Why did YOU go veggie?

Question

Why did YOU go veggie?

Answer 1

http://meat.org/

Answer 2

I love the animals.

Answer 3

I just thought it was NASTY.

I want to eat something that looks appealing and smells it too. I think it's just all around nasty. I don't want to have to cook something all the way through to make sure BLOOD is gone! :[ it just makes me sick. I never ate meat, beacuse even as a child i realized it was gross But officially, about june of last year.

Answer 4

I feel sorry and selfish for eating animals since they live too.

Answer 5

i dont want to get fat, (im very close to being fat plus when i eat meat i feel bloated) plus its healthier. im also doing it in part for the animals but its not my 100% reason. but its a BIG part. :)

Answer 6

Golden Rule/ethic of reciprocity

Answer 7

I always disliked the idea of eating dead animals, but when I was a kid, I basically thought that was just the way it was.  In freshman history in high school, I read a book called "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, which had some fairly graphic detail of meat processing about 100 years ago.  I was grossed out and quit eating meat temporarily, but I liked the idea of being vegetarian so much I decided to never to go back to eating meat.  

It's been over 10 years now, and I am finally going vegan, since my eyes have been opened to the cruelty involved in egg and dairy industries.

Answer 8

animal rights, they can't speak for themselves, so i feel like i should.

Answer 9

I really don't like the smell, taste..or texture of meat...

It makes me physically ill...

I never really ate it anyways...

Answer 10

I'm re-using one of my previous answers to the same question here, I hope you will forgive me :)

I initially became vegetarian because I didn't think it was right to kill other animals when you could survive perfectly well without meat.

Concerns over how battery hens are treated made me switch to free-range eggs, and the environmental impact of the dairy industry in my home country (New Zealand) made me begin to cut down on consumption of dairy products. I admired vegans because I thought they were "hard-core" but didn't really understand why they thought veganism was necessary.

I became vegan when I realised that the egg and dairy industries were just that: industries.

They view animals purely as production units: any animal that is not "productive" is killed.

This includes males chicks and calves, as well as animals that are too old/exhausted to continue "producing".

These discoveries lead me to decide that, for me to live in a way that was consistent with my own personal ethics, I had no choice but to become vegan. I thought it would be hard, but once I had made the decision there was no looking back... and it is so much easier than I thought it would be.

Simply put, becoming vegan was the best thing I have ever done in my life.