Glenn Beck Hates Vegetarians (VIDEO)

There is no point in taking Glenn Beck seriously on this or any other issue. And, far as I can see, vegetarians are allowed to be so, just as meat-eater can eat meat (as well as other stuff like veggies, fruit, pop-corn, etc). I just wish people wouldn't try to make people who eat meat feel like the scum of the earth. I gave vegetarianism an honest go of it. It's just not for me. I don't see why we all have to eat the same way. I don't buy arguments that it's bad for the environment, because it's too simplistic. It may be bad for the environment, as it is, but it can change. In the meantime, people need meat. Just as the vegetarians need veggies. Don't take away my meat and I won't take away your sprouts. If people even still eat them. I kind of hope not, though.

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fr reminds me very much of our long lost pal Q in his incredible incomprehensibility, and lack of grammatical or spelling ability. If it is indeed our old buddy, it seems he is getting a bit smarter, as he is now using two full letters for his handle instead of just one. Our little troll is growing up!

So Glen Beck hates vegetarians. I suspect that it's because his parents were probably potatoes and he doesn't want to see them eaten, but I digress. Is this really worthy of debate?

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glenn beck dont hate vegetarians he only said he will not give up his meat the man is telling the truth so stop putin others down becase its the freedom of chocie if we lose are freedom we lose eveything beef pork and chickin is good food one nation under GOD USA

And no doubt his last meal WILL be steak--much sooner than he'd like it to be, as he clutches his cholesterol-clogged heart and wishes with his last gasping breath that he'd been less of a macho jerk in his lifetime. I wish I knew why men think all that "Me man! Me eat meat! Ooga ooga!" crap is so cool. But I hope Beck enjoys all the burgers, chops and steaks he can get his hands on. He certainly deserves all the healthy goodness they provide. Eat up, Glenn!!

Oh, "and nearly all vegetarians are of much thinner-than-average body build, which means they're missing something"? What a load of crap. "Average body build" in this country is much larger than is healthy. All we're "missing" is excess body fat and cholesterol. How ignorant to think that only dead flesh has any nutritional value. Dead flesh actually has more way nutritional negatives than positives. Don't tell me, you also bully anyone drinking orange juice at a party to have a "real" drink, right?

And "kids should eat what they want." HA. Good one. I guess your kids eat marshmallows and potato chips day and night? I've got news for you... "eat what they want" doesn't mean "eat what you want them to want," like you think it does. Some kids do in fact want to eat vegetarian food. But lo and behold, the "let them eat what they want" crowd suddenly takes that back when "what they want" is a meal that doesn't include a corpse. We can eat all what we want, as long as it's what YOU want. Meat should be included in every single meal and that's final!!! but one vegetarian meal is "forcing" something on people. Uh, OK.

So sick of conservatives slamming any attempts to provide choices as some sort of fascism. No, morons, it's REFUSING choices that's fascism. It's YOU who's trying to force YOUR eating habits on everyone. Just like you try to force your religious, sexual, reproductive, reading, viewing, thinking, feeling, speaking etc. habits on everyone. How does it "take away your freedom" if others have choices? It merely takes away your freedom to control our lives, and THAT'S what you're really pissed about. There's only one right way... yours. God has appointed you the arbiters of right and wrong. It's your place to decide what's "right" for all of us, and if anyone is given the choice to do something you don't personally agree with, you freak out and cry that your "freedom" has been taken away. Your supposedly God-given freedom to control us all. Get over yourselves. Eat your friggin' steak, I honestly couldn't care less. But stop trying to force ME to eat it. THAT is fascism.

stupid americans... :\

How...? How did this guy get here?

Sometimes I wonder, 'why oh why did I choose to become a scientist'.....
Listening to b.s. day in and day out, occassionally I really really wonder why?
Then, when I hear people confused and listening to an idiot like Glenn Beck, I am reaffirmed.
I chose to, so I would have the truth at my side.
The truth is this - Wingnuts are and always will be hypocrits.
A perfect reverse-barometer for veritas.

