my light bolb moment
my light bolb moment was when i was on a train and another train went past but it wasnt a human train it was a cattle train they where all squished up in a little areas and they where looking at me as if to say SAVE ME
When I was 12, a question just poped into my head and I asked on it on yahoo answers : Whats the tratment like for animals raised for food. One person sent me a link to wwwfactoryfarming.com and a whole new veiw of food opened up for me.I was obsessed. I had to learn more of this. After reading all the reports and whatching all the vidios, I decided I should do something about it, and the only thing I thought of doing was going vegetarian, but i pushed that thought aside, thinking I could never do it and shouldn't try. But the thought kept nagging at me, and I felt guilty whenever I ate meat. Whilst in this moral delema, on September 19, 2007, at the age of 13, our cooking teacher showed us a vidio about vegetarianism, and I decided that was a sign. That night I ate my last meat meal (fish fingers), and from 20 september 2007 onwards I have been a devoted vegetariani.
my vego moment was in year 12 chemistry class and we were doing the enzyme experiment, you know the one where you cut up liver and put it in peroxide? after that i just couldn't eat meat.
my vegan moment was just one day at uni. nothing happened. i just decided to be vegan.
i've never really liked eating meat - just never liked the taste really but just ate it because my family did. i turned 18 and realised that i didnt have to do what my parents told me anymore so i just stopped eating meat. i reasearched a little before making the switch and realised that some of my rolemodels are also vegan or vegetarians- i think this also pushed my decision to become veg.
I don't think I had a moment... It all happened over time. The first thing I did though was switch my spaghetti sauce to one without meat and my dad was all like "are you going vego?" and I said "I guess I am" lol
When I was about 12 or so it just sort of clicked in my head that I wouldn't eat my cat or my dog and it didn't make sense to eat other amimals. After rather a lot of arguing with my parents who were worried about my health I became vegetarian when I was about 13.
I had been considering becoming vegan for a while and finally did last year after I began to do some more research about the conditions animals are kept in on factory farms.
hmmm i guess when I was a youngster, maybe 7 or 8, I started to dislike the taste of meat, but it wasnt until I was 11 that I met a friend who was a vegetarian. This made me very curious, so I did a bit of research and informed my parents that I would refrain from eating meat forever.
when i was 11, i built up all my courage and went up to my muma and asked her if i could become a vegetarian. She said no, you eat whats put infront of you. when i was 14 i tried again, but again, as my mum provided my food i was rejected. I sorta gave up, but i think my light bulb moment was when i was at the surry hills festival, it was actually the unleashed stall that put me on track. i found myself arguing for vegetarian lifestyles against my boyfriend who thought they were stupid. I thought hey, i might as well do this. Seeing as I have a part time job i brought whole bunch of vego friendly products & cooked for a week, after that week I told mum I was going vegetarin and that was that (:
i can't remember exactly how, but i got into PETA and joined up and was looking at their website, and it really convinced me. I saw the meat industry in a completely new light and went vego. My family was awesome about it, so that was lucky.
I was in the city one day walking with my aunt and we were approached by these people taste testing- promoting. It was for some new deli 'sensation', or so they liked to call it.
They attempted to convince her that eating meat a few times a week was good for you; and there would be no harm in trying it. Her reply was (after being vegan for 13 years), "I wouldn't eat my dog, why the hell would I eat what's on that plate?".
