Ladies and Gentlemen, Cobra's Gabe Saporta... October 23, 2007

I became vegan because I realized how stupid it was. People shouldn't be eating something
that had to be killed before you could actually
eat it. You never really know what kind of
diseases an animal has or something like that
so why would you eat it? It's so stupid.
A lot of people think there's nothing wrong
with eating animals because they have no idea
where it comes from. When you think about
it, people are really being cannibals
because animals and people are basically the same thing.

I became vegan because I had had it with supporting an industry that actively sets out to torture and mistreat beings that feel pain and fear just as we do. It makes me sick to think that the only reason these animals have come into existance is so they can be killed and eaten. I also hate the way that, whilst people are warned about the damaging effects of using a car instead of using public transport or about how we should all recycle, it is neglected that the farming of animals is also one of the main contributors to global warming. If the government were really as concerned about halting climate change as they say they are, then surely putting programmes in place to help cut and eventually eradicate the consumption of animal products would be at the top of their list.

=D! YAY, COBRA STARSHIP!!!

When I was starting high school, I got into Animal Rights. I guess I had never really thought so much about becoming a vegetarian for animal rights before then, but I found PETA2 (& all the neat free campaigning stickers!) and I really put it together, that if I ever wanted to be the best person I could possibly be, I couldn't just be nice to people-I had to make a step towards being an amazing animal lover, too. I took an oath for my doggie to stop eating meat, and I've been meat-free for nearly six years. Then, when I started college, I took the jump into veganism, and I IMMEDIATELY opened up my taste buds! I feel as if I shine, inside and out, and I know I'm making the most morally just decisions ever!

I become vegetarian because I'm not afraid to show I care.

I became a vegan because it made me to sick to think of someone suffering a slow, painful, terrifying death so I could eat it. That's not fair. It just goes to show that humans are unfortunately capable of abusing the power they have over "lesser" creatures. Shouldn't we use our abilities to make the world a better place for everyone? Mother nature isn't as cruel as human nature is. It sucks, and I'm not going to support it.

I became a vegetarian because I think it is terrible how people just can slaughter an animal and eat it.It is gross and it is basically like killing a person and eating them.I have been a vegetarian for 3 years and I feel it is the best thing I have ever done in my life.

"What if animals started hunting down, killing and eating us?"

That sentence really got me thinking.
People don't think that they're harming animals or they just don't care because they think we're inferior to them and they don't have feelings. We're all mammals, we're all meat but just because they don't "speak" or walk on two legs doesn't mean they can't feel the same things we do.

Picture yourself in a calf's shoes:
You're hanging out with your family on the fields, playing a form of tag with your sibling and you're all happy.
The next day they've all been shipped away to the slaughter house, all of them but you to end up as meatloaf on the dinner table or hamburgers on the grill.
That lonely calf feels the same way you do.

I became a vegetarian because I thought that it was so stupid and selfish to kill and make living things suffer just so we can eat.
When I found out what happens to these poor animals during the killing process I was heart broken.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing was actually happening and I knew I couldn't continue living my life that way.
Now that I've given up meat I've opened my eyes to a lot more choices food wise and I appreciate animals a whole lot more.
What's great is that my dad is a veg now too!
Vegan sesame seed nuggets and cheese quesadillas... yum!
FANGS UP

I became a vegetarian because i think one of the worst things in the world is to hurt a poor harmless animal.there are so many other food options in the world dead animal should not be one of them. Ive heard so many good experiences about being a vegetarian i just had to experience it for myself and im so glad i did because its so much healthier for my body and im saving animals at the same time.

I became a vegetarian because I thought it was so stupid and selfish to kill something just to eat. These poor animals have no idea what's going to happen to them today, tomorrow, or even next year. They don't know that they're going to be killed and used to feed other people. Personally, I think meat is disgusting. There are all types of parasites and worms and things inside of it that you just don't see and eating it is just setting our bodies up for failure. Humans tend to think that animals are less, or not as important as we are and that isn't true. Just because they don't have the same communication abilities that we have it doesn't make them less, we're all mammals. Going vegetarian has been the best thing I've done for myself and I plan to take the next step and go Vegan!
Fangs Upppp.

I love the idea for Cobra Starship. Thanks for doing it!

Well I'm currently 14 & I became a vegetarian at 13 so about a year now. People say I turned into a vegetarian to be different but I did it because I was on myspace one afternoon and saw a bulletin about how they club penguins and about animal cruelty and that kind of stuff makes me cry my eyes out. I have two animals a cat and dog and I cant even lay a hand on them even if they did do something bad. When I was little I always said that I wanted a house full of animals and I still do. When I see fur on people it fustrates me to beyond beleif. I dont see how people can wear something that had a heart that beated in tune with theirs, that had maybe a family somewhere, or was just trying to live its life. I'm a strict vegetarian. I dont drink real milk I drink soy and I dont see how chickens could get less rights than cows or any other animal. Chickens should have the same rights. The way they keep the chickens in a little cage where they cant even move or have a life of its own life like it was born to. I also cant imagine how someone can just leave their animals all alone and abandon them these animals strive on love like we do. How could people do something like that? I see these pictures online that people post and I get so furious to the point where I cant even sleep at night thinking of animals out there that are starving or dieing just because some person feels like doing it.

That is why I became a vegetarian.
So while saving animals I can also fight for them.

♥Tabitha K. M. Freeman
P.S.Nice concert in Charlotte, North Carolina.
FANGS UP!

I became a vegetarian almost a year ago. Not because of some crash diet or trend, and not because activism is the latest thing. I did because honestly, I'd never really realized before the concept of eating meat, y'know? It's never really phased me. Mr.Andy Hurley's peta video kind of triggered my mind. I really started to think about everything. I'd never really heard anything about it. Vegetarianism isn't really a raging thing in Canada. With all of our igloos and fur blankets. Not really. But it was something I felt I had to do. My contribution, and an excuse to sleep at night without severe guilt hanging off of my shoulders. I feel like a better person embracing the fact that there are other options. An animal shouldn't die every time my stomach is growling. Major wake up call. Meat is murder. There's no justifying it, or hiding it.

Besides, vegetarians are hotter. Am I right?

Thanks so much for the opportunity. Good luck with the release of your CD!

Mucho freaking love.

-Brittani

being vegan isn't about being pure, or "thinking i'm better than my friends cause i'm a 'Food Prude'". Yeah, people've said that to me.

I've also found when people discover i'm vegan (generally after asking what it is) they ask why. Perfectly understandable obviously, but i find that unlesss i place a perfectly convincing and utterly unbeatable response, you get slandered with ...random, messed up accusations.

Anyway, yes i love being vegan - it's a lifelong committment.
I don't press my lifestyle decisions upon anyone, but i do encourage and inform members of the public about the treachourous industries they're supporting.

I know this is kinda late lol.but what ever im gonna respond anyway! =)

Ok ya I became a vegetarian because its pointless to eat meat. You can live without it. It wont kill you to stop. I think its pathetic and sad that people dont care what they are eating. You know what happened to that animal but oh well. im gonna eat it anyway. No i think its descusting. and jsut rediculous.
oh and im a huge cobra fan ( and just saw them 3/1/08) and ive known Gabe was one for a while. But he gets mad points from me. for being amazingly gorgeous. and a vege =))

I became a vegetarian because i realized how it was not that hard to make a difference in this world. Little things change the world for a better place. If me not eating meat makes this world better than i will never eat meat again. It helps to know that a lot of my heroes like Gabe are vegetarians too.

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