of it)...but it does require the killing of animals for nutrients that can be obtained through other sources, and the morality of something isn't logically defined by convenience or taste.
 
I eat meat, but I think about it a lot.

I don't think it's dumb unless you're one of them PETA weirdos. Being a vegetarian has its benefits, but it's not for everyone as you can see that the hamburger forum is crazy popular.

I really don't care what someone else's personal choice is. I however, NEED meat. It's just too delicious to give up. I even had a big ass t-bone steak tonight. And yes, it was fantastic.

Pro-veggie arguement

• Poor cute little animals
• Health reasons
  

• Bacon
  

Yes, moving on.

Some say eating meat is a choice... but GOD made me this way. I like to go to delis and meet other meat eaters then take them back to my place and serve briquette. Barbeque sauce all over the place.
 
I'm a carnivore trapped in an omnivore's body! So sick of seeing all these closeted carnivores afraid to show their true selves.

As long as a vegetarian doesn't push his or her bullshit on me then it isn't dumb.
 
I'm definitely not a hippie so I can't vote B

I'm against vegetarianism, but I have to say the poll is fairly biased. A leading question followed by opinionated poll choices. 

I can't answer the poll.  There needs to be a "idontgiveafuck" option.  
 
I don't care if you're a vegetarian.  Just don't call me a dick if I like to eat animals.

It just means more burgers and durgers for the rest of us.

these fucking vegetarian threads again

It's stupid. But it doesn't hurt anyone, so whoever wants to be a vegetarian can go and be one.

Whats the difference between killing an animal to eat it and killing a plant to eat it. They are both alive, they are both grown/raised by farmers, and finally they are both harvested so people can eat them. Why is one wrong/bad/unacceptable, but the other is perfectly fine? Being a vegetarian really makes no sense in the end.

Read a book called "The China Study"

Who gives a shit?

" I can't answer the poll.  There needs to be a "idontgiveafuck" option.    I don't care if you're a vegetarian.  Just don't call me a dick if I like to eat animals. "

very dumb

Another thread created to promote hate, yay!

" It's stupid. But it doesn't hurt anyone, so whoever wants to be a vegetarian can go and be one. "

Actually eating meat is healthier, Asian's are shorter and less evolved than others because they weren't eating meat for 2000 years. Oh and also i'm not sure if it was Natural to eat meat in the first days of human kind, but the stomach could have adapted, either way, NOW we are good for eating meat.  
 
I can understand not liking the taste, but i mean, lots of kids don't eat their food when they are little, eventually you gotta grow up and absorb everything.  Oh and as is apparent by this poll, society has a pretty negative outlook on vegetarians, a chick might be able to get away with it but a guy who is vegetarian is automatically labeled as the zero male :P, and all those guys can get is the hippy chick, and the chick with the complex. 

If you are a vegetarian then you disrespect mother nature and her system. 

" @LiquidPrince said:

" It's stupid. But it doesn't hurt anyone, so whoever wants to be a vegetarian can go and be one. "

Babies that die or have their brain growth stunted due to malnutrition from their parent's strict diets suffer from vegetarianism. 
 
For instance (vegan parents, but you get the idea).  Reminds me of the children that die from their parents' belief in faith healing. Personal choices can easily affect others close to you, so even something as seemingly harmless as vegetarianism should be looked at with a critical eye.  "

what a stupid topic and poll....

A persons choices, so long as not impacting, preached about, or forced on others, isn't dumb.  What's dumb is denying someone the ability to have a choice, or belittling their choice when you have nor frame of reference for that person or their reasons. 
 
NOW JOIN MY CULT!!!!

no, i don't think it is dumb to be vegetarian. i don't' think will be a vegetarian i enjoy eating meat.

Its a personal choice, their decision isn't harming you in any significant way. Take your biased poll and shove it.

The animal's dead by the time I buy it. Not eating it won't save anything. 
 
If it's good enough for nature it's good enough for me. Plus you need iron to be healthy. 

When people don't eat meat because they don't condone killing animals, then I disagree with it; animals are just things for humans to use.
 
If you don't wanna eat meat because you don't like meat, that's okay, I guess.