Are u a vegetarian and how did u become one?

Answer 1

Yes I am. I've been one for a little over 3 years now. I initially became a vegetarian because I read about and watched videos about factory farms and about animal cruelty with it and since I love animals so much, it was enough for me to get me to stop eating me cold turkey right then. My friend was the one that told me to look some of it up because she was just becoming a vegetarian a few weeks prior to that.
As the years have progressed and I've read more about meat I've learned so much about the safety (or lack there of) involved with meat (especially beef) and it has a huge impact on why I've remained a vegetarian. Also, after not eating meat for so long, although I can recognize what meat looks "good" I never have a desire to eat it. I feel a lot healthier having not eaten meat and I'm not planning on eating it again anytime soon. It's really not as hard as I think some people think it is though because you get used to it and it just becomes so common in your life..

Answer 2

Ye I'm a vegetarian - I dont eat any meat fish or poultry or anything with gelatine in it. It can hard sometimes cos u have to check the ingredients of everything and ask people what the food's got in it. I'm 13, I became a vegetarian when I was 12.
I'd nagged my mum til i was 8 to become one she said i couldn't become a veggie til i was 16. One meal though I refused after I'd eaten the meat I had a long argument with my parents sayin that was the last time I was gonna eat meat. They couldn't exactly push food throught my throat so they accepted it.
I've never eaten pig meat in my life as I'm also a muslim.

Answer 3

Becoming a vegetarian is not an over night thing, there is alot of meat and dairy in everyday cooking that we don't even notice. It is definatly a healthy choice, but you need to replace your meat and dairy with soy etc. I have been a vegetarian for 8 years, and recently went back to eating poultry and dairy. I love chicken too much, and hated soy milk! give it a try, but its not easy, i found that you'll probably need a personal reason to become a vegetarian, (save the chickens! or just don't enjoy the taste of meat) what ever your reason may be it helps the process of becoming one.

Answer 4

I am a vegetarian and I became one when my parents were having a BBQ, and I got this bloody piece of flesh on my plate..I almost threw up. Im so picky about what I eat though, like eggs, I can't eat them because of that little vein or whatever it is coming out of the yolk, *gag*
I haven't eaten meat since April, and I don't miss it. I switched to soymilk as well.

Answer 5

Not any more, but was one for 13 years. Got into it through an old boyfriend. Bought all the Moosewood Cookbooks and started hanging out in health food stores. It helps if you have friends/family who already are, or are willing to do it with you. Share recipes and tips, too. Vegetarian Times magazine is also fabulous. Good luck.

Answer 6

I love being vegetarian I miss it around the Holidays. My parents choose to eat meats and give me a sad look :( Ty

Answer 7

Yes. I actually did it spur of the moment, really, but I had been building up to it. For years I had tried to suppress my hypocracy of not wanting to kill animals but supporting the industry. I actually statred it just for health, but to make the transition I still ate fish. A few weeks later I decided that it was morally right to cut out meat altogether. A month or so later I cut out anything where an animal had to die, like rennet and gelatin. And now I'm about three months in an going strong.

Answer 8

I was a vegetarian for a few years; I just kind of fell into it because of the food combining I was doing. It was easier to cook and combine without meat, so that is what I did for 3 years. I didn't miss it much at all. I now live in a country where, even though we grow marvelous fruits and vegetables, it is very difficult to eat out as a vegetarian. I never did it for the animals, although I won't eat veal, and I wouldn't go and kill a chicken myself. The animals where I live are not raised in small cages, they have large fields to roam in. That being said, I probably eat more tofu and drink only soy milk (my wife has digestion problems with dairy milk) than meat. We have fresh tofu made daily available around the corner, so it is really nice to have instead of some meat or chicken that has been sitting in the meat counter at the grocery for a few days, or has been dead for who knows how long.

I do not try to push anyone into a vegetarian lifestyle, but it does irk me when someone looks at me funny because I buy tofu at the store, or when we buy no meat when we do our shopping (we happen to buy meat from a different market). I don't try to argue that animals are equals or that they aren't. We simply have a superior way of living that allows us to have power over them.

Early cavemen ate meat because htey required it to build muscle and develop the brain. That has already happened now, and we don't need to eat meat to continue developing our brains. 99% of people (which I don't think is very accurate, since there are entire countries and religions that don't eat meat) eat it because that is instinct.

I may never stop eating meat, and I may stop. Its a lifestyle choice, and not one that I will be consulting or looking for affirmations to anyone for. I happen to like Bioland (a Costarican brand) Soy protien, with a little liquid smoke, better than bacon. I like to use it instead of ground beef. I also like to use ground turkey for the same thing (50% less fat). As I said before, we drink soy milk because cow milk upsets my wifes stomach. I usedto drink 2-3 liters of milk a day. I stopped for my wife.

Sorry for this rambling, I have been watching tv and forgot what I was typing.

Answer 9

Yes, I am a vegetarian and I thought that becoming one was very easy. I don't know how people can think meat tastes good, the taste is vile and makes me want to puke. Eating it feels like tearing flesh and that just isn't appealing either. Meat has always made me feel weak and unhealthy, and when I was younger I ate it because my parents ate it, but they were proud of me when i became one through my own choices.


I hate how people mock vegetarians because we have our own beliefs. I hate how animals are treated. If you want to kill something to eat your should be forced to kill it yourself. Meat is piled up in restaurants and food places, but there is no honor for that animal that has died. It lives in a cage all of its life. At least people who hunt, by the rules (none of that cage hunting crap), are working for their meal.

Answer 10

I just recently became a vegetarian for many reasons, including personal, ethical, evironmental, health, and so forth. However, the main thing that pushed me to vegetarianism was a television show on people trying to communicate with aliens. It warned that if we did come in contact with intelligent beings, they may not understand our human methods of communication. For instance, a smile might be considered a threat to their culture. Also, if they are more powerful than us, they might see themselves as superior and thus take advantage of us. The idea horrified me; how could they just disregard us solely because they didn't understand our way of life? Then I realized we do it everyday here on Earth. Studies show that many animals have emotions and personality. How can we just discredit theirs because it isn't just like ours? Even if they aren't as intelligent to our standards, it doesn't give us the right to decide their fate. Just because we can eat them doesn't mean that we should. A lot of people will argue that we are traditionally omnivores, but we ate animals to survive, and we didn't eat them everyday at every meal! Now we eat animals because we like the
taste. Not only do we grow crops for us, but we grow crops for the animals we want to eat, then we eat the animals. Why not just use that crop space to feed more people? Nope, because our society wants to gobble down unnecessary amounts of protein (not to forget saturated fat, cholesterol, etc). Some animals are carnivores by instinct. We are by choice.