Why did you choose vegetarianism?

That totally makes sense and I do agree.
It really annoys me when people say things like that; because eating meat is a choice too. It's just the norm to do that, so most people don't think outside the status quo.
By that logic parents shouldn't baptise their children either, or take them to a place of worship, because it 'forces them' to be religious.

However you slice it parents raise their child/ren with the values they agree with, it's just human nature and socialisation. So no I'm not going to feed my children meat; if they end up choosing to eat it elsewhere then that's their choice.

 

The reason I became vegitarian and the reasons that made me stay are quite different. I originally started for health and diatary reasons. I was quite nieve at the time, and acctually thought it might not be a healthy way to live, but, I was trying various things... During that time, I did a lot of research online, read a lot of info on Veg sites (trying to find out where to get protine from, etc). While doing my research, not only did I realize how much more healthier was this lifesyle, but I was constantly bombed with pictures of anaimals suffering in cages, being slaughered. Now, just to show how much influence the farming industry has over people, after seeing those phots, reading about animal cruilty... I was still sure that in a short time, I would be back to being a meat eater again. It really did not hit me... I wasn't cold to it... it just didn't hit me.... I didn't get it... (not sure if that makes sence).

Anyhow, to make a long story short... (after a month of two of not eating animals) - I just dropped my daugher off at summer camp one day, and after leaving the park, I ended up getting stuck behind this big truck... I was late for work, so of course I'm staring at this truck.. (obviously paying attention). Now, this truck just happend to be a cattle truck full of live animals being transported (somewhere)... and as I was watching this thing, one of the animals inside just started to go pee off the side of the truck.... and as I'm watching this, it just hits me... this thing is alive... it should not be crammed into this truck... I guess the easiest way to say it, as I watched the truck drive away... I knew at that moment... never again.

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I tried vegetarianism a few times in middle school because my friend was vegetarian, and because my favorite musician at the time (don't laugh... Billy Martin from Good Charlotte) was vegetarian. What really sealed it for me was when I went to a Tai Chi workshop with my Girl Scout troop (7th grade). It actually came to me during meditation that vegetarianism was the way to go. After doing a report on factory farming the next year (8th grade), I went vegan, and have stayed vegan (minus a few dairy slip-ups) ever since.

 

I am a rare one and made that decision when I was only 4 years old in a family of meat eaters. Needless to say my parents were not happy with me at all.

When I found out it was real animals we were eating I just thought it was disgusting. I can't even look at meat. All bloody and stuff. It is just so gross and seems nasty to kill an animal and package up their insides and cook and eat it.

Plus the treatment of the animals is horrible. And the stuff they feed them and how they live...It just can't be healthy.

 

I believe you should only kill an animal in direct self defense or for food. and we don't NEED to kill animals for food with the many foods available to us.

 

Primarily ethical reasons. If ever decide to go vegan or greatly reduce my egg/dairy consumption it will be for health reasons.

 

I'm an animal lover. I have been since birth.. I was raised in a fairly crunchy, ecologically minded family of meat eaters who loved animals. It always just felt... not quite right. I went veggie for about 2 years in my late teens, vegan for a few months, then started eating meat again basically for convenience and because I was a dirt poor college student/waitress and I could get free meals at the breakfast restaurant where I worked. Eating just bread or hashbrowns got old, so I added eggs back in my diet. Eventually came bacon and sausage, and well.. I was obviously not a vegetarian anymore.

Recently (about 2 months ago) I was watching one of those animal cops shows on Animal Planet with my dogs... we do this nearly every night. These SPCA agents went out to a farm and rescued some neglected pigs, who were then sent to a pig rescue home and adopted out... the pigs each had their own personalities, and the head of the rescue organization said that they were smarter than the average dog, and about even with the average three year old child. I KNEW this. I'd known it for years. I knew about the impact that raising livestock for food has on the environment. I knew about horrible conditions on farms and in slaughterhouses, and how the animals feel pain and sorrow and panic in the last moments of their lives. The bacon sandwich I'd had for lunch felt sour in my stomach. I looked at my dogs and internally cursed myself for having thrown my morals away all those years ago.

