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Hi everyone! I am doing an ethnography project for my Anthropology class, and I am studying vegetarians! I am not a vegetarian myself but I would love to hear from others on why you decided to go vegetarian or any other interesting facts. It would be a great help!!
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I'm sure you'll find plenty of stories if you read through the forums.
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I will not have a sentient being killed so I can eat them. Their life is important to them. And how can I say I love cats and dogs and yet eat pigs and cows?
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I started imagining whatever animal I was eating suffering to be killed for meat. Saw a few factory farm videos, too.
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Hi everyone! I am doing an ethnography project for my Anthropology class, and I am studying vegetarians! I am not a vegetarian myself but I would love to hear from others on why you decided to go vegetarian or any other interesting facts. It would be a great help!!
Do you intend to give up meat yourself?

I learned that not only don't humans need meat, but are better off not consuming it at all. Or any products from animals.
When you fully appreciate that, it's as barbaric as any other crime involving rape, slavery, and murder.
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Hi everyone! I am doing an ethnography project for my Anthropology class, and I am studying vegetarians! I am not a vegetarian myself but I would love to hear from others on why you decided to go vegetarian or any other interesting facts. It would be a great help!!
Hi abbieves,

It's not so exotic as it may sound. Unless a person is in some extreme circumstance, they don't need animal flesh to be healthy and strong. All that blood and violence is pretty gruesome, don't you think?
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Also, if you look at the diets of people living in the lower-income rural regions of Ecuador, Vietnam, Armenia, and India, you'll see that their diets contain very little meat. It's not necessarily that they don't like meat - it's just that they can't afford it. These people aren't starving - they have enough to eat and be healthy.

You might enjoy the book, Hungry Planet - What the World Eats (https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-What-World-Eats/dp/0984074422 ). It's basically a book of photographs. Each photograph shows a family from somewhere in the world, posing with their typical food. Here are some photos from the book:

A family from Chad:



From India (this is actually a relatively wealthy family):


A family from Mali:



A family from Ecuador:



And, for the sake of contrast, here's a family from the United States:

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