Q: I was first inspired to become vegan.....6,503 answered, 1,560 skipped, 1,829 clicked “other” and left a comment. Those will be analyzed and released at a later date.

Answer Choices Responses

from a conversation with a person - 24.91%, 1,620
from seeing and educational video / movie / film - 42.01% 2,732
from reading an article, book or song lyric - 27.39% 1,781
from a presentation or speaker - 5.69% 370
Total 6,503

	6,503
Comments(1,829) + 1,829 chose "other" with a comment

Below are the comments respondents to the survey left. Many of them could have been included in the original choices to help us understand which mediums work the best, but they made analyzing the results very difficult. For example someone said "magazine"...that would fall under "article, book, song lyric" and others said "Earthlings" while that would fall under "educational video". In order to further analyze the comments it was a lot more money ($300 for the year) and work! A volunteer downloaded them and may help to sort them with his program. Until then.... you can look through the comments:

a feeling i had deep inside of myself
9/9/2013 11:17 AM View respondent's answers
I was a vegetarian for many years for moral reasons but then read about the cruelty of eggs and dairy in articles online and went vegan.
9/7/2013 4:18 PM View respondent's answers
From feeling I did not have the right to cause harm
9/7/2013 6:21 AM View respondent's answers
facebook pages like cctv for all slaughterhouses and stronger penalties for cruelty to animals
9/7/2013 6:03 AM View respondent's answers
Undercover videos of factory farms and labs on Facebook..
9/4/2013 6:37 PM View respondent's answers
I was interested in health benefits
9/4/2013 3:53 PM View respondent's answers
Learning and reading more about animals and the truth behind animal product production.
9/4/2013 3:38 PM View respondent's answers
The girl who made elegantly vegan, helped her whith this App and got the message http://ow.ly/m4Lw1
9/4/2013 3:28 PM View respondent's answers
Transitioned from veg to vegan
9/3/2013 5:31 PM View respondent's answers
identifying with dairy cows when I became a breastfeeding mother
9/3/2013 12:47 PM View respondent's answers
Yourofsky's speech, GA Tech
9/3/2013 8:49 AM View respondent's answers
also, just from being deeply connected with animals my whole life.
9/2/2013 5:49 PM View respondent's answers
From being alone with animals
9/1/2013 6:55 PM View respondent's answers
Curiosity about food at very young age
9/1/2013 5:35 PM View respondent's answers
Witnessing the slaughter of a sheep
9/1/2013 2:54 PM View respondent's answers
When I thought about it without bias
8/31/2013 12:29 PM View respondent's answers
working in an abators for 1 hr
8/30/2013 4:51 PM View respondent's answers
undercover footage of dairy calves
8/30/2013 7:22 AM View respondent's answers
from spiritual enlightenment
8/29/2013 10:02 AM View respondent's answers
Seeing posts on Facebook
8/29/2013 7:30 AM View respondent's answers
from looking at animals at slaughter.
8/28/2013 9:07 AM View respondent's answers
by my wife
8/28/2013 5:49 AM View respondent's answers
I thought about not eating meat, and then as a followup, I read some things
8/27/2013 1:51 PM View respondent's answers
I produced and presented in a TV I'm making "retreat me" and met an author Annie Clark who gave me her book "in the raw" from there I tried eating raw vegan for a week then researched further and long story short.... After so many positive changes ... My partner and I never looked back
8/27/2013 1:48 PM View respondent's answers
from attending a animal vegan event and seeing things around me and from what I had read and heard.
8/27/2013 8:44 AM View respondent's answers
My cardiologist but have had an inclination to become vegan for many years
8/27/2013 8:33 AM View respondent's answers
It just happened.
8/27/2013 2:07 AM View respondent's answers
not wanting to cause suffering in the animal kingdom
8/26/2013 11:50 PM View respondent's answers
mainly from my own inner voice, documentaries just sealed the deal.
8/26/2013 12:07 PM View respondent's answers
Through Meditation, realizing we are all connected, tapping into unconditional love.
8/25/2013 6:06 PM View respondent's answers
Health problems
8/25/2013 5:18 PM View respondent's answers
Because I care about animals, my health & the environment
8/25/2013 4:11 PM View respondent's answers
and to take back my health to age well
8/25/2013 1:40 PM View respondent's answers
connecting the dots myself and realising what action i had to take
8/25/2013 10:14 AM View respondent's answers
attending a vegan festival
8/25/2013 7:53 AM View respondent's answers
PETA videos of cruelty
8/25/2013 3:01 AM View respondent's answers
Diet for a New America
8/25/2013 2:01 AM View respondent's answers
Facebook posts about animal cruelty
8/24/2013 8:55 PM View respondent's answers
info obtained by social media
8/24/2013 7:24 PM View respondent's answers
cruelty involved with dairy/eggs
8/24/2013 6:29 PM View respondent's answers
after being vegetarian for 10 years
8/24/2013 5:59 PM View respondent's answers
;Earthlings the movie
8/24/2013 2:00 PM View respondent's answers
At the way cows and other animals were treated for Milk..
8/24/2013 12:39 PM View respondent's answers
From knowing a sweet, wonderful "farm"pig
8/24/2013 10:59 AM View respondent's answers
The Sniths "mear is murder" as well as this being a huge issue in the Punk community.
8/24/2013 9:43 AM View respondent's answers
Vegucated
8/23/2013 6:43 PM View respondent's answers
from birth
8/23/2013 4:07 PM View respondent's answers
Wanted to evolve from vegetarianism
8/23/2013 10:43 AM View respondent's answers
my fiancee totally convinced to turn vegan after talking with colleagues. Then we started to get all the necessary information
8/23/2013 8:02 AM View respondent's answers
animal rights group introduced the idea to me
8/23/2013 5:39 AM View respondent's answers
It was a gradual process triggered by a slowly increasing digust at dairy products and self dialogue that made me question more and more then purpose in ingesting those things, after which I began to seek out info on veganism.
8/22/2013 9:22 PM View respondent's answers
was a vegetarian from a young age, but a picture of a baby cow separated from its mom made me go vegan
8/22/2013 8:16 PM View respondent's answers
I started to think and realized what I was eating.
8/22/2013 8:33 AM View respondent's answers
from the goodness in my heart
8/21/2013 10:17 PM View respondent's answers
Parents are
8/21/2013 7:15 PM View respondent's answers
I started feeling like a hypocrite when I said I loved animals but then ate them. I changed this as soon as I realised how blinkered I had become.
8/21/2013 4:52 PM View respondent's answers
To help bring an end to animal suffering.
8/21/2013 11:42 AM View respondent's answers
My vegan brother taught me the truth as I was "only" vegetarian..
8/21/2013 7:36 AM View respondent's answers
From my own perspective
8/21/2013 3:40 AM View respondent's answers
When I realized cows did not want to be hamburgers.
8/21/2013 2:22 AM View respondent's answers
Introspection as a child.
8/20/2013 11:00 PM View respondent's answers
Animal Liberation
8/20/2013 9:53 PM View respondent's answers
I couldn't think of any more reasons why I was still eating eggs, cheese, and dairy products.
8/20/2013 9:04 PM View respondent's answers
From looking my rescued dogs in the eyes and realzing that there is no difference between him and the pig that had to die for my cutlet.
8/20/2013 7:48 PM View respondent's answers
A news clip on tv
8/20/2013 7:42 PM View respondent's answers
Finally realising what I was really eating
8/20/2013 7:42 PM View respondent's answers
By my wife.
8/20/2013 6:14 PM View respondent's answers
On a facebook forum
8/20/2013 4:36 PM View respondent's answers
Graphic posts of dairy and egg industry on vegetarian society Facebook page posted by vegans
8/20/2013 4:13 PM View respondent's answers
ethical and health reasons
8/20/2013 3:54 PM View respondent's answers
From reading about factory farming,
8/20/2013 3:51 PM View respondent's answers
A combination of things, gradually things clicked for me.
8/20/2013 2:44 PM View respondent's answers
Vegetarian for many years and 'saw the light'
8/20/2013 2:01 PM View respondent's answers
Spending nearly a month juicing.
8/20/2013 1:41 PM View respondent's answers
I went to a free Mexican zoo
8/20/2013 1:38 PM View respondent's answers
From researching more details & I also found out I'm intolerant to all animal products
8/20/2013 12:42 PM View respondent's answers
natural progression from being lacto - vegetarian
8/20/2013 11:59 AM View respondent's answers
thinking about animals
8/20/2013 11:30 AM View respondent's answers
Animal rescue made me think that is not fair to save some and eat others.
8/20/2013 11:18 AM View respondent's answers
Thinking
8/20/2013 11:10 AM View respondent's answers
I think all of the above, particularly leaflets, plus support from friends and peers and the Vegan Society
8/20/2013 10:34 AM View respondent's answers
When, at about age 7, I saw a truck full of cows heading towards the local slaughter house
8/20/2013 10:30 AM View respondent's answers
Via a social group
8/20/2013 10:10 AM View respondent's answers
The first two options generally.
8/20/2013 9:36 AM View respondent's answers
Inspired by a high fibre diet in the 1980's
8/20/2013 9:18 AM View respondent's answers
all of the above
8/20/2013 9:03 AM View respondent's answers
met a bunch of vegans
8/20/2013 3:13 AM View respondent's answers
Book: Skinny bitch. Was a vegetarian for 18 years before that.
8/19/2013 4:19 PM View respondent's answers
A death close to me led me to question my philosophy.
8/19/2013 1:38 PM View respondent's answers
From meeting a beautiful lady who had been vegan for 23 years since she was 19
8/19/2013 11:33 AM View respondent's answers
By watching the Animal murder Live on roadside for Meat consumption
8/19/2013 1:20 AM View respondent's answers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4
8/18/2013 9:32 PM View respondent's answers
from thinking about the issues and researching
8/18/2013 5:51 PM View respondent's answers
When I found out what happens to cows and their calves just to keep milk in the shops
8/18/2013 3:19 PM View respondent's answers
Online research back in '99
8/18/2013 2:10 PM View respondent's answers
Don't really recall, but none of the above, I think. Just a general awareness of the environmental and ethical arguments, and subsequent experience of better health.
8/18/2013 12:37 PM View respondent's answers
I was already vegetarian and the next step was vegan!
8/18/2013 11:05 AM View respondent's answers
I was a kid and it just seemed wrong to hurt animals.
8/18/2013 9:09 AM View respondent's answers
Having been vegetarian for 20 years, I developed intolerance
8/18/2013 9:00 AM View respondent's answers
Was already vegetarian, had a talk in school (aged 13) on factory farming, and went vegan that afternoon!
8/18/2013 8:57 AM View respondent's answers
husband
8/18/2013 5:04 AM View respondent's answers
all of the above
8/17/2013 3:27 PM View respondent's answers
Ethics
8/17/2013 11:30 AM View respondent's answers
from volunteering with an animal rescue group where the woman running it was vegetarian
8/17/2013 11:07 AM View respondent's answers
From practicing and studying yoga
8/17/2013 8:54 AM View respondent's answers
the Rave Diet by Mike Anderson, actually
8/17/2013 1:39 AM View respondent's answers
Earthlings
8/16/2013 11:58 PM View respondent's answers
After seeing cruelty to animals photos
8/16/2013 6:40 PM View respondent's answers
in combination with conversations online
8/16/2013 5:25 PM View respondent's answers
Salmonella poisoning then an adult ed class on animals rights
8/16/2013 12:31 PM View respondent's answers
as a very young child, on a field trip to a farm
8/16/2013 12:06 PM View respondent's answers
All of the above.
8/15/2013 7:11 PM View respondent's answers
by my love for animals
8/15/2013 6:58 PM View respondent's answers
A personal experience
8/15/2013 6:03 PM View respondent's answers
for the animals
8/15/2013 4:32 PM View respondent's answers
I felt sick when I was preparing meet for lunch
8/15/2013 2:33 PM View respondent's answers
via culinary and lifestyle blogs.
8/15/2013 1:23 PM View respondent's answers
After first becoming vegetarian
8/15/2013 11:57 AM View respondent's answers
Church
8/14/2013 9:51 PM View respondent's answers
health reasons
8/14/2013 9:38 PM View respondent's answers
From realizing that animals just like my pet were on my plate.
8/14/2013 8:55 PM View respondent's answers
My Wife was Vegan & I followed her example.
8/14/2013 5:37 PM View respondent's answers
All of the above and more
8/14/2013 3:34 PM View respondent's answers
The restaurant I worked at changed owners and became vegan
8/14/2013 1:03 PM View respondent's answers
Just knowing that eating animals is wrong. Took me all of 50 years to wake up.
8/14/2013 11:11 AM View respondent's answers
Earthlings
8/14/2013 7:40 AM View respondent's answers
culmination of things mostly a good friend going vegan, being into vegan bands, and feeling it the natural step from my previous vegetarianism.
8/14/2013 12:49 AM View respondent's answers
Ethic reasoning
8/14/2013 12:31 AM View respondent's answers
Information on websites--VegSource.com and FactoryFarming.com
8/13/2013 11:15 PM View respondent's answers
Blogs on tumblr.
8/13/2013 7:40 PM View respondent's answers
was inspired to become vegetarian very early on because i loved animals (young child). didn't understand animals were hurt from meat and dairy
8/13/2013 6:59 PM View respondent's answers
all the above
8/13/2013 4:08 PM View respondent's answers
When I found out that cows and chickens died to make milk and eggs. I was already veggie before because I have always loved animals and felt that harming them was wrong.
8/13/2013 3:14 PM View respondent's answers
from reading about in the internet (peta)
8/13/2013 12:17 PM View respondent's answers
Website (http://mach-die-augen-auf.jimdo.com/) via urkostforum.de
8/13/2013 12:12 PM View respondent's answers
Something within me made me want to change my lifestyle
8/13/2013 12:09 PM View respondent's answers
by having candida
8/13/2013 12:00 PM View respondent's answers
A one month of research.
8/13/2013 11:59 AM View respondent's answers
From contact with vegans/vegetarian
8/13/2013 11:56 AM View respondent's answers
spending summers on a working farm
8/13/2013 9:42 AM View respondent's answers
Moving to the country and being surrounded by animals
8/13/2013 9:41 AM View respondent's answers
As a volunteer working at an farm animal sanctuary
8/13/2013 9:01 AM View respondent's answers
I just happened to eat almost vegan while moving to Spain.
8/13/2013 8:48 AM View respondent's answers
nothing, it mostly happened by accident through eating healthily
8/13/2013 6:49 AM View respondent's answers
Combination of all the above over time
8/13/2013 5:58 AM View respondent's answers
Seeing disturbing images
8/13/2013 3:00 AM View respondent's answers
slow evolution from vegetarian. I read Vegan Voice a lot.
