Why did you become a vegetarian ????(if you are)?!
Why did you become a vegetarian ????(if you are)?
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i feel the way the animals are treat before being killed are cruel an inhumane, so i no longer eat meat.
animlas have feelings too, so why should they go through hell just for our pleasure, its just wrong!!!!
plus the thought of eating animals makes me ill.
p.s. are you a vegetarian
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I'm not but both my sisters are!
one cant stomach meat and the other just doesn't like the idea of eating animals!
me i love it!
I've known a few veggies here in Hell. They often reveal their sins and confess to snacking on bacon rolls. Forget about it mate
i've always hated the taste and texture of meat. my parents were always forcing me to eat meat, under the pretence that it was good for my health...... yeah...... so good that i was sick after every meal with meat in it.... as soon as i was old enough to cook for myself, i made a deal with my mother - that if i prepared my own meals, and ate healthily, then i would be allowed to be a vegetarian. also, as i grew older, i became aware of the poor living conditions of some of the animals that were killed for meat, and that just made me even more glad that i am a vegetarian... i'm not against people eating meat, that's their choice, but i wish that more would be done to improve the way that some of those animals are kept, and then killed.....
The only person in the family who is veggie is my 17 year old daughter. 10 years ago she asked me what was for tea and I said "lamb". After a pause she asked if it really meant we were eating a lamb. Knowing she was an animal lover I hesitated but told her the truth. She then asked about chicken, fish (and slightly more obscurely, beef and pork).
When I explained it to her, she simply said, "I don't want eat a dead animal" and that was it. No more meat, fish, gelatine, animal fat.
She eats dairy produce and gets her protein from Quorn and other vegetarian protein sources, and she's a very healthy and slim teenager.
several reasons. First, I learned how cruely factory farmed animals are treated (factoryfarming.com) Then, I learned how unsanitary meat really is. Factory farmed animals are treated with growth hormones, antibiotics, and steroids, and are often very diseased. They are fed an unnatural diet of grains and ground up dead animal parts, The meat contains blood, pus, urine, feces, amines, purines, cholesterol, parasites and bacteria. Thats disgusting, and I am now totally repulsed by meat-I dont even walk past the meat counter because I can smell the blood and bleach that is used to sanitize the meat. I havent had meat in years-and I went from being crippled with lupus and arthritis and other health issues-I am now perfectly fine
I didnt become a vegetarian because it was the "thing to do"
I did it because its a way of life.
When you become vegetarian your not just changing your diet
Your changing your life
P.S i am now a vegan as i am movign further down in my path of enlightenment
I am a vegan for multiple reasons. I became vegan originally because of my love for animals and other ethical reasons. However, now that I am educated about the toll that meat has on the environment, that is another reason I am vegan. Also, health reasons are certainly a major factor as well. I am a total health freak (the healthiest one in the family, my bloodwork proves it) and therefore I want to keep my body healthy.
I became a vegetarian a year ago when I saw a PETA video. I couldn't believe what I had just seen. I didn't know at the time what horrible abuse the animals went through. After I saw that video, I started crying. It was so sad. I became a vegetarian that night. It wasn't hard for me because I had tried being a vegetarian in the past (for health reasons.)
because i watched this horribly awful inspirational movie made by PETA which stands for animal rights...i was already considered a 'vegetarian' as i only ate chicken and seafood.... but then i saw that chickens were the most unfairly treated of all the animals that were slaughtered....in my opinion. and i ate seafood, then i just thought about it all night and i couldnt sleep, because i knew that fish only had two minutes memory or close to that, but they had natural instincts...eating, sleeping, but the thing that kicked me in the gut was that one of their natural instincts was to keep alive, and so they do feel pain and they do understand that they will no longer live, and then the next day i realized that all animals should be treated fairly and with care.....and now i am a bonafied veggie, for i think about 2 or 3 years i will love you forever and always if you become a veggie too
~cam xo
Oh gosh yes I love vegetables - all are DEEEVINE - they go SOOOO well with MEAT!!
I cut out red meat when I was nine and then fish and white meat when I was 11. It was mainly because I like animals and it makes me feel wierd to be eating something that was once alive. Nowadays I couldn't imagine ever eating meat again, it just makes me feel a bit sick. I don't miss it at all.
Partly because I don't like the idea of eating anything that once lived and breathed, and partly because unexpected fat & grizzle used to knock me sick.
Because I started keeping chickens (they were only ever going to be egg laying pets, not guest of honour at a BBQ) and I realised what great personalities they have. I began to think can I really stomach eating other animals - poultry, sheep, cows, pigs, goats etc. if they are all like this? I came to the conclusion that no I couldn't, and four years later I haven't looked back.
