Please tell me how you became a vegetarian and try to get me to be one.?

Question

I want To Become A Vegitarian,but everytime I see my favorite Meat meal,I forget about everything. Tell me and Convince me

Answer 1

eat my sausage

Answer 2

I became vegetarian just over a year ago. I was sick of the heavy feeling after eating meat. I did some research into healthier eating and it dawned on me MEAT=DEAD ANIMAL. I despise cruelty and that's just what's going on, MOST of the time. I decided I didn't want to take the chance at eating meat that may or may not have been humanely killed. Now the thought of eating meat for me is like eating flesh (human or animal). It grosses me out!
Another reason why I changed to vegetarian is that I am a Christian and no matter how many so-called "Christians" say you are meant to eat meat, they are so wrong. Jesus ate meat BUT the animal was respected when alive, killed humanely and even the land it grassed on had to rest. Do you think that happens now? Of course not. Man is greedy.

Answer 3

Well done for trying to become a vegetarian!

I tried loads of times when I was a kid but I was practically a carnivore so it was really hard. Something just clicked in me a year ago though and I haven't eaten meat since. Now I'm even a vegan!

You should go to websites like peta and goveg.com. They will have loads of material to help you stop.

When I first stopped eating meat I still really craved it. Then one day when I was on a bus in Thailand, it ran over a dog! And you know what everyone in the bus did? They laughed! I couldn't believe they could take pleasure in something else's pain like that. Then it got me thinking... we don't actually need to eat meat to survive... we only eat it for our enjoyment. So whenever I craved meat I thought of that dog and reasoned that to eat meat is taking pleasure in something else's pain. I just imagined myself laughing as an animal was going through pain and being slaughtered. I know it's not exactly the same but it put things into perspective... something else has suffered just to please your tastebuds.

If I still wanted to eat it then I just thought of what a brat I was being. Human beings just want want want nowadays. We should be thankful that we can eat at all and not complain that we're not getting exactly the food we want. I hate self-pity... I think it's the most unattractive character trait a person can have. So if I got upset about wanting but not being able to eat meat I just slapped myself with a dose of reality and thought 'quit being a kid and stop complaining!' I didn't want to act like some 3 year old in a shop crying to it's mum about buying sweets. I really think it's made me a stronger person because I don't desire many material things now and if I do want something and I can't have it, it doesn't affect me.

Reading a short introduction to buddhism may help you too. I'm not a buddhist but found a lot of the teachings made sense and helped me become a vegetarian.

I think what you're trying to do is great. Good luck with it all!

Answer 4

I read about how healthy you can be if you eat a balanced diet without meat, and i figured that it was a waste to eat meat at all. It was a waste because you can be totally healthy without eating meat, so why not spare some animals lives?

I also hated the idea of killing the animals, and i learned about the terrible conditions they live in. If you think about it enough, you will be disgusted and not want to eat meat.

Some people's vegetarian diets fail because they didnt make sure they were getting an extra source of protein (eggs, beans, nuts, peanut butter, hummus). You can't just eat french fries and the burger bun w/o the meat. You have to be able to change your diet so that you are getting all the nutrients you need.
It's a challenge for the first few weeks, just figuring out what you like to eat and cook, but once you get it all figured out, it's really very easy!

Good luck!

Answer 5

Fake meats work very well. Just replace those with real meats. Then fill up on water and a variety of vegetables to get all your proper nutrition.

The protein scare is the biggest misconception about vegetarian diets. There are quite a bit of misconceptions so here are some web sites I think will help. The first is a list of vegetables with protein and how much the second are calcium sources in raw veggies. The third is an article about B12. It is actually a microbe found in soil and is abundant in seaweed, tempeh, miso, and root veggies. The last one is a list of foods with iron and how much.

http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.htm

http://health.rutgers.edu/factsheets/iron.htm

http://www.carrotcafe.com/f/calevel.html

http://www.pamrotella.com/health/b12.html

Answer 6

Like kicking any bad habit (and meat is a bad habit that the vast majority of us have), you have to decide on your own you want to kick it and why. So you've made that first step--partially.

