Vegetarians- Why Did You Choose to Become One?!
I have always been an animal lover, and have always been repulsed by handling meat (as in cooking it) but I still ate it from time to time.
I never felt good about eating meat though.
Then all of a sudden, I just couldn't eat it any more, and I am wondering if this has happened to you.
Smart ***_ses....this question is not for you.
Answers: A month ago, I just stopped eating meat.
I have always been an animal lover, and have always been repulsed by handling meat (as in cooking it) but I still ate it from time to time.
I never felt good about eating meat though.
Then all of a sudden, I just couldn't eat it any more, and I am wondering if this has happened to you.
Smart ***_ses....this question is not for you.
I had the same experience just a few weeks ago...I just stopped eating meat. No plan or thought process.
I've had discomfort and indigestion from meat ever since I was pregnant with my son, and since then I began researching sustainable living and organics, etc.to make sure I leave the world a livable place for him.
I had no intention of being a veggie, just to live a little lighter. But I had gone so long without eating meat, on Dec 28 I ate a pepperoni pizza slice and was up all night with nausea and sweats.
I didn't make a big deal out of it, I just went to the store the next day and bought a whole fridge full of veggies. Cleaning the fridge out was such a relief! My son loves hemp milk and soy milk and we are on a roll. (Although his grandparents still take him to the McD's for hamburgers...) Good luck with your new path!
This isn't meant to be a smart comment...
but, have you SEEN those animal slaughtering videos?!
Watching two seconds of one was enough to make me change my mind...
I started because I didn't want to hurt the feelings of animals. Then, the other day on Myth Busters, they proved that plants have feelings too. I've been slowly starving ever since.
Always thought it was gross. As a small kid, I'd puke it up whenever anyone gave me meat that wasn't chicken or fish. Nothing quite as vile as getting a chunk of gristle, fat or bone in your meat, or seeing on a cattle diagram that you're eating a cow's ***.
I always ate chicken, but debeaking processes made me stop eating poultry. I stopped eating fish for a long time just because I felt I shouldn't, but stopped being veg and went back to eating shellfish after I got a soy allergy.
I still can't touch any meat raw and insist on having the shellfish cooked for me. Probably guilt on my part. But I let my guilt be subsumed by my desire for high protein food. :(
I saw the way pigs were reared when i was 14, i turned veggie instantly as i didn't think it was right.
It was a pig farm having an open day because they won a national award for thier husbandry. I thought "if this is the best we've got, i'm outta here"
Arrived at the farm a meat eater, left a veggie, simple as that
Today I own an arable farm in amongst beef and dairy farms and have seen nothing to change my mind since.
That was 28 years ago...so instant choices can last if there is enough belief they are the right decision.
I originally gave up eating meat 18 years ago while in college. At first, I had eaten less of it due to financial issues - I simply could not afford meat very often. A year or so later, I was working in a Northern Italian restaurant where everything was made from scratch. Really good food, but handling the met started grossing me out - cleaning chickens and making stock being the worst.
Well You dont really just wake up one day and decide your a vegetarian. I just know that when i was younger i wouldnt eat animal just because i thought of it to much and started to pity the animals so i stopedd eating meat and decided to eat veges which are more healty anyways
Body just stopped digesting it well. I'd get sick almost every time I ate meat. It started with red meat, then it moved to chicken, then pork, and on and on. That, and like you, it grossed me out to handle it when cooking. If I was eating and came across something in the meat that I didn't like....it was instant eject button for me.
My husband is beginning to feel the same way now. I had him try my diet and eating habits for awhile, then I let him go back to what he was eating. He said he has noticed a definite change in his energy level. He feels more energetic on the vegetarian diet.
I'm the same, I never felt right about eating meat, ever since I was little, but I did because it was the normal thing to do and I didnt want to make my parents cross or think I was weird, but the older I got the less and less I would eat it because I had more freedom, and then like you I just stopped all together and I feel better that way, normal for me I suppose. I would like to be vegan, I've tried and it feels wonderful that nothing had to die or suffer for your food, but it makes me so sick and weak, I have to go back to at least milk products. I'm not sure why I've never liked eating meat, I remember when I was a little girl being terrified of the carcasses that would hang at the back of the butchers or even looking at raw meat (my parents once chased me around the backyard with a slab of raw steak while I was screaming to get away from it, so maybe I was scarred for life! ha ha) I think I just think that every life has value and it seems like such a sad thing that some little animal was born, and learned to walk, enjoyed the sunshine etc just to end up on my dinner plate, most of which would have been wasted and thrown in the bin? I've got nothing against meat eaters though, its just my personal opinion. I also heard somewhere that a particular blood type doesnt need or want as much meat as the others, it was A+ like me I believe? I wonder if its true?
Health. From the time I was a child I found meat, & eggs "icky". If you hide it with enough other stuff I could eat it, BBQ Sauce, Catsup, Battered & Fried etc. So giving up meat & animal products was not really hard. I belevie we were made(created) to live on a Plant-based Diet. We can eat animal's flesh & products but at a huge cost to our health, but we THRIVE of Plant Based Diets.
I too find handling raw meats, poultry, etc pretty awful. As I have studied the Veggie/Vegan Health I have learned the horrors of what the big farm industries are like. This has strenghten my thoughts against animal, animal by-product consumption. I think it is evil & to be part of it would be condoning that evil.
I know that sounds a little strong. Right VS Wrong is pretty black & white. I am not a starry eyed 12 year old finally understanding were fried chicken comes from but a 57 year old with a clear understanding of the COST of it all.
Slainté (to your health)
There are plenty of meat-alternatives that taste great, it's a good time to be a vegetarian. I always hated the taste of meat & was into animal rights so that's why I became a vegetarian.
Started because of wanting to increase my athletic performance. I learnt and experienced much more about the benefits health wise and the impact I have on the environment, animal welfare, etc. as I went along. Never gone back, still striving ahead.