Are you a vegetarian by choice or were you brought up as a vegetarian by your parents/guardians?
By choice -- the rest of my family are meat eaters. I stopped eating meat sometime in high school, I think when I was about 16 or so, although I still eat fish and other sea food (except octopus and eel because they're cute... although people tend to think I'm nuts for thinking eels are cute, so it doesn't need to be said
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Do you not eat meat because you dislike the taste, or the way the animals are treated? If the later, would you eat meat if the animals were killed in a more ethical way way? (I know they're killed in a pretty ethical way already, but yeah)
Or is it neither of those reasons? Please state if so.
I never particularly loved meat, so overall it wasn't that hard to give up (although steamed pork buns, hamburgers, bacon, and my grandmother's pot roast were a bit harder)... I originally stopped eating meat mainly because I thought about it too much and it just seemed gross to me to think about something I was eating having been part of an animal. That made it easy to give up eating meat as well, cause I was kind of grossed out by it and really just didn't want to eat it anyway. There are also other reasons, the biggest being that it bothers me to kill animals no matter how it's done, and even though I can justify eating meat in principle (like I can argue that it's natural for people to eat meat and all that, and as long as the animals are treated humanely it's fine, but when it comes down to it, I can't help thinking about how some individual cow or pig or chicken or whatever had to die to make a given piece of meat and that piece of meat used to be part of that individual animal). And there are other reasons as well, but I have to go to class now.