8/13/2013 1:45 AM View respondent's answers
Finding the thought of consuming animal products too disgusting
8/12/2013 5:20 PM View respondent's answers
from my own thoughts
8/12/2013 5:04 PM View respondent's answers
Many videos and books
8/12/2013 4:33 PM View respondent's answers
all of the above
8/12/2013 4:21 PM View respondent's answers
Slow combination of many different things
8/12/2013 3:25 PM View respondent's answers
all of the above
8/12/2013 2:44 PM View respondent's answers
Reading
8/12/2013 2:24 PM View respondent's answers
because of my love of animals
8/12/2013 2:22 PM View respondent's answers
a philosophical discussion on ethics
8/12/2013 11:51 AM View respondent's answers
Growing up on a farm made me adore all animals
8/12/2013 10:04 AM View respondent's answers
Visiting a site of a vegan animal-sanctuary :)
8/12/2013 9:53 AM View respondent's answers
for health reasons (lactose intolerant)
8/12/2013 8:56 AM View respondent's answers
i hated what i was doing with my vegetarian diet
8/12/2013 8:51 AM View respondent's answers
by the twenty-something members of my Facebook group Pinoyvegs https://www.facebook.com/groups/pinoyvegs/10151645391016911/?ref=notif¬if_t=group_activity.
8/12/2013 5:53 AM View respondent's answers
I was vegetarian for a long time and decided to go farther by myself
8/12/2013 4:19 AM View respondent's answers
After getting sick
8/12/2013 3:10 AM View respondent's answers
Being a yogini and working with animals
8/11/2013 11:17 PM View respondent's answers
recommendation from medical staff
8/11/2013 10:37 PM View respondent's answers
Vegetarian Food for Thought podcast -- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
8/11/2013 10:27 PM View respondent's answers
Dr Furhman
8/11/2013 10:12 PM View respondent's answers
I was raised Vegan
8/11/2013 8:20 PM View respondent's answers
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's food for thought podcast
8/11/2013 8:04 PM View respondent's answers
A crush on a vegetarian boy began my interest in abstaining from animal products. This led me to read about it and the facts convinced me.
8/11/2013 7:51 PM View respondent's answers
I was always intrigued by the idea but it seems too "out there" for for to truly grasp hold of. Then I met a woman who was vegan and it made me realize it WAS possible despite the geographic area in which I live. Shortly after, I came across Genesis 1:29 and it was like seeing the verse for the first time! What an eye-opener! I realized I had been thinking all those years that God had never finished the sentence! (Whether the story is literal or not, I believe it is there for a reason).
8/11/2013 7:20 PM View respondent's answers
Learning about Buddhism
8/11/2013 2:35 PM View respondent's answers
Health purposes
8/11/2013 2:15 PM View respondent's answers
It was a gradual eye-opening experience, beginning with internet seaches for fur farms, which led me to discover factory farms and other animal abuses.
8/11/2013 1:25 AM View respondent's answers
Podcasts (Vegan Freak and Veg Food for Thought)
8/11/2013 12:30 AM View respondent's answers
From seeing the cruelty of live export exposed by Animals Australia
8/11/2013 12:22 AM View respondent's answers
I'd been vegetarian forever, and it seemed like the logical next step.
8/10/2013 11:09 PM View respondent's answers
vegans on tumblr
8/10/2013 8:05 PM View respondent's answers
from seeing pigs and cows at an agricultural fair with the cuts of meat written above the pens!
8/10/2013 7:41 PM View respondent's answers
from a podcast series (by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau)
8/10/2013 7:20 PM View respondent's answers
sharing university flat with a vegan
8/10/2013 6:32 PM View respondent's answers
Finding a raw vegan recipe on youtube
8/10/2013 6:01 PM View respondent's answers
I have been uneasy weirded out about eating and using animal products since I was about 5; according to my parents, without any outside inspiration
8/10/2013 5:51 PM View respondent's answers
couldn't justify other living creatures dying for my tatsebuds any longer
8/10/2013 5:34 PM View respondent's answers
My doctor
8/10/2013 4:59 PM View respondent's answers
driving behind a chicken truck
8/10/2013 3:17 PM View respondent's answers
disgust for milk
8/10/2013 3:07 PM View respondent's answers
personal realisation
8/10/2013 2:58 PM View respondent's answers
Didn't like the look taste or smell of meat
8/10/2013 2:26 PM View respondent's answers
By the example of a vegan in life.
8/10/2013 2:01 PM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofsky
8/10/2013 1:26 PM View respondent's answers
working in nature and being around more living things.
8/10/2013 1:02 PM View respondent's answers
And when I saw my dog breastfeeding I made the decision
8/10/2013 12:48 PM View respondent's answers
Felt better physically eating vegan
8/10/2013 12:44 PM View respondent's answers
not vegan-but eat vagan at least 3x/week
8/10/2013 12:12 PM View respondent's answers
After being vegetarian
8/10/2013 11:48 AM View respondent's answers
Attending an animal rights conference
8/10/2013 11:35 AM View respondent's answers
From birth
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vegucated
8/10/2013 11:28 AM View respondent's answers
By the example of my 16 year old vegan granddaughter
8/10/2013 11:27 AM View respondent's answers
Heart attack at age 44
8/10/2013 11:13 AM View respondent's answers
It was the next step from being vegetarian
8/10/2013 11:12 AM View respondent's answers
It was a long process combining all of the above
8/10/2013 10:50 AM View respondent's answers
When I was around 12 I learned that vegans existed and as I refused to eat animals from the age of 4 I just knew then that one day I would become vegan too. No idea how I found out though.
8/10/2013 10:44 AM View respondent's answers
General ongoing education
8/10/2013 10:40 AM View respondent's answers
From thinking about it
8/10/2013 10:38 AM View respondent's answers
The needless Murdering of animals!
8/10/2013 10:34 AM View respondent's answers
listening/watching (to) inspiring success stories
8/10/2013 10:29 AM View respondent's answers
no 1 inpsired me. i am born vegetarian
8/10/2013 10:27 AM View respondent's answers
I'm not sure, I just decided to do it one day
8/10/2013 10:25 AM View respondent's answers
internet research on ways to improve health
8/10/2013 10:24 AM View respondent's answers
a mixture of the above
8/10/2013 10:23 AM View respondent's answers
The book: compassionate ethic in 1989
8/10/2013 10:23 AM View respondent's answers
Being vegetarian for 25 years
8/10/2013 10:21 AM View respondent's answers
I was vegetarian since I was 10 and always felt that veganism was the next step.
8/10/2013 10:19 AM View respondent's answers
working with Farm Animals and Farm Sanctuary
8/10/2013 10:17 AM View respondent's answers
My own volition and compassion for animals
8/10/2013 6:03 AM View respondent's answers
It just dawned on me one day.
8/10/2013 2:35 AM View respondent's answers
Live export
8/10/2013 12:22 AM View respondent's answers
Can't remember.
8/9/2013 11:46 PM View respondent's answers
personal choice leading on from vegetarianism
8/9/2013 9:53 PM View respondent's answers
my mother
8/9/2013 9:11 PM View respondent's answers
The first 3, over a period of years.
8/9/2013 8:28 PM View respondent's answers
I cracked open an egg and there was a chicken in it!
8/9/2013 7:40 PM View respondent's answers
a combination of the above over a number of years
8/9/2013 7:05 PM View respondent's answers
Just an overwhelming sense that anything else was wrong
8/9/2013 6:37 PM View respondent's answers
years of knowledge and adding up
8/9/2013 6:19 PM View respondent's answers
loving animals
8/9/2013 5:25 PM View respondent's answers
I don't recall a specific event, it was more of a evolving process, which involved reading articles, books, watching videoes and discussing with my boyfriend at the time, who turned vegan with me.
8/9/2013 4:24 PM View respondent's answers
it was a logical choice after beein vegetarian half my life
8/9/2013 3:44 PM View respondent's answers
Website, compilations of articles, Facts
8/9/2013 3:34 PM View respondent's answers
after reaching a certain level of being
8/9/2013 3:12 PM View respondent's answers
from listening to bands, who supported the vegan cause
8/9/2013 2:56 PM View respondent's answers
always in my heart as a child
8/9/2013 2:54 PM View respondent's answers
from thinking
8/9/2013 2:13 PM View respondent's answers
visiting a sanctuary. was already vegetarian.
8/9/2013 2:08 PM View respondent's answers
All of the above reasons.
8/9/2013 1:21 PM View respondent's answers
Was previously vegetarian, and I hadn't realised the killing aspect with other animal production.
8/9/2013 11:59 AM View respondent's answers
from not wanting to eat animals, just woke up one day and said that is it I won't eat them any longer!
8/9/2013 11:56 AM View respondent's answers
I became allergic to dairy.
8/9/2013 9:48 AM View respondent's answers
Watching charlottes web
8/9/2013 8:53 AM View respondent's answers
anti-badger cull campaign by Viva!
8/9/2013 8:44 AM View respondent's answers
~From posts on facebook
8/9/2013 8:11 AM View respondent's answers
From long term internal uneasiness about the hypocrisy of my vegetarianism
8/9/2013 8:03 AM View respondent's answers
When satan told me to
8/9/2013 7:19 AM View respondent's answers
after years of being a vegetarian and not feeling true to myself or my principles
8/9/2013 4:34 AM View respondent's answers
when i joined ALV, I read info from them. i was already vegetarian.
8/9/2013 4:03 AM View respondent's answers
Mixture of above
8/9/2013 3:40 AM View respondent's answers
Having pigs as family members
8/9/2013 3:12 AM View respondent's answers
from a Website
8/9/2013 2:28 AM View respondent's answers
I was inspired by my own independent thought
8/9/2013 1:27 AM View respondent's answers
Punk rock lyrics
8/9/2013 1:08 AM View respondent's answers
Just felt right :)
8/9/2013 1:00 AM View respondent's answers
Taking the 30 day vegan challenge. Then educating myself about the cruelty of animals
8/9/2013 12:38 AM View respondent's answers
it just kind of happened
8/9/2013 12:35 AM View respondent's answers
for ethical and health reason
8/9/2013 12:29 AM View respondent's answers
All the above combined but mostly from online info and videos
8/9/2013 12:23 AM View respondent's answers
when I learnt Daniel Johns was vegan. I was already vegetarian and I'd never really thought about the extension of cruelty beyond meat, until Daniel opened my eyes.
8/9/2013 12:00 AM View respondent's answers
When eathing with vegan friends I noticed that vegan foods did not make me feel ill like standard fair constantly did
8/8/2013 11:34 PM View respondent's answers
there was no conversation, someone just handed me a flyer called "Why be vegan?" and it all made sense
8/8/2013 10:57 PM View respondent's answers
Concern about my health & the planet's health
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a close friend
8/8/2013 10:51 PM View respondent's answers
just the idea of killing or hurting animals bothered me
8/8/2013 10:09 PM View respondent's answers
From visiting my grandmother's farm when I was 5 years old and realising the truth about where meat and dairy came from
8/8/2013 9:43 PM View respondent's answers
When I visited the Ekka and saw all the animals
8/8/2013 8:57 PM View respondent's answers
Combination of all above and others
8/8/2013 8:20 PM View respondent's answers
I do not remember, it was 20+ years ago, but mostly because I am just such fan of animals that eating them or anything out of them seams gross.
8/8/2013 8:01 PM View respondent's answers
my own thoughts
8/8/2013 7:59 PM View respondent's answers
Vegan podcast (vegetarian food for thought)
8/8/2013 7:57 PM View respondent's answers
1,2 and being an introspective ethics nerd
8/8/2013 7:36 PM View respondent's answers
Summerfest with North American Vegetarian Society
8/8/2013 7:14 PM View respondent's answers
When I was younger I read about Veganism in an encyclopedia which was my original inspiration.
8/8/2013 7:08 PM View respondent's answers
reading info and watching youtube videos from vegans over 6 months. was already vegetarian.
8/8/2013 7:07 PM View respondent's answers
first i was vegetarian for 7 years, but I saw the cruelty in the dairy industry as well, so decided to cut out eggs and dairy
8/8/2013 7:03 PM View respondent's answers
After being vegetarian for 16 years it seemed like a logical step.
8/8/2013 6:36 PM View respondent's answers
conscious was pricking me just being vegetarian
8/8/2013 6:35 PM View respondent's answers
3 episodes of pre canerous cells
8/8/2013 6:10 PM View respondent's answers
leaflet about dairy (had been veggie from age 11)
8/8/2013 6:05 PM View respondent's answers
All of the above
8/8/2013 6:00 PM View respondent's answers
Years of study into the effects of food
8/8/2013 5:51 PM View respondent's answers
A challenge in a workout group
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Leaflets for a project I was doing at school on animal rights
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Animal welfare
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By following an elimination diet to cure IBS
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Walking by a mumma cow while I was a new mum and realising we are the same
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It was time to take the vegetarian blinders off
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Forks over knives
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I was first vegetarian for several years, then became vegan. I became vegan because this is the right thing, I did not see an educational film nor read an article etc.
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infographic saying, veal=dairy; chicken period= egg
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Educating myself on health and nutrition
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I just did it out of the blue, but always never understood why it was OK to kill animal.s
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And years of acquiring knowledge about food from animals. I also admired vegans, but didn't think I could be one.
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from joining multiple vegan support groups on Facebook.
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After dating a vegan I adopted the lifestyle
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after becoming a vegetarian. It was a slippery slope.
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from moving in with my vegan boyfriend
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I realized the food was from animals at 8 years old.
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Seeing abuse on farms.
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Numerous conversations and debates over several years with vegan sisters
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IBD
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my soul
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personal well being and peace of mind!
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research 40 years ago
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Working in a slaughter house.
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when I "made the connection"
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from all combined
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Diagnosed with a dairy allergy. Was already a vegetarian and figured why not go all the way.
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it was a natural progression from being raised 80% vegan
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Finding out I had IBS
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when I got cervical pre-cancer
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I lked animals from childhood.
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Farm Sanctuary Hoe Down
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By my own ethical guidance
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my family is all vegan or vegetarian
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Homeopath
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Finding out that male chicks were ground up alive.
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family history
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Just did
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From an early age I just had this compassion for animal I really do not remember how.. I have been a vegetarian off & on since 19, but in the last 2 years have become vegan in all areas
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Food for Life class and DVD from VegFest Michigan
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Doctor
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aT a vegan fair by someone at a stall
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because i love animals dearly
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Culmination of many factors.
