What made you become vegeterian?!
What made you become vegeterian?
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I'm not totally ,yet...I love veggies,not big on meat...
Look at the name.
Being a vegatarian keeps my weight down. It keeps me energized and feeling good. It helps me feel & look younger. It keeps my heart healthy (meats & dairy can cause all types of problems and diseases) and my body free from toxins. Being a vegatarian is like drinking water all day to replenish my cells with good nutrients & my organs. I have to admit, I am 85% vegatarian. I eat chicken, fish, and tofu, but only at dinnertime and sometimes not even and I eat no dairy.
I started when I was 14 and I just did because I loved animals. I couldn't handle the thought of animals I had spent time with being killed just for me. No I didn't have farm animals as pets, or et aniy farm animals I directly came into contact with, but I was around farm animals ofter having relatives who did live on farms.
As I grew older though I realised there were a lot more reasons to be and stay a vegetarian then just your love for them. Including great for your health, and good for the enviroment.
http://www.meat.org/
The book "Diet for a Small Planet"
I love animals and didn't want to kill innocent animals for food.
reading the book "skinny *****"
and realising that not only is it bad for you, but that its gross, too.
the stuff in there about milk made alot more sence too
health reasons.....
and i already like veggies...
to try to lose weight
its healthy
and it made my skin clearer??
oh yeah, my friends think its cool how i can stick to it
veggies are my best friends???
it also lets me try new foods
I became one because I love animals, keeping weight down and also losing weight, most of it is not good, killing innocent animals, and becoming a healthier person.
It's bad karma to kill animals. I believe what goes around comes around.
My parents are vegetarians and under their influence, I also became a vegetarian. My mum said I have never eaten meat in my life. I don't know whether it's true but I know that I have never eaten meat past 6 years.
I am very in touch with animals. I'm native american, I think of animals in a strong form as part of this earth & when I see dead animals, I just pray that their death was not a waste.
As a toddler I wasn't fond of eating meat according to my mom. So she pretty much gave up on me, it wasn't worth the fight.
Then as I grew older I realized where is came from & as a child it freaked me out.
In my teens I did it for the fact that I still was not "craving" meat & it gross me out to think of it in my mouth.
So I just stuck to it. I am strick when it comes to myself, & I am proud that I am a vegetarian.
I feed my kids & husband healthy foods.
We are trying to eat natural & organic as much as possible. But we live in a rural town & choices are few & expensive.
They (my husband & kids) still eat meat, not as much as most families do. But I cook seperate dishes for them.
I cook from scratch for myself usually & make homemade breads & have used my rice & veggie steaming lots!
If my kids decided to eat meat free, I will support them 100% & until then I am content with my feelings about meat.
I feel good about my choices & I think I will be a healthier person for that. Mentally & Physically!
:)
I was a pretty typical middle class white kid in the USA. As soon as I was old enough to know I was eating dead animals, I wanted to be a vegetarian. My mother was against it, she was a nurse and she said I would "become anemic" and my muscles would "atrophy." I put it out of my head for years until I was about 23 or 24 (1980-81).
There was a movie called "The Four Seasons", somebody in the movie said "if you eat beans and rice together you'll never have to eat meat." It really stuck in my mind; I wondered if that was true.
Not long after that, a friend took me and my brother to a restaurant ran by Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna); they were all vegetarians as part of their religious beliefs. I saw skinny Hare Krishna devotees, fat ones, some were pretty girls, some of them even had big muscles and most of them looked perfectly healthy to me.
I became a regular at the restaurant, and I learned whatever I could about vegetarianism. I was having trouble finding a regular job and I was going to college and lived with my parents at the time. My mother still argued with me about it but I studied the subject so I could argue with her effectively and she eventually backed off. (My mom is gone now, and I really miss the debates we used to have about all kinds of things--you had to be pretty smart to win an argument with her.)
I never became a member of Hare Krishna, although I respect their beliefs and I still eat at their restaurant sometimes. I married a woman from India who was raised Hindu and vegetarian, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I do believe there are health benefits, but the ethical/spiritual thing was what really converted me.