Being vegetarian was to inform everything, the course of my destiny. I was baffled that the entire hippie nation hadn't become vegetarian en masse. It made no sense as eating meat went against the whole dialogue. Were the hippies just as hypocritical as the rest of them? I couldn't admit that but I understood why I loved songs like "The Loner” so much. I didn't want to be like the majority anyway. The majority were always wrong.
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Thirty-two years ago, I became a vegetarian. I always thought it was a bit weird eating dead bodies even though my parents said it was all right. But I saw "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," and that did it. In the movie, they're doing the same thing to people that they do to animals, and so I gradually got off eating meat.... The health thing came way later. Veganism came four years ago, and it was more of a health decision.
Phil Collen
With all the wonderful vegetarian foods available today, it doesn't take a mentalist to realize that eating meat just doesn't make sense anymore. It's not healthy, it's devastating to our planet, and it means a cruel and painful death for literally billions of animals every year. So why not give vegetarianism a try? You will have a lot more energy, you can lose weight, and best of all you will know that you are creating a better world for all the animals that live here.
Owain Yeoman
When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also. ... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian. I was eating meat and didn't know how it affected my health .... I just felt better and brighter and lighter, and I had more energy .... It was a big deal to me, being an animal lover, that I realised what I was eating, and I didn't separate myself from, say, my animals, my pets.
Christian Serratos
I became a vegetarian 3 years ago. ... The best thing about being a vegetarian for me, number one is I know I'm not harming any animals. ... The number two thing is increased strength. I'm a lot stronger than I was when I was eating meat. ... Most of your most powerful animals in the wild are vegetarian, so I'm trying to get my strength to that level. I don't know if I'll make it or not, but elephants are vegetarians. They're pretty big, so...
Michael Clarke Duncan
Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What it does rest on is our innate moral goodness, compassion, and pity which, when liberated, lead us to value all forms of life. It is obvious, then, that wilfully to take life, or through the eating of meat indirectly to cause others to kill, runs counter to the deepest instincts of human beings.
Philip Kapleau