whats the reason you became a vegitarian?

Question

I'm 16, and i have thought of becoming vegitarian. but i have a problem. I love animals, and i like meat just as long as i never saw the animal alive.
and my dad is a hunter and he makes fun of vegitarians all the time. I'v tried becoming vegitarian but i love meat way to much. i just cant seem to give it up, but then again, I love animals! i dont know what to do!
Every time my dad goes hunting and i see him carrying a dead animal, i make it sound like im proud of my dad and that its really cool, but really i just want to cry because the animal has blood all over it, and its dangling lifelessly. and i think of how much pain it was for the poor little thing.
im just scared of becoming a vegitarian and my parents having a problem with it. please help me!!!!

Answer 1

When I was in High school, there where a group of girls that where self proclaimed vegetarians. They preached about it all the time. At lunch they would make rude comments to those of us who where eating beef hamburgers instead of the veggie burgers....They drove us nuts. ANYWAY, one day I was doing a little shopping and I noticed that the King Pin Veggie leader was sitting in the parking lot apparently eating a snack in her car. I went over to ask her a question, and LOW and BEHOLD, she was snarfing down a double quarter pounder with CHEESE! Busted! I told the whole school....of course she told everyone I was lying...LOL Golly, I wish they made camera phones back then!

Answer 2

I'm 17 and I'm a vegetarian for 1 year! My reason was because I just felt sick eating something that had been alive an hour ago and it was killed only because of our pleasure!I think that it is wrong,but also I don't expect that all people feel the same!It's my opinion so I think you should think about it good,maybe you should just try to see how it will go...If you don't want to it eat meat it's your decision and I had some problems with my family accepting it,but now everything is OK!

Answer 3

in case you intend your nutrition precise and make certain which you're eating a variety of diverse greens and end result and such, you will possibly be an extremely healthful vegetarian. Meat additionally has some undesirable well being implications, greater so than eating countless vegetables, end result, and grains. lots of the vegetarians i comprehend (and because I stay in Santa Cruz, i comprehend lots) are vegetarians for the two well being motives or because of the therapy of the animals that are being killed for nutrition. somebody, i do no longer remember who, wrote approximately how if all human beings interior the international becames a vegaterian, that international starvation may be decreased. Sounds strange? the factor to that's all the nutrition it is getting used to feed the animals we devour might circulate into the human beings fairly. this may be an extremely exciting theory and in my opinion must be studied in intensity.

Answer 4

If you leave your parents' house after you graduate from high school to go to college or whatever else, your parents won't really be able to say much about what you do or do not eat. Two years seems like a long time, but if you're really worried about your parents, you might just want to wait until you're a legal adult living on your own to make the formal switch to vegetarianism.

If you're not willing to wait until then, I'm sure your mom wouldn't turn you down if you offered to cook for the entire family. My mom never did :). Or, if you get a job and buy things like soy milk or tempeh with your own money (and then go on to prepare it yourself including doing dishes!), your parents' won't really have much to complain about. You'll be showing that the issue is important to you, that you are willing to work for it, and that you can do it all without causing them any trouble.

Good luck, sweetie. Take Care.

Answer 5

I was in the exact same situation except i'm 15. i feel the same way, i was a vegertarian for 2 months. it was wonderful! but my mom got tired of cooking specials meals just for me, and asked me to stop being a vegetarian, so i recently did :( but now i dont have a desire to eat meat as much. i would defintely try to be a vegetarian if yr parents dont have a problem with it. It also made me feel really good inside when I was a vegetarian. :) hope this helps!

Answer 6

perhaps the most compassion you can have for an animal is to eat it! I know it sounds silly but if it is done with reverence and respect, it can be very powerful.
but...
when I went veggie, my energy went way up and most all of my allergies went away.
it is not so much about vbeing vegetarian though, it is more about eating CLEAN locally grown food. veggies, meat, dairy, whatever... just grow it yourself or get it from a local (less than 250 miles away) farmer

Answer 7

you'll have to make a decision and stick to it, your family won't stop loving you because you don't want to eat meat anymore, at first they may get mad and make stupid comments but they'll get over it and just accept it, that shouldn't be a consideration for you. try a few to stop eating meat, first go cold turkey, remember its OK if you give in to temptation once in a while, you'll get over that. if you feel that's too hard then try it gradually, first give up red meat and after a month or so give up chicken and everything else. just remember that its your responsibility, sounds like your family eats meat all the time and in everything so you'll have to make your own meals (you can buy frozen vegetarian food like ravioli if your a horrible cook)

Answer 8

I became a vegetarian after eatin a chicken madras on lsd.
I puked it all up because i had the sudden thiought that i if i was chewing a humans flesh i would be sick, so what is the difference with animals.
I take it that you are american.
You should move to europe.
Most Europeans do not like the American apetite for killing for fun.
Killing is a dirty biz and you should be prowd of your opinions and defend them at all times and NEVER let them go.
If you are proud of your opinions and completely unwavering in that respect, i think that your parents will be even more proud of you. I BELIEVE THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED ON WHAT IT STOOD FOR AND YOU SHOULD FOUND YOURSELF FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN. It all starts where you are.
Are you going to be another wishy washy american that prays on other living creatures that are not so fortunate as you are

Answer 9

Generally it is for health reasons.Others it may be political (animal rights), others it may be religion. Science is now proving that being a vegetarian is a healthier lifestyle. People who don't smoke, drink alcohol, and eat no meat live longer than those who eat meat.

Answer 10

well , firstly see in this world there are lot of endangered spices ,lot of people have shifted from non-veg to vegetrainlike changing the habits of daily life and prefer more vegitarian dishes on u plate ..... easy to say but change u r habit for a week ,,discuss with u r family members and that diseaseslike foodandmouth, .......... so prefer more veg