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by a charity slogan 'Live simply that others may simply live', followed almost immediately by a newspaper advert offering information on Veganism [1975]
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I needed a change (I was a vegetarian)
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A teacher at high school
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studying nutrition and disease through books, articles, films
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My love for ALL living creatures
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Listening to Food For Thought podcast (I was already vegetarian)
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From working with wildlife.
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All of the above
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I read about Dr Neal Bernard's interview on reversal of diabetes
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from my spiritual teacher
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From following my sisters example
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It was originally vegetarian, and it was a very slow process to veganism, mostly from a collection of small experiences learning about the dairy industry
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Sudden awareness on animal well being
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a youtuber i watched and respected for other reason put up some videos in favor of being vege
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Friend posting on fb
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Podcast series
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Through Animals Australia Campaigns and being vegetarian since aged 13
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It was a long, slow change, and not a single moment.
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Personal revelations
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I've been off again on again vegetarian since childhood (I'm 57 now) but watching a video by Dr. Michael Greger pushed me all the way to vegan for life.
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It is entirely my own decision /as I understood when I was a child that for meed people kill animals.
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PETA literature animal testing & factory farming
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role models in the community / neighborhood/friends
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Volunteering at a wildlife rescue and seeing animal victims
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from being veggie and deciding to to go the extra mile
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Lose weight
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i AM VEGAN BY BIRTH
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my body was rejecting lactose after i became vegetarian :)
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Book #Animals afterlife
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Lose weight
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A close friend is vegan and have had many talks with her. Ater watching Vegucated, my daughter and I took the challenge and have been vegan ever since.
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My love and compassion for animals, and losing my mum to cancer.
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All of the above
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Converting to Buddhism
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It was a logical step forward from years of vegetarianism.
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I was a vegetarian for 16 years before becoming a vegan - and it just made sense to take the next step.
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Personal revelation
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Can't remember but it was something that took some time to stew in my head.
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became vegetarian from reading John Robbins--vegan from talking with my husband over "not milk" website
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from my own independent philosophical reasoning
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My dog JJ, then a Chinese fur farm video, then more videos on farm animal cruelty.
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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's podcast and Gary Yourofsky's speech
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Seeing pictures on FaceBook about calf and cow torture and male chicks being ground up.
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Seeing chicken being prepared in my mom's kitchen.
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My teenage daughter became vegan and inspired me
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I just had an awakening!
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I just did it off my own back.
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From having a pet
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Badger cull protest
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Researching the Internet
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eating vegan brownies!
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I was repulsed by the thought of eating animal flesh from early childhood. Never liked eggs. Only gave up dairy a few years ago.
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Interning at Farm Sanctuary. We were required to be vegan during our internship
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I was already a vegetarian for ethical reasons
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by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's podcast and vegan blogs
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Poster in vegan resaturant
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Health issues
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a combination of things - being involved with SAFE, reading stuff on internet and always wanting to but thinking it was too hard - vegetarian for 33 years first
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As a result of FB posts which showed the cruelty inherent in the dairy and egg industries (I'd been vegetarian for about 15 years prior to becoming vegan).
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Being part of an online community sharing recipes and raising awareness.
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it was just time to make the move from vegetarian
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Religious convictions
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Discovering vegan forums on Facebook
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Colleen Patrick-goudreaus podcast
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Reading and participating in an argument on Facebook.
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Visiting Edger's Mission, a Sanctuary for abused farm animals
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years of loving animals and finally making the change.
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personal feelings
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requirement for shared living space
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Interning at Farm Sanctuary
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My own own conscience of others suffering
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Met raw rood vegans at a festival, I tasted their dishes and later purchased their book
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Because my sister became vegan
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podcast (Citizen Radio)
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Absolute calling! It plagued my mind for years before I actually did it. Was vegetarian off and on for those years too.
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It was the next logical step from being a vegetarian
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love for our animals
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from reading a website
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Spiritual convictions
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Peta
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Have been a vegetarian my whole life. Allergy to antibiotics and steroids they pump the animals with
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tumblr
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bumping into a web forum
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i was already an animal rights activist and a vegetarian, i was inspired by the people i worked with (and felt a bit of social pressure as well :))
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Reading The China Study
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Was a vegetarian for years. Somewhere along the way, I learned about the abuse of cow's to acquire the production of milk.
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gradual realisation/acknowledgement - conversations, books etc all contributed
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Completely internal. One day looked at meat, realised what I was doing and that's what put me on the path.
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From a lifelong distaste for eating meat, more than 50 years
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Long process, love for animals
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When in search of vegetarian food blogs, I found several of vegan ones. This led me to finding out what veganism was all about.
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as a thank you to a vegan who had helped me.
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I realised being vegetarian wasn't enough
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I came to the conclusion by reasoning about ethics and at the same time getting a closer view of the meat and dairy industries
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all of the above, and I initially started for health reasons
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As a child learning for the first time that animals are killed for food
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I watched animal testing of drugs made by the company I work for.
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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Moving on from Vegetarian
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Gary Yourofsky speech on YouTube
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From seeing posts and pics by a vegan friend on facebook over time. on facebook
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as a result of becoming an animal advocate/activist
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combination of person/articles - wife went vegan, I began reading pieces recommended by her
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Podcast- Vegetarian Food for Thought
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A mix of all these.
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fb and Andrew Kirchner
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All of the above! Also, hanging out with two folks that were vegan and seeing how they lived, cooked, shopped, etc. helped a lot.
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my son wanted to be vegan so i joined him
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my family raised me vegan
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And from animal petitions i've been signing. They've highlighted the cruelty towards animals in an extremely effective and informative way.
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From Supreme Master Ching Hai.
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From my gut that eating animals was wrong.
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My own choice
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I was a vegetarian for 5 years and gradually made the change as my perception had changed (I just stopped viewing eggs and milk in the same way because of something inside me - and the closer I got to veganism, I just decided to go the full 9 yards)
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because I always knew that the meat/dairy industry was cruel
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from animal rights literture
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It just grew. Had the inner urge
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mission trip
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Girlfriend
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Born a vegan. (No, really!)
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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's podcasts
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I was brought up vegetarian - veganism seemed a natural development of this
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I always knew in my heart that it was wrong. Even as a kid it never felt right.
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heart say stop
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Because I have strong morals to support all forms happiness, mutualism, and of animate life.
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my dad had to work in a slaughter house and came home and told me what they were doing - we both became vegetarian but my mom refused. I was only 5 years old
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Had known for a long time that I wanted to be vegan, the impending badger cull was the final push
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I was already vegetarian, but catalyst for me was learning more about the veal-dairy connection.
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The Veganic Witch on YouTube
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Our daughters became vegan and then everything fell into place...
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a 269 photo of a calf with a number tag on its ear, set to die
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Hunt Sabbing
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by knowing about veganism and facebook after being a vegetarian for over 25 years an 90% vegan
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Receiving Animal Lib Victoria pamphlets in the post.
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the inhumanity
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Was veggie already, natural step
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It was a promise I made to my dying cat, that I would fight for the rights of all animals, and part of that was going vegan.
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My relationship with my childhood guinea pig Kristy
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I can't quite remember. I think it was just my conscience.
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I actually don't remember
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Logical conclusion.
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my brother's email
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The perceived "challenge" of going vegan.
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I have heart disease and want to be around to see my son grow up, get married and make me a grandma. <3 p="">7/30/2013 6:42 PM View respondent's answers
I don't remember. I was vegetarian for a long time, so it felt like a natural and inevitable transition.
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health
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I've always disliked meat and it was a natural progression for me
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I went vegetarian when one of my fav musicians was vegan but then I met 2 other people that finally inspired me along with the singer to just do it fully!
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Random, but I was inspired to make the switch to veganism by reading Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover.
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a vegan tumblr
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My own research
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listening to my heart
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Love for animals
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girlfriend said she would marry a meat eater. so I went veg.
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from moment I started to think
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A poem: Under a dark and cloudy sky, they're rounded up and sent to die... Author unk.
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Watching an animal be killed and for the first time understanding what I was seeing.
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all of the above to some degree. I picked up the ideas from listening to and being around punk bands
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Gary Yourofskys speech on youtube
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spiritual epiphany
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Seeing a fictional TV show
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intuition
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Natural development from vegetarianism
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my love for the animals and mainly because of my pet "snoopy"
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when my daughter became vegan
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I loved animals and couldn't eat them.
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From realising it was hypocritical to be vegetarian because I didn't want to contribute to animal suffering
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after seeing a news programme which explained that the meat i was eating had all sorts of things in it.If i had not had seen this programme i would still probably have been a meat eater as unlike most vegans i like the taste of meat and had no problems eating it.
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it is the way of meditation Quan Yin method
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Robb
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Harvey Woolgar's vege caravan xx
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It simply made sense, can't remember exactly how it happened. Online presentations and research helped affirm my decision.
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I can't remember, reading stuff mainly.
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When veal calves were leaving from Coventry airport
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I was a veggie and I met vegans at University. There arguments were logical.
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it was a natural progression from vegetarianism
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Was vegetarian, could no longer justify eating dairy.
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from punk music and friends
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reading about my health
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the honest answer it was all of it! health, ethics of both the environment and animals <3 p="">7/27/2013 9:24 AM View respondent's answers
from a play called "Vegan Cabaret"
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Vegan Society leaflet about milk, realised I was a hypocrite being vegetarian for "ethical reasons" but still supporting dairy industry
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as I got to know buddhism
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Leaflets from vegan society
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Internet, stumbling on to animal rights websites while looking for veggie recipes.
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A combination of friends and literature.
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anti vivisection literature
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From working on a fishing boat and seeing first hand the beauty we are destroying en mass
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chinese medicine
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I took the London Vegan Pledge after being vegetarian for many years - initially out of curiosity, but decided I couldn't turn back!
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Because it seemed the right thing to do after 18 years of vegetarianism.
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none of the above
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research into health benefits
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Someone telling me I was a crap veggie and didn't care about animals if I was still consuming milk, eggs, etc. I hadn't realised about these industries
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My love of animals
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By looking at what I needed to do to recover from an eating disorder and by my Dad passing away
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and reading
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Vegan Society advert in vegetarian magazine
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My Ethics 101 professor at Irvine Valley College in 1989
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warchinf a friend on facebook, Jamin Brother
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veggie turned vegan for heath and then for ethical reasons
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After being a vegetarian for so long and feeling that it was starting to be hypocritical. The decision was finalized when we moved to NYC and had SO many vegan options.
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Animal Rights freshman seminar at UC Davis by Ned Buyukmihci.
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When I saw a loved one suffer the consequences of the standard American diet.
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My Father
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It wasn't one specific factor but a combination of realizing that it's the only ethical way to live. Also, my wife evolved from vegetarian to vegan before I did.
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Health And Religious Beliefe
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I was vegetarian for about 30 years when my vet explained to me what happens to male calves and chicks. I am from New York City; I had NO IDEA. I was so horrified that I stopped milk and eggs immediately.
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I dont remember
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wanting to loose weight
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my own observations and feelings
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Farm sanctuary
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Research
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I was fat
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When sheep going to slaughter were in a truck accident, they were all killed anyway.
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facebook post from friend
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eating lots of tasty vegan food
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crazy sexy diet
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from intuition in a medaitation
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Through a health scare.
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believing all life is precious
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Over a few years of activism and being veggie
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News
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On the news I saw the inside of an egg production plant for the first time
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Onision
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Combination of factors; education/leafets; vegan friends; not liking dairy/eggs or meat ...
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From thinking by myself
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and combined with own personal enlightnment
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just from within myself
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Ami, Child of the Stars
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from my faith
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Reading essays in a biomedical ethics class.
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A realization within myself, a connection meat=murder
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listening to a podcast
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after 17 years as a vegetarian I was inspired to try veganism
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Because I wanted to get healthy which inspired research
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Accumulated life experiences led me to veganism
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Terrifying dream
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from seeing an undercover footage in a slaughterhouse
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vegan podcasts
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I became vegan all by myself - researching, seeing animals being imprisoned etc.
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From doing self development work
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And because there is a history of Colon Cancer in my family...not to mention all the other Cancers and diabetes that is there.
7/23/2013 2:28 PM View respondent's answers
I learned about raw food on tv.
7/23/2013 2:04 PM View respondent's answers
from a combination of my dog's face and realizing I was eating more meat than I had thought and feeling gross about that
7/23/2013 12:10 PM View respondent's answers
More a mix of talking with vegans through the straight edge movement and I was vegetarian already, and seeing videos about dairy cruelty. The only thing I was eating was cheese.
7/23/2013 11:08 AM View respondent's answers
Just hearing about the abuse of animals and the maltreatment.
7/23/2013 8:22 AM View respondent's answers
By joining an animal right organisation (Animal Liberation SA)
7/23/2013 4:07 AM View respondent's answers
watching an animal die.
7/23/2013 3:47 AM View respondent's answers
my own choice
7/23/2013 3:27 AM View respondent's answers
psychedelics - being forced to face the facts
7/23/2013 2:46 AM View respondent's answers
Earthlings
7/23/2013 2:12 AM View respondent's answers
Primetime TV show reporting on factory farming
7/23/2013 1:28 AM View respondent's answers
the film Vegucated
7/23/2013 1:10 AM View respondent's answers
I followed a blogger who was very outspoken about veganism and it inspired me to look into it because of his points.
7/22/2013 11:55 PM View respondent's answers
Eat to Live and Forks over Knives
7/22/2013 11:23 PM View respondent's answers
Youtube videos
7/22/2013 11:11 PM View respondent's answers
Quest for better health
7/22/2013 10:16 PM View respondent's answers
companion animal
7/22/2013 10:04 PM View respondent's answers
I'm not sure... I hadn't read or seen anything and knew of no vegans. But I must've absorbed something through the years because when I became seriously ill, I immediately decided to become vegan. I had learned a lot from PETA many years ago and began vegan journey with cruelty-free products first. I didn't want to eat animals and wanted to become vegan for that reason but was brought up to falsely believe that eating them was the natural order of life and I would be unhealthy if I didn't eat them.
7/22/2013 10:02 PM View respondent's answers
long time vegetarian, eventually made the transition
7/22/2013 9:57 PM View respondent's answers
dislike of killing animals
7/22/2013 9:56 PM View respondent's answers
Watching "The Best Speech Ever" by Gary Yourofsky & Vegucated
7/22/2013 9:55 PM View respondent's answers
To lower my cholesterol
7/22/2013 9:53 PM View respondent's answers
I was already vegetarian, but never realized the harm to dairy cows or egg laying hens until talking to a vegan friend
7/22/2013 9:38 PM View respondent's answers
my pet rabbit
7/22/2013 9:31 PM View respondent's answers
Overheard someone say that you can absorb protein better fromother sources if you don't eat meat. Grabbed a bus to book store.