I haven't eaten a bite of meat since. I've drastically cut back on my dairy and egg intake, and at home I buy organic "free-range" milk (having to trust the labeling, but it's better than the store brand) and my eggs come from local chicken coops where the chickens roam in fields and eat bugs and organic grains. Giving up seafood has been the only struggle, but I've managed. And this time it's permanent.

 

I Did Not Like the Idea of Anything being killed for me to Live...

And I Never Liked the Taste of meat Anyway...

 

I seen a steer butcherd , and that was enough for me ....it is STILL clear in my mind even though i was just a little girl...HORRIBLE thing !!!!!

 

For health reasons. I have really no moral reason against eating meat if it is free range or hunted by a friend (as long as it's not pork). I'm sensitive to hormones used in meats, have a strong allergic sensitivity to eggs, and am allergic to dairy. I'm in college so I only can guess where the meat is coming from- certainly not organic or free range. Also, I have celiac disease and often meats are seasoned with seasoning with gluten in it (which is ridiculous, IMO). For that reason, I avoid all processed foods and really only eat out at Indian places where my needs are quite easily met.

I normally just tell people I'm vegan in order to escape explaining all my allergies and beliefs. At home when I can partially control what types of meat my parents are buying, I might have chicken once every other week or so. Never pork or beef (think I'm allergic to beef as well anyway).

 

i'm a vegeterian beacasue there are so many other ways we can feed ourselves without slaughtering helpless animals. plus animals are my friends and i don't eat my friends. and on top of that it's way healthier. (meat kills both of us)

 

I eat meat because meatless diets have been proven to be bad for your health.

 

Eating meat is so regular and primitive. If I wanna become ubermensch then it would be pathetic if I ate meat. I feel awesome inside. Yeah : )

 

can you cite any sources for this?

 

I became vegetarian because I really couldn't face eating animals anymore. I recently stopped believing in God, so I decided to look at what other changes I could make to my life. I thought about being vegetarian for 6 months before I actually did it. It's my 2 week anniversary today!! I feel so much more free and I haven't really come against problems finding food, only convincing my Mum that I wasn't only thinking about vegetarianism, I WAS vegetarian! I think she's got the message, especially since I cooked her my, ahem, family kitchen famous chunky veg pasta bake yesterday. Since she's a cook for a living, she isn't overly fond on cooking when she gets in! She hasn't given me meat since I told her, she has given me fish though. I'm weaning myself off fish gradually. I'm going to start drinking soya milk, cos I prefer it, soon, but veganism would be impossible for me!

 

i had thought about becoming a vegetarian for the last 3 yrs but never done it til i was told not to participate in sports anymore..(fuckin knee gave out 2 many times) so i decided to make a change 4 the better. ive been one lil over a month so far i love it and i dont plan on goin back. i feel so much more energized, healthier, and content with myself.

 

Im vegan because from my point of view everything done to obtain anything non vegan is fucked up and quite frankly, fucking disgusting. I can't see how so many people contribute to something so horrible.

MEAT IS BODIES
BODIES
BODIES
BODIES
it's just bodies scraped out and reshaped.
Meat has a soul and a personality, although it probably never showed it's personality hidden under the insanity of factory farms.
In my eyes theres only one choice.

 

meat i the best food 4 u. the best kinda meat is from something that u killed urself. when u drink the blood u can feel the animals soul going in to you.
ps. human babys are the best meat

 

How can you be as old as you are and believe such rubbish?

The fact that there are over 1 billion Indians, most of whom are vegetarian, should give you a clue.

Vegetarian since 1982. I challenge you to a bike ride. Bring all the beef jerky you want. I'll see you're buried with it.




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