Compassion Over Killing (www.cok.net) has excellent resources for becoming a veg*an, including a starter guide. Any vegetarian group can give you reasons for going vegetarian, but you have to convince yourself that these reasons are far more important.

And since most veg*ans were raised in meat-eating families, we all have a pretty good idea of what you're going through and sympathize. We all had to get over that big blocking force and come to this mostly on our own.

Answer 7

I am a natural vegetarian.
When I was at nursery school, the teachers told my mother that she was wasting her money on school dinners because I wouldn't eat the meat. It was unheard of in those days, and they couldn't understand it. I was the odd one out and felt isolated.
When I was a little older, about 7 my Dad who sometimes worked in a slaughter house, took me to watch a cow being killed. What I saw was too horrible to describe here, but it went right to the core of me.
I saw the blood running down the gulley like a river. The memory of it all will never leave me.
When I grew up, I became a healer and very spiritually aware. I can empathise with all animals.
I believe that every creature has a right to it's own life and we have no right to destroy that life for our own selfish needs, just because we can.
Nutritionally speaking, we do not need to eat meat.
Spiritually speaking, going back to the 'Cave Man' era, man's vibration was at it's lowest and compatible with the vibration of the animals they were eating. No harm done.
Over the years, man's vibration has got higher and higher and is no longer compatible with that of animals.
So by eating the flesh of animals, you are actively preventing your own vibration from rising to it's fullest potential, and being the best you can be.
A higher vibration brings more conscious awareness. This will enable you to see the bigger picture in the scheme of things and the truth of this will be a revelation to you.
And you will never eat the flesh of an animal again.
If you are still unconvinced, what about when the animal is being killed, don't forget the element of fear. The animal is terrified, wouldn't you be? This fear is absorbed into it's whole being and is toxic to man.
Going back again to the 'Cave Man' era, the beasts were fed on natural vegetation, (natural vegetarians)
What are they fed on today? Anything and everything to increase output and profit margins.
Do you know what you are eating? Do you know what toxins you are putting in your body?

Finally, the only one that REALLY cares is you, because it is YOUR LIFE and it is precious to you and you are able to make free choices.
It's up to you to decide whether conscience and compassion will play a part in that choice.
Animals do not have free choice, and will be at the mercy of man until he rediscovers compassion and empathy for all life.

Answer 8

no, you need to convince yourself.

lost of people say they want to be veggie because "i like animals" or something. They like the idea of saying they are veggie, but lack conviction

I don't know what your reasons are, but if they are ethical then the evidence of pain, cruelty, torture and death of animals is plain to see.

Its not about us being able to convince you, its about you being honest with yourself and deciding if you really do care and have the commitment to become vegetarian, or do you jsut liek the idea of being a vegetarian.


The reason i'm being so hard about this is because there is nothing in meat thats addictive and there is nothing in a vegetarian diet thats difficult.

Using "everytime I see my favorite Meat meal,I forget about everything" as an excuse is, to be honest, possibly the least conviction i've ever seen in this forum.

"labels", "words" and "wanting" never did anything to improve animal welfare, its actions that count

Answer 9

Its healthier to eat meat as part of a balanced diet than to not eat it at all. Humans are just animals, and most animals eat other animals, so it's not like you should feel bad about it. Trust me, if a cow ever got the chance he'd eat you and everyone you love.

Answer 10

hey!
thank you for listening to people's thoughts I'm 13 and became a vegetarian at the age of 12 as I'm a huge animal lover do not believe it is Right to take these Innocent things lives these video's have helped me so much in the fact that now i know I'm right to be vegetarian and also these vids are the reason i became vegetarian.
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Answer 11

I became a veggie as I was not a great meat eater and hate the way they slaughter animals. Being a veggie is very personal, u cant just convince someone to become one, u either are or u aint....like my bro, loves his meat i cud never convince him to give it up!