what ?? no more bacon for you ????
i'm a vegetarian, have been my whole life. i don't eat "anything with a face" as a friend once put it. i do eat eggs and dairy products ("i like cheese."
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i have three reasons for this choice which probably are equally weighted :
- habit. it's how i've always eaten so it's quite natural for me, i don't have to think too hard about it.
- ethics. i am very uncomfortable with the human-centric point of view of many people and i consider that animals deserve respect and good treatment just as much as humans do. and most particularly i find factory farming practices to be barbaric and i refuse to support them. i buy only organic eggs from chickens who are living outside, and try to buy "small producer" milk and cheese products from local family farms. they are a bit more expensive, but i think it's worth it.
- taste. as a vegetarian, you get a lot of meat-eaters telling you "you don't know what you're missing !" or "how can you give up such delicious food !" so to shut them up at various times i've tasted some kinds of meat, and i can therefore confirm that i don't like it. i've never tasted fish or any kind of crustacean, because the smell and sight of it alone are enough to turn my stomach. even if i weren't a vegetarian, i wouldn't eat fish.
i don't proselytize and i get very annoyed by people who try to convert me, particularly with such spurious arguments as "but they're just animals / fish / birds, they're MADE to be eaten !"