Your 'Light Bulb' Moment

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I am vegetarian because I don't like that fact that I'm eating an animal it makes me sick

My light bulb moment was a few years back, when i thought to myself that if animals can live quite freely without eating other animals, why cant we, why is our closest relatives(Apes, monkeys ect.) eating a plant based diet? It really interested me so i researched lots.
I come to the realization that humans eat it today for 2 clear reasons, money and just wanting to.
Without the dairy/meat industries, imagine all the loss that the world would have.
If everyone ate a plant based diet there would be less medical problems, less medications, less doctors. Imagine if that happen? where would the money come from? Imagine all the farming jobs, food joints ect. that would loose out.  We are built in a money hungry world which is quite saddening. We care more about money than the well being of those who are living.
We are made to believe that meat and dairy is key to health, dairy for bone health and meat for protein, which is all wrong. We are being brainwashed from a young age, why arent we questioning it? Thats what hit me, why shouldnt i question it. Animals are made to be eaten? Then why arent humans eating eachother? why is it morally wrong when the rest of the food chain is normal, if we are meant to eat animals why werent we given the tools(Biologically) to do so. It is quite obvious we as humans are designed to eat a plant based diet and drink milk(from our mothers as babies) and nothing else. All this other bullshit is just society telling us we should be doing something, but it doesnt make it right. If animals were meant to be eaten or they have no feelings, why do animals show such affection and care towards humans? why do they have such fear before they die only for us to eat them. Children when they see animals, there instinct is not to eat them or munch on their legs. They are affectionate and loving. Eating meat is taught, that is a clear light that deep down we know its wrong.

Humans really are brainwashed, people have to stop closing their minds and start thinking instinctively.

I totally agree... just because society says it's ok and that we're meant to doesn't mean it's true... I have this same discussion every day, and people have said that it even says this in the bible "that god made animals for man to eat" to which I reply "does that mean he is right... no" just because he apparently created us and is older does not mean that he is right... an example I often use is "your parents created you and are older then you does that mean if they do something wrong like murder it means its ok... nope its not ok is it?" and that starts them thinking... but sometimes people just come up with stupid crap in attempts to justify  their actions it's as if they know it's wrong but they legitimately don't care and will do anything to try and justify it... some even go on the "attack is the best defence" thing and get real immature and act like you attacked them, when really you just mentioned it trying to politely advocate... I have only ever had a couple people do this to me though if your ever going to start advocating on behalf of the animals be careful there are loony's out there... that just think it's funny that animals get eaten... oh and in regards to your question why isn't there people eating people... there was, look up cannibals aka demons. oh and just a heads up moneys/chimps do eat each other some eat the same species and some eat smaller species... just so if some asks you while your trying to advocate then you have the basic facts it always helps to have facts so I recommend doing research...

I was an ethical vegetarian as a child, which I suspect came from having a dog I dearly loved, and understanding myself as a person who saw the moral value of animals. Unfortunately I ran out of stamina for it after about 2.5 years - it's difficult when you're a kid, especially since I would not say the culture around me was supportive of my decision.

Anyway, I became a vegetarian again in my late 20s, when I decided that eating without killing things was morally preferable, but didn't look nor think too deeply into it. I got another dog, who means the world to me, and reinforced for me the moral absurdity of loving some animals while subjecting others to misery and death.

Last year, a friend of mine became a vegan. Didn't go vegetarian first - straight to vegan. I asked him why he didn't just become a vegetarian, and he told me about bobby calves. I felt foolish that I'd never given dairy any serious thought. I did some research. I sat on this information for a few months, feeling that going vegan seemed like a lot of work - seemed too hard. Then I realised it was rather ridiculous for someone in my position, in a first-world country, to stave off veganism as 'too hard' just because I didn't want to be bothered learning to cook some things. I felt that I didn't have the right to say that's 'too hard'. It's not like I have to spend 5 hours a day gathering food; I go to a food library (supermarket) and it's all just there. The internet is there: it's filled with thousands of vegan recipes. Read and was very inspired by the work and arguments of writers like Gary Francione. So I thought there was only one thing to do: go vegan. Haven't looked back for a second. Glad of it every day.

My Light Bulb Moment to go Veg is when I saw how other chicken are suffering in cages and while my are not these chooks. Check out my post "My Chicken" to learn more about them and see my post "Less meat, more Plants" how I ditched meat from my life.

I will aid you to end such cruelty to animals.

Hmm I think I've had a couple. I did go through a vegetarian/pseudo-activist stage when i was 14/15 and again when i was maybe 17 but kept falling back since obviously I was a child and didn't provide for myself, I thought it was unfair to put that onto my family but I always thought "as soon as I move out I'll go vegetarian".
Then I can't really remember what reminded me .. I think I just thought about it one night and thought like .. eff this I can't be bothered, and went veg. That was maybe several months ago?

To motivate me I started following a lot of vegan bloggers and reading a few things here and there - then it was a mixture of seeing them easily living vegan (a lot were students from the sounds of it) and I found out about the dairy industry and probably suddenly within one day I was like "omg I can't touch milk this is gross" and that was it! I think the big massive CLICK though was I was at work and there was a fancy box of chocolates sitting right THERE and I picked it up and thought "no one will know, like just one chocolate wouldn't hurt" but I literally just couldnt do it and I was so proud of myself and yea. And it's funny and cool because I hate cooking, live at home, and am a student and I would always tell myself I'll become vegan when I get past all those things but looook at me now woo.
(i'm still really like excited for myself can u tell can u)

My Light Bulb Moment, was turning the light-switch On--
in my heart. Realizing there was a lot of dead animals in there.

Truthfully, I have had many "light bulb" moments as I was growing up - especially when I owned my own chickens - but for a number of reasons have really struggled the many times I have tried to change my eating habits - I grew up in a very small rural town and would feel quite weak and sickly whenever I went long periods without eating any meat (I've been seeing a doctor about this, actually, and apparently I'm just super vitamin-deficient!) and so would reluctantly have a small amount of red meat every couple of weeks. I recently moved to Sydney and have found it SO MUCH EASIER to adapt to an entirely-vegetarian diet, possibly because I now have a very large and diverse range of foods to supplement meat with as opposed to, you know, a tiny lonesome supermarket. I've been consistently vegetarian now for about four months (which isn't very long, I know) and am finally feeling great, both physically and spiritually. I am slowly trying to transition to vegan, and would really appreciate any tips on the process as my body tends to throw spanners in all of my works!

That was probably more information than anyone needed to know - sorry! I hope you're all having a great weekend x