In other words Verena is saying that Baltimore schools are offering students only junk food on Mondays. I sure hope parents in Baltimore are smart enough to pack a good, healthy meat-only sack lunch for their children on Mondays.

Does anybody find it ironic that Glenn Beck thinks everybody like him has the right to be free, but vegetarians cannot choose to be vegetarian?

Does anybody find it ironic that Glenn always yells "science" against global climate change (though science is what has proved it), but when it comes to his diet, science is irrelevant?

I've had meat options forced down my throat all through school. The only veggie option was a greasy cheese pizza. Hardly my idea of a good meal.

Mara5525:
I used to eat two steaks at a sitting. I felt plenty satisfied but never healthy. I also used to walk around the city and eat hot dogs from several different carts for lunch. That was 35 years ago. I still feel a bit sour from the habit and in point-of-fact, some of the chemicals I ingested are probably still bobbing around my bloodstream. Satisfaction is a subjective concept. I know 50 year old men who are still dating 25 year old women, occasionally two at a time (like my former steak habit). They do this for satisfaction. According to Troll religious doctrine, (for whatever its worth to you) evolution involves the substitution of self discipline in place of self indulgence [read: satisfaction], in many of its varied forms. I know this must sound smug. No one is taking your meat away. I think I may speak for certain other vegetarians when I say that the issue is not banning animal flesh. However, the issue definitely is not exalting it either. Animal farms are horrific polluters and consume massive resources, some of which are publically subsidized through corporate welfare. So if the price of meat were to go up, resulting from the removal of the existing public benefits being devoted to Agra farming, the head Troll says: Frikkin heigh, bout time.

I went for a month w/o meat or fish of any sort. I did not like this diet. I tried to eat healthy, but I never felt like I was able to get satisfied.
Not everyone is meant to be a vegetarian or wants to be one.

Children dont have a choice in school. Since when have they? I graduated in the 90's and there were plenty of "meatless" days, it just was not attached to any cause or symbolism.... You eat what you are served or you didnt eat! How many choices do they need? Does Beck think they have a buffet at these schools? Come on....

Stern's comments are really based on simple math. A vegetarian person needs around an acre of land to grow their food for a year. A cow needs at least 10 times that to survive -- and the meat from a single cow won't feed a person for very long. As a result, a meat diet uses around 20 times as much land as a vegetarian diet. That's what Stern was referring to. In areas where land resources are scarce, a vegetarian diet is just more efficient. But for him to not practice what he's preaching is completely hypocritical.

Now, I don't say that eating meat is wrong, but at least consider the issues before you get mad about it. There is nothing lacking nutritionally in a vegetarian diet as long as you eat a variety of them, including whole grains, nuts, beans, and green leafy vegetables. Just ask the people of India, who have been thriving on vegetarian diets for thousands of years.

". .. . vegetarianism is coming under attack from the left as well as from the right. "
Because as with many subjects, the far right and far left meet around the corner. The far right is critical of the veggie cause due to it seeming to interfere with their sense of tradition and God having created conservative man after his own image. If you are old enough, you will remember when the anti-tobacco movement started. Fred Flinstone had become a TV spokesperson for Winston and so the anti-smokers were thus cast as being anti-American and even anti child. The far left on the other hand has traditionally shunned the vegetarian menu because they are more concerned with the rampant poverty in third world venues and see the vegetarian lifestyle as bourgeois. These people are not only pro meat but meet the far right as both being pro fast-food. Up until the 1980s large segments of people (including some in credible positions) still insisted that smoking was perfectly harmless. BTW: The newly discovered ancient hominid sheds some light on evolution and meat eating. The larger fang like teeth were associated with 'tribes' wherein all the females were copulated by the same, single 'alpha' male leader. As the diet became more reliant on gathering of plant based foods, the males and females began to mate by choice. This in turn gave rise to accelerated evolution. So for years we have heard of the "pointed teeth" theory, without considering that those teeth evolved down from being 4" long.
"Bottom line: Vegetarianism in general -- and strict veganism in particular -- is not healthy in the long run and defies the balance of nature. "
REAL bottom line: Anyone who draws their conclusion without a personal trial involving at least two weeks being flesh-and-blood free, [read: 98% of all the meat advocates] is talking pure smak. Even if you believe that the veggie/vegan diet is substandard, no one believes that a two week test run has any adverse health consequences. Most of the FORMER vegetarians I know do NOT submit that they went back due to health issues and readily affirm that the veggie diet is healthier. They generally admit that a combination of social pressure, taste preferences and more social pressure was responsible for their falling off the wagon.

