Vegetarians--?

Question

What made you decide to become Vegetarians?

Were you brought up that way or did you have an experience that changed you eating habits?

Thanks!

Answer 1

im not a vegetarian but i despise veal.....my uncle's friend has a veal operation in texas.....visited it once and its just sickening....a Baby Cow Holocaust

i had tried veal once but never again.....i dont eat deer or lamb either....its an emotional thing from when i was a kid

Answer 2

When I was little and I had meat on my plate, I always thought of the animal.  I decided to defy my parents at 16 and go vegetarian and 3 years ago, I learned that i was lactose intolerant and became a vegan.

Answer 3

www.meat.com

EDIT:  For more information, I have eaten very little meat all by life- refused it when I was fed baby food even (I was SO good).  Then in October, I just decided to go vegetarian.  I am never turning back and have never felt better.  Along with going vegetarian, I stepped up by exercising and ate healthier.  I also increased my practicing with viola (nothing to do with it, but whatever).  I now solve cravings for chips with a fruit smoothie that included v8 fusion juice- a juice that gives you a full serving of vegetables and fruit and tastes good.  As far as I'm concerned, it tastes better then chips.  Every night I walk my huskies and this summer I'm training them by bikejouring, hopefully every day.

EDIT:  Also, people talk about switching to renewable energy sources like Hydropower and Wind energy instead of fossil fuels.  Well, pigs aren't renewable.  Neither are chickens, cows and turkeys and every other living animal on earth.  But nuts are!  So are plants!  And we can get every nutrient we need from those.  Nuts and plants can't feel the pain of dying, like cows do.  They don't have a brain, feelings or nerves.  But those poor pigs do!

Have a heart or eat one.  

It's like saying life or death.

What would you choose?

Answer 4

One night I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel and the host had to cut off a baby pigs tail (known as tail docking) and cut off parts of its ears.  The cries from the pig were awful.  I then went online and came across several sites with info and videos of factory farming.  I told myself that I was now a vegetarian.  The next morning I woke up and I had forgotten about my newfound vegetarianism, then walking to my car, it hit me.  I'm a vegetarian from now on.  During lunch at work I did some more looking online and, suffice it to say, I went vegan.  Now I'm a level 7 vegan.

My parents brought me up to be sensitive to other cultures, races, etc. and it was a natural extension to animals for me.  It was just logical in my head after I had this epiphany while walking to my car.  

"Treat others as you would like to be treated" was something my mother always told me.  Simple but effective.

Answer 5

My cousin made me read  "Skinny B*tch".

It scared me, grossed me out, and had me tossing meat from the fridge all in one day!

Answer 6

my sister is a vegetarian, we all used to be vegetarians but then we ate meat again, what made my sister become vegetarian is that we were driving down the motor way and a truck full of sheep crammed into little containers being taken to the slaughter house drove past us and my sister just randomly said 'im goin to be a vegetarian from now' and from then she hasnt eaten meat since and its been 7 years now!!

Answer 7

I was brought up to not eat meat and it's never really been a problem that i cant eat it. People think it's so hard not to eat meat but it's really not. If people would stop and think they could see its not hard. I had a friend that tried to not eat meat for a week..he didn't even last a day.

Answer 8

I just hate the way the factory farms treat the animals.  There are many horrible things that eating meat contributes to.  Like world hunger, global warming, deforestation in the amazon,  our health, and of course animal cruelty.  Go to goveg.com, it explains everything.

Answer 9

Hmm...

That would have to be animal crulety :(

And.

Also.

Meat is just disgusting and mostly fat.

Answer 10

I became a vegetarian when I was 17 after biting into a hamburger and finding a giant chunk of artery in it.  You know how you sometimes have those moments when everything becomes very clear and you're suddenly very aware of what things truly are?  That artery really made me keenly aware that I was eating another living thing.  The meat tasted like blood in my mouth, and I just couldn't eat it anymore.  The smell made me sick to my stomach, and I just couldn't look at meat without seeing the animal that it came from.  People act like being vegetarian is the hardest thing in the world to do, or it is difficult to make the transition, but if you really stop and think about what it is that you're genuinely eating, it makes it a whole lot easier.  I haven't eaten any type of animal (meat, poultry or fish) since I was 17, and that was 16 years ago.  I never at any time miss it, and I never feel guilty about the food I eat.