Are the animal lovers a vegetarian?

December 13, 2011 12:47am CST
I love animal very very much. I have a dog at home, and I also saved a stray dog recently. I found him on my way to work and he was injured. I always tell people around me that we should be nice to animals. In china, there are people who really like to eat dogs and cats. I really hate them and I will discourage them not to do so. But I'm always asked about if I am a vegetarian. I'm not a vegetarian, yet, so everytime I was asked about what the difference is between dogs and pigs, I choked. Although I also like pigs and cows, and I do feel sorry for them. I will never hurt or kill any of them. So I wonder are all the animal lovers a vegetarian, and how do you deal with these situation?
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@ferbjohn69 (1127)
• Philippines
13 Dec 11
I also love animals,but I am not a vegetarian.:)There is noting wrong about eating pigs or cows as long as they aren't tortured before they are killed.There is a big difference between eating and torturing them.
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13 Dec 11
Hello readers! I am an animal lover. But also a vegetarian. I became a vegetarian in my teenage. I used to eat all those 'products'. But one day, I asked my self, "HEY!, If you LOVE animals, how can you EAT them?". And I found myself speechless. Think again, you all are animal lovers.
13 Dec 11
Oh sorry! I recently found something. If we don't eat animals because we love them, then we shouldn't eat plants as well. Its also taking a life. Sorry for my earlier respond. Now only I've seen the light.
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
13 Dec 11
I love Animals for real and I am Vegan. Vegetarians are not actually cruelty free, they break in pieces the small chicks that are not worthed to become food for the big chickens in egg farms, they send calfs to become veal and separate them from their moms and the cows become at least 18 times pregnant in A YEAR so milk farm is horrible. Vegans don't use what's tested, don't wear, don't exploit in anyway (I don't go to zoos, circuses and don't support any killing) or eat anything, even made by bees=honey. So yes, people who love animals don't support mutilation, confination and murderer. Vegetarians are half way there.
@buddha3 (1026)
• India
13 Dec 11
@katie, I'm really really impressed!! You are just one of those lovely and amazing persons! Your profile pic says it all:) It's so great to know that you don't even visit zoos and circuses as you are against exploitation of animals. I'm also a vegan and I too am against any torture to animals. But I consume honey and milk:(
@wadabski (761)
• Philippines
13 Dec 11
Well not really there are two very different things. Animal lovers love animals and vegetarians abstain from eating meat like beef, pork and what not. Being a vegetarian is a good thing because they help decrease the consumption of world food stocks of meat. What we really need in this world are more animal lovers. A lot of different animal species are extinct because of loss of habitat. It is really depressing to see wild animals suffer from human expansion to this world. Its like we humans are cancer cells eating up the world. We really need to respect nature and its beauty as well as God's animal creations. These are his master pieces and we destroying them.
13 Dec 11
hi:) I am an animal lover too. I have a pet dog and cat, but I'm not a vegetarian,I eat meat and veggies, but little by little I want to be a vegan, not only because I'm an animal lover but because I want to eat healthier.
@mohkanari (1957)
• India
13 Dec 11
In my opinion a real animal lover should try to be a pure vegetarian. If one see, or think of the painful feelings of an animal while they are killed for meat, no animal lover wouldn't get any good taste to meat food items. On the other hand vegetarian foods too are very tasty and containing all nourishments needed for human body. Actually vegetarian life brings calm and pleasant life.
@Galena (9110)
13 Dec 11
I love animals. in fact, I am one, and the type of animal I am is an omnivorous species. I eat animals, but I ensure I do not buy cheap, factory farmed, inhumane meat. free range meat is expensive, but worth paying extra for, even if that means only having meat a few times a week. just because I eat meat does not mean I am okay with letting animals be crowded in unsuitable and inhumane conditions. they are living things. if we're going to produce them for food we have a RESPONSIBILITY to make sure their lives are comfortable. it is our duty to all animals we take under our care, even if that is for the purpose of eating them later. some people think they have a right to cheap meat, but meat is a life, and a life should never be cheap. if a chicken can be reared, fed, housed, slaughtered, packaged, transported and sold for £3 and still make a profit you know there is something horribly wrong with the way that it was carried out.
@youless (112123)
• Guangzhou, China
13 Dec 11
I am an animal lover. However, I am not a vegetarian. Although I like eating vegetables, but I also enjoy eating meats. I just won't eat dogs and cats. I eat the normal meats like fish, chicken, beef and pork. I love China
@ramonah (211)
• Romania
13 Dec 11
I think vegetarianism and loving animals has absolutely nothing in common. And that's because people are ignorant and don't understand common sense stuff.. I'm an animal lover also, or as I'd rather call myself "a pet and critter lover". And no, I'm not a vegetarian because I make a difference between animals and products, and there is really a difference. Vegetarians don't even imagine how many animals are killed for them, countless. Actually in a full year there are less animals killed for food, than animals killed in the name of food. I wonder if any vegetarian ever wondered what happens on the vegetable and cereal farm fields.. Ever wondered how the product is protected? Ever wondered how many rats, mice, rabbits, birds and other little critters are killed for the sake of keeping crops from being damaged? Ever seen a nitrate product factory? The ones that make pesticides that kill bees and butterflies and other little bugs.. Other than the fact that the products kills those buggies, the factories pollute more than anything. There is reddish smoke coming out that kills everything that flies through, there are wastes that kill everything, including plants on a huge radius and it's also very bad for human beings. There is such a fuss about being a vegetarian and saving the animals killed on farms, but nobody wonders about these things. And there are many more... At least animals on farm are born and raised to be killed, it's their "purpose", let's call it. It's not like they would be even born in the first place if it wouldn't be needed. It's a different environment, it's not nature and it's course, it's an artificial environment for human purpose only. But vegetarian food producers kill and destroy the nature as it is, full habitats. Nobody really ever wonders that...