What made you choose to become a vegetarian?

I love meat, but here lately, I feel sluggish, so I replaced my meat with vegetables for a little while and I feel better.

Not saying that I will become a vegetarian, as I love meat, but I notice that eating veggies made me feel better.

What are your reasons for becoming a vegetarian?

people who say being a vegetarian is unhealthy are uneducated about the vegetarian lifestyle. I am much healthier now than I ever was as a meat eater. You can get plenty of nutrition and proper nutrients in a vegetarian diet so don't let that idea scare you away from it. People who don't live it and know it shouldn't preach against it.

I chose a vegetarian lifestyle because it appeals to me. I do not like how animals are often treated on feed lots and when you buy meat indiscriminately you don't know where it is coming from. Also these days cattle are often given injections to "fatten them up" and other unnatural things and that filters through them and into you.

If you want to eat meat, try eating free range cattle or organic. It's the best way to go to get rid of that sluggish feeling. If you want to try a vegetarian lifestyle then go for it :) there are plenty of meat alternatives that have come a long way in the past few years. Also many vegetarians are happy to be helpful and share tips and recipes etc.

Gandhi's autobiography, contact with Hare Krsna devotees while in Washington, D.C., I saw how benevolently different their souls looked and knew there must be something to it, Genesis where it says God gave all the plants and fruits with seeds in them for us to eat, caring about animals and not wanting to cause them to suffer from anything I do, also there might have been something in Shirley McLaine's Out on a Limb book that had an influence, or a book called The Path by Donald Waters; these are the books I was reading at the time I decided to be vegetarian. Also I read part of the Vedas in a Philosophy class where it describes what is ok and not ok to eat. Have to eat meat sometimes now but still would like to be vegetarian all the time.

If you do find you have to eat meat, and you feel bad about it, it might help to know that I remember when I used to be an animal; I was in an unconscious sleeping state and also existed on a spiritual level with my perception and not on a physical one and the only time I ever suffered that I remember was in a Nazi warehouse, where I was slaughtered as a goat and I FELT that knife go in. But I only experience it in retrospect; I still was in a sleeping state at the time, like when you are sleepwalking.

Not me sister, I love meat!

My brother who died of cancer became a vegetarian as 1 way to help him fight the cancer. When he died, I became a vegetarian to honor his life. It's been over 3 years now...

I saw a PETA video on how the animals are raised and killed. It is terrible, I cried for 1hr and never touched meat again, that was two years ago. You can not imagine the cruelty that is involved until you see it for yourself!

food poisoned by a Mc Donald's cheeseburger when I was 7 and spent over two weeks in ICU, my girlfriend is also one because she was food poisoned by Kenny Roger Roasters chicken and she never liked the taste of meat

It's amazing how uneducated people still are about vegetarianism. Just like with any "diet" you can choose to eat healthily or not. I have been a vegetarian for 14 years and am nowhere near being unhealthy. On the contrary I have had no major medical problems and rarely do I get sick.

My reason for becoming a veg was my love for animals. I just couldn't go on being a part of the killing and eating of a living thing. I'm not saying it's right for everyone, but i can't imagine putting dead flesh in my body to nourish it. It just wouldn't feel right.
To each his own and I would never tell anyone to become a veg, but there are alot of positives of being one.

That is wonderful that you feel better not eating meat. It's good that you are doing your body some good now by treating it like the temple it is!

I became a Vegan for ethical reasons...ecology, animal rights, etc. Meat eaters' usage of water and stress on the planet amounts to 300,000 gallons a day. Vegans' usage of water and far smaller stress on the planet amounts to 300 gallons a day. I believe we should worship our bodies, the animals we share the planet with AND our Mother Earth.

My other reason for becoming a Vegan is for the physiological/health reasons. I have lost weight. My energy level has soared...I now easily can train and assist my disabled clients (my job requires me to walk the equivalent of 4 miles a day). I still have left over energy AFTER I leave work to do chores at home...clean the house, paint my paintings, love our kitty children and be an excellent life-mate to my husband Bill. Our food bill has fallen from $400.00 a month to $150.00 a month for all of us. This includes the IAMS cat food for our babies and my husband's omnivorous diet. I feel great and run rings around co-workers half my age...I will be 50 on Christmas Eve 2006!

I commend you for eating only veggie type foods. Whatever you decide, you have taken the first step in experiencing how great veggie diets can make your body and mind feel....imagine how much good you can do our planet!

None. I'm not a big fan of meat and I only eat chicken (sometimes), but i will never become a vegitarian. Its not healthy, and you need to take tons of vitamins to "replace" you'd otherwise be getting from meat.

I accidentally happened to see a footage shot in a slaughterhouse, when i was 12, and it was like, the end of chilldhood, definitely. I had never witnessed so much violence, and FREE violence, like this guy was beating up a cow and her calf with a stick, and they were tied to a fence...for the sake of what, i dont know, maybe that's because he was a frustrated man who didnt have the guts to violent a human being.

Unfortunately, there are thousands of these horrible persons...well, everyone working in the slaughterhouse business i guess....

Nothing shocks me more and makes me cry more than animal abuse. I cant help it, humans are just humans, and they do to each other horrible things, but that's because they're stupid..
Animals didnt do anything to deserve such horrible living and death conditions. We humans are evil. I wish the human race could fade away and let the peaceful beings live in peace...

LOVE for ANIMALS!!

Two reasons.......

1....I love animals, and can't imagine harming one.

2...It's healthier, I want to reduce the risk of disease and who knows what else!! :)

People that dont like or eat meat in going to end up in trouble some day because its going tio have some major effects on them some day!

This changed my mind...

http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar...

and then I found this....

http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/He...

Being a vegetarian doesn't mean we just eat fruits and vegetables. I loved meat and was so excited when I found soy meats which have better protein in them than flesh...Try the bocca burgers in the freezer section....there awesome..

You people are morons. Why would you want to avoid eating meat when we are designed to eat meat. Look at our canine teeth. If you do not eat meat, you will get sick and die of malnutrition.