are you vegetarian? if yes why?

Answer 1

Of course I am! Why else would I be in this section? I became vegetarian after doing a college project on animal testing. While on sites like peta.org, I came across external links about factory farming and the benefits of giving up meat. I'll give you a link to a website that may answer your question, but if you are squeamish please do not go on it.
http://www.factoryfarming.com
After reading that, ask yourself if you'd want to be put through what millions of animals go through. What if animals ruled the world and we were pumped with drugs, seperated from our young to be killed for meat? Would you like that? They are not 'just animals', but individuals with real personalities and feelings. The pain they feel is the pain we feel. We are no different to them, some animals, like pigs, are smarter than us! Studies have shown this!
That didn't convince you? Well, us vegetarians are less at risk for so many diseases like cancer, ect. Plus, we live longer than carnivores.
I went vegetarian also because it saves the environment. Rainforests are being destroyed to raise cattle and other 'meat animals'.
If I've converted you, and you want to get onto a good start, go to goveg.com and find your own reasons for becoming vegetarian. You can order a free vegetarian starter pack and cookbook. Keep the website in your favorites so that you can come back to it for some delicious cruelty-free recipes!
Trust me, you enjoy your food a whole lot more when you're not eating an animals dead body.
Here are another few websites with every recipe in its vegetarian version (they taste the same, if not nicer!)
www.vegcooking.com
www.vegweb.com
Try the vegetarian diet for a week or so, and see how you like it!

Answer 2

When I was young I lived on a farm and played with the animals since there weren't any other children around for miles. One day my favorite bull was slaughtered practically in front of me. I went hysterical. Then my father informed me that I had to eat it! I decided then and there that I was never going to eat meat again, but once again my father had his way. He told me that I would go to jail if I didn't eat the foods he told me to. So I waited until a time when I was legally allowed to choose what I was to eat.

Then when I was 15 I was involved with a Girl Scout "Wider Opportunity" called Scouts on Survival. On this opportunity we were given survival training and then spent a week on a deserted island in the middle of Lake Michigan. My group assigned different jobs to each person. I ended up being “the hunter” and so for the next seven days spent my time killing animals to feed the other girls in my group.

When we were got off the island we were taken to a Mc Donald’s and told to order whatever we wanted, yet as I was about to order a cheeseburger, the face of a snake that I had killed came into my mind. Then the rabbits, flopping fish and finally my old best friend whom I was forced to eat. It was at that moment that I really understood what meat was and knew that unless I was in a survival situation again, I would never eat meat again

That was 30 years ago. I went home. Told my dad he could put me in jail if he liked, but I was never eating meat again and I haven’t.

Besides the ethical reasons, over the years I have found so many other reasons to be a vegetarian, the most obvious being that at the age of 45 I am often mistaken for a 20 something. Not only with my looks, but my cholesterol levels, blood pressure and tests and so on.

Answer 3

I have been a non-vegetarian, since childhood. Now, I have become a vegetarian, after much struggle. It was for ethical and religious reasons. It was a difficult decision for me to implement. When the desire pulled me back, I took meat for some time. But, soon thereafter, I went back to vegetarianism. All my other family members, including my wife and children, remain non-vegetarians. That makes the thing more difficult. Yet, I am now entrenched in vegetarianism.

Answer 4

Yes- what they do to the poor animals in the slaughter house is just wrong! Other animals can live with out meat in their diets too, so why not us? I also want to be an environmentalist when I get older and not eating meat even for just a day or so a week helps. (The meat industry uses a lot of water) I saw in a video from www.meat.org that if you drink milk your supporting the veal industry. I totally made me want to go vegan. I thought about it for a while though and just decided have chickens and/or cows when I'm older so I can get milk and eggs w/o harming any animals.

Answer 5

I am a vegetarian because i won't like innocent lives to be killed as only for my food!!
I even am proud to be vegetarian because i have scientific base ,it has been proved that the veg are more energitic as they get a larger amount of food as compared to the non as per the ten percent law of environment,that ten percent of energy is lost from food with increasing trophic level in the food chain.
I am veg also because of my parents good training.

Answer 6

I am vegetarian. The reasons are 1) that it's better for the environment. 2) because I don't need meat. 3) because what takes place at slaughter houses is horrific and is not humane and it doesn't need to happen. 4) because raising cows and other farm animals for food uses a lot of water that doesn't need to be wasted. 5) because cows produce a lot of methane which contributes to pollution. 6) because people do not have to eat meat (evidence includes teeth structure, digestion, and that we have to cook meat to eat it).

Answer 7

Yes, I am. I started in high school just to try it out. I had some friends going veg and I thought I'd give it a shot. To my great surprise, I enjoyed being this way and felt much better. I thought I'd miss a big hamburger, but nope. Luckily my parents are understanding. I've been this way for 17 years and I'll never go back.

Answer 8

Yes, because i love vegetarian food.

Answer 9

Yes ,i'm a vegetarian although at my mothers place meat is eaten by most of the family members.only my brother and myself dont take it .i left eating meat at the age of 8 or 9 .my elder brother never liked the idea of killing animals for your own taste.he made me understand this !and i readily left eating meat although i liked the taste of it .my younger sister could'nt leave it but today when i look back i feel so proud of myself that how could i do that even at that young age. i'm 47 now .i never forced my children not to eat meat because my husband used to eat it.but my both kids left it when they asked me why i dont take meat .now my husband also doesnt take it .
you think it this way when you get a little hurt you start treating it but you dont hesitate to eat the meat of other animals who are killed because of you.just because they are helpless you kill them to satisfy your palette.even the most kind looking people eat the meat without any hitch. think about it !if people would stop eating than naturally they would also stop killing animals.

Answer 10

yes The reasons r below
1,.low load 2 stomach
2 , low consumption of spices which is good for health
3 . veg foods makes u totally concentred on the thing u r doing currently.
4 . no deposition of fats as non veg items r ernriched with fats
5 ,. The benefits like vitamins & other nutrients r also available in veg