I am vegetarian because...I have been for (insert how long)

Tell us why/ or how long you've been vegetarian. 

I'm vegetarian because I find it disgusting to eat meat and also for religious purposes. I've been veggie for about 7 years now.

I've been a vegetarian (pesco vegetarian for much of the time) since 1990. Why? For health reasons -- for the health of the cow, the pig, the chicken -- you get the idea.

I've been a vegetarian since 1989, which is about 21 years.  I saw a movie called Sea of Slaughter which was about the Canadian east coast fishery.  It was really vivid and I decided to not eat fish so I wouldn't contirbute.  Then I learned about other stuff from books like Diet for a New America.

Oh... and there were a couple of cute vegetarian girls I wanted to impress.  haha.

When I was a freshman at Cornell, I was on the soccer team (two hours of practice every day), plus studying and partying was exhausting, and I was always tired.  Somebody told me that if I give up meat, then I will have more energy.  Like many freshmen, I was willing to try anything, so I gave up meat that October day, just until the end of the soccer season, a month or so later.  Looking back, it may well have been nothing more than a placebo effect, but at the time I don't think I even knew what a placebo was, and so I was hooked.  And hey, if it gives me more energy for soccer, then it will give me more energy for studying, too, and for living life.  So I never looked back.  Plus the issues mentioned above by Anda weighed on me as well, and overall it just seemed like a good idea.

I've been a veg since I was 9. I grew up on a dairy farm and that had to have had at lest a partial impact, but I just couldn't get past the taste and texture. I'd make myself sick trying to eat it. At age 9, for health reasons, I became a veg. At around 21 I became vegan, but the chocolate and cheese were too hard to completely give up. I'm now veg in transition to vegan to ultimately become Raw Vegan (which I did for about a year in 05). I have lots of recipes and am always looking for something new to try (especially with tempeh). I am a member of veghaven.org. check out the site. Lots of veggies and vegans alike on that site. :)

i have been vegetarian for 17 months.  

I just celebrated my two year anniversary of being a vegetarian.  Plus vegetarians are sexier...lol

I just wanted to add that a book that really impressed me (though I didn't care for the parts that alluded to "the Creator") was John Robbins' The Food Revolution. I'd already been a vegetarian (i.e., pesco-vegetarian) for many years before I read that book, but that only strengthened my resolve. I bought five copies of that book after I'd read it to pass around.

Clearcanada, I'd like to know more about the fish thing. I feel guilty when I eat fish, but I understand that vegetarians often do not get enough Vitamin B-12 (or was it B-6?) because it can be found only in meat or fish. Does anyone care to elaborate on that? I'd really like to know.

i Have been a vegeternaian for 13 years i am 13 years old now ......in our religion no one eats vegeranian 

No meat for me lol.

I'm fourteen and i am a trying out being a pesco-vegetarian for health reasons...:)

Hello! Ethical reasons primarily, health reasons secondarily. I am vegetarian for about 5 years, and became vegan almost 1 years.