I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.
I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
During my teenage years, I rebelled and ate everything under the sun, but when I was 18 or 19, I became vegetarian-focused and got disgusted by meat.
The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.
When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.
Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.
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