I read the article, but didn't bother watching Beck; he's a nut. He's also tedious. One of those, I could deal with, but not both.
I like meat. I eat meat. Fish has mercury in it; meat is compromised, as well, but when I eat meat w/vegetables or salad, I feel as good as I am likely to feel. It's just a very sustaining meal for me. My body does well eating meat, and I tend to believe the idea that for people who are carb-sensitive, meat is a good way to go.
I think the way meat is processed, and the suffering of animals should all be addressed. We don't need a lot of the crap they put into meat, and animals need a much better environment. Still, meat is a great food! It's healthy, nutritious and tastes great. I respect the choice of vegetarians (less so vegans, but it's a free country).
One thing I am tired of: many of the people who don't eat meat trying to make people who do feel guilty or bad about their choice to consume meat. I'm tired of this. It reminds me of far right religion, which does not allow for Any other views but their own. I'm ok w/others Not eating meat, so stop ragging on people who Do eat meat.
Peta is an extremist group. I have no use for them.

Glenn Beck, as much as I despise him, is far from alone in skewering PETA and vegetarianism. Indeed, vegetarianism is coming under attack from the left as well as from the right.

Environmental activist <a href="http://www.lierrekeith.com/work.htm">Lierre Kieth</a>, who was a practicing vegan for 20 years, exposed the nutritional shortcomings of vegetarianism in a new book, "The Vegetarian Myth." In an interview on the left-leaning Pacifica Radio Network's "<a href="http://www.yourownhealthandfitness.org/ZenCart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=68&products_id=1202">Your Own Health & Fitness</a>," hosted by Layna Berman, Kieth discusses the many ways in which people have been led astray by ideas about vegetarianism, as she discovered through her own experience and research.

Bottom line: Vegetarianism in general -- and strict veganism in particular -- is not healthy in the long run and defies the balance of nature.

This is not to say that eating red meat is healthy -- it's not, and I don't eat beef myself -- but it's foolhardy to totally abandon all meats entirely, for they contain vital nutrients that cannot be found in a vegetarian diet.

I don't find it an accident that there is a clear gender chasm on whether or not to eat a vegetarian diet -- more than 80 percent of American vegetarians are women and girls -- and nearly all vegetarians are of much thinner-than-average body build, which means they're missing something.

I'm not a nutritionist, but I can tell you from my own experience -- I've lost relatives to heart attacks after they ate diets high in high-fat, high-sodium red meat and other unhealthy foods -- it is imperative that one eats a balanced diet, limiting meat intake to low-fat, lower-sodium meats, such as poultry (without the skins). I do eat pork -- which has long gotten a bum rap -- but only the leanest portions, namely ham and chops with the excess fat cut off.

Beef is definitely NOT healthy, no matter what the cattleranchers say -- it contains the highest levels of fat, "bad" cholesterol and sodium -- and should be avoided altogether. Indeed, I call eating beef -- especially semi-raw -- an open invitation to a heart attack or a stroke. Ditto for shellfish.

So, Glenn Beck hates vegetarians? That is perfectly okay with us vegetarians, because he is Not the kind of person that we want for a friend anyway...

No Glenn you dont understand, we want you to keep eating meat. The faster you die of a heart attack, the better.

Keep eatin' them steaks Glenn, hope you survive your triple by -pass when them steaks clog your arteries.

Well said Troll, you have a nice weekend as well.

Brian, the reason why Catholics didn't eat meat on Fridays except during lent is because it was a spiritual sacrifice and had nothing to do with health. It is still tradition to give something up on Fridays, but more officially meat during lent. It has nothing to do with 'fashion.'

