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Originally Posted by Hip Priest
I became vegetarian nearly 23 years ago (I was 12). It was a variety of reasons, including yours, and the fact that our farming methods are so unfair, and that it's just not very healthy. But basically, I think I realised that I don't need to eat animals - I come from a pretty wealthy country, and I've never been so desperate for food that something else has had to die just to fill my stomach.
I hope you stick with it, because if you're anything like me then you'll be glad you did when you're older. I was the only veggie in my family, and I'm kind of proud that I stuck at it, especially since back then I could actually eat very little - even things like plain biscuits had animal fat in. Vegetarian food is much more available and affordable now, which is a good thing. I thonk there were relatively few vegetarians for a long time, but it really picked up around the time that I changed to it. I'm sure that the 'movement' (for want of a better term) was a part of the reason too - at least in the sense of making me aware of things more.
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don't you hate the incessant questions about what you do for protein?
it drives me insane when things that look perfectly innocent have something non-vegetarian 7/8 of the way down the ingredient list. i dread finding out something like that when someone is cooking for me.
i've been doing it for almost 3 years now, though i continued eating fish until about a year ago, when it occured to me that if you eat fish you're NOT vegetarian. (that's another one of my pet peeves . . . i tell people i'm vegetarian and their immediate question is "do you eat fish?" uuh . . . last i checked fish were animals.)