Why did you become vegan/vegetarian?

I have been vegatrain for over half my life. When I was a teenage I worked at a grocery store.
I would scan raw meat, blood would run down my arm, gross.
One day after.work my mom wanted me to put a roast in oven. I took one look at n said r u kiddimg me u want me to eat that.cooked blood. I never did.
hard lifestyle though so i have raised my kids on meat
hope they never choice this.

Honestly my love for animals. I have been a vegetarian since I was a kid, I hated meat and did not want to eat my friends. I was always against any type of animal cruelty (circus, mills, testing).. How I never realized the dairy industry was just as bad as the meat industry is beyond me but luckily my eyes were opened to the horror of it all and I wanted to have no part in it anymore. I get SO much hate for saying this but I do not understand how someone can say " I am an animal lover" yet go out and eat a cheeseburger. It just baffles me. I don't believe in humane slaughter, that is just sugar coating it for the people who do not want to feel as guilty when they eat it. My husband is far from vegetarianism or veganism and I do not look down on him because of it, he has actually learned a lot from me that he was oblivious to before and has cut back a lot for his health. Our daughter is a vegan until she is old enough to understand what she is really eating and where it comes from to make her own decision.

I have been vegetarian for almost 2/3 of my life. I just don't like meat. I didn't mind turkey or chicken slices, or fish fingers, as a child, but pretty much hated everythng else. Beef, pork, liver :sick: I hate the smell of raw chicken, I hate the thought of eating meat that might not be cooked through, and I spend all day handling body parts at work, I don't want to have body parts on my plate for dinner.

I will quite happily eat quorn and other 'meat substitutes', but if this makes sense I am not eating them to substitute for meat. I see it as just a component of my diet, same as pasta and mushrooms and broccoli and yoghurt.

My husband is an omnivore, though he eats what I eat most of the time. Once or twice a week at most he will have chicken, steak, sausage or bacon, and I buy those for him, but he gets the 'good' kinds, lean, locally produced if possible, not full of antibiotics and fillers and c**p. He cooks his own meat, I have never really tried to cook meat and would probably give him food poisoning if I was to do it.

I can't stand it when people tell me I'd be healthier if I ate meat...I give blood the maximum number of times each year, I have never been anaemic, my nails and hair are strong. Also my in-laws and a few people at work tell me 'vegetarian food is fine...once you put some meat in it' :mad: :explode: I never tell anyone how to eat, where do they get off telling me what to eat! (/rant) :grumble: :laugh:

My Daddy was a proper hippy and was opposed to harming animals in ANYWAY. he raised me to be a vegetarian ( that means no fish) until I turned 13, then he let me choose what i should eat and was happy for me to peruse a carnivorous diet.

By this time, I was sufficiently educated enough to know that there is not one SINGLE reason a human being needs to eat dead animals for survival and never touched meat.


Oh..and fish eaters..you are NOT vegetarians. get over it.

For the love of animals.

My faith in the Buddha's teaching. I believe that every living creature on this small planet deserves to live and I also believe in reincarnation. I started to feel guilty about eating animals.

I started in my teens as my 'protest' against the rearing,transportation and slaughtering of animals. Over 30 years later I still do not want to eat flesh.