Is it normal to have a hatred towards vegetarians and vegans?

I don't have a problem with vegetarians or vegans. I do dislike the ones that think they're high and mighty due to it though.

Who cares why they won't eat it? What should you hate someone because of what they choose to eat and not to eat?

A lot of animals aren't treated humanely. They're actually treated quite horribly. Same goes for the fur industry and animal tested products and the list goes on. Some people want to wash their hands of all of it hence veganism.

I can't speak for everyone else but for me as a former vegetarian I never had a problem eating meat but I had a problem supporting something that encouraged animal abuse and inadvertent torture.

And marketing lies all the time so how can I really be sure the meat I bought was free range. And what does that even mean?

There are rarely any guarantees unless you are buying from local farms.

You worry too much about other people's lives. Unless they are preaching, you need to just carry on with your life.

Animals in the meat industry are very often not treated humanely. At all. Do your research, if you think you can stomach it.

Humans do not by any means need meat to survive. Protein, for example, can be found in great quantities in plant matter.

Humans are humans; they are not cats, hawks, or snakes, and therefore should not be held to their standards.

"It is our nature to eat meat it doesn't make us cruel,"

It's natural, ergo, do it. Hey guise, it's only natural that we should die from plagues, appendicitis, and that women should die during childbirth! It's only natural selection, so why should we even bother looking to cure/fix any of this?! LOL biology!!!

"[I]t is not evil it is doing what it needs to do in order to survive the same as what we do."

Except humans don't need meat to survive. Ask pretty much any Sikh you come across. Some animals need to eat meat to survive - they risk death if they do otherwise. In their case, it's almost like self-defense - of course, in the event that a human for whatever reason needs to eat other humans in order to survive, other humans have the right to defend themselves from such a person. The same rule applies to other species - humans have the right to eat them if the alternative is starvation - otherwise, it's pretty wasteful. That's self-defense. Eating 4 eggs, 3 pieces of sausage, and a handful of bacon for breakfast, a turkey sandwich for lunch, and a burger/steak/whatever for dinner is just wanton and cruel. Even if you are going to eat meat, do it sensibly, please.

I simply think meat is gross. I don't give a shit if someone else eats it. I just refuse to. Does that piss you off?

Why the fuck is this 27 percent normal? It's his opinion.
I imagine a bunch of kids sitting behind computer screens clicking random poll options.

They mean well, but I think they can be really smug about it. They really love animals, but do they only love herbivores?

I agree, it's the food chain. I don't really get vegetarian beliefs, but I don't have any hatred towards it or think it's ridiculous. It is what it is.

Ignorant morons piss me off, but I don't let it bother me as much as you apparently are bothered by something that has absolutely nothing to do with you at all.

I know this may be a complicated idea, but no one has to live the way you expect them to. They're allowed to have their own beliefs, opinions and practices, as are you, but they aren't the ones getting shitty because someone else doesn't do things "their way".

Here's the thing: Unless you watched every step of that animals life and the slaughter process it underwent, you cannot say that it was treated humanely. Over 10 billion animals are slaughtered for human consumption every year in North America alone. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the majority of them aren't treated well on their way out. They are treated as a product, not a living being.

I eat meat, but I was a vegetarian for 3 years. My sister is an Animal Protection Officer (APO) for the SPCA and has become a vegetarian after seeing the horrific treatment of livestock animals and pets alike by the people supposed to protect them. She has been an avid meat eater her entire life and she literally cannot do it anymore, it makes her physically ill and I don't blame her. She's seen all the footage in those horrific videos you see online, but up close and personal in her face on a daily basis.

Vegetarians and vegans are not bad people. They're making a conscious effort to educate people to the suffering they support unknowingly everyday. And when I see people respond to them with comments like "im gonna go eat some tastey bacon now cuz ur dumm", it makes me hate my fellow meat eaters. Don't bash the vegetarians because they make you feel guilty. Ask yourself why you feel guilty.

I tend to think that vegetarians/vegans are morally superior to me, a meat-eater. However, I wouldn't want to live a life without eating meat. Hypocritical, I know.

Its their personal choice and lifestyle why does it bother you so much?
Some people just feel like they would rather not eat a dead animal..

Only when raw vegans et al try to evangelise me into their idea of what I should eat. I reach for my plank of wood.

I guess a cannibal could say the same about your choice not to eat people.

"As long as an animal is treated humanely when killed I don't see what the problem is..."

That's the thing. You can't tell if the cow you're about to eat has been horribly slaughtered or humanely put down when it's laying medium rare on your plate.

There's 3 main reasons why some people refrain from eating meat:

1. They simply don't like it

2. They are trying to lose weight/eat healthier

3. They don't want to support the inhumane slaughter of animals

And as for all three of these options, I don't see a reason why any of them would even remotely concern you.

Go eat your steak and move on with your life.

hit em over the head with a zucchini

Arguing either side seems to be fruitless. If you want to eat meat, eat it. If you don't, don't eat it. The only thing I think about is vegetarians or vegans who raise their kids that way and if they know enough about proper no-animal-product nutrition to feed their kids right. Of course, meat-eating parents get this wrong, too.

It's ok if they're vegetarians/vegans but it seems some of them take their belief way too far that it exasperates others. I have carnivore tooth, just let me eat those yummy meats.

It is their choice. My problem is the way people talk about it. Preaching and insulting someone's lifestyle kind of sucks.

I've been on both sides of the vegetarian fence. The important thing to remember is that different people have different needs and different beliefs. And that is okay.

Personally, if your food was raised locally, I don't care what you eat.