7/22/2013 9:27 PM View respondent's answers
becoming friends with vegans
7/22/2013 9:25 PM View respondent's answers
From being vegetarian, a natural progression.
7/22/2013 9:24 PM View respondent's answers
Upcoming fatherhood/Self reflection
7/22/2013 9:24 PM View respondent's answers
being disgusted at the meat industry as a whole while working at a deli
7/22/2013 9:21 PM View respondent's answers
health concerns
7/22/2013 9:21 PM View respondent's answers
podcast
7/22/2013 9:20 PM View respondent's answers
visit for Farm Sanctuary
7/22/2013 9:19 PM View respondent's answers
My health.
7/22/2013 9:17 PM View respondent's answers
From finding out Moby was vegan. I used to be a huge fan.
7/22/2013 9:14 PM View respondent's answers
relationships with companion animals
7/22/2013 7:19 PM View respondent's answers
Combination of lots of reading and hearing speaker
7/22/2013 5:54 PM View respondent's answers
PETA vegetarian starter kit in the mail and seeing a person's profile on MySpace whom I admired - she had a lot of stuff about veganism on her page
7/22/2013 4:45 PM View respondent's answers
when i found out the chickens were in cages
7/22/2013 4:44 PM View respondent's answers
studying public health
7/22/2013 3:29 PM View respondent's answers
Inner contemplation - it's the only ethical choice.
7/22/2013 3:16 PM View respondent's answers
from reading and contact with the Vegan Society (UK)
7/22/2013 2:20 PM View respondent's answers
my parents
7/22/2013 12:12 PM View respondent's answers
Ate vegan food at someone else's how, started integrating it into my cooking routine, became all I wanted to eat
7/22/2013 10:58 AM View respondent's answers
Kathleen Jannaway
7/22/2013 3:46 AM View respondent's answers
finding info on websites and talking with vegans on forums etc
7/22/2013 3:12 AM View respondent's answers
All of th above over a period of time
7/22/2013 2:20 AM View respondent's answers
Personal health crisis
7/22/2013 1:38 AM View respondent's answers
from childhood, my empathy for animal conditions.
7/22/2013 12:07 AM View respondent's answers
Conversation with a friend
7/21/2013 11:46 PM View respondent's answers
Personal choice
7/21/2013 9:31 PM View respondent's answers
Realizing that it's hypocritical to eat animals if I love them.
7/21/2013 8:51 PM View respondent's answers
Common sence
7/21/2013 8:29 PM View respondent's answers
I was already veg, then I started dating a vegan,so I went all the way to join her.
7/21/2013 7:04 PM View respondent's answers
living with vegans
7/21/2013 6:55 PM View respondent's answers
A question within my own mind. Why does something(being) have to die for me to live.
7/21/2013 6:42 PM View respondent's answers
Eddie Mah
7/21/2013 6:21 PM View respondent's answers
Introspection and realising my hypocrisy in being a vegetarian
7/21/2013 5:07 PM View respondent's answers
Physician direction
7/21/2013 5:02 PM View respondent's answers
also i liked a vegan page on facebook "animal rights media" which really encouraged me
7/21/2013 4:27 PM View respondent's answers
i saw a very short video of a cow being dragged by a truck
7/21/2013 2:56 PM View respondent's answers
I saw a video of a piglet and a dog both chasing a ball and coming to their names. It just hit me that it was so very wrong to eat any animal and I quit eating meat immediately.
7/21/2013 2:21 PM View respondent's answers
My conscience got the better of me
7/21/2013 1:06 PM View respondent's answers
animal rights group
7/21/2013 12:41 PM View respondent's answers
A "Why Vegan" pamphlet
7/21/2013 10:04 AM View respondent's answers
all of the above plus (more importantly) interactions with animals that I did not want to harm!
7/21/2013 9:53 AM View respondent's answers
Boyfriend
7/21/2013 9:47 AM View respondent's answers
inspired by my dogs and thus started to study & dig further n eventually came to the point.
7/21/2013 8:50 AM View respondent's answers
For health reasons (Given a copy of 'The Mucusless Diet Healing System)
7/21/2013 8:32 AM View respondent's answers
my love for animals was too big to eat them
7/21/2013 8:27 AM View respondent's answers
30day vegan challenge
7/21/2013 8:21 AM View respondent's answers
I realized that consuming any animal product is utterly wrong.
7/21/2013 8:20 AM View respondent's answers
Eating Animals by Foer
7/21/2013 8:20 AM View respondent's answers
all of the above. My sister opened my eyes and one day I got a vein in my mouth while eating chicken. It made reality and connections for me.
7/21/2013 8:10 AM View respondent's answers
from thinking.
7/21/2013 6:39 AM View respondent's answers
Evaluation of my own ethics.
7/21/2013 5:35 AM View respondent's answers
from a picture of baby male chickens about to be ground up.
7/21/2013 3:40 AM View respondent's answers
thinking about it for a long time
7/21/2013 2:42 AM View respondent's answers
for health reasons not apparent in a presentation
7/21/2013 1:27 AM View respondent's answers
bad health problems
7/21/2013 1:21 AM View respondent's answers
podcasts: Citizen Radio and Red Radio
7/20/2013 10:49 PM View respondent's answers
heart health reasons
7/20/2013 9:20 PM View respondent's answers
From a family member
7/20/2013 7:48 PM View respondent's answers
Born vegan
7/20/2013 6:21 PM View respondent's answers
From various friends sharing info/inspiration, mainly via Facebook
7/20/2013 4:55 PM View respondent's answers
from love of the animals and the relation with conspiracy t.
7/20/2013 2:53 PM View respondent's answers
and factory farming
7/20/2013 9:01 AM View respondent's answers
from my inner voice
7/20/2013 8:38 AM View respondent's answers
(Presentation (lecture) was on the internet and it was about health problems caused by dairy)
7/19/2013 6:33 PM View respondent's answers
vegan society advert
7/19/2013 5:19 PM View respondent's answers
And online research
7/19/2013 5:05 PM View respondent's answers
i was vegetarian and saw a dairy industry film
7/19/2013 3:16 PM View respondent's answers
From watching an undercover factory farm abuse video.
7/19/2013 7:57 AM View respondent's answers
from getting knowledge about our world.
7/19/2013 2:09 AM View respondent's answers
while drinking red wine and watching "Hostile". I realized that's what the animals were feeling.
7/18/2013 10:47 PM View respondent's answers
Information including leaflets in the 90s initially, but recently reading reports and seeing images of the truth about the dairy and egg industries
7/18/2013 6:18 PM View respondent's answers
Realizing diary just as bad for the animals
7/18/2013 5:43 PM View respondent's answers
Medical school education on nutrition and ethics
7/18/2013 4:57 PM View respondent's answers
my heart felt empathy and compassion when i looked into the eyes of animals
7/18/2013 4:13 PM View respondent's answers
natural progression from vegetarian diet and lifestyle
7/18/2013 3:29 PM View respondent's answers
being informed about the horrors the animals go through
7/18/2013 2:10 PM View respondent's answers
Meet your Meat
7/18/2013 2:07 PM View respondent's answers
Seeing a picture of a cow in a slaughter contraption on the site "humane farming association." It's not a vegan site.
7/18/2013 1:10 PM View respondent's answers
A friend
7/18/2013 9:41 AM View respondent's answers
as a veggie I researched dairy industry and was horrified by it
7/18/2013 9:40 AM View respondent's answers
Earthlings, Gary L Francione Podcast, Vegan Education (NOT any "welfare" groups)
7/18/2013 9:37 AM View respondent's answers
both friend and book...friend gave me Diet for a New America.
7/18/2013 9:36 AM View respondent's answers
loving animals
7/18/2013 9:35 AM View respondent's answers
Earthlings i was vegetarian for 15 yrs before that by reading a article in a feminist magazine when i was 23 yrs. old
7/18/2013 7:24 AM View respondent's answers
living in the country & seeing how animals are treated
7/18/2013 6:36 AM View respondent's answers
from loving and respecting animals and not wanting to cause them harm
7/18/2013 6:06 AM View respondent's answers
Jona Weinhofen
7/18/2013 4:44 AM View respondent's answers
I read Animal Liberation as a 10 year old when I'd just become vegetarian, it took me until I was 13 to become vegan.
7/18/2013 2:25 AM View respondent's answers
Already vegetarian. Health problems. Thought vegan might be better. .
7/18/2013 2:19 AM View respondent's answers
Article written on Newspaper about the impact of Four Corners Documentary in May 2011
7/18/2013 12:49 AM View respondent's answers
It was a progression from being a vegetarian for almost 20 years. There was no first inspiration or epiphany but a gradual realisation that being vege makes sense for multiple reasons.
7/17/2013 11:10 PM View respondent's answers
Guilt of what I was stealing from animals
7/17/2013 6:48 PM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofsky's speech
7/17/2013 5:47 PM View respondent's answers
FROM SEEING ANIMALS BEING ABUSED ON OUR HOME FARM
7/17/2013 5:42 PM View respondent's answers
My home economics teacher explained the term vegan in high school
7/17/2013 5:40 PM View respondent's answers
I was a vegetarian and I constantly saw information on a FB animal cruelty page on the egg and dairy industry
7/17/2013 4:59 PM View respondent's answers
Just knowing
7/17/2013 2:50 PM View respondent's answers
Empathy
7/17/2013 2:44 PM View respondent's answers
Earthlings and Meet your meat
7/17/2013 2:38 PM View respondent's answers
I just feel, that I must do that
7/17/2013 1:43 PM View respondent's answers
from my daughter being born allergic to dairy and egg whites
7/17/2013 1:20 PM View respondent's answers
I was already a vegetarian and wanted to try out vegan for a short time, but it stuck and I have been a vegan ever since.
7/17/2013 12:27 PM View respondent's answers
Reading a moving post on a forum.
7/17/2013 10:03 AM View respondent's answers
from a variety of sources suggesting that a vegan diet was more healthy
7/17/2013 9:06 AM View respondent's answers
I think this is almost a cult! Vegans are so judgemental! I do like some raw vegan food though! Most vegan food is very unhealthy though!
7/17/2013 3:17 AM View respondent's answers
After years of being vegetarian. I went vego age 13 because I didn't want to eat animals
7/16/2013 10:27 PM View respondent's answers
The animals
7/16/2013 9:01 PM View respondent's answers
a progression from years as a vegetarian
7/16/2013 8:51 PM View respondent's answers
doctor told me to do it to help my rheumatoid arthritis symptoms
7/16/2013 8:12 PM View respondent's answers
Interaction with animals led me to conclude they were sentient too
7/16/2013 8:12 PM View respondent's answers
Why Vegan pamphlet from Vegan Outreach
7/16/2013 1:31 PM View respondent's answers
From being exposed to the live export trade in Australia on the news
7/16/2013 8:39 AM View respondent's answers
through information gained through Facebook posts
7/16/2013 4:27 AM View respondent's answers
Story in UK vegan magazine
7/16/2013 12:14 AM View respondent's answers
The Why Veg? Booklet. http://www.animalsaustralia-media.org/documents/why_veg/why_veg_2008.pdf
7/15/2013 6:11 PM View respondent's answers
ALL OF THE ABOVE
7/15/2013 5:26 PM View respondent's answers
Hung out in the Hardcore Punk scene.
7/15/2013 5:10 PM View respondent's answers
Role models
7/15/2013 3:47 PM View respondent's answers
It was a culmination of food allergies causing me to eliminate gluten, dairy, and eggs from my diet. I still wasn't feeling 100%, so I cut out all animal food products.
7/15/2013 2:24 PM View respondent's answers
living with vegans and animals
7/15/2013 11:14 AM View respondent's answers
Visit to Woodstock Animal Sanctuary-Very inspiring!
7/15/2013 10:39 AM View respondent's answers
Was vegetarian and didn't eat eggs/cheese anyway so thought I might as well make it official.
7/15/2013 9:43 AM View respondent's answers
Just my experience of loving animals
7/15/2013 9:33 AM View respondent's answers
and peer group pressure
7/15/2013 8:24 AM View respondent's answers
from several conversations on Facebook in a private group of vegetarian reciepes
7/15/2013 4:07 AM View respondent's answers
from a spiritual knowledge of what was to be
7/14/2013 9:18 PM View respondent's answers
through my education which taught me to exploit animals
7/14/2013 8:52 PM View respondent's answers
Was raised Vegan
7/14/2013 6:22 PM View respondent's answers
seeing what animals suffer
7/14/2013 1:43 PM View respondent's answers
because ive always been vegetarian and knew it was a half attempt on compassion
7/14/2013 11:58 AM View respondent's answers
Decided on my own at a young age based upon personal love for animals.
7/14/2013 11:15 AM View respondent's answers
From gradually becoming enlightened and made aware of the cruelty involved in the dairy and meat industry and all industries that abuse and exploit animals.
7/14/2013 11:08 AM View respondent's answers
Podcast Vegetarian Food for Thought by Colleen Patrick Goudreau
7/14/2013 10:56 AM View respondent's answers
All of the above plus first-handexperience with non-human animals
7/14/2013 12:58 AM View respondent's answers
by more than one experience.
7/14/2013 12:12 AM View respondent's answers
from wife and daughters
7/13/2013 11:11 PM View respondent's answers
From posts on Facebook
7/13/2013 10:53 PM View respondent's answers
After years of being a vegetarian, I thought it was time. Dairy and eggs are inflammatory, too, and I have RA.
7/13/2013 10:11 PM View respondent's answers
"Earthlings"
7/13/2013 8:06 PM View respondent's answers
I realised it was the right thing to do
7/13/2013 7:48 PM View respondent's answers
Veg fest; Dr Gregor presentation
7/13/2013 7:02 PM View respondent's answers
I never did like the taste of meat - then one day I just made the connection.
7/13/2013 2:25 PM View respondent's answers
being a vegetarian for a long time and finally coming to my senses
7/13/2013 11:57 AM View respondent's answers
From my own ethical convictions of not wanting to cause any animals to suffer or die for me.
