From the article: What are some environmental reasons to go vegetarian?
Why are you vegetarian? I want to know your reasons for being vegetarian, whatever they may be! There are so many reasons to go vegetarian and advantages of being vegetarian, and your own reasons may be very personal and unique. So please share you own "why vegetarian" and reason you decided to become vegetarian! Many people go vegetarian for health reasons, animal rights, religious and even human rights. What about you? Why did you become veg?
Veggie heads are the best
- After watching the movie Super-Size me and then researching how animals are treated and fed, I decided that eating meat was no longer an option for me. I've been now for 5 years and have never got even as much as a common cold since switching to this new healthy lifestyle.
- —Guest Dean
Why I became vegetarian
- I became veg for these reasons: 1. I care and respect animals enough not to eat them 2. A long time ago when i was eating a chicken from Albertson's I found a feather in the meat itself and from that day on I never ever ate a piece of meat ever again.
- —Guest fake meats taste better
Trying it
- I'm in the process of becoming vegetarian not only because I've never liked meat, but also because I'm an animal lover. I feel like crying when i think about what the animal went through so that I could eat it. Also, I saw some really disturbing hunting pictures... 'nough said. Sarah
- —Guest theatregal
Reason to become a vegetarian
- I and my family members are vegetarian because of religious recommendation.
- —Guest Ray Palmer
Its time for a change
- I want to become a vegetarian after watching the film Food inc. I have three beautiful children and want to feed them better. Besides it is truly inhuman how god's creatures are treated. When you eat the meat you are eating there feelings whether that be sad, pain, fear, etc.
- —Guest momov3
Mr.
- I became veg to simplify my life. Non-veg diet is not only more expensive, but is also more complicated (from the point of view of purchase, storage, cleaning and cooking) than Veg diet. Vegetarianism frees up time and money for better things, besides the obvious health benefits.
- —Guest Hadippa
Lupus
- I am trying to be a vegan because I have inflammatory arthritis and I want to get rid of weight, swelling, aches and pains.
- —Guest stacey
they scream........because there scared.
- I urge vegans (and even non vegans) to watch peta2 videos,they show the harsh brutal truth on how meat gets to your plate, not with quick painless deaths but with torture due to selfish immoral cruel people. I for one am ashamed that Ive ever eaten at a fast food restaurant.They also show the truths about animal testing, fur industries,and more.
- —Guest honi unsuported vegan
why I turned vegetarian
- I am 75 years old now, have eaten no meat for 12 years. Our kids were in FFA (future farmers of America) and raised cows pigs rabbits etc. After judging the animals we would butcher them. I could feel the animals fear and finally realized that animals have F E E L I N G S . This made me reject meat and the butchering schene. It is awful to see animals murdered just so humans can eat the flesh and blood of these animals.------We live near a lake and I used to go fishing too. If you ever caught a fish you would see it flop around in pain. Then die when someone cut its head off before cleaning.-------We used to raise chickens for the meat. We butchered them too. This is how we did it. Uou catch the chicken, you take it over to a wood stump, cut its head off with an ax and then you watch it flip flop around on the ground until it is dead, Sickening isnt it? That is very cruel to our animals. I will never eat animal flesh again. Phyllis
- —Guest hyllis brewer
I love all creatures on earth.
- My main reason for wanting to go vegan among the obvious health issues is that I simply love and respect all animals large and small I think its ashamed that every human doesnt feel the same humans tend to be a selfish species and we think we are the only important ones in the world.
- —Guest tony
Why I am choosing to Go Vegan
- I want to have nicer skin, lose weight and live a longer, healthier lifestyle.
- —Guest Jenny
Oops
- I actually became vegetarian on accident. I set out intentionally to just eat only organic foods thinking that becoming vegetarian would be too much of a change. Then I quickly realized i wasn't buying meat. I suggest tofu stir-fry from bayan foods. It tastes good and smells great(w/or w/out soy sauce). I still slip from time to time when i have cravings, but i don't punish nyself.
- —Guest lacey
I forgot this point.
- Why don't carnivores eat people? It would eliminate the population problem, world hunger and the cemetary problems. They have to bury people upright is some countries because of space. How much food could we grow on a 6 foot plot?
- —Guest MarLo
Why I'm a veg
- I've been a veg for over 25 years. It started in college(yes I'm "older" and from Oklahoma...meat country) First it was financial...meat costs a lot and vienna sausages and Underwood's Deviled Ham were getting old! Second...when I'm hungry...I'm really hungry...and planning to eat a roast in four hours was not an option. Second, I feel healthier and I'm extremely opposed ethically to the entire meat industry (chicken, beef, pork, lamb, rabbit...please..it's absolutely immoral!!) I am having a bit of a problem excluding cheese (solidified cow mucus) in part becasue I love pizza. I am in NYC. But I am working on it. Best of luck to all!!!!!
- —Guest MarLo
WHY I am for VEG!
- I have STRONGLY decided to go vegetarian, and now I am exploring the Vegan lifestyle for the right of the animals! NEVER could WE as humans take their right of life away. It truly breaks my heart to know how they are treated. and for what? I will make sure I do everything I can, to put energy towards a better life for them. Its only right. Happy Veggie! :)
- —Guest virgo824
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