what made you a vegetarian in the first place?

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Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.what made you a vegetarian in the first place?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(what made you a vegetarian in the first place?),it will help you,my kids.

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i'm asking as a non-vegan. it's just that i cannot imagine myself eating only vegetables (& fruits, probably) and nothing else for the rest of my life. i would like your insight on this.

Answers:
#1: Health. I am pretty convinced that eating a vegan diet helps reduce my risk for cancer and heart disease. This alone is enough for me to be vegan (plus it keeps me young looking and slim).

#2: Minimizing suffering. While I am not a militant animal rights activist, I am turned off by factory farming and cruelty to animals. Being vegan is my way of helping to minimize animal suffering. It makes me feel better about myself.

#3: Taste. I love the way vegan food tastes. I love fruits, vegetables, beans, grains, spices... If you cook well, you discover that vegan food is diverse, delicious, and you can eat a lot of it without gaining weight. Pigging out on yummy foods is awesome!

Other Answers:
i know a couple of friends that are some
and these are the answers they gave me
they witnessed a slaughtering
or all the chemical additives

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I don't want to be vegan, but I do want to be a vegetarian.
I'm doing it because whenver I think about animals I just hate to think about eating them... it just seems so horrible.
That was my first modivation, and then I found a fact website on how people who eat meat are 50% more likely to die of heart attacks from eating meat, and other facts like that, and I decided I wasn't going to let that be me.

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I feel better physically when I eat less meat.
I was vegiterian for years. Now I eat some meat just not that much. I never eat a whole steak only about hlaf or less and only have meat about 3 days per week.

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I've noticed that people who eat a lot have meat have health problems.
People who are raised on meat get a lot of pain later in life and have to take medications, etc.

Me, I was raised on mostly vegetables, whole grains, etc; and I never see a doctor, never see the inside of hospital (except the emergency ward last year when my wife came down with some kind of flu). never take any kind of medications or prescriptions, never have any pain, and I have plenty of energy.

I know one family of four sisters and two brothers, all now grown, and they were raised on tons of meat; both parents are already dead (died in their sixties), and one sister has heart problems, another has chronic back pain, one brother has hearing problems, and another sister is dying of cancer.

If you are young, you probably don't have health problems; but maybe you'd like to also be healthy when you get into middle age and beyond.

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Well I always loved hamburgers, all kinds of meat, etc. But 2 years ago i started not like ice cream, just not craving it at all, i hated milk, and ham, pork, beef, chicken, etc didn't taste good to me. so i decided to become one for my love of animals and since it'd be so easy for some people its religion
for others its pure disgust

try watching this video

http://www.meat.org/

it is sad but a real eye opener

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If you did a little research before asking this question, you would then understand how ignorant you sound.

Vegetarians eat MUCH more then just veggies and fruit.

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I am from India and i have been a vegetarian all my life. I have never even tasted meat nor felt the need to. My whole family has been vegetarian for many many generations. 70% of Indians are vegetarians and have never tasted meat and have followed it for generations. Our diet has evolved that way and so we know how to get protein into it.

Most new vegetarians esp in western countries dont know how to get protein from non-meat sources and so they might be sickly.

Although i have lived in the US for 6 years and am married to an American who isnt vegetarian i have never wanted to eat meat. I am aslo a food scientist and i like my vegetarian diet for personal, health and cultural reasons. I can live a healthy life without taking another life and i like that.

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