7/13/2013 11:35 AM View respondent's answers
from having animals
7/13/2013 10:56 AM View respondent's answers
We have been vegetarian for a long time and my mother took the step further to become a Vegan and I soon followed
7/13/2013 10:38 AM View respondent's answers
From seeing the story of a dairy cow on the Edgars Mission website
7/13/2013 9:56 AM View respondent's answers
Facebook
7/13/2013 9:02 AM View respondent's answers
From seeing cows being separated from their calves
7/13/2013 5:08 AM View respondent's answers
From exposure to FB and posts, articles, and pictures from vegans and animal rights activists
7/13/2013 3:00 AM View respondent's answers
Veganism is the future
7/13/2013 2:22 AM View respondent's answers
combination of talking to others and reading
7/12/2013 10:38 PM View respondent's answers
by becoming a mom and wanting what was best for me and my baby
7/12/2013 9:57 PM View respondent's answers
realised that there might be a connection between dairy and "veal"/meat (by myself)
7/12/2013 7:09 PM View respondent's answers
Ethics of what you eat
7/12/2013 6:45 PM View respondent's answers
all of the above
7/12/2013 5:03 PM View respondent's answers
By an Animal friend
7/12/2013 4:22 PM View respondent's answers
Scientific studies
7/12/2013 4:09 PM View respondent's answers
From doing my own research into the dairy industry.
7/12/2013 4:05 PM View respondent's answers
i just went vegan after a few years being veggie
7/12/2013 3:57 PM View respondent's answers
When I originally went vegetarian 25 years ago, although didn't do it until this year
7/12/2013 3:40 PM View respondent's answers
i was thinking when i was 13 "this is wrong"
7/12/2013 3:11 PM View respondent's answers
I was listening to a forum on human slavery, and made the connection to animal slavery.
7/12/2013 2:39 PM View respondent's answers
Many things went into the process but for me always wanting world peace and coming to understand that by being vegan I could feel empowered.
7/12/2013 1:34 PM View respondent's answers
Cumulative
7/12/2013 1:30 PM View respondent's answers
vegetarian first naturally moved to being vegan
7/12/2013 1:24 PM View respondent's answers
showed up knowing that animal were sentient beings.....was no longer able to put the image out of my mind.
7/12/2013 1:16 PM View respondent's answers
From internal knowing it was the right and best thing to do for me
7/12/2013 12:47 PM View respondent's answers
I was long term veggie so vegan was obvious 'next step'
7/12/2013 12:43 PM View respondent's answers
Vegetarian for 30+yrs after reading "Animals, men and morals" but realised I needed to stop using dairy after seeing a newly born calf hauled away to the veal pens on a metal trailer.
7/12/2013 11:36 AM View respondent's answers
Being a vegetarian 8 years, and researching intensively.
7/12/2013 11:19 AM View respondent's answers
All of the above
7/12/2013 10:58 AM View respondent's answers
A combination of things, but I do remember watching Babe and having that make a huge impact on me
7/12/2013 10:49 AM View respondent's answers
I was very disconnected growing up on a sheep & cattle property so it was after doing & teaching NLP 4 about 12 years
7/12/2013 10:47 AM View respondent's answers
After thinking a lot
7/12/2013 10:32 AM View respondent's answers
losing someone close to me who could still be here
7/12/2013 10:08 AM View respondent's answers
By myself.
7/12/2013 10:05 AM View respondent's answers
Just seemed right
7/12/2013 9:58 AM View respondent's answers
From since I was a kid and became revolted watching the horrible treatment from people by the animals. So, I became vegetarian when was 12 yrs, after mommy made me kil a poor chicken... The years was spending and finally I stoped to consume dairy and eggs too.
7/12/2013 9:37 AM View respondent's answers
from reading the cover booklet of Moby's album 'Play'
7/12/2013 9:09 AM View respondent's answers
Visited a cancer treatment center
7/12/2013 9:06 AM View respondent's answers
was naturally drawn to vegetarianism but was scared for heath reasons about being Vegan until reading "diet for a new america"
7/12/2013 8:44 AM View respondent's answers
when I heard the song 'Meat is Murder' by The Smiths
7/12/2013 7:51 AM View respondent's answers
I just knew it was time for me / the films were a plus.
7/12/2013 7:48 AM View respondent's answers
Witnessing the suffering of animals
7/12/2013 5:05 AM View respondent's answers
Was brought up vegan
7/12/2013 3:42 AM View respondent's answers
simply a natural shift as a result of ethical consideration
7/12/2013 1:20 AM View respondent's answers
From seeing an Evolve campaign poster online that made me realize I did not know what was involved in the dairy industry. I decided I needed to learn if I was to continue to support it. I researched online and decided I couldn't support it.
7/12/2013 12:06 AM View respondent's answers
Repeated attempts and videos.
7/12/2013 12:02 AM View respondent's answers
health issues
7/11/2013 8:54 PM View respondent's answers
from observing my daughter who was vegan, & I started reading books about it.
7/11/2013 7:16 PM View respondent's answers
revolted by having to eat meat when I did not like it and doing the vegan for the animals yay
7/11/2013 6:20 PM View respondent's answers
it just seemed like the right thing to do.
7/11/2013 5:49 PM View respondent's answers
Because veganism intrigued me!
7/11/2013 5:40 PM View respondent's answers
My father's diagnosis with cancer and diving into the world of how food affects inflammation in the body
7/11/2013 5:17 PM View respondent's answers
Hindu religion
7/11/2013 4:00 PM View respondent's answers
Became diabetic
7/11/2013 3:43 PM View respondent's answers
Learning about the abuses in the dairy and egg industry after having been a vegetarian for 17 years
7/11/2013 3:16 PM View respondent's answers
Dennis Kucinich said it cured his Crohns disease.
7/11/2013 2:06 PM View respondent's answers
nothing special
7/11/2013 12:42 PM View respondent's answers
Food allergies and animal abuse
7/11/2013 11:16 AM View respondent's answers
It really was a combination of factors. I had been a long-term vegetarian but was having trouble kicking the dairy and eggs. Part of it had to do with increased availability in vegan foods, and part of it was moving to China, where dairy products are rare and non-dairy alternatives are abundant. Also, finding out the specifics of how dairy cows are raped and forcibly impregnated, then have their babies are taken away for veal, as well as how male baby chicks are ground up alive and egg-laying hens are de-beaked even when the eggs are "cage free" was the final straw.
7/11/2013 11:15 AM View respondent's answers
In1985 listening to The Smiths "Meat is Murder" album.
7/11/2013 11:02 AM View respondent's answers
My friend is vegan and has been since age 17, vegetarian since 11. She was inspiring
7/11/2013 10:34 AM View respondent's answers
It was a gradual evolution of all of the above.
7/11/2013 10:03 AM View respondent's answers
Learning about it on the internet, mostly from articles and discussions with other vegans.
7/11/2013 10:02 AM View respondent's answers
research on internet
7/11/2013 9:08 AM View respondent's answers
Conscientiousness
7/11/2013 8:57 AM View respondent's answers
Culmination of books, speakers, veg food fest, and even a spring cleanse which gently broke me in to the diet
7/11/2013 8:15 AM View respondent's answers
I rescue animals, therefore I could not be a hypocrite and save one, but eat another
7/11/2013 8:01 AM View respondent's answers
From allergies to all animal related foods
7/11/2013 7:21 AM View respondent's answers
my mom raised us vegan. I stopped being vegan when I moved away from home. Health issues brought me back.
7/11/2013 7:10 AM View respondent's answers
raw vegan friends and it happened gradually
7/11/2013 6:19 AM View respondent's answers
By realizing who I am and how I am meant to live
7/11/2013 6:17 AM View respondent's answers
my pets
7/11/2013 5:42 AM View respondent's answers
But already vegetarian and interested in veganism
7/11/2013 5:41 AM View respondent's answers
online group - reading the discussions on it
7/11/2013 5:39 AM View respondent's answers
Book - Skinny Bitch
7/11/2013 2:36 AM View respondent's answers
Personal health problem. Been interested for years for health and compassion, but it was when I had my own health challenge that I went "cold turkey".
7/11/2013 1:48 AM View respondent's answers
Searching, reading, attending seminars
7/11/2013 1:30 AM View respondent's answers
all of the above
7/11/2013 1:01 AM View respondent's answers
From studying science in high school.
7/11/2013 12:52 AM View respondent's answers
After being Vegetarian for 8 years and meeting various people who made being vegan look easy
7/11/2013 12:47 AM View respondent's answers
personal experience with my dogs made me not want to eat any other animals
7/11/2013 12:39 AM View respondent's answers
from involvement in the agriculture industry
7/11/2013 12:14 AM View respondent's answers
Thought. Political analysis. Introspection.
7/11/2013 12:10 AM View respondent's answers
I already was a vegetarian and then I realized I was dairy intolerant
7/10/2013 9:40 PM View respondent's answers
After being vegetarian for years and then reading aboout the horrors of dairy and egg production.
7/10/2013 9:03 PM View respondent's answers
(Afetr being a vegetarian for most of my life) Through information regarding the milk/dairy industry + discussions on a vegan site, on Facebook.
7/10/2013 8:39 PM View respondent's answers
I've been vegetarian since primary school but became vegan After seeing poor dairy cows and realising what goes on.
7/10/2013 5:49 PM View respondent's answers
photographs is magazine called "Animals Voice"
7/10/2013 5:45 PM View respondent's answers
Veganeasy challenge
7/10/2013 5:15 PM View respondent's answers
gradually over time due to a number of factors
7/10/2013 5:06 PM View respondent's answers
Forks over Knives and Earthlings
7/10/2013 3:21 PM View respondent's answers
from a piece of cheese that i was eating it was warm/room temperature and it almost made me throw up
7/10/2013 1:42 PM View respondent's answers
from seeing how my dogs feel love, happiness, pain, fear, and realising that all animals feel.
7/10/2013 1:13 PM View respondent's answers
from Care2 posts and reading, reading, reading
7/10/2013 11:07 AM View respondent's answers
from VegSource.com and FactoryFarming.com
7/10/2013 11:07 AM View respondent's answers
From a vegan society leaflet
7/10/2013 11:03 AM View respondent's answers
from listening to gary yourofsky
7/10/2013 10:58 AM View respondent's answers
inbuilt compassion for life.
7/10/2013 8:45 AM View respondent's answers
Workshops with anarchists
7/10/2013 7:22 AM View respondent's answers
doing research on a paper on moral values and vegetarianism (I was vegetarian then)
7/10/2013 2:13 AM View respondent's answers
I started by cutting out all animal products but organic eggs and chicken but was still able to eat other factory farmed meats. I felt that it was okay because I was justified by only doing it every now and then but it was becoming more common. By cutting out all animal products, it was easier to stick to.
7/10/2013 1:44 AM View respondent's answers
following my conscience
7/10/2013 1:40 AM View respondent's answers
to move from being a vegetarian
7/10/2013 1:34 AM View respondent's answers
Just on my own! I already knew somewhat about health benefits and animal rights issues.
7/10/2013 12:34 AM View respondent's answers
from having Rheumatoid Arthritis
7/9/2013 10:29 PM View respondent's answers
my pet chickens inspired me
7/9/2013 10:17 PM View respondent's answers
when I was 9 years of age and had an incredible understanding of the connection to animals
7/9/2013 8:59 PM View respondent's answers
because i knew eating animal was wrong
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My parnter was also pretty emphatic
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Sister went vegetarian, learned from her.
7/9/2013 6:55 PM View respondent's answers
I can`t remember = it was a gradual process.
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from reading a commentar of a user of a social network
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research on the internet after being vegetarian for 4 years
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My husband
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natural progression from vegetarianism for 10 years
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as a normal progression from being a vegetarian since I was 13.
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can't remember, really.
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I never felt okay eating animals.
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It started when I realized animal testing was still widely being done in Canada.
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thinking about the treating of animals in our world
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I was vegetarian for 7 years first..
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Visit in slaughterhouse during study of veterinary medicine
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gradual process
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peta2 at Warped Tour
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Facebook posts
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On interest
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I became ill
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From a TV report in my childhood showing how animals were forced into slaughterhouses, won't ever forget the cow with the broken leg that was lifted with a crane tied to the broken leg...
7/9/2013 11:22 AM View respondent's answers
my boyfriend (of the time) first introduced me to vegetarianism
7/9/2013 10:28 AM View respondent's answers
from my own ethical beliefs
7/9/2013 10:21 AM View respondent's answers
Graphic images of inside dairy farms.
7/9/2013 9:44 AM View respondent's answers
Eating meat always bothered me so I sought out the information and made the change.
7/9/2013 9:38 AM View respondent's answers
from a very young age I never ate meat and was always against eating animals for my own selfish need.
7/9/2013 8:28 AM View respondent's answers
Live Export 4 Corners expose
7/9/2013 7:32 AM View respondent's answers
From eating delicious raw vegan nut cheese!
7/9/2013 5:33 AM View respondent's answers
I've always felt a very painful guilty feeling when I ate animals before and wanted to stop
7/9/2013 2:53 AM View respondent's answers
free time and exploration online.
7/9/2013 12:22 AM View respondent's answers
just my own personal choice
7/8/2013 10:36 PM View respondent's answers
First went veggie because the idea of killing animals was so bothersome.
7/8/2013 10:01 PM View respondent's answers
Forks over Knives
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from life. I don't remember any one thing.
7/8/2013 7:45 PM View respondent's answers
At VegFest in Toronto I picked up some pamphlets on Factory Farming. I was already vegetarian, but that information gave me the push to become vegan.
7/8/2013 5:18 PM View respondent's answers
ate something
7/8/2013 5:16 PM View respondent's answers
A video of very happy cows led me to research food production.
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PRACTICING AHIMSA
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Viva!
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See the pigs in the death trucks in Toronto and on facebook seeing how dairy cows are abused
7/8/2013 5:02 PM View respondent's answers
Food for Life by Neil Barnard MD, also a Peta pamplet
7/8/2013 4:44 PM View respondent's answers
It was the logical transition from being a vegetarian, once I became interested in animal rights
7/8/2013 4:42 PM View respondent's answers
I was already vegetarian.
7/8/2013 4:27 PM View respondent's answers
From being raised by my mum
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evolving from vegetarian
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When I was a child, and discovered that meat came from dead animals.
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from a cow
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Liking animals.
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Allergies to animal proteins
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just like eating this way! Learned more, decided to go for it.
7/8/2013 3:31 PM View respondent's answers
from being raised in hunting/trapping environment
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personal revelation.
7/8/2013 3:17 PM View respondent's answers
Being in San Francisco
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See next question: 1st inspired for personal health complaints, then became for the animals.
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from lectures by Supreme Master Ching Hai
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My own critical thinking mind inspired me to become vegan.
7/8/2013 1:42 PM View respondent's answers
Partner joined Viva
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Health reasons
7/8/2013 1:19 PM View respondent's answers
when I really thought about the fact that I was eating creatures that had been alive.
7/8/2013 11:25 AM View respondent's answers
Facebook CCTV Slaughterhouse
7/8/2013 10:38 AM View respondent's answers
on a blog
7/8/2013 10:17 AM View respondent's answers
The natural prgresson from being a vegetarian.
7/8/2013 9:08 AM View respondent's answers
Have always felt empathetic to animals of every species, since a small child.
