For vegetarians: what made you choose to become a vegetarian?

Question

Personally, I want to become a vegetarian because I'm a picky eater and meat just tastes so gross to me, especially knowing that it came from a living thing. I also hear that going vegetarian is much healthier and I think it's so true because your getting nutrients straight from the source and not through animals. Plus, there was this creepy video I watched on the internet about the origin of sloppy joes. http://www.jkcinema.com/runflash.asp?id=UL4&name=Urban%20Legends%20Series:%20Origins&width=400&height=300&quality=best All I have to say about that is that you can't disguise human flesh as a celery stick.....!!!

I can relate to a lot of your answers. My family thinks I'm crazy too for trying to become a vegetarian, especially my mom. I've told her a million times that I don't like meat but every time I say it she forces it onto me. I get so happy when I meet other vegetarians because they understand why I want to do this.

Answer 1

i thought about what i was eating, and the idea of knawing on flesh and skin just didnt appeal to me that much. besides, i mean, animals have rights to, and its wrong to kill them just to feed us selfish humans.

Answer 2

There are so many reasons to go vegetarian. I was a vegetarian for several years and I read many books about it.

The main reasons to do it are environmental. Huge areas of rainforests are destroyed every day to raise cattle. Fossil fuels are expended to bring the cows to slaughter and then bring the meat to your table. It takes many gallons of water and pounds of grain to raise cattle. I remember reading that if America reduced our meat intake by only 10%, the amount of grain saved could feed all the starving people in the entire world.

Another important reason to consider vegetarianism is the conditions in factory farms these days. Animals are horribly mistreated and pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. If you do eat meat, always eat local organic meat. Do not support the giant agricultural corporations.

In the end, I decided that fish and chicken are too valuable to me as sources of protein, so I stopped being a vegetarian. But if you are willing to put in the time to make sure you get complete nutrition from plant sources, I say do it. Just make sure you get enough protein and iron, and definitely take an omega-3 fat supplement daily.

Answer 3

I studied vegetarianism for a while, like you are, and then realised that eating meat is not a healthy thing to do. I tried to find out why everyone thought it was, and realised that they had been subjected to the same mind control which makes us believe all sorts of ridiculous things. All the so-called advantages of meat eating have been provided by the meat marketing board. Of coarse they are going to promote meat!
If we have a rounded vegetarian diet, we do not need any other supplements. Our weight will be normal, we feel healthy, and fit.
Several Olympic gold medal winners were vegetarians.
Additionally, once you become aware of the cruelty caused to animals as a result of factory farming, then eating meat seems just disgusting. The diseases in factory farmed animals are passed straight on to those who eat them. In times of mad cow disease, bird flu, foot and mouth disease, and any number of other diseases who wants to risk that.
You have a great advantage if you dislike meat. I used to enjoy eating meat, but decided against it. I'm glad I did. I haven't had a single stomach upset since becoming a vegetarian

Answer 4

I really did choose it for my health. I was having abnormally bad digestive difficulty, but as soon as I quit eating meat a year ago (within 2-3 weeks) that cleared right up. I was able to go off all of my prescription meds and have not been troubled since.
I know some people who are very into animal rights, and good for them. But for me, it really was just about health. Though I have not had any weight loss, I cannot say it was not without a benefit.

Answer 5

personal ethics/priorities. I love meat and don't find anything wrong with eating it because humans are omnivorous.
I became a vegetarian because I will not eat meat that has been factory farmed or the animal was treated inhumanely in life or was not given a quick humane death.
This is my own personal ethic. I have said that I would eat meat that had been raised free range, but since I have stopped eating meat or chicken...I am not so sure. I feel way too good now.

Answer 6

I became a vegetarian because I love animals...alive. I remember wanting to be a vegetarian in 2nd grade, but where I grew up...Kansas...that wasn't a reasonable thing for a child to do. So it didn't happen 'til later. But after 20 years of no animal flesh, I am so much happier knowing I am not responsible for the death of animals.

Answer 7

I've been a veggie since forever. I have never eaten meat in my life! I am a HUGE animal lover, and ever since I can remeber I thought it was just horrible to eat the flesh of any animal. But my whole family thinks I'm crazy, and they like McDonalds ... go figure.

I'm a hippie, don't hate, peace!

Answer 8

i've got continuously love animals, and that i do have self belief we are meant to consume them yet I easily have themes with the farming techniques. I stay in a rural part of england the place there are countless farms so i'm somewhat uncovered to the industry. Funnily sufficient, what made me make the determination is my boyfriend who i've got basically chop up up with. He has SUCH an ignorant ideas-set in the direction of meat and it ended up putting me off him and making me pick to end eating meat. in certainty he eats meat at each and every meal and could no longer touch vegetarian nutrition. He does not care the place his meat comes from the two. I taught him the variety between unfastened selection and battery meat, and to be certain him scoffing on battery meat and hen burgers from the interior of reach kebab save whilst he knew the variety, became somewhat offputting. additionally, his ex spouse has the comparable ignorant, uneducated ideas-set in the direction of meat the place they purchase the main inexpensive no rely the way it became raised, consume it at each and every meal, purchase in too lots and finally end up throwing it away. It basically makes me ill.It somewhat does :( in spite of if each and every physique became flexitarian - ate meat at times as a cope with, offered unfastened selection in elementary terms - the international could be a extra useful place.

Answer 9

my body just naturally avoids meat for the most part. i just naturally find myself moving towards the starches and veggies among other things. the meat usually gets left behind or i just completely avoid it all together.

i still eat dairy and eggs though.

been doing a lot of research on middle eastern, mediterranean and balkan cuisines. minus the meat dishes, there's a LOT of healthy stuff to choose from that's pretty balanced. southern france, spain, italy, greece, the balkans, turkey, lebanon... for me, throw in a bit of german for my heritage... seems so much more interesting and appetizing to me. gave me a lot of incentive to plant my own garden and prepare stuff myself. lot cheaper in the long run too! and you have more control over how your food is made.

Answer 10

Actually, Biblically speaking Adam and Eve are thought to be vegetarians; but after they sinned, and failed to ask forgiveness or repent, death was then introduced into our world.Now until Jesus said that "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. Until this it was thought unclean to eat all but cosher foods[based on old testament thoughts on clean and unclean, interesting study]

Answer 11

I'm not a full blown veggy, I don't eat red meat. Haven't for 16 years. Two reasons, first of all to help develop my intuition and spiritual connection. Second, well I used to be extremely agressive, and all the blood in red meat will make a person more agressive, I'm almost too passive now. But I don't try to kill the bouncers in the bars any more! : )