Reasons people become vegetarians

Many non-vegetarians wonder what drives vegetarians to give up meat and adopt an entirely different lifestyle. There is no simple answer to this question. Non-vegetarians become vegetarians for a variety of reasons - some even for several reasons. Most vegetarians claim that they were vegetarian for one or more reasons. 

The most-mentioned reason, as many vegetarians claim, is that they have ethical problems with eating meat. Most disagree with how chickens are debarked, forced to live in small cages, and then slaughtered when they do not produce eggs fast enough. Most vegetarians also disagree with the crowded and stressful environments animals are forced into and hormone laden feed used to make them grow faster and produce more. 

People who become vegetarians for this purpose often draw ethical boundaries in different spots, depending on their personal beliefs. For example, some faithful vegans do not consume yeast, wear wool, or even eat certain vegetables such as carrots, that require killing the plant to harvest. On the opposite side of the spectrum, some vegetarians-sometimes referred to as pseudo-vegetarians-will actually eating fish and chicken on a regular basis. 

Not all vegetarians object to the consumption of meat products for the same reasons. Some simply do not like meat or maybe have health concerns about cholesterol, preservatives or hormones in meat. 

Vegetarians, as state environmental reasons not to eat meat do constitute the group representing a different group. The reasoning is that meat consumption pushing farmers to deforest more and more land to provide grazing for cattle. Many other vegetarians but have totally different reasons than those already mentioned.