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Aug 12, 2009 1:20 PM
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Hi everyone :)
I recently joined the club and thought I might as well start a topic to talk about. As you've already seen by the name my question is "Why did you stop eating meat?"

I would especially like to hear about the events that triggered your decision, for I think there aren't actually that many different reasons (ethical, ecological, health, religious?) to do so.

About myself:
I’m a lacto-ovo-vegetarian since March. I know that it’s been neither a really long time nor is it that much of a drastic attitude, but I think I can live with this for now. The idea of becoming vegetarian was something I had on my mind for a longer time by then, but as convinced as I was that eating meat was wrong on a moral base and caused a lot of trouble for the environment, I was equally sure that I could never totally refrain from it. A girl from school had already tried to persuade me multiple times (including a presentation of “Earthlings” which I had to abort halfway through), but looking back on this now, I think that pushing people in this matter leads to nothing, everyone has to find his or her own conclusion to follow it through.

So, for me, the deciding event wasn’t really a big one, but more like the end of a chain of many different things: it might sound a bit stupid, but it was a music video I saw by chance that triggered my change in behaviour. After watching it I just felt that I needed to stop being hypocritical/self-indulgent/opportunistic or whatever you want to call it and so I made a bet with myself as to how long I would be able to not touch any meat again. In the end, I think it’s surprisingly easy to maintain most of the time… albeit that there are some rare phases when it’s just as bad as I imagined beforehand.

Song is Ready to Fall by Rise Against:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmoB2svMld8

Looking forward to your answers :-)
LarcielAug 12, 2009 1:24 PM
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Mar 11, 2010 4:21 PM
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I stopped eating meat because of interest. 4 years past since then, and i am still vegetarian.
Mar 12, 2010 1:28 AM
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I'm lacto-ovo-vegetarian since two years. I have 3 reasons. First and most imprtant is ethical reason, secound is ecological and last is health reason.
Apr 4, 2010 4:47 PM
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Short answer: I couldn't handle being part of the institutionalized torture of factory farming and environmental devastation.

Long answer: Part I, Part II, Part III
Apr 9, 2010 11:00 AM
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In short: Nadia.

Longer version: As you, too, I had been thinking about vegetarianism [and likewise veganism] before and oftentimes considered it, but it usually ended with "but I like meat"/"I want steak now". Watching Secret of Blue Water triggered just another instance of those considerations - however, this time, for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on, I ended up taking a different decision.

Come think of it, my train of thought probably went something like that: "Even if I don't do it perfectly [i.e. become vegan immediately] and am thus acting morally questionable, it still makes a difference to every single creature that would not have to suffer and die for my sake." - And the more time passed, the less I seemed to actually need animal products.

I'm currently lacto-vegetarian [almost*] vegan, btw.

* still wearing contact lenses
LucifelJun 21, 2013 9:33 PM
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Jan 14, 2012 2:52 PM
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Hello, I’ve noticed that this forum hasn't been active as of late, but i think that this subject is so interesting that I’m gonna write an answer anyway :D

I'm a vegan and i have been for almost half a year now and before that i was probably meat eater # uno who would not touch a veggie EVER. I was also one of those people who would pester vegetarians and try to talk them into eating meat because i just didn't get the bigger picture.

But then! *enter cool and heartfelt music* for experience/ boredom reasons i tried fasting cause in my religion (Greek orthodox) people fast for 40 days at a time and don't eat anything from animals (for the most part) and i searched for vegan recipes in places like PETA (was I brainwashed?). At the same time I also had to write a paper on animal rights for philosophy class based on Peter Singer's arguments and that just about convinced me and i turned vegan. So basically, I went from 0% to 100% for ethical/ political/ philosophical reasons :D
Apr 8, 2015 9:20 PM
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Because animals have as much right to life as I do.
Nov 1, 2018 2:10 AM
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ruziko said:
Because animals have as much right to life as I do.
THIS
As soon as you look at this glo will remember denden more.
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