7/8/2013 9:04 AM View respondent's answers
Grew up on a property, where animals were slaughtered in front of me by my grandfather who also sexually abused me from 4 to 15.
7/8/2013 6:52 AM View respondent's answers
Supreme Master Ching Hai
7/8/2013 3:23 AM View respondent's answers
Internship with PETA
7/8/2013 2:15 AM View respondent's answers
from the thought of sentient beings suffering and paying for my selfishness
7/8/2013 1:12 AM View respondent's answers
seeing information on facebook
7/8/2013 12:42 AM View respondent's answers
Common sense. Don't cause others pain. Eat healthy.
7/8/2013 12:22 AM View respondent's answers
College animal rights club that I joined at the University of Michigan as a student
7/7/2013 11:40 PM View respondent's answers
Just realizing
7/7/2013 10:32 PM View respondent's answers
it's too long ago to remember, but it was encountering information somewhere about calfs being taken from their mothers
7/7/2013 9:20 PM View respondent's answers
my love for other sentient being & as I became educated on the horrors & cruelty that exist within factory farming/dairy industry. I refuse to be a contributor.
7/7/2013 7:55 PM View respondent's answers
Vegetarian for years, then 5 years ago I had a conversation with a friend about the facts about dairy. That was it. Vegan ever since.
7/7/2013 7:53 PM View respondent's answers
Eventually naturally became aware at 23 years old.
7/7/2013 6:11 PM View respondent's answers
I am a very strict vegetarian right from my birth and I have never tasted non vegetarian food
7/7/2013 5:34 PM View respondent's answers
Always been a naturalist.
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Also books
7/7/2013 12:13 PM View respondent's answers
my first yoga, massage, nutritional alkalizing, and reposturing instructor
7/7/2013 11:15 AM View respondent's answers
I had vegetarians friends growing up, but while eating Thanksgiving dinner in 1998 I realized that the turkey symbolized the slaughtered native Americans and I realized I could never eat meat again.
7/7/2013 11:02 AM View respondent's answers
I was vegetarian for 4 years then semi-vegetarian for 30 years.
7/7/2013 10:38 AM View respondent's answers
because I love animals and didn't want them to come to any harm because of me
7/7/2013 10:19 AM View respondent's answers
Decided to do the right thing after being lacto-vegetarian for 10+ years.
7/7/2013 5:09 AM View respondent's answers
Earthlings
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Self-education, self research
7/7/2013 2:57 AM View respondent's answers
Just generally learning about the animal production industry
7/7/2013 12:18 AM View respondent's answers
From becoming employed at an animal rescue facility
7/6/2013 11:51 PM View respondent's answers
from not being able to lose weight as a vegetarian I just decided
7/6/2013 11:17 PM View respondent's answers
from a relative
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Facebook images
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from a feeling! knowing in my heart that it is wrong to use and abuse animals, no matter how normalized it is.
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saw a cow in real life
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From the work I did helping animals
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From myself
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Personal experience
7/6/2013 6:22 PM View respondent's answers
My own conviction
7/6/2013 6:07 PM View respondent's answers
my grandmother commenting about the suffering of tuna led me to give up that last thing- that was in 1975
7/6/2013 6:03 PM View respondent's answers
Blood of the Beast 1949, Story of O
7/6/2013 5:56 PM View respondent's answers
Seemed like a natural next step after being vegetarian for a while
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Facebook
7/6/2013 5:16 PM View respondent's answers
Just because animal cruelty
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Forks Over Knives
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I worked in a feedlot.
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it came naturally !
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On a road trip, pulled over to sleep in the car and a truck later pulled in to the same rest stop. I spent the night listening to the cows crying :-(
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from attending an event where I saw a lot of people who were vegan
7/6/2013 10:12 AM View respondent's answers
natural step after being a vegetarian
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Animal Liberation - Peter Singer.
7/6/2013 4:54 AM View respondent's answers
I had been volunteering for quite some time at a local NGO for animal rescue and protection. The whole environment lead me to stop eating animals.
7/6/2013 3:22 AM View respondent's answers
and because im not better than animals.
7/6/2013 2:48 AM View respondent's answers
some health problems made me choose to be vegan
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They all helped....
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Spiritual awakening
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a combination of the above
7/6/2013 12:36 AM View respondent's answers
Compassion towards the animal kind
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on my own
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Innate nature
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spiritual evolution brought me to this point
7/5/2013 7:23 PM View respondent's answers
all of these things. It wasn't just one thing.
7/5/2013 7:06 PM View respondent's answers
I was cutting up meat and pictured the animal that said meat came from.
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Just my own realization
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for a awaken to the souls of animals and all the pain they go through
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Peta video game called "Your mother kills turkeys" or something like that
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all of above , plus I was spiritually evolving also
7/5/2013 6:19 PM View respondent's answers
I was inspired by activists holding a street stall.
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After watching Earthlings
7/5/2013 6:03 PM View respondent's answers
It was a process for me, there was no one event that caused it.
7/5/2013 5:50 PM View respondent's answers
I don't eat flesh
7/5/2013 5:11 PM View respondent's answers
I noticed that I felt weird after eating and decided to give vegan a try.
7/5/2013 2:06 PM View respondent's answers
Intuition
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Online information
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combination of video / movie & article / pamphlet
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Following the announcement of the Tory party's badger cull
7/5/2013 12:53 PM View respondent's answers
from having a love for all creatures, i found it didnt make sense at a younge age
7/5/2013 12:32 PM View respondent's answers
Was raised as a vegetarian and realised through self-education that I needed to become vegan for ethical reasons.
7/5/2013 12:18 PM View respondent's answers
being vegetarian for years i took an easy step forward just learning more and more what was going on with animals!
7/5/2013 12:16 PM View respondent's answers
Originally, from political punk bands. Then from my own research.
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continuation of being veggie
7/5/2013 10:30 AM View respondent's answers
Taking a class on ethics, taking the time to understand the animal rights argument
7/5/2013 8:22 AM View respondent's answers
from coming to my own realization that eating the flesh of animals was wrong. I must add though that I absolutely loathed listening to vegans on the street and at protests engage people with their philosophy and idealogy.
7/5/2013 8:08 AM View respondent's answers
Viva! leaflets
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I was raised vegan from birth.
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When I was fifteeen, I saw an ordinary documentary movie about some nation fishing. When they stabbed the poor tuna, I sad: Never again. At least not for my sake.
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Because of my pets
7/5/2013 5:56 AM View respondent's answers
Online videos of lectures by low-fat (no oil) vegan educators
7/5/2013 5:40 AM View respondent's answers
from increasing the amount of vegan/animal rights messages I was seeing on Facebook
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through PETA
7/5/2013 5:03 AM View respondent's answers
It was a process over many months with no clear initial inspiration.
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for weight loss
7/5/2013 2:32 AM View respondent's answers
After being vegetarian for many years, iI realized one day that I don't eat any animal products anymore and then made a conscious effort to cut out all animal products.
7/5/2013 2:06 AM View respondent's answers
was just a natural progression, after becoming vegetarian at an early age. Just listened to my body, and it said go vegan.
7/5/2013 1:43 AM View respondent's answers
From meeting a Christian vegan monk and latter from others testemony and suggestions.
7/5/2013 12:55 AM View respondent's answers
both from seeing a video and from the example that other friends who were vegan set
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From reading posts on facebook
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From seeing how cows and chickens are treated in India.
7/4/2013 11:22 PM View respondent's answers
huge animal lover, lots of research on animal exploitation
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due to my love of animals
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from within my heart
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One people kill my cats
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Spiritual and healthy
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Went veg first at age 12. I had been begging my mom to let me stop eating meat for years and she finally let me.
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became veg at earlt age as brother was a hunter... completely vegan after friend told me about factory farming
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seemed like a natural progression from vegetarianism
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From my mother
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vegan since birth
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Every year for lent, I give up dairy, this year I gave it up forever
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from experiences on a farm in my early childhood
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A depressing trip to a dairy farm
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my own mind told me so
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Finding out the truth about the dairy industry
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from personal investigation
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Badger cull
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From a teacher in a yoga class.
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Discovering animal atrocities on facebook.
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Downed Cow, Peta Pamphlet
7/4/2013 12:21 PM View respondent's answers
I met some vegans, didn't understand - read Diet for a New America. Been vegan for 18 years now.
7/4/2013 11:59 AM View respondent's answers
from inside,I love animals
7/4/2013 10:03 AM View respondent's answers
became vegetarian for animal rights reasons, became vegan for health reasons
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for love of the animals.
7/4/2013 9:59 AM View respondent's answers
adopted ex battery hens
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from self motivation.
7/4/2013 9:46 AM View respondent's answers
I was born hating meat, milk and dairy. Eggs were the only thing I liked. As soon as I learned about veganism I realised I was not a freak and dropped eggs from my diet.
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from seeing graphic images on FB
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General awareness of animal rights. No specific moment made me do it. It was more something I was always going to do when I was ready.
7/4/2013 6:48 AM View respondent's answers
After being veggoe for 25 years it no longer felt enough - the badger cull was the final straw that made the decision to go vegan for me
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I met many people who were vegan and realised that vegetarianism was simply not enough.
7/4/2013 5:25 AM View respondent's answers
continued curiosity and to learn more
7/4/2013 5:09 AM View respondent's answers
just natural step from being vegetarian
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I decided it by myself :)
7/4/2013 3:59 AM View respondent's answers
I thought about it, as I do most things! I'm not easily 'influenced' !!!
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It came to me in a dream.
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Animal rescue of companion animals
7/4/2013 2:13 AM View respondent's answers
I reasoned
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From becoming sick as a carnivore, and not improving much as a vegetarian.
7/4/2013 1:16 AM View respondent's answers
listening to Erin Red on the podcast Citizen Radio.
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kfc under cover commercial
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my husbands influence
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reading a vegan pamphlet called why vegan
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facebook video
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I hated hurting animals
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Questioning my choices in life and living my choices.
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Went to a Vegan pick nick with my vegetarian daughter
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Dr. Neil barnard
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I don't remember any explicit reason.
7/3/2013 9:12 PM View respondent's answers
Facebook and vegan friends
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I just made the connection
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facebook
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Seeing a chicken slaughtered
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from reading things from various sources
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When health reasons initially forced me to.
7/3/2013 8:13 PM View respondent's answers
Meet Your Meat
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from a dream
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Getting a newsletter from PETA after signing up for membership (1980's)
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several conversations, articles etc over the years when I was a vegetarian
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Knowing that I should do it for ethical reasons and seeing other people demonstrate that it's possible to be healthy on a vegan diet
7/3/2013 7:16 PM View respondent's answers
Reading Dr. Esselstyn's book.
7/3/2013 6:50 PM View respondent's answers
FROM EATING BAD FOOD AT A SUPERBOWL
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working with a couple of vegetarians with veg children.
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Research
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Thought of it myself
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pictures of tortured animals on facebook, and the animals need help and compassion page on facebook
7/3/2013 2:39 PM View respondent's answers
natural transition from vegetarian
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I wanted to be vegetarian since I was 5. My family told me I would die without meat. I went veg at 13 after meeting a veg friend. I educated my self through the internet to make the decision to become vegan.
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long term vegetarian wanting to improve health
7/3/2013 12:25 PM View respondent's answers
by staying with hunt sabs and by a vegan lady's sexy body whilst on holiday in England in 1993
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My wife decided to challenge us for Lent, and we just stuck with it!
7/3/2013 8:49 AM View respondent's answers
spiritual awakening, not due to any outside influence...as I was not exposed to any. I just realized that I no longer could tolerate the Standard American Diet.
7/3/2013 8:37 AM View respondent's answers
vegetarian since birth, grandparents didn't believe "meat" was healthy
7/3/2013 8:22 AM View respondent's answers
It was a slow realisation and culmination of information from many different sources
7/3/2013 8:14 AM View respondent's answers
a vegan Facebook friend often posts information, videos, pictures, etc. It really opened my eyes. She now gives me advice whenever I need it.
7/3/2013 7:19 AM View respondent's answers
From reading information in posts/linked articles as I 'lurked' in an online vegan forum.
7/3/2013 6:06 AM View respondent's answers
Hearing a podcast.
7/3/2013 4:54 AM View respondent's answers
a search deep inside me
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progressive step from being a vegetarian
7/3/2013 4:19 AM View respondent's answers
The seed was first planted after the tragic death of a beloved pet and also I watched Earthlings and this concreted my decision.
7/3/2013 4:02 AM View respondent's answers
A peta stall at national mall in DC with a hot chick in leatherlike straps, and story in picture of a cow who had located her calf after escaping and traveling a huge distance.
7/3/2013 12:56 AM View respondent's answers
From realizing I didn't have to eat meat once I moved out of my parents' house
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From FB posts
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When I found out meat was made of animals as a kid
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self realisation
7/3/2013 12:20 AM View respondent's answers
From losing my cat
7/2/2013 11:24 PM View respondent's answers
I was vegetarian and learned about vegamism from punk music from the UK
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I don't remember; probably a combination
7/2/2013 9:49 PM View respondent's answers
My husband took the plunge first, I soon followed.
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Professor/class project
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after already being vegetarian lacto ovo for years
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All of the above, but mostly an inner feeling that it was the right way, the only way to go
7/2/2013 8:31 PM View respondent's answers
Photos of the milk industry taken and publishes by the Israeli orginazation 'Anonymous'
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purchased a farm that had been a hog facility, realized how bad the conditions were they lived in
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Health reasons. Love of animals.
7/2/2013 7:38 PM View respondent's answers
Conversation followed by reading. It wasn't one particular thing.
7/2/2013 7:15 PM View respondent's answers
My own awareness.
7/2/2013 6:35 PM View respondent's answers
Plus, hearing about Earthlings film (but not watching). I was already vegetarian
7/2/2013 6:29 PM View respondent's answers
Just knowing it was right and my excuses were lame. For the animals.
7/2/2013 6:21 PM View respondent's answers
from seeing a narrative, non-animal related film
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I was already vegetarian and was naturally disgusted by the concept of consuming foods from animals.
7/2/2013 5:58 PM View respondent's answers
none of the above. I could see animal harm for myself.
7/2/2013 5:37 PM View respondent's answers
since I was a child animals suffering is like my own suffering
7/2/2013 5:21 PM View respondent's answers
Involvement with hardcore/punk music scene. Veganism, and in particular AR, was a prevalent issue raised in song lyrics, on clothing, fliers handed out, vegan food stalls at shows, etc.
7/2/2013 5:07 PM View respondent's answers
John Robbins
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I rescued a cat.