I became a vegtarian almost 2 and a half years ago. I had always wanted to do it because i truely do care for animals, but i loved meat so much that i never thought that i would be able to make it.
one day....4 days before christamas if i do say so myself.... i realised " what kind of a person that beleives in animal rights eats animals? i have no right to call myself an environmentalest if i do so" and there it was, never broke into it and whenever i find out about a product that has gelatin in it its off the list.
i try to see it from the animals point of view. i mean would you like to be fed on drugs to help you gain weight? would you like to live in dirty small conditions? would you like to be treated badly all your life? and would you like to be killed buchered and eaten?
How can you not be a vegetarian when you read something like this:
Chickens killed for their flesh in the United States are bred and drugged to grow so quickly that their hearts, lungs, and limbs often can't keep up.
Hens used for eggs live six or seven to a battery cage the size of a file drawer, thousands of which are stacked tier upon tier in huge, filthy warehouses.
Cattle are castrated, their horns are ripped out of their heads, and third-degree burns (branding) are inflicted on them, all without any pain relief.
Cows used for their milk are drugged and bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk; they have their babies stolen from them shortly after birth and sent to notoriously cruel veal farms so that humans can drink the calves' milk.
Mother pigs on factory farms are confined to crates so small that they are unable to turn around or even lie down comfortably.
Fish on aquafarms spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy enclosures, and many suffer from parasitic infections, diseases, and debilitating injuries. Conditions on some farms are so horrendous that 40 percent of the fish may die before farmers can kill and package them for food.
Turkeys' beaks and toes are burned off with a hot blade. Many suffer heart failure or debilitating leg pain, often becoming crippled under the weight of their genetically manipulated and drugged bodies.
When they have finally grown large enough, animals raised for food are crowded onto trucks and transported over many miles through all weather extremes to the slaughterhouse. Those who survive this nightmarish journey will have their throats slit, often while they are still fully conscious. Many are still conscious when they are plunged into the scalding water of the defeathering or hair-removal tanks or while their bodies are being skinned or hacked apart.
(Info taken from PETA website)
Makes you think, doesn't it?
My friend has become a vegetarian and I have had a lot of predjudices against vegetarism... typical for meat eaters ;) then I informed myself about vegetarism and thought that I should try it out. First I became a vegetarian, now I'm vegan. Greetings from Germany cuchara.
I am now a vegan but was a vegetarian from the ages of 7 to 16.
Basically I was visitng a friends house a few weeks after I turned 7 and his mum served beef for dinner.I ate it and never thought anything of it.Then we went out into the garden to play and I looked over his fence into the farm field that bordered it-straight into the face of a cow who put her head over the fence so we would stroke her.It dawned on me then where the meat I'd just eaten had come from and I felt sick.I refused to eat meat from then on.
When I was 16 I learned about the suffering involved in the egg and dairy industry so I made the switch to being a vegan.
At around 16 I also changed religions to a faith that values animal life as much as human life and this confirmed I was doing the right thing.I'm now 25 and fully intend to stay vegan till the day I die.
It started a couple of years ago when we were in lessons and we were writing a debate on whether being a vegetarian was a good idea or not and we had to watch two films on being a vegetarian and being a meat eater.
The first film we watched was the vegetarian film and it showed us the conditions that the animals were held in and how badly they were treated. This film made me feel really bad of eating meat and i decided that i wouldn't eat meat any more.
I've been a vegetarian ever since.
Chloe xx
I read the book, 'The Pig that Sung to the Moon' by Jeffrey Masson about the emotional lives of farm animals. One chapter into it and I just couldn't think of meat in the same way again. The idea of eating another dead animal made me feel sick.
Grew up on my dads beef farm. Having bottle feed calves quite often it saddened me from an early age the cruelty of man
Hah thats easy!!
Watch this video
http://chooseveg.com/default.asp?bandwid...
Ethical reasons, compassion and humanitarianism.
I don't like meat, I feel sorry for the animals and I feel we sould pay more respect for people in Africa and Asia. Did you know that people starve there so "we" can feed the grains they could eat to the animals?
i was a veggie for 20 years just began eating meat after me kid was born for medical reasons but i stopped when i was training as a chef in france i ate a burger and said to allan my chef that beef was chewey he said in crooked english with a straight face neigh lass that were cheval . i got me phrase book out omg horse never touched meat for 20 years lol. i hate french cookery lol
The reason I became vegetarian firstly is because my Doctor suggested i stopped eating red meat, as i have a hormone problem and the hormones given to farmed animals would increase the amount of hormones in my blood stream. After I did some research and found out what rubbish the animals are given and the awfull cruelty all animals that are raised for food suffer including fish I decided to become a full veggie and as a consequence I feel much healthier and brighter after only a short time (I have only been a veggie for a few months), I expected it to take at least twelve months to make a difference but in only two weeks i stopped being sick in the morning (a main symptom of my problem) and after a month i stopped having so much stomach pain. I would recommend a veggie diet to anyone who has similar problems to me or anyone thinking about weather or not to go veggie! Hope this answers your question enough!