Why I continue to be a Vegetarian
Over the last few months I've been getting a lot of questions to why I became and stayed a vegetarian. This year is my 10 th year of being a vegetarian. These questions, while I often answer and small soundbites, are actually very complex in nature. So I decided to write a post about my personal experience to why I became and why continue to be a vegetarian. I originally became a vegetarian for health reasons. I was sitting in my lunchroom with my friends when we were eating some chicken nuggets. We joked about how the chicken nuggets were not “real meat”. It was then that I told my friends I was going to stop eating meat. I took up the challenge to stop eating meat. Little did I know how hard it would be. Growing up in the rural South, all I knew was meat. Meat is a very intimate part of Southern living. Growing up and working on a farm provided me ample opportunities to know the meat that we eat. Deer hunting is a seasonal thing. Growing a chicken from a small egg to a