What made you choose to become a vegetarian/vegan?!
and i dont ever plan on becoming one.
please dont try to change my mind, because you wont.
i just want to hear why you became a vegetarian/vegan. was it a book, movie, friend, video, upbringing, etc that caused you to become one?
thanks! :)
Answers: personally, i am not a vegetarian/vegan.
and i dont ever plan on becoming one.
please dont try to change my mind, because you wont.
i just want to hear why you became a vegetarian/vegan. was it a book, movie, friend, video, upbringing, etc that caused you to become one?
thanks! :)
I grew up on a combination cattle ranch/rice farm. I used to watch the ranch-hands catch, tie up, and brand the calves. I knew there was a slaughter house nearby, but I never once went near it. We also owned a store and I'd hang out in the butcher shop and visit the butcher while he cut the meat on a machine with an electric saw. (Oddly enough, it was years before I understood that these were the same cows I might have been petting the week before.) In the back of he store was a meat locker. When I was hot, I'd enter the locker and think nothing of leaning against a frozen carcass hanging from a hook to cool off.
I remember the horror of watching a calf stuck in a giant mud puddle. You couldn't reach it even to feed it. It was black and I drove the jeep (at age 9) out to visit the calf each day. It's mother was standing beside it, but couldn't help. It was stuck in that hole for days because no one could get it out. Finally, the farmhands tried shoveling around the calf, placed a rope around its neck, and tried to pull it out with a tractor. All it did was break its neck and kill it. It looked so scared. So you might say this had a profound effect on me....more so than knowing that most of the cows were going to be always going to be slaughtered. Because it was something very personal and up close.
Though I ate meat when it was prepared like a roast or veal cutlets, I never really cared for the taste of meat. Later, I just stopped eating it altogether. Then acquiring two cats made me understand that they had feelings, personalities, and souls. And if they did, then all animals did.
It was a gradual progression. First no beef. Then no pork. Followed by no poultry. And finally no seafood. Shrimp was the last thing to go off my "Never Eat Again" list and the only thing on the list that I still find at all tempting. Needless to say, my family found my refusal to eat anything that has a face peculiar and still do.
health issues... my doctor said I was going to die of a heart attack if I kept eating fattening foods. I figured meat is the most fattening and I gave that up first.
now, for the potatos and rice, sugar and caffiene - not as easy!
karma,
I want to be treated with love and kindness. If I want that surely. I should be giving that.
Killing an innocent animal for no reason (I have other choices, for all my healthy foods) is not good karma!
Not sure why you are asking this question, if you have no interest in the veg*n lifestyle.
I did it for the ultra cool title.
since 1984 my mom fed me milk and veggies she even makes veggie smoothies i love them once i tried eating meat and i spit it back out i eat veggies all the time salads pastas and rice i feel bad cuz me and my moms in the entire fams that never ate and never will eat meat sometimes they put me down 4 not eating meat but that's cool it's just me and the greens
It was the Meet Your Meat video
( http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.... ) that inspired me to become vegetarian. I just stumbled across it when I was surfing the web and went veg overnight.
I was on a mission trip with my youth group and one of my friends on the trip was a senior nicknamed Peta. Her real name was Allison. She is vegan. She had watched a movie in school about animal torture and from then on, never touched meat again. Well, on the trip, she had nothing to eat. Everything had some kind of meat in it. The leaders went to a market but could only buy one can of canned corn. And she was in heaven for that! She ate it and only that the entire trip! I admired her and said that to her near the end of the trip. She then challenged me to try it. So, I went on a strict vegetarian diet for an entire month. I lasted but afterwards was in a dire need for meat. I went out to dinner with my parents and gorged on nothing but meat dinner. Within minutes from eating the food I was feverish, clammy, and had turned a deathly white! I won't even say what my stomach was doing. I rushed home, threw it all up, and have not ate meat since! It's been about a year in a half!
my love of animals - i guess it was ever since my first science lesson - animal corpses - ewwwww.
i so tasted meat differently then
and eventually went vegetarian, like, a few weeks later!!
I became vegetarian initially because I was concerned about animal welfare. But after some more research I realized just how ecologically unsustainable a large scale omnivorous diet is to sustain globally. Producing meat places massive stresses on the earth's resources and the environment. I study environmental engineering and majoring in agricultural waste management. That along with the obvious ethical concerns about animal treatment are the main reasons I decided to become vegan.
Sounds silly, but a video of animal cruelty shown to us at school.
My mum was sooo shocked when I came home from school and said ''mum I'm never touching meat again!!''
That was ten years ago. I have never looked back. Thanks for the good question :-)
i went to www.meetyourmeat.com and watched a video.
yahh i have been that way ever since
it has really changed my life.