The "EVIL LIBERALS" as you put it attach meat to health and global warming, not spirituality. It offends me that you would even compare the two.

Beck, Limbaugh, et al. have perfected the art of malicious gossip, which bolsters my contention that "conservatism" is not a political philosophy at all but merely an attack strategy. They will attack ANYTHING--even vegetables!

It is about freedom of choice. If we do not make responsible choices that effect others then inevitably those effected by our decisions will do something counter to our actions. When their were much fewer people on the planet, and our ability to effect our environment was much less, we could act irresponsibly knowing the planet could correct itself. Science told us we put a hole in the ozone layer and we needed to do certain things to repair it. Science tells us that we must limit our fish intake because of the Mercury that people have caused to be in fish. Creating renewable, non-polluting sources of energy is one extremely important thing we can do. Considering our diets is obviously another.

let them eat meat....

read about blue zones here, and what they attribute to the increase in longevity of around 10 years per location... typically less meat - loma linda in california, alot of vegetarians...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91285403

If I was going to force Glenn Beck to eat something vegatable it would be HEMLOCK!! So GB keep eating your steaks and burgers,we wouldn't want you to deplete that giant FAT reservoir in you head!!!

Oh yeah, and I forgot to say... "What an A-Hole"

He only opposes it because of who he sees as attached to it.
It wasn't too long ago when all Catholics didn't eat meat on Friday.

That has gone out of fashion, except during Lent, but it was excepted.

Now that "EVIL LIBERALS" are attached to a day without meat they say it is Un-American.
How ridiculous and absurd.

What a narrow minded bigot! All his rantings show his babaric mentality! He can eat all the steaks and blow up his heart, who cares! There are millions of vegetarians who are perfectly healthy and doing very well without tofurkey or veggie burgers. Beck should travel to other parts of the world and see how people live without meat instead of being such a captilastic jerk supporting the meat industry!

MNAPA:
It is not my aim to defend the Air-A writers or their various tag lines, which can be sensational.
I think we each know where the other stands on the core issue.
Have a nice weekend.

Troll, if we let our kids plan their own meals as you have outlined, clearly the school system wouldn't be able to afford it. Let our kids have choices and let the school system offer balanced nutritious diets. Maybe even educate the kids on the benefits of a healthy diet. The solution? Good parenting. So how do we get good parenting for our kids? Personal responsibility and not some socialist dictating everything. When your kid is suffering because of his unhealthy diet it's not the school's fault, it's not the food's fault, it's not even your kid's fault; it's your own. It's about personal responsibility troll. And it's about accepting the consequences for your actions; a reality that Americans giving up their freedoms to avoid.

The author of this "story" shows her irresponsibility and agenda with the title of this web page alone: "Glenn Beck Hates Vegetarians" and her "brain hurts." now THAT's journalism for ya.

Wow this site is really reaching to attack Glen Beck... about meat. Whoa, keep reaching.

Quouted: "Except by Beck's definition this is called indoctrination."

What is Indoctrination? Maybe all the meat-commercials, the cooking-with-meat-programs on television. The billboards and advertising in newspapers about meat. The social obligation of having BBQ and Thanksgiving-turkey?

That is Indoctrination!

MNAPA:
I think I may have been over this point but to reiterate: If we left it to the school kids to plan their own menus, here is what it would look like:
Ice Cream with sprinkles (appetizer)
Deep fried twinkees with chocolate sauce (salad)
Deep fried pepperoni pizza (main course)
Fried pepperoni (side vegetable)
Italian Meat Sauce over French fries (desert)
Mountain dew mixed with coke (drink)
Obviously, we adults must intervene. So, respectfully, your premise is flawed on its face because someone has to plan appropriate meals and we already limit such things as total sugar, total salt, total saturated fats, total deep fried calories, etc., etc.. Some schools have banned trans fats completely. If you remember, not that long ago, the trans-fats 'liberation organization' (including Glenn Beck) were bitching about that one also. The elimination of flesh in 20% of the meals is fundamentally no different a decision.

Trollstein: Clearly there are benefits to a vegetarian diet. And you've outlined plenty of data to support that.

