Why would someone choose to become a vegetarian? Do they ever miss eating meat?

Answer 1

Why would someone choose to put rotting animal flesh into their mouths?

Answer 2

I chose to be a vegetarian for both health and moral purposes. I became a vegetarian when I was ten, which was around the same time the rest of my family became vegetarian too.

It wasn't too hard honestly, perhaps mainly because I never really liked or craved meat to begin with. When I was a baby, I used to vomit out foods that contained meat. The only 2 non-vegetarian foods I really liked were hot dogs and Mcdonalds' filet-o-fish.

I managed to get over meat pretty fast, and I think the vegetarian hot dog substitutes helped a lot.
Right now, 9 years later, I don't miss meat at all. Being a vegetarian is so normal and there are so many vegetarian options and restaurants that I've never had any difficulty finding suitable food to eat.

If you're considering being a vegetarian, I hope it works out for you & all the best! =)

Answer 3

This is good because I just hooked up with a gal that is a vegaterian and I asked her the same thing. Man did not become a meat eater until after the fall of man in the Garden of Eden (scientifically proven) and there are many minerals found in meat that IS NOT healthy for the human body, so the choice to be a vegatarian is one of personnal health. Vegatables are much more healthy for the body also. And no they generally do not miss it because the variety of tastes in vegatables is far and wide while the taste of meats is rather limited. I've even been thinking about it and I am a die-hard steak and burger eater. But I already cook the blood out of meat, there is were all the sicknesses are coming from now.

Answer 4

People become vegetarians for health, religion, or to be humane to animals.

I was vegetarian for religious purposes when I was kid. Yes I missed meat and no I'm not vegetarian anymore.

My mom is vegetarian and she said the first few years she missed eating meat. She said after a few months she devoured a chicken by herself but then went back to being vegetarian and hasn't looked back. She did eat seafood for a while but now doesn't even do that.

I've heard some horror stories about how animals are treated before they are slaughtered. Like fish who are cut alive and thrown back in the ocean (they don't have their head chopped off instead the fillet is cut right off), or sharks that have their fins cut off and thrown back. Also cattle get their legs broken on trucks or chickens in unsanitary conditions.

Buddhists believe that animals are reincarnations. So they could be family or friends.

Meat is high in cholesterol and fat. Eating vegetables is just healthier overall and you can get all your nutrients this way.

It's also better for the environment. It takes a lot of land to raise animals and they release a lot of toxins into ground water, rivers, etc.

Those are some of the reasons why people become vegetarians. I'm sure there are more and probably more examples too.

Answer 5

There are a lot of reasons, religion, health, or just morality. I guess some people do miss meat, but i've been a vegetarian for 5 years and i don't miss it at all (except for turkey sandwichs lon thanksgiving lol). i think the main reason is that you forget what meat tastes like! i don't remember the taste at all! So I think that that helps. and there are always soy foods to replace meat, which have gotten very good.

Answer 6

Hi Jonny,

Here is some of the reasoning behind why people become vegetarians.
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Health-
Meat-eating diets are at higher risk for kidney disease, some cancers, osteoporosis, obesity, heart disease and hypertension.

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The environment-
Annually, an acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, or a paltry 250 pounds of beef.

If Americans would reduce meat consumption by just 10%, enough grain would be saved to feed the 60,000,000 people who die of hunger each year.

Mind you, businesses understand there is no money in feeding the world, but a great deal of damage is being done to the planet by the meat industry. Many groups feel as though a person cannot be an environmentalist without being a vegetarian, if that gives you an idea of the global impact of meat.

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Animal Suffering
For those of us who actually passed 7th grade biology and understand that while both are living, plants and animals are quite different, we choose not to eat animals. Animals possess a central nervous system that allows them to feel pain and a limbic area of the brain that allows them to feel emotions such as fear and sadness. (sorry, that is a shot out to all those lovely people who tell us we are killing and torturing carrots)

It is not simply a matter of people killing animals, but that the animals bread for our consumption live lives of constant torture and agony. Around eight billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S. alone -- a number greater than the entire human population of the planet.

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Anyway, that is not everything, but only some pieces of the thoughts behind why some people choose not to eat animals.
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I did it because I could not justify eating meat. I don't need it to survive or be healthy, so I was a part of the killing and torture of beings who can feel pain and feel sadness and fear. I couldn't do it anymore.
Sometimes I missed meat, but I found ways to make what I wanted without using dead animals and was satisfied. Also, fat is an addictive substance, so when I wanted meat, I cooked food heavy in oil to simulate the greasy-fattiness.
I've been veg for over 6 years.

Thanks for asking
:)

Answer 7

I became a vegetarian by force, not choice. I developed severe food allergies, including meat protein. In doing research, I learned how nasty meat is, and that was enough to eliminate my cravings for it. Animals raised for food are fed an unnatural diet of grains and ground up brains and organs of other dead animals. They are kept in deplorable conditions, often confined to the point they can barely move. Due to the unsanitary conditions they live in, they develop all manner of disease and skin conditions. Therefor, they are pumped up with steroids, antibiotics, growth hormones, and other medications. All of that passes into the meat. When you eat meat, despite its good taste, you are consuming blood, pus, urine, uric acid, fecal matter, whatever disease the animal had, and all of the meds. Meat is so unsanitary, that it is injected with "broths". "enhancers, or "solutions" containing bleach and peroxide. That pretty much eliminated any desire I had for it. My allergies prevent me from eating bread , eggs, and soy, like many vegetarians do. I miss my eggs and bread, but not the meat in the least. I am repulsed by it when I pass the meat aisle in the grocery store. I will stick to my lovely veggies any day-they only need a quick rinse, not sanitizing

Answer 8

Because there isn't a single beneficial aspect of eating meat that overrides the problems, other than to keep the numbers down in the meat industry due to forced over-population which is a constructive predicament. It's eco-destructive, unhealthy (you don't even need as much protein in this sendentary society), cruel......downright pointless and socially conditioned to consume all of it. I don't look at animals as sources of sustenance any longer, i merely miss that idea of satisfaction, which i find elsewhere. People go so far out of the way simply for a textural desire, little do most of them know what it really takes to get anything involving animal products to the plate or glass.

Answer 9

I initially chose to become a vegetarian because meat was starting to gross me out and I was also starting to feel crappy.

The only thing I have ever missed is a cheeseburger and that's a rarity. There are alternatives but it's not quite the same. :o) Other than that, no, meat grosses me out.

I want to add that I miss smoking too, but that certainly doesn't mean I'm ever going to smoke again.

Have a good one!

Answer 10

As a vegetarian, sometimes I miss it like when I smell a hot dog or BBQ, but for the most part no. I was just tired of meat so I became a vegetarian.

Answer 11

"Among the many reasons for being a vegetarian are health, ecological, and religious concerns, dislike of meat, compassion for animals, belief in non-violence, and economics.

People often become vegetarian for one reason, be it health, religion, or animal rights, and later adopt some of the other reasons as well."

Some individuals miss eating meat, but their reasons for going vegetarian far out-weigh any craving they may have. Others have no cravings and are disgusted by the taste of meat entirely.

Hope this helps!