what is your personal reason for becoming a vegan/vegitarian?

Question

im just curious...

Answer 1

In the beginning it was taste - meat just tasted DEAD to me, and I couldn't put it in my mouth. Later I became aware of the health and environmental advantages, and I certainly like not contributing to the suffering and death of animals.

Once I was driving in the Western US and we went past a feedlot maybe a mile or two away. If I had not been a vegetarian already, the odors from that feedlot would have made me one! To think that sentient creatures are being kept in conditions such that the smell is nauseating even a mile or more away is really terrible. And that people would eat a creature that had breathed in that stench for days or weeks - oh, yuck!

Answer 2

I was never a major meat eater...only ate it when my body craved it, which was about once a month.

I became vegan when a report came out about diabetics having success with lowering their numbers on a vegan diet.

I'm 2-1/2 months into it and have greatly reduced my numbers. I feel so much better and am having less hypoglycemic moments.

I guess my reasons sound selfish as they have more to do with my health rather than the well-being of animals.

By the way, great question...I'm anxious to read the answers as people post them.

Answer 3

When I was in fourth grade I lived in Gilroy on a farm with my grandma and grandpa,the government gave him a subsidy to not grow garlic since so many people grow it out there,so we had a ton of animals.I used to eat ground beef,ham,and all kinds of meats.I used to take care of all the animals,they were like pets to me.Then my rotweiler killed one of the ducks we had,and my grandpa scalped it and cooked it,I ate without knowing it,I thought was chicken or something,but i knew it was different and i asked him and he told me it was the duck.That made me realize everytime I ate meat I was eating a living breathing,thing,just like my duck.For me that would be like eating you're on pet dog after it died.I'm sure no one would want to do that.

Answer 4

i do no longer pass with a label of any type, yet i do no longer devour animal products in any respect. WHy? Why could you? it quite is gross. Cheese is almost a super lump of earwax, in basic terms yellower. Cow milk tastes bitter, soymilk, almond, rice, oat and bean milk, lots fit and what I grew up eating- soymilk is gigantic. Eggs, meh, the flavour and scent, seriosuly sickening certainly. I never have been given it.

Answer 5

i don't like meat and a lot of it makes me sick [throw up]. so when i was 15 i decided to become a vegetarian because it was much easier than having to worry about whether i was going to be ill or not . Also, i don't think it's fair to be killing animals for food.

Answer 6

Religion.

Answer 7

because i dont think is fair killing an animal for us to eat when we can eat fruits and vegetables...cows are hit in the head first (wit sum kind of machine) dis faints dem...the man cuts them in the neck so the all the blood can come out their system (cows are still alive so they are feeling all dis pain) they do it while the cow is still alive so the heart can pump out all the blood...dat is painful!! if u have seen faces of death it shows how ppl get killed n stuff but it also shows how sum animals get brutally killed for food production

Answer 8

theres no point in been a vegan/vegitarian...whats the point of having salad with like 50 pills along with it to get the things u need ill rather have a thick chunky piece of steak and get it all in that

Answer 9

I used to be a vegetarian. My reason was wanting to eat healthier. Plus, meat kinda grosses me out.

Answer 10

I don't know if I can actually do it, but I liked Linda McCartney's rule of thumb. She said she wouldn't eat anything that had a face.