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When someone asks you why you're vegetarian, how do you answer them in one simple, convincing sentence?

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Just give me a single sentence that sums up why you're vegetarian when trying to explain to others.

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  1. Because I care about the animals.


  2. I dont think there is a difference between eating that hamburger and eating my dog which i would never do.

  3. "i find the thought of eating a corpse disgusting"  

  4. I assume everbody nows the scoop on the veggie diet so I just say....after all these years meat is disgusting to me I wouldn't eat it if you beat me up with a stick. I say this because people need to know that it's not only possible to go veggie, but it's preferable after the addiction is surmounted.  

  5. I just say that I'm not comfortable with the mass meat industry... and that I don't even like the stuff anymore.

  6. I would just say that I don't agree with the way that animals are raised "these days" so that I can draw attention the fact that Old McDonald is pretty much dead and gone.

  7. "Its not fair that an animal has to die because Im hungry."

  8. Ethics.  

  9. im a vegan!!   If you can kill an animal because your hungry yo could just as easily kill your mom because she didnt give you ther dead animal!

  10. I usually say

    I'm a vegetarian because i don't feel right about eating meat.


  11. meat is dead.

  12. I tell them

    I dont think its right that animals get killed cuz im hungry..

    Then i ask them

    If animals get hunrgy can we kill u??

  13. Eating Meat is cruel and being vegetarian is a lot healthier Plus i LOVE animals  

  14. "I find the environmental, ethical, and health reasons too compelling to ignore"

  15. I love animals, farm animals included and I don't want them to die for my tastebuds.

  16. I don't like the taste of meat. I have no problem with people killing animals, I'm willing to help, just don't ask me to eat the stuff.

  17. Meat disgusts me. That's my line.

  18. "I don't like eating meat."

    Sometimes I add: "Therefore, I don't eat it."

  19. Because I love veggies and fruits

  20. I tell them our meat in america has so many preservatives it's not even real meat anyway. Being vegetarian is healthier for you. THEN THEY THINK ABOUT IT BIG TIME!! HAHA.

    or the simple

    I know where vegetables come from but I'm not sure where the meat comes from.  

  21. My collegue is a vegetarian and I asked her the same question and she said:

    "I'm a vegetarian because I've seen the unethical things that they do to those animals which is why I made that choice."

  22. "I have hereditary stomach problems, and going vegetarian has alleviated most of those issues."

    People can usually wrap their heads around that concept, and they don't want to pry into what kind of stomach issues I suffered from for the first 24 years of my life. :P

  23. I won't die if I don't eat meat...

    -or-

    Personal and religious beliefs...

  24. Because I didn't feel like I was being true to my beleifs when I ate meat, sort of like a hypocrite.


  25. well my personal reason is...

    "Everything around me was telling me to at the time, so i listened!"

    :) and now i'm happier than ever!!!

  26. "Becasue I want to be one, wanna make somrething out of it idiot??"

    Just leave the idiot part if you don't wanna be confrontative..

    I am not a vegetarian by the way..  

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