My Parents won't let me be a Vegetarian HELP

The point is that we're carnivores! ie. meant to eat meat AND vegetables...

Try omnivore.

I can't find the link right now, but apparently kids are mentally and physically at a disadvantage if they're brought up on a vegetarian diet by mad veggie parents.

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Okay, that's totally unrelated..but have you explained why you want to be a vegetarian to them?

Because, in all honesty "it's cruel to animals" just doesn't cut it as a reason. If you had a mature and realistic argument, then I think they'd be more willing to accept your choice. As it stands, you just seem like a kid who's watched a PETA video and gotten really phased.

I can't find the link right now, but apparently kids are mentally and physically at a disadvantage if they're brought up on a vegetarian diet by mad veggie parents.

i read somewhere that the current level of humans on the planet wouldnt be sustainable if they ate only meat as the process between the levels is too inefficient. ie a lot of the energy is lost through when say for example, a cow eats some grass and then a human eats the cow as there are certain things humans cant digest

It's called biomass. Heard the use of battery chickens? It works on that principle.

oh by the way those studies on the kenyans were carried out by a meat company in america..........made a bit of a blotch on the validity of the findings for me

yeah thats the word. seems like a long time since gcse biology :P

My parents won't let me become a vegetarian because apparently we were meant to eat meat, but i think it is really cruel to the animal. Does anyone know how i can convince them to change their minds?

...or the vegetarians might just eat it all.
[you know they wouldn't grow it if they couldn't sell it to the people who feed the animals...]

Arable farming isn't non-profit. If there were no animals to feed with the crops, they wouldn't just grow them and give them away.

have you really thought this through?

I am 15
I have no idea why they say this, possibly they are insane.

pssst. that's an omnivore.

Yes when I heard the 'research' I wondered about its impartiality. It doesn't matter what you eat too much as long as your diet is balanced, if people eat meat for certain nutrients, vegeterians can find alternatives quite easily.

and tell your parents that you will make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich if what they are having is objectionable to you....

it'll work out!