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spending time with animals rescued from slavery
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many different factors over a longer period of time
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a leaflet from animal liberation Victoria
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No idea, first inspired over 10 years ago.
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Hit critical mass of understanding, nutrition, ethics, social/enviornmental responsibility. I needed to eat in a way that resonated with my heart.
7/2/2013 2:30 PM View respondent's answers
through shares "become a vegan for 30 days" , and I was still :)
7/2/2013 2:04 PM View respondent's answers
Internet research
7/2/2013 1:53 PM View respondent's answers
I think it was a combination of knowing a vegan role model and seeing Meet Your Meat. The film was the trigger, but knowing a real-life vegan was also essential—it laid the foundation and prepared me to make that decision. I hope that makes sense?
7/2/2013 1:02 PM View respondent's answers
by Linda McCartney
7/2/2013 1:00 PM View respondent's answers
My vegan friends
7/2/2013 12:36 PM View respondent's answers
Psychological health reasons
7/2/2013 12:24 PM View respondent's answers
Rich Roll Podcast
7/2/2013 12:22 PM View respondent's answers
Relationship with my dog :)
7/2/2013 11:46 AM View respondent's answers
My own health concerns.
7/2/2013 10:55 AM View respondent's answers
My cat passed away
7/2/2013 10:54 AM View respondent's answers
I forget, but it was a bit of a journey. Probably a combination of above.
7/2/2013 10:34 AM View respondent's answers
All of the above
7/2/2013 9:32 AM View respondent's answers
From witnessing animal cruelty in person
7/2/2013 9:13 AM View respondent's answers
documentaries, videos, and book (couldn't select both)
7/2/2013 8:48 AM View respondent's answers
birth, already aware
7/2/2013 8:11 AM View respondent's answers
from being vegetarian for 23 years
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viewing factory farms
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Visiting farm sanctuary
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To save my health
7/2/2013 7:06 AM View respondent's answers
I felt bad to be eating animals
7/2/2013 7:06 AM View respondent's answers
Various influences - I've always been more compassionate towards animals since very young, but grew up in an ignorant household. I got a girlfriend who was vegetarian, then we watched Earthlings, and that was it.
7/2/2013 7:03 AM View respondent's answers
it is something I always wanted to do. Then when I turn 50 I thought it's now or never.
7/2/2013 7:01 AM View respondent's answers
Independent research on the horrors of meat/dairy production.
7/2/2013 6:45 AM View respondent's answers
All of these combined plus having a baby who was a little refluxy made me quit dairy
7/2/2013 6:15 AM View respondent's answers
My own feelings/intuition
7/2/2013 5:18 AM View respondent's answers
From being a highly evolved and moral being
7/2/2013 5:14 AM View respondent's answers
My cats
7/2/2013 4:51 AM View respondent's answers
health reasons
7/2/2013 2:41 AM View respondent's answers
health reasons
7/2/2013 2:25 AM View respondent's answers
Natural Instinct - Intuition
7/2/2013 2:05 AM View respondent's answers
from hearing cows scream for babies taken after being vegie for 4 yrs
7/2/2013 1:43 AM View respondent's answers
my mom fed me vegan
7/2/2013 1:31 AM View respondent's answers
from FB pics- after being vegetarian since longtime
7/2/2013 12:59 AM View respondent's answers
Originally, it was a long time ago from an anti-veal sticker that said "milk is for baby cows" or something like that. Didn't go vegan until about 8 years later but that was the first thing that made me really consider it..
7/2/2013 12:53 AM View respondent's answers
Facebook
7/2/2013 12:45 AM View respondent's answers
Gradual progress, multiple influences over time.
7/2/2013 12:21 AM View respondent's answers
From suddenly realizing that all animals are the same as my dog
7/2/2013 12:20 AM View respondent's answers
For my love for animals, we are all brothers and sisters and I cannot subject myself to eat my family.
7/2/2013 12:16 AM View respondent's answers
A humorous scene in the film Everything Is Illuminated.
7/1/2013 11:57 PM View respondent's answers
Ever since I was little I thought it was wrong to eat animals
7/1/2013 11:26 PM View respondent's answers
also reading The China Study
7/1/2013 10:53 PM View respondent's answers
By thinking long and hard about how I valued other animals.
7/1/2013 10:03 PM View respondent's answers
Farm Sanctuary's Hoe Down
7/1/2013 9:58 PM View respondent's answers
Next step from vegetarianism, education.
7/1/2013 8:59 PM View respondent's answers
Have always loved animals and realized at a young age that they were not food.
7/1/2013 8:50 PM View respondent's answers
epiphany when someone unnecessarily killed a horse and i was angry until i thought that I'm no better... so i turned vegan overnight
7/1/2013 8:32 PM View respondent's answers
from meeting farm animals
7/1/2013 7:41 PM View respondent's answers
Nothing, I just realised one day that I had become vegan
7/1/2013 5:17 PM View respondent's answers
all the above! gary yoursky, reading the books skinny bitch and Eating animals, watching Earthlings and meeting lots of vegan friends :)
7/1/2013 4:36 PM View respondent's answers
Didn't like the idea of animal products
7/1/2013 4:00 PM View respondent's answers
i was a vegetarian for over 20 yrs. i recently shifted from vegetarian to vegan. mostly due to social media (FB)
7/1/2013 3:54 PM View respondent's answers
from years of being vegetarian and feeling I wasn't quite doing right
7/1/2013 3:49 PM View respondent's answers
Never eaten meat or animal fats in my life. was born with an aversion to it.
7/1/2013 1:17 PM View respondent's answers
VeganFreak Podcast
7/1/2013 12:28 PM View respondent's answers
Seeing commercial farms
7/1/2013 12:03 PM View respondent's answers
VegSource.com conference
7/1/2013 11:17 AM View respondent's answers
I joined animal riights in 1984 and became an ethical vegetarian.Realized trhe evil in dairy and eggs;I am now vegan.
7/1/2013 10:24 AM View respondent's answers
A random revelation while watching animal planet
7/1/2013 10:14 AM View respondent's answers
Don't remember
7/1/2013 9:50 AM View respondent's answers
After joining (and then working for) the Viva! Charity in Bristol
7/1/2013 9:47 AM View respondent's answers
Loads of sources but I was heading that way around the time that jill Phipps was killed and that pushed me into committing myself.
7/1/2013 8:29 AM View respondent's answers
Living on a pig farm years ago.
7/1/2013 8:21 AM View respondent's answers
born vegetarian - changed to vegan last year
7/1/2013 8:05 AM View respondent's answers
E magazine article that stated that a person could not be an environmentalist and still eat meat.
7/1/2013 6:07 AM View respondent's answers
All of those
7/1/2013 4:57 AM View respondent's answers
Years of work at shelter, of reading articles, and after meeting some interesting vegetarians along the way...
7/1/2013 3:44 AM View respondent's answers
I did a raw veggie cleanse for a month and liked it
7/1/2013 2:23 AM View respondent's answers
because I was sick, allergic
6/30/2013 11:56 PM View respondent's answers
Feeling it was not right to eat animals
6/30/2013 11:30 PM View respondent's answers
By an old beau.
6/30/2013 10:44 PM View respondent's answers
because I known vegans all my life and why not?
6/30/2013 8:50 PM View respondent's answers
NAVS Summerfest (was already a lifelong vegetarian since birth)
6/30/2013 8:07 PM View respondent's answers
health reason
6/30/2013 8:01 PM View respondent's answers
personal revelation I had with an animal I loved was dying
6/30/2013 7:48 PM View respondent's answers
from promoting human freedom leand to dog freedom and then all animals
6/30/2013 7:33 PM View respondent's answers
After looking into a dairy free diet for medical reasons
6/30/2013 7:30 PM View respondent's answers
hard to say, a slow progression, all of the above?
6/30/2013 7:29 PM View respondent's answers
made friends with other vegans, it was hard and a long time ago, it was many years later when i actually changed
6/30/2013 7:14 PM View respondent's answers
inspired by nature
6/30/2013 6:43 PM View respondent's answers
from getting close to an animal
6/30/2013 6:15 PM View respondent's answers
Thinking about how I love animals
6/30/2013 5:54 PM View respondent's answers
working beside a slaughterhouse
6/30/2013 5:53 PM View respondent's answers
Advised by an MD
6/30/2013 5:26 PM View respondent's answers
Book
6/30/2013 5:19 PM View respondent's answers
Finding out through books and the Internet that animals suffer in the production of dairy and eggs.
6/30/2013 5:10 PM View respondent's answers
The unethical persecution of living souls
6/30/2013 4:53 PM View respondent's answers
By treading on ants age 7 and suddenly realising I was destroying living creatures.
6/30/2013 4:37 PM View respondent's answers
an annoying person on the internet
6/30/2013 3:59 PM View respondent's answers
from knowing vegans and being intrigued
6/30/2013 3:50 PM View respondent's answers
isha yoga
6/30/2013 3:34 PM View respondent's answers
i needed to draw focus on real food....this was the only way.
6/30/2013 3:32 PM View respondent's answers
all these things
6/30/2013 12:38 PM View respondent's answers
Came to the conclusion that it is wrong to kill animals for my pleasure.
6/30/2013 12:03 PM View respondent's answers
Initially I went raw/plant based for heath reasons however I am Vegan for animals. The epiphany did not take long!
6/30/2013 11:40 AM View respondent's answers
Spending time with lovely farm animals at a sanctuary
6/30/2013 11:18 AM View respondent's answers
I woke up one day filled with sadness and I just knew it was wrong and that I was done being a part of it. My husband, four children and myself went vegan together. instanstly.
6/30/2013 10:35 AM View respondent's answers
From reading animal rights literature and talking to vegans who convinced me it wasn't too difficult.
6/30/2013 10:35 AM View respondent's answers
Watch the (horrible) news
6/30/2013 10:21 AM View respondent's answers
when I made the connection between what was on my plate and the animals I loved
6/30/2013 9:50 AM View respondent's answers
from having a baby
6/30/2013 8:02 AM View respondent's answers
Social media postings
6/30/2013 7:15 AM View respondent's answers
not a particular event, many conversations and readings and by thinking about it
6/30/2013 6:55 AM View respondent's answers
From growing up with farm animals
6/30/2013 6:16 AM View respondent's answers
inspiration from my dogs
6/30/2013 6:08 AM View respondent's answers
my own initiative
6/30/2013 5:39 AM View respondent's answers
lots of reasons from life expereinces
6/30/2013 3:23 AM View respondent's answers
I don't remember specifically, but I was vegetarian and saw posts about the cruelty involved in dairy and eggs so decided to go vegan.
6/30/2013 3:21 AM View respondent's answers
A combination of the first three.
6/30/2013 3:10 AM View respondent's answers
I worked with cows
6/30/2013 2:54 AM View respondent's answers
Blog
6/30/2013 2:39 AM View respondent's answers
from my cat
6/30/2013 2:30 AM View respondent's answers
Conversation was not with a vegan.
6/30/2013 1:28 AM View respondent's answers
because of the beautiful characters I saw in animals.
6/30/2013 12:35 AM View respondent's answers
why vegan pamphlet in 2001
6/30/2013 12:28 AM View respondent's answers
From participating in vigils in front of a slaughterhouse, meeting others.
6/29/2013 11:45 PM View respondent's answers
1 & 2: Talking to the folks on an awesome vegan forum inspired me to go watch Earthlings, which was my trigger to go vegan.
6/29/2013 11:45 PM View respondent's answers
For my sons health 14year old with severe arthritis
6/29/2013 11:07 PM View respondent's answers
from evolutoin through life
6/29/2013 9:47 PM View respondent's answers
vegetarianism
6/29/2013 8:57 PM View respondent's answers
by my heart
6/29/2013 8:30 PM View respondent's answers
it was so long ago I can't remember
6/29/2013 7:45 PM View respondent's answers
From hanging around AR people.
6/29/2013 6:34 PM View respondent's answers
From a forum
6/29/2013 6:30 PM View respondent's answers
Jivamukti Yoga teacher training
6/29/2013 6:30 PM View respondent's answers
Seeing an interview with Peter Singer on Sixty Minutes.
6/29/2013 6:19 PM View respondent's answers
Spending time with my pets and comments on pet forums
6/29/2013 5:53 PM View respondent's answers
From a vegan festival. Green earth day in Brisbane.
6/29/2013 5:52 PM View respondent's answers
From the brochure "Why Vegan?" in 2003 at a Peace Rally.
6/29/2013 5:49 PM View respondent's answers
The love of animals
6/29/2013 5:37 PM View respondent's answers
From sudden self-realization.
6/29/2013 5:36 PM View respondent's answers
I was inspired by learning about basic rights
6/29/2013 5:16 PM View respondent's answers
Actually through CCTV for all slaughterhouses via facebook vegetarian for 45 years before that
6/29/2013 5:02 PM View respondent's answers
From reading different vegan food blogs
6/29/2013 2:16 PM View respondent's answers
I always considered it totally revolting to kill/eat animals
6/29/2013 2:11 PM View respondent's answers
book: skinny bitch
6/29/2013 1:05 PM View respondent's answers
Getting my greyhounds.
6/29/2013 12:39 PM View respondent's answers
felt nauseous at a cheese exhibition
6/29/2013 12:32 PM View respondent's answers
from achildhood promise to a cow.
6/29/2013 11:36 AM View respondent's answers
Befóre reading a book (Eating Animals - J.S. Foer).
6/29/2013 11:32 AM View respondent's answers
vegetarian food for thought podcast
6/29/2013 11:14 AM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofsky's lecture
6/29/2013 10:40 AM View respondent's answers
Was vegetarian--Facebook posts inspired me, among many other things.
6/29/2013 8:59 AM View respondent's answers
From seeing blood in an egg that I was preparing for a meal.
6/29/2013 8:39 AM View respondent's answers
I have been rescuing animals since before the age of 5 with my family, my first one on my own at age 5 - I was always trying to find more information - at an early age between 7-9 I found a friend who was Vegan, as was her whole family - I was in heaven - that was back in the 70's - my Mom thought I would die from lack of nutrition, not enough education back then - I've been on the path for years, trying to gain support, understanding & respect as I grew into my teens and then into an adult - I believe that life is the truth, not a charade of fallacies and prettying up and sensationalizing and glorifying - meat is the corpse of a living being. Simple. Animals feel pain, emotions - they need advocates and humans 'are it'. We have a purpose and stature to uphold. It's called compassion & love to bring peace for ALL Sentients.
6/29/2013 7:53 AM View respondent's answers
it was a slow process... there's no "first" inspiration
6/29/2013 6:15 AM View respondent's answers
TV Programme - Kill it,cook it,eat it
6/29/2013 5:47 AM View respondent's answers
Gradual realisation based on my own understanding.
