When you became vegatrian did you do it cold turkey LOL or did you slowly stop eating meat?

Question

I know many vegetarians and it seems the reason for being one determines this. The ones that did it because of health slowly cut out red meat pork then chicken and eventually fish or some are pescotartians but sparingly.

The ones who had an epiphany of meat being morally wrong stop cold turkey PUN very much intended.

So i would like to hear your response and see if my observation is right

Answer 1

I am actually an animal lover and did it for the animals. The health benefits are an added bonus. You'll be surprised when I tell you that I did it gradually, eliminating more animal products as I went along (vegan now), beginning many years ago, before there was a lot of information out there. As I got to know more and more about the agricultural industry and the animal suffering, I could no longer put a piece of animal flesh in my mouth or hides/fur on my body. I eliminated red meat first -- I grew up living near a slaughterhouse -- enough said...

Answer 2

i gave up meat for moral / religious reasons.....and in my case your hypothesis is correct.  i gave up meat overnight =).

i'm interested to see the responses you get on this, because i've wondered before how much these two things correlate.

Answer 3

I am a vegetarian for moral beliefs, but I cut out meat slowly.  The main reason was that I did not know about factory farms when I started, but once I found out about them and what is happening to chickens (the last meat I was eating) I quit cold turkey:)

Answer 4

I did it for both reasons, and I went from omni to vegan pretty much overnight.

Answer 5

Well, I am a vegan but I was a vegetarian for a brief amount of time before I became a vegan. I became a vegetarian after seeing a picture of a pig in a factory farm. I did it because it opened my eyes about how much animals suffer and how bad they are treated. I have always loved animals but, I never knew they had to live that way and then are killed. So, it just broke me heart, any time I thought about meat, the picture of that poor pig entered my mind, I can actually still mentally picture it :(  I immediately stopped eating all meat, milk, eggs, and gelatin. But, then I started reading all the ingredients that as a vegetarian I could still consume so then 2 months later I became a vegan.

Answer 6

Max N --> I quit cold tofurkey... is brilliant.

Moral reasons for me and I quit cold turkey meat, poultry. then fish came naturally about 2 weeks later.

Answer 7

I quit cold tofurkey at age 11... Because of ethical reasons. I'm an ovo vegetarian, almost vegan, and I'll be a vegan soon! I know it!

Answer 8

i did it cold turkey. i didn't do it because of health reasons; i did it for meat being morally wrong. there. your point is proven. :]

Answer 9

my reasons are moral... i stopped eating red meat first and just ate poultry for a while and then i stopped eating poultry.  also somewhere in there cut out the minimal amount of fish that i ate... then much later cut out eggs and milk (although not in cooked products like cake).  i think do whatever works best for you.  i went veg when i was about 13 so it was very hard to just stop cold turkey. i cut things out until i could cook and buy more of my own food and be healthy about it.

Answer 10

I definitley had an epiphany and saw that it was just wrong. This happened while I was making a documentary about factory farms and slaughterhouses (I'm a film student, also majoring in english lit). Once I saw in person how the animals were being treated, I couldn't ever eat meat again.

Answer 11

I went vegetarian on the fly.  I had a lot of reasons, including ethics, enviroment, comparative anatomy, health and economics, but it was still basically a lightbulb experience.  I woke up a meat eater, learned some stuff, and went to bed a vegetarian.

I phased eggs and dairy out a little slower when I went vegan.  Maybe just because I was older and less implusive.  Or because it was *my* hard-earned money that paid for the groceries and I didn't want to waste what was in the house.  Or just because, even though I was highly motivated for all the same reasons that I went veg to begin with, I still viewed it as a much more challenging transition (it wasn't.)

I don't know if that backs up your theory or not, but that was my experience.