Responses to Non-Veggies

If you are vegetarian or vegan I'm sure that you're aware that there are many questions/ comments that almost every meat-eater will ask/say when you inform them that you're vegetarian. Although this can get repetitive, I think it's important to have good responses. I must say sometimes I have trouble sometimes responding to them without getting frustrated and in a non-threatening manor. So I looked into it a little and combined some practical/logical responses that I liked into my own words.

Here's Some Common Questions or Comments: 
"Where do you get your protein"
-Plants are the only organisms that can produce protein, the only way we get protein from animals is from the plants that they eat. Why not go straight to the source?

"We're natural carnivores/omnivores. We've been eating meat for thousands of years."  
-We have also owned slaves, kept women from voting, participated in mass genocide, lived in caves, and ate other humans. Just because something has a long tradition doesn't mean that it's right. Also were actually designed more like herbivores than anything else. (I also touched on a response to "we're meant to meat" in an earlier post)

"That's not healthy, Let me know when you get sick"
-Interesting, when the a person has a diet full of meat and other processed foods have more health problems then one with a vegetarian/vegan diet. This includes having a higher risk of heart disease, and high blood pressure, cholesterol, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, and many other conditions.
  
 "Well other animals eat meat"
-Animals that eat meat, which, I note, are built to eat meat, need it to survive, while humans do not. Also, animals don't have the ability to choose, while people do.

 "We're true predators."
-True predators have the speed and agility to chase down their own prey, not breed them in confined spaces so that they can't get away. Have you ever seen a human chase after a lion, kill it with it's bare hands then eat the lion without any remorse or being picky about the raw meat.

"What would you do if you were stranded and the only thing to eat was meat?"
-What would you do if you were starving and the only available food was human being?

Along with these are a couple other common ones like or "where do you get your calcium", I touched on that in previous posts.