15 Reasons to Become a Vegetarian!

Seven UCI students, both vegetarian and not, tell it like it is -- showing why becoming a vegetarian is a smart choice for animals, the environment, and oneself.

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• rainforests
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[1991Hatcher]

Plants have the same chemicles related to pain that animals have. We're both multi cellular life forms which react to stimuli. So how do you think they feel when we step on them in the park. Brutally cut them down with sharp tools and machines and even eat a lot of them while alive. Boiling them alive, roasting them, and chewing them while they still have life in them. But you don't give them attention just because they dont have some cute face? Well I guess we should all eat uhhhhh... rocks?.

[ebbtider]

@1991Hatcher I really do see your point and it's something I've thought about, too. But I do believe in the natural cycle of life, that beings eat other beings for survival. The process that I am describing in this video is that we, as humans, don't NEED to eat animals to survive. Our bodies just aren't made for it. I have been a vegetarian for over 15 years and I am perfectly healthy. So why do we have to create factory farms that torture animals for something we don't even need to survive?

[VideosByEmilie]

I am a proud vegetarian!!:) woohoo!

[90Rush]

@animallover946 I only make fun of vegetarians when they tell very kinky jokes :p

[gcab1000]

@snaveleber HAHAHAHA EPIC BRO!!! PROPS TO YOU!! LMFAO

[gcab1000]

@animallover946 I AM SELFISH!! I WANT ALL THE BACON TO MYSELF!!!!!!!

[sjm8890]

Some people choose vegetarianism but I choose the opposite. I chose an all meat diet and lost 25 pounds and still dropping. Why buy vegetables when there is a much cheaper option.

[kingbridgetroll]

@animallover946 Theres nothing wrong with being against the inhumane treatment of animals, I hunt for most of my food, and have a lot of respect for nature. and i like meat, you can chose not to eat it, just don't push your bullshit on me. thanks :)

[animallover946]

@1991Hatcher If you are concerned about plants you are better off being vegan than eating meat, because it takes more plants to produce meat, than just directly eating plants, because you are eating the animal that ate all of these plants.

[animallover946]

@Toriii137 That's wonderful that you're vegetarian. I don't get why people make fun of vegetarians, I guess its because they're guilty for the way they are.

[animallover946]

@kingbridgetroll Yeah, we're missing out on the opportunity savor the taste of tortured innocent animals and paying people to abuse them. We are just so jealous.

[animallover946]

@gcab1000 You are SELFISH. I bet you never thought about how all of those pigs have spent their entire lives in torture and abuse, to then be killed just so YOU could eat bacon.

[kingbridgetroll]

@akatsukikage3 Oh good! can we do this together? perhaps? i like to eat wombats