| When you meet someone who is a vegetarian do you assume that that person is...? |
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When you meet someone who is a vegetarian do you assume that that person is...?
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Asked 3 years ago
by thephilosophist  United Kingdom |
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Not really anything on intelligence, but I'm biased to think they're pretentious and annoying.
that is interesting, and I suspect that you're not the only one who prejudges in such a way... Might run another qtn later with that as an optional answer too. Let's see how this one goes first.
I am inclined to agree with anderf. My first thought is that they are pretentious and are probably a little apt to be the type of person to jump from cause to cause.
Lacking vitamins and minerals.
Mildly annoying if you have therm to a meal at home. I doubt if veggies and, especially, vegans have a good diet. We evolved to be omniverous.
We evolved to be omniverous. But we also evolved to do good and evil just as easily. "We also evolved to be omniverous" does not mean that we evolved of necessity to support a meat industry which does certain acts every day to defenceless animals in the name of multimillion dollar profits. And just think of how many animals needlessly, voicelessly and choicelessly died - just to be dumped in the bin days later because no one bothered buying the pack off the supermarket shelf before the best before date expired? Please don't tell me that that was that we "evolved" to do! To me, being omnivorous means that if I'm hungry and there is nothing else to eat, I will kill an animal to feed myself and my dependants, rather than dying. Killing animals to chuck them in the bin if they weren't sold isn't the same.
Now that the question's run is almost over, I'll reveal that it's been scientifically proven that vegetarians are more likely to be cleverer than average. It's very surprising that as I write, less than 15% of you realise that!
Being a vegeterian myself, I don't feel like I made this decision using some incredible newly found intelligence.
It mainly is a question of feelings and principles, and it has almost nothing to do with logic, skills or whatever "intelligence" means.
No one ever said that solely by becoming vegetarian, suddenly one's IQ would take a leap into the stratosphere etc.
No of course, I shouldn't have said it that way. You were referring to "if x is vegeterian, then he's more likely to be intelligent" and I switched it to "if x is intelligent, then he's more likely to be vegetarian." My mistake.
However, my point was that I don't feel like deciding to be vegetarian requires more intelligence than choosing to eat meat. Therefore I doubt that there's any causality between intelligence and vegetarianism.
You may doubt so, but unless you've done a controlled study of more than 8000 people, I suggest politely that you have a read of this:
"Clever kids grow up to be vegetarians, according to a study of 8000 British men and women. The researchers found that people who were veggies at age 30 had scored 5 IQ points higher on intelligence tests when they were 10 years old compared to their carnivorous counterparts... As well as being brighter, the vegetarians were better educated and of higher social class but the link with intelligence remained statistically significant even after adjusting for these factors. Despite their intelligence they were not wealthier and more likely to be working for charities or in education. "It may be that ethical considerations determined not just their diet but also their choice of employment," the report said.
It concludes: "Our finding that children with greater intelligence are more likely to report being vegetarian as adults, coupled with the evidence on the potential health benefits of a vegetarian diet, may help to explain why higher IQ in childhood or adolescence is linked with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease in adult life.""
flatulent!