Heard Lyn White talking on the radio to Triple M's Hot Breakfast. Mum was there too. We went on to Make It Possible and found out about everything. We were absolutely horrified. For a while, we just got free range chicken, but I didn't feel I was doing enough, as the beef and everything else doesn't really tell you. I decided I couldn't live knowing that I was supporting such horrific cruelty. Mum went vegetarian in late November, and I went vegetarian on the 01/01/2013- a date I could remember for the rest of my life. Here I am, a year and 5 months later, and still happily meatless and trying to go off dairy!
Well I'm 13 and vegetarian. Went Veg in Januray, For ages I had just known that eating meat was wrong, though I set a goal to stop eating meat on Jan 31st (the day I started school) and haven't eaten meat since. I do know about the cruel industry but but I put the thought at the back of mind due to my very meat-eating family. My mum is vegetarian. Though when i go to my dad's nearly everything they eat has meat. Though I'm happy as a vegetarian
So I never had a light bulb moment. Though I went and volonteered at Edgar's mission. ANYONE HEARD OF IT? its a farm sanctuary and the animals touched my heart not really ever being around farm animals. Though I was veg then it just made me better knowing what I did was right.
I wrote a novel about dolphins living twenty million years ago and I gradually ate less and less meat during the creation of the story. I am now almost vegan but I do still eat a little dairy and free-range eggs. But way less than I used to.
If you are an activist for the end of killing whales and dolphins, and I certainly am, then sooner or later a Japanese fisherman will ask you if you are a vegetarian. If you say "no" then he will regard you as a hypocrite and disregard all your views. So I am a vegetarian for that reason, but also because I do not want animals to die so I can eat. There is plenty of other delicious nutritious food and I much prefer to cook veg than hideous slimy meat anyway.
Eat dead animals? Erk! No thanks.
My light bulb moment was coming into contact with a farm animal (calf) for the first time. It had such a great personality! Right then and there, it just "clicked." - Why would I ever want to eat something so beautiful as this? This inspired me to research into the way farm animals live... and..well...here I am! A vegan for just over 1 year!
On a day when I decided to get a vegetarian dinner instead of one with meat, I noticed I hadn't eaten any meat at all that day and my light bulb moment happened right then and there when I realised it wasn't hard. It is so easy to just not eat animals.
My light bulb moment was when i watched Gary Yurofsky's 'best speach ever'. I was was vegetarian on and off for 10 years prior to seeing this movie and have been a vegan since i wathced it. My meat eatng partner also moved toa vegan diet after seeing the movie and we are both so much better off for it.
The hardest part I struggle with is now i percieve the world in such a different light, the meaningless things that we used to let occupy our thoughts are so irrelevant when you become aware of the true nature of humankind.
"My light bulb moment was when i was going threw my dads computer bookmarks with him and i told him to stop scrolling when i saw this "MOST INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO EVER" and so we watched it. it was about animal cruelty. and that what inspired me to take a stand against animal cruelty and go VEGAN!
My "light bulb moment" was when I was driving behind a big beautiful cow tied down onto a trailer sadly heading towards the abattoirs, and as I over took the car and trailer I could just see the fear and haplessness in its eyes, ever since then I have not touched meat.