The issue: Forcing a diet on someone, no matter how noble the cause, is a violation of your freedoms.

"In the past, many viewed vegetarianism as strange and faddish but appropriately planned vegetarian diets are now recognized by many, including the American Dietetic Association, as being nutritionally adequate, and providing healthful benefits in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases (1). . . . . A major report published by the World Cancer Research Fund in 1997 recommended we lower our risk of cancer by choosing predominantly plant-based diets rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, legumes and minimally processed starchy staple foods, and to limit the intake of grilled, cured and smoked meats and fish. . . . . In another study, lifelong vegetarians had a 24 percent lower incidence and lifelong vegans (those who eat no eggs or dairy products) had a 57 percent lower incidence of coronary heart disease compared to meat eaters (14). . . . In the Adventist Health Study, non-vegetarians had a risk of fatal stroke that was 20-30% higher than the vegetarians. . . "
http://www.vegetarian-nutrition.info/updates/vegetarian_diets_health_benefits.php
The person named anti-Trollstein is likely one of the people who suggested that everyone ignore me. I predicted he would be back, although I did not expect he would grace my presence with a separate hate-identity. the Troll has truly now arrived.
He wrote:
"just because you have a meatless diet doesn't mean you can force it on the rest of us (including school kids). Kids should be allowed to eat what they want."
Perhaps they gain a taste for human flesh. Where is the harm there? Especially if they only eat already dead people. . . Why waste resources burying the homeless when they could be a nutritious school lunch, no? If a veggie diet were not healthier then its just a preference or possibly, an ethical choice. Being that it is well understood as being healthier, then this should be encouraged at the school level, especially since it is NOT a different diet. You would make it sound like akin to eating lawn grass. Rather, its mainly the same food they already get, less some of the more junky (and unhealthy) ingredients. Its no different then lowering sugar or banning caffeine from the school lunchroom. The principle which is being proffered is that having a meal a week which is meatless is NOT any hardship to anyone and would only be objectionable to those who demand flesh as a political statement, e.g. 'once we require licenses for handguns then next they will confiscate all of them.' Lastly: " When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say.
simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week.
That's because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.e36a67d49c1127a8c17cc38ed4a4c27e.211&show_article=1

RJP3: So funny ---- "would not want kids to learn about different choices."

How is a restrictive vegetarian diet a different choice? Seems to be the opposite of "different choices" to me. And how is it funny?

How is this concern that the Baltimore school district partnered with Meatless Mondays "Irrational?"

What is the logical argument here? It is this: Your liberty is being lost brick by brick. Look at the big picture. If they can do this to schools, a small step by step like this, who's to say what they can't do. Your liberties will be gradually transformed and you won't even know it. I believe this was his "irrational" concern. Wake up, America.

A meatless diet is healthier? There's no proof of that... Moderation beats all other diets.
And just because you have a meatless diet doesn't mean you can force it on the rest of us (including school kids). Kids should be allowed to eat what they want. If you want them to learn about veggie meals, great. Put it on the menu. Whoever wants it can have it. Don't force it on everybody.

"Other than Beck forcing BS down the throats of viewers."

What time do the TV police show up at your house and turn on FOX News? Do they pin your eyelids open ala Clockwork Orange?

Douche Bag.

Beck is hilarious. But he is a blood-addicted ideologue rationalizer. Plus, he is strictly opposed to taxpayer subsidies of political preferences. Except when it comes to the agra-farming of meat. Beef and other animal producers are big beneficiaries of corporate welfare in many forms, including free grazing and water. Take back that advantage [read: redistribution of wealth] and the price of a McDonalds cancer-burger at least doubles. In turn, the output of greenhouse gases diminishes. Does he seriously deny that a meatless diet is healthier? If not, why can't school's menus reflect this point? God forbid that his kids are not rendered addicted to blood foods, like he was and his father and grandfather.

Who is forcing anyone to eat anything ????

Other than Beck forcing BS down the throats of viewers.

So funny ---- would not want kids to learn about different choices.

I think Beck should receive some tasty vegan chocolate cookies in the mail. He clearly has no idea they exist.