Two of my coworkers are vegetarian, and the whole company has six people. I guess it's natural that I had to ask why they became vegetarians during today's lunch. Both of them had different reasons and to think about it, I realized that all vegetarians I know (although not that many) had different backgrounds.
Let me list them out. I'll use fake names here. Some people actually gave me explicit answers. For some people, I just inferred.
1) Anthony became a vegetarian because he once had a conversation with one of his friends about the goodness of being a herbivore vs a carnivore. He couldn't back up his thesis about why eating meat is good so he converted.
2) Brittany had an anatomy class in middle school and the teacher had her cut meat. She was disgusted since then.
3) Paul felt that people shouldn't hurt other livings, so he denied eating anything with a nerve system.
4) Sally had a good mind and didn't like the notion of killing animals.
5) Tom's religion prohibits eating meat.
6) Gale saw how cruel animals were "processed" and decided to stop eating meat.
7) Dave wanted to become healthy and eating meat isn't exactly a great way to be healthy.
I'm inclined to be like Dave, but I still can't live without burgers. Thank you In-N-Out, Burger King, and McDonald's. (I'm being sarcastic.)
