What are your reasons for being a vegan or vegetarian?

Question

And if you're not a vegan/vegetarian, what are you feelings on being vegan/vegetarian?

Please no thumbs down to anybody, I did ask for their honest feelings.

Answer 1

I just recently decided to become a vegetarian and I did it simply because I want to be healthier.I think it is cruel how some animals are treated before they are slaughtered but that isn't my main reason for choosing to be a vegetarian. And although meat is no longer for me I respect peoples decision to be meat eaters. After all I have been a meat eater for just about all of my life.

Answer 2

I'm allergic to the antibiotics put into animal feed. I also love animals and don't want to eat them. There are so many other things to eat.  

Answer 3

ANIMAL RIGHTS...

Answer 4

I made the switch to being a vegetarian because I have high cholesterol in my family so it was basically for medical reasons. I was eating steak like three times a week and my cholesterol was 298 on my last blood test and I'm 17 from eating meat. Now its gone down like 50 points from just eating soy, beans, milk, and fish.

Answer 5

I have always been a huge animal lover and thats what spurred my original desire to become a vegetarian. I just couldnt make sense of eating animals when they were my friends.

After I become a vegetarian I did research on the subject to learn how I could still get the nutrients I needed. Thats when I learned that a vegetarian diet is sooo much healthier than eating meat. I guess the immense health benefits were a plus. =)

Answer 6

It does not hurt animals

Answer 7

My parents are both vegan and raised me vegan. I've never had the desire eat a rotten corps, hen period, or cow pus.  

Answer 8

Vegan - first for athletic performance.

Learnt more about how diet etc. affects my health, animals, others, and the world around me later on.

Answer 9

Vegetarian is trible slang for village Idiot that can't HUNT,FISH or RIDE

Answer 10

red meat irritates my stomach and i'm not a fan of chicken.

because of this, i've been a vegetarian since i was about 6 years old!

Answer 11

I became a vegetarian when I was 10 after spending 2 wks on a farm in Ireland where I played with the sheep and stayed up all night to watch a calf being born and then got to name him. (Rufus Bob) Two weeks later when I walked into the Food Hall of Harrods and saw carcases hanging from the ceiling I felt like throwing up. I haven't touched meat since. The idea of an animal being slaughtered for my dinner when there is pasta, beans, fruit, vegetables and plenty of other sources of food makes me wince. Animals can show you affection, they nurture their young, and they definitely feel pain. I never liked the taste when I was a little girl anyway, and was always grossed out by the sight of blood.

I'm 16 now and became a vegan two weeks ago.

: )

Answer 12

I'm a vegetarian because eating meat is not necessary.  I guess I respect the fact that animals have an innate desire to live. So why kill them?  Especially just for a meal.  

Answer 13

Primarily for me, to avoid directly contributing to the needless suffering of animals. I can live a healthy and happy life without paying for the confinement and slaughter of animals. Most animals are capable of suffering from pain, deprivation, and fear.

However, the environmental reasons to go veg are just as strong. The meat industry is a huge contributer to greenhouse gasses, air and water pollution, and topsoil depletion. The majority of grain crops grown in the US go to feed livestock, not people. That food could be used much more efficiently if people didn't eat meat, meaning much less pressure on natural habitats, and less ecological damage.

Answer 14

I would feel guilty for eating a chicken or a cow or another animal, because as soon as I saw it on my plate I would think about how it was killed.

Also, I don't miss meat. I've been a vegetarian for a long time, and have gotten very used to it.

I'm sick of all these people who hate vegetarians and think they are conceited and stupid, etc. etc.

Everybody has their own opinion, so if you are going to insult someone for what they eat, just shut up and go away, would you?

Answer 15

1>> I became a vegan because it is a better nutritional diet.

2>> Vegan are healthier because the average vegan is lighter than the average meat eater in Britain.

3>> I became a Vegan because I was told about what happens to meat in the gut. It stays there for ages and rots, getting infected with bacteria.

4>> I became a Vegan because I care about what I put into my body. I don’t want to put chemicals in there, nor anything dead. Plants are natural, so they can’t be harmful. The more you prune and pluck, more branches and fruits it yields.

5>> I became a Vegan, because I want to live in a more natural way.

6>> I became a Vegan, because stock farming is not economically viable. We could feed the Third World if everyone became a Vegan.

7>> I became a Vegan because I don’t want to finance death. I don’t mind wearing a woollen jumper, because they don’t kill the sheep to get the wool.

8>> I became a Vegan because I think that farming animals is cruel. Politicians & Religious idols do not care for animals. Current government subsidies do not cushion the animal welfare. Most farmers do not care about the welfare of their animals; If do, it would become be too expensive for them to sell.

9>> I became a Vegan because crop farming is more efficient than stock farming. 100 units of food energy fed to an animal become only 10 units of meat, so meat production is inefficient.

10>> I don't want to eat anything that I wouldn't be prepared to kill myself, though leisurely.

11>> I don't want to eat anything that I wouldn't be prepared to kill by myself, though leisurely.

12>> I became a Vegan because we don’t need meat to survive.

13>> I became a Vegan because I don’t want to shorten the dairy cow’s natural lifespan from 25 years to 11 years.

14>> I became a Vegan because that’s the way society is going. Thousands of people every minute are becoming Vegetarian. Killing and butchering will be regarded as taboo one day.

15>> I became a Vegan because I’m a biologist; I know how the ecosystem & biodiversity works.

16>> I became a Vegan because it is the future. There is an annoying connection made by many people that the way things are going is necessarily good, and/or inevitable. Perhaps the current trends are bad, and the future will not be as good as it could be. Perhaps things are heading a certain way, but this does not mean that we are powerless to stop them, nor does it mean that we should not try. This argument does not work either. One has to supply actual reason for vegetarianism, and this is not a reason, it is just an excuse at best.

17>> I became a Vegan simply because my craving supersedes my love towards animals.

18>> I became a Vegan because many scientists, philosophers, environmentalists, humanitarians, spiritualists, thinkers and SICK PERSONS were/are abstained from meat. Meat is absolutely not necessary to make smart and healthy.

19>> AT LAST - THE REAL REASON PEOPLE BECOME VEGAN

Veg*sm is the new Puritanism. This is my belief. It is also one of my arguments towards veg*sm, and although it may at first seem a flippant argument, I believe that it is very powerful. veg*sm is miserable. It attacks one of life’s greatest and surest pleasures - enjoying good food and linger around the societal norm. Anything which makes people less happy is bad.