Why did you go vegan/vegetarian?

Question

Health, the animals, environment, etc...

Answer 1

I just really tried to for fun.

Its been almost 6 months! Woo

I actually like it

Aniamls and health are next

because around the time I changed, the hormons were found in the meat and thats kinda nasty to me.

Answer 2

I did it for all 3 really! First it was for health but then I realized how animals were treated and I wanted to part in that! Then last came environment! The environment is very important to me and so is being VEGAN!!!

Answer 3

once i learned that we cannot digest red meat, that it simply rots in our stomach, it became clear that maybe we weren't meant to eat it.

Answer 4

The animals I cannot be a part of the way the are raised and killed.

Answer 5

the animals. I just love them, they are a huge part of my life. I am vegan and very proud to be. the health it was just a plus but I just only did it for the animals.

Answer 6

Children that were ADHD, working in regular nursing homes and a Adventist Assist living Center.

Had to change the children's food intake because of the food interactions that were causing the ADHD behavior. The food dyes, sugar, processed foods, nitrates.

The vast difference in the medical problems observed in the nursing home, where the life long meat consumption of the American diet was the norm, and the lack of medical problems of the life long vegetarians in the assisted center.

Big secret that the medical community doesn't want people to know about..

When I met my husband, he had been misdiagnosed as having MS... NO, wrong!! I took away the meat and the dairy and got him a good chiropractor...nothing wrong with him!!

How many people have been told a lie and given medication for something that a change in diet will correct...

I had to quit working in the nursing homes because I could not knowingly feed these people the garbage that was killing them...

Answer 7

All three. I don't agree with industrialised meat production and packing and the impact it has on animal welfare, so I don't eat meat or animal products or buy anything which contains them. I also always disliked the excessive use of petrochemicals in meat, and the impact of large scale farming on the environment and on small farmers who are pushed out of their livelihoods.

I also think my general diet has improved since taking animal products out of it; I never digested red meat very well, and often had an iritable bowel or gas. I can say that that's changed.

I also use more varied and healthy produce in cooking because I have to find lots of different ways of making nutritious meals. I don't just rely on meat as a filler for a dish, but have to use a range of pulses, lentils, vegetables, soya products and grains. And, my family are less at risk from salmonella, e-coli et al, and don't ingest all the chemicals and additives used in modern meat production.

Answer 8

I'm vegetarian and I did it out of compassion for animals.

I don't eat meat, fish, crustaceans etc.

But I also don't drink milk. I know animals don't die for it, it's just a cruel process. So, I'd prefer not to be a part of that.

Also, it's very satisfying. It may sound silly, but it gives me a sense of achievement and makes me feel happy. I feel like I'm doing some good in the world.

For me, it was primarily for the animals. When I really got into being vegetarian I found out about all the health benfits; which spurred me on to keep it up. Then the environment; especially since it's been in the news so much lately. These days were hearing all about how much we need to look after our planet alot more.

Alot of the time I live in my own little world. I think it would be incredible if we lived in a place where animals could roam free. Horses, pigs, cows, chickens, goats and humans all together in a greener land; free from hierachy. Don't you think it would be just beautiful?

My friends think I'm nuts because I'm always saying things like imagine what this used to be like *looking at row after row after row of red brick houses*. It would have been all green, it might have been covered in trees or it might have been a hill and lush fields. My little dream world is a nice place to be okay!! :)

Answer 9

two of em

i learned that red meat gives you heart disease, and the removal of meats reverses heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure and on average, vegetarians live longer than meat eaters

i saw those PETA videos and i felt absolutley horrible, i cried and knew it wasn't right to continue to let animals be treated that way

Answer 10

I'm an animal lover;

I'm against animal testing, factory farming, the general.

Also because 60% of American deaths are caused by meat-link diseases.

Answer 11

Aspiring vegetarian (still eat fish) I am recently Buddhist I love and respect Nature I want to be a environmentalist and animal activist and just the basic fact that people were never meant to eat meat in the first place and the slaughter of them of human consumtion is wrong and they should be loved