What made you decide to become a vegetarian/vegan?

I just matured a little and began to realized that if and animal screams when it feels pain that it doesn't want to die...meaning it has a soul just like me, my family, and my pets. I also wanted to become healthier and meat is actually not very healthy other than protein and a few other nutrients which I can get from plants anyway. Videos from peta even though that's not how animals are treated everywhere contributed as well.

When I was 12 I was 5'6 and 153 pounds so I became vegitarian and dropped down to 103 pounds. Now I go back and forth between 112 - 119 lbs. Also, I love animals and my dad said oh look Tessy, there are chickens on tv and they were going through a machine to be slaughtered.

So it is both my health and absolute love for animals that keeps me vegitarian. It has been 5 years now.

Just to clarify, the person who answered above who said that vegetarians have an allergy to meat is wrong. Though some vegetarians may have an allergy to meat, many are vegetarians by choice for health or for moral reasons. I personally decided to become a vegetarian five years ago when I was 13.

I've always kind of had a moral dilemma when it comes to the consumption of meat. I can't really understand how it is fair or ethical to deprive another living creature of life simply for the pleasure of eating. I wondered why it was socially acceptable to eat a chicken or a cow, but not to eat a pet (not that I wanted to!).

I also started thinking about how by eating meat, I was consuming something dead. I was eating something that once was alive, and was feasting on (not to be tactless, but there's no better way to phrase it), a carcass. It grossed me out.

So, I'm a vegetarian for moral reasons mostly. It's not always expensive to eat as a vegetarian, though it can be. There are these awesome products made by a company called "Quorn" and they're faux meat products like veggie burgers and chicken nuggets made entirely out of mushroom.

They're delicious, and I hate mushrooms! If I hadn't read the label, I would never have known they were made from mushroom.

I read the book, BACK TO EDEN, in Summer, 1973. I became vegetarian and at that time, plenty Americans were becoming veg. The mid-60s into the late 70s.

Many fell off the wagon but I stayed on to this very moment. No regrets, none. My personal feelings these days is eating the reproductive organs of plants, mainly raw is a superior diet and Earth friendly in this dimension.

Translated: Fruit, raw nuts/seed and grains soaked in water. As plants too have lives just like animals. Plants are like telephones in a spiritual sense.

Women knew this before men because they tended the garden.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.