what made you a vegetarian in the first place?

Question

i'm asking as a non-vegan. it's just that i cannot imagine myself eating only vegetables (& fruits, probably) and nothing else for the rest of my life. i would like your insight on this.

Answer 1

I am a hindu and have been vegetarian all my life. I am an ovo - lacto vegetarian , meaning I also eat eggs and cheese.I have tried eating meat, but I have been a vegan so long that my digestive system freaked out with the meat.So no more of that!
Indian vegetarian food is great and you dont really feel like you are missing out on anything. American vegetarian is totally boring..zzz..
The trick to become vegan is to transition to great vegan food, not the bland American or Italian or salad fare.

Answer 2

I never liked the idea or the taste of meat. Once I was old enough to cook for myself, I became a vegetarian. It is truly a lifestile for me. No leather or meat byproducts. While I do eat dairy, I always look for certified organic and other respectable brands that do not harm the animals. Helping animals is my "calling" in life... the one thing I wish could be my career. Not eating meat is one way to help them:) I can't imagine life as a meat eater.

Answer 3

I am from India and i have been a vegetarian all my life. I have never even tasted meat nor felt the need to. My whole family has been vegetarian for many many generations. 70% of Indians are vegetarians and have never tasted meat and have followed it for generations. Our diet has evolved that way and so we know how to get protein into it.

Most new vegetarians esp in western countries dont know how to get protein from non-meat sources and so they might be sickly.

Although i have lived in the US for 6 years and am married to an American who isnt vegetarian i have never wanted to eat meat. I am aslo a food scientist and i like my vegetarian diet for personal, health and cultural reasons. I can live a healthy life without taking another life and i like that.

Answer 4

I've noticed that people who eat a lot have meat have health problems.
People who are raised on meat get a lot of pain later in life and have to take medications, etc.

Me, I was raised on mostly vegetables, whole grains, etc; and I never see a doctor, never see the inside of hospital (except the emergency ward last year when my wife came down with some kind of flu). never take any kind of medications or prescriptions, never have any pain, and I have plenty of energy.

I know one family of four sisters and two brothers, all now grown, and they were raised on tons of meat; both parents are already dead (died in their sixties), and one sister has heart problems, another has chronic back pain, one brother has hearing problems, and another sister is dying of cancer.

If you are young, you probably don't have health problems; but maybe you'd like to also be healthy when you get into middle age and beyond.

Answer 5

I don't want to be vegan, but I do want to be a vegetarian.
I'm doing it because whenver I think about animals I just hate to think about eating them... it just seems so horrible.
That was my first modivation, and then I found a fact website on how people who eat meat are 50% more likely to die of heart attacks from eating meat, and other facts like that, and I decided I wasn't going to let that be me.

Answer 6

I feel better physically when I eat less meat.
I was vegiterian for years. Now I eat some meat just not that much. I never eat a whole steak only about hlaf or less and only have meat about 3 days per week.

Answer 7

Vegans are hypocrites. They won't eat any LIVING animal because they find it cruel. Well, guess what, plants and vegetation are a living specie, how is this not "cruel" when you harvest living vegetation to eat?

Answer 8

If you did a little research before asking this question, you would then understand how ignorant you sound.

Vegetarians eat MUCH more then just veggies and fruit.

Answer 9

i'm a vegetarian, not a vegan. i gave up meat because i stopped liking the taste/texture/smell of meat. i don't think i could be vegan because i love cheese & yoghurt so much.

Answer 10

Probably when I was 6 and I saw a bunch of people carrying a dead deer tied to a pole....