It was a kangaroo that inspired Rhonda to go vegetarian. She wrote into share a story from her childhood about why she went vegetarian: 
I was fifteen and my brother killed a kangaroo for dog meat. I saw the poor kangaroo under a sheet and was distraught and shocked. I went into a hysterical rage and my Mum came to my brothers defence and said that all meat comes from animals and not magically made at a butcher shop. Meat has not passed my lips from that day to this, 32 years later.
Huh. Well, Rhonda, I at least hope that you live in Australia, and your brother wasn't breaking into the zoo at night to slaughter that kangaroo....and congratulations on 32 years of vegetarianism! That's fantastic!
Why did you go vegetarian? Tell us about it. Don't be shy!
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I went vegetarian January 1, 1997. It was a long process with a lot of factors. I am a nurse and after working with postop patients and literally seeing people “beneath their skin” came to feel that there is no difference between an animal body and a human body and that it was an abomination to eat their flesh, and hypocrisy to say that it was different than eating human flesh. In my earlier years I worked at a slaughter house for a few months and quickly came to realize that it wasn’t for me. “Kill days” were especially traumatic–don’t tell me that animals are too stupid to understand what’s happening! Those creatures loved their lives too. Maybe I’m a nut but when I look in my dogs’ eyes and see them looking back at me I know I made the right choice.
I’m going lacto-vegetarian, I was checking something out about worms for my puppy, and when i came across something about parasites that was in our meats, i was really grossed out!! I have known that there was things like that in there before, but i didn’t know that there was alot of different parasites in meats. Any how i decided to quit eating meats and go to the other only, I didn’t eat meats that much anyways. I have lost weight and feel much better :’}