6/29/2013 5:32 AM View respondent's answers
As a way to control an illness
6/29/2013 4:57 AM View respondent's answers
Veg*n community
6/29/2013 4:25 AM View respondent's answers
Witnessing the life of industrial farms animals
6/29/2013 4:11 AM View respondent's answers
Durian rider you tube video on cycling diet related performance
6/29/2013 4:08 AM View respondent's answers
a friend went vegan
6/29/2013 3:04 AM View respondent's answers
Went vegetarian after thinking about it for a long time (also watching Earthlings, having veg friends), then gradually transitioned to veganism later.
6/29/2013 1:49 AM View respondent's answers
During my BA in biology I was doing a paper on environmental enrichment and too many of the articles were talking about how to prevent cows, chickens and pigs from harming each other and themselves on farms. I've always been an animal lover and was asked why I'm not a vegeterian. After all those articles, I realized I can't lie to myself anymore and that vegeterianism is not enough.
6/29/2013 1:37 AM View respondent's answers
Gnawing guilty and crisis of conscience
6/29/2013 1:08 AM View respondent's answers
Reading "Fast Food Nation", watching films like "Supersize Me", and other films exposing animal cruelty, Davey Havok
6/29/2013 12:44 AM View respondent's answers
After watching a comercial
6/29/2013 12:41 AM View respondent's answers
from a PETA mailing
6/29/2013 12:14 AM View respondent's answers
Feather on chicken meat
6/28/2013 11:21 PM View respondent's answers
Visiting a sanctuary
6/28/2013 9:55 PM View respondent's answers
vegfest
6/28/2013 9:38 PM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofsky
6/28/2013 9:23 PM View respondent's answers
Also, health reasons.
6/28/2013 8:43 PM View respondent's answers
at 4 years old after an encounter with a deer, talked out of it by my parents... later on in life a film sealed the deal
6/28/2013 8:32 PM View respondent's answers
viva leaflet and facebook
6/28/2013 7:33 PM View respondent's answers
I evolved vegan after being a total vegetarian for years.
6/28/2013 6:57 PM View respondent's answers
from realizing that meat came from animals who were sacrificed for me to eat
6/28/2013 6:54 PM View respondent's answers
watching chicken trucks
6/28/2013 5:58 PM View respondent's answers
health reasons
6/28/2013 5:56 PM View respondent's answers
Natural progression from vegetariansim
6/28/2013 5:56 PM View respondent's answers
Also an animal rights march in Washington, D.C. There was a lot of literature there on veganism.
6/28/2013 5:47 PM View respondent's answers
TV comic item
6/28/2013 5:44 PM View respondent's answers
It was my personal decision
6/28/2013 5:21 PM View respondent's answers
learning about the food that I ate.
6/28/2013 5:19 PM View respondent's answers
IBS lead me to remove animal foods from my diet
6/28/2013 5:18 PM View respondent's answers
Chopping up animals for work
6/28/2013 4:45 PM View respondent's answers
the "meet your meat" video = vegetarian, then a vegan quote made me go vegan
6/28/2013 4:33 PM View respondent's answers
I wanted to lose weight
6/28/2013 4:28 PM View respondent's answers
don't remember
6/28/2013 4:28 PM View respondent's answers
Month long vegan challenge
6/28/2013 4:13 PM View respondent's answers
Had already been vegetarian most of my life.
6/28/2013 4:12 PM View respondent's answers
interest
6/28/2013 4:07 PM View respondent's answers
Pictures of animals cruelty, posted on Facebook.
6/28/2013 3:57 PM View respondent's answers
When I was a child I knew it was wrong.
6/28/2013 3:55 PM View respondent's answers
Vegan blog
6/28/2013 3:48 PM View respondent's answers
after fully realizing (being a vegetarian first) the cruelties of the dairy and egg industries
6/28/2013 3:40 PM View respondent's answers
Logic
6/28/2013 3:26 PM View respondent's answers
porque me gustan los animales
6/28/2013 3:24 PM View respondent's answers
reading a vegan blog
6/28/2013 2:14 PM View respondent's answers
Eased into the diet since my father was vegan before me.
6/28/2013 2:13 PM View respondent's answers
From a combination of information over time, (Peta website, vegetarian magazines, etc)
6/28/2013 1:57 PM View respondent's answers
jivamukti class
6/28/2013 1:45 PM View respondent's answers
mother is a vegetarian, sister vegan
6/28/2013 1:43 PM View respondent's answers
from conversations with animals
6/28/2013 1:14 PM View respondent's answers
PETA Conference
6/28/2013 12:58 PM View respondent's answers
All of these things combined.
6/28/2013 12:49 PM View respondent's answers
getting nausea from looking at meat when I had the flue
6/28/2013 12:36 PM View respondent's answers
Searching for optimal health
6/28/2013 12:33 PM View respondent's answers
Multiple things; vegan friends, the doc Forks Over Knives and the book Eating Amimals
6/28/2013 12:18 PM View respondent's answers
from hearing pigs scream from the transport trunck
6/28/2013 11:59 AM View respondent's answers
Nothing specific. More like an running process
6/28/2013 11:52 AM View respondent's answers
internet forum
6/28/2013 11:49 AM View respondent's answers
Studying philosophy, AFAI recall.
6/28/2013 11:45 AM View respondent's answers
Combination of vegetarian friends and videos
6/28/2013 11:42 AM View respondent's answers
Vegan food blog
6/28/2013 11:35 AM View respondent's answers
Doing animal rights work
6/28/2013 11:32 AM View respondent's answers
Movie on how animals are treated before going to slaughter houses :'(
6/28/2013 11:00 AM View respondent's answers
Was vegetarian then felt it was a natural progress considering my beliefs towards animal cruelty
6/28/2013 10:34 AM View respondent's answers
From trying the 30 day vegan challenge for fun and Animals Australia footage of bobby calves.
6/28/2013 10:33 AM View respondent's answers
Allergies to most animal based products
6/28/2013 10:23 AM View respondent's answers
I became vegetarian at 15 from a conversation. It took 15 years of reading and learning before I deceded to go vegan in 1988.
6/28/2013 10:19 AM View respondent's answers
Dietary intolerances
6/28/2013 10:09 AM View respondent's answers
30 day challenge
6/28/2013 9:56 AM View respondent's answers
Went vegetarian a long time ago after traveling in Cambodia and witnessing the cruelty of eating animals. Went vegan a little over a year ago after some self reflection on why I went vegetarian. Upon further reflection and self-education, I knew I had to go vegan!
6/28/2013 9:56 AM View respondent's answers
From a single image of a cow (Hof Butenland)
6/28/2013 9:21 AM View respondent's answers
From a combination of theses things and from a sudden "awakening" to the reality of animal suffering.
6/28/2013 8:49 AM View respondent's answers
I was on a plane and saw people eating bloody meat and I had a shift.
6/28/2013 8:39 AM View respondent's answers
Also the book Eating Animals
6/28/2013 8:34 AM View respondent's answers
internet page
6/28/2013 8:15 AM View respondent's answers
From following a vegan blog
6/28/2013 8:02 AM View respondent's answers
friends turned & after 13 years being veggie
6/28/2013 7:42 AM View respondent's answers
from reading worldwide cases of cruelty to wildlife, pets, livestock, marine life on Twitter
6/28/2013 7:29 AM View respondent's answers
Workmates
6/28/2013 7:27 AM View respondent's answers
after understanding that being a vegetarian wasn't enough
6/28/2013 7:26 AM View respondent's answers
From our children
6/28/2013 7:19 AM View respondent's answers
from reading books such as "Eating Animals" and by watching documentaries on the subject
6/28/2013 7:03 AM View respondent's answers
Spiritual development
6/28/2013 7:01 AM View respondent's answers
From already being veggie, and realising it was a natural progression.
6/28/2013 6:54 AM View respondent's answers
A leaflet
6/28/2013 6:48 AM View respondent's answers
From seeing Viva! and Animal Aid leaflets about the dairy trade
6/28/2013 6:40 AM View respondent's answers
from learning the basics of wide scale economy at school.
6/28/2013 6:38 AM View respondent's answers
But a mix of most of these really.
6/28/2013 6:37 AM View respondent's answers
Allergic reaction to eggs + other Animal sourced foods from an early age
6/28/2013 6:28 AM View respondent's answers
china study
6/28/2013 6:23 AM View respondent's answers
i was always vegetarian, saw article on dairy
6/28/2013 6:04 AM View respondent's answers
I met a vegan years before, and she sowed a seed in my mind.
6/28/2013 5:41 AM View respondent's answers
My absolute love for animals drove me from being a vegetarian to a Vegan. Because after doing my research, I realise just how important it is to me.
6/28/2013 5:19 AM View respondent's answers
gary!
6/28/2013 5:04 AM View respondent's answers
digestive issues
6/28/2013 5:01 AM View respondent's answers
From a leaflet from Mercy for Animals
6/28/2013 4:22 AM View respondent's answers
spiritual practice of meditation and food allergy to dairy as i was already vegetarian
6/28/2013 4:16 AM View respondent's answers
by working out that vegetarianism is a half-way house
6/28/2013 4:08 AM View respondent's answers
I was already a vegetarian and had a 'cruelty free diary'. I read in the diary that they kill the male calves in order to produce dairy products and then I realised it was just as harmful to eat dairy as to eat meat so I went vegan that day.
6/28/2013 3:37 AM View respondent's answers
on breast cancer after I had breast cancer...but was already transitioning from being a long time vegetarian
6/28/2013 2:56 AM View respondent's answers
from visiting with the Turlock Chickens at Animal Place
6/28/2013 2:16 AM View respondent's answers
A woman reproached me for contributing to the death of calves. She was right, though I was hurt initially by her reaction.
6/28/2013 2:14 AM View respondent's answers
Info I picked up at a cruelty-free festival in Sydney
6/28/2013 1:52 AM View respondent's answers
My dad brought home live lobster for dinner.
6/28/2013 1:39 AM View respondent's answers
because it didn't seem consistent to care about the cruelty of meat and not of dairy
6/28/2013 1:33 AM View respondent's answers
Lots of things, but ultimately it was Colleen Patrick Goudreau podcasts ~ education about what was going on basically.
6/28/2013 1:17 AM View respondent's answers
As an experiment
6/28/2013 1:04 AM View respondent's answers
All of the above! I became a vegetarian at age eight, and a vegan at 21.
6/28/2013 1:02 AM View respondent's answers
From my inner knowing, intelligence, and intuition
6/28/2013 1:01 AM View respondent's answers
gut feeling
6/28/2013 12:24 AM View respondent's answers
It just felt right
6/27/2013 11:45 PM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofsky, Forks Over Knives and others.
6/27/2013 11:41 PM View respondent's answers
Peter Singer and tumblr blogs
6/27/2013 11:33 PM View respondent's answers
dr furhman on PBS
6/27/2013 11:23 PM View respondent's answers
By our daughter's.
6/27/2013 10:45 PM View respondent's answers
Facebook
6/27/2013 10:41 PM View respondent's answers
I had some health issues.
6/27/2013 10:39 PM View respondent's answers
From observing pet mice protecting their babies!
6/27/2013 10:38 PM View respondent's answers
Used my brains
6/27/2013 10:23 PM View respondent's answers
Working with animals
6/27/2013 10:22 PM View respondent's answers
learning from Peta's website
6/27/2013 10:15 PM View respondent's answers
Because I love animals and so, become vegetarian when I was a kid. Be vegan was naturally a consequence.
6/27/2013 9:54 PM View respondent's answers
Doing research online
6/27/2013 9:54 PM View respondent's answers
Through yoga - the concept of extending ahimsa
6/27/2013 9:50 PM View respondent's answers
did so on my own.
6/27/2013 9:47 PM View respondent's answers
through a sic the advocacy group shared info about all forms of animal exploitation
6/27/2013 9:34 PM View respondent's answers
I became inspired when my daughter went vegan.
6/27/2013 9:29 PM View respondent's answers
Getting healthy
6/27/2013 9:25 PM View respondent's answers
Animals Australia Indonesia exposé.
6/27/2013 9:17 PM View respondent's answers
i saw a cow looking at me through the slats of the truck while stuck in traffic on the highway and i was so excited to see the cows. When i pulled away i realized those darlings where on their way to slaughter. I turned vegetarian that day. Then just a little after that i learned about factory farming and that was it for me'
6/27/2013 9:16 PM View respondent's answers
seeing a rodeo in person
6/27/2013 9:15 PM View respondent's answers
Frontline activism
6/27/2013 9:03 PM View respondent's answers
loving with vegans
6/27/2013 8:50 PM View respondent's answers
I was vegetarian first, then lactose intolerant and the rest were logical steps
6/27/2013 8:36 PM View respondent's answers
Was already vegetarian, background animal abuse videos at Morrissey concert sealed the vegan deal.
6/27/2013 8:31 PM View respondent's answers
Animal rescue for dogs where a chicken was present. It dawned on me I was there to save them all not eat them.
6/27/2013 8:29 PM View respondent's answers
When I saw my 1 year old son get sick from cow's milk I decided to quit all dairy & was already vegetarian, so then vegan without knowing the word. :)
6/27/2013 8:28 PM View respondent's answers
The Simpsons
6/27/2013 8:13 PM View respondent's answers
The Veganist by Kathy Freston
6/27/2013 8:09 PM View respondent's answers
medical reasons
6/27/2013 8:02 PM View respondent's answers
don't remember, I quit meat at least 22 yrs ago and slowly switched to almost perfect vegan :)
6/27/2013 7:56 PM View respondent's answers
From Howie Pyro & Jesse Malin from the band D Generation
6/27/2013 7:53 PM View respondent's answers
Really I was inspired when I was 8 to quit eating meat (raised on slaughter farm) and from when I worked a a dairy farm when I was 16 :(
6/27/2013 7:46 PM View respondent's answers
From my daughter. She educated me about veganism.
6/27/2013 7:46 PM View respondent's answers
research on web
6/27/2013 7:42 PM View respondent's answers
from eating an undercook steak
6/27/2013 7:35 PM View respondent's answers
Forks over knives
6/27/2013 7:33 PM View respondent's answers
After learning about world religions
6/27/2013 7:32 PM View respondent's answers
From the cows that I grew up next to.
6/27/2013 7:25 PM View respondent's answers
through studying to be a health coach
6/27/2013 7:24 PM View respondent's answers
seeing posts on facebook
6/27/2013 7:23 PM View respondent's answers
Alicia Silverstone on Oprah
6/27/2013 7:18 PM View respondent's answers
I was working up to it over quite a long period of time because of concern over the environment and animals. We were part of the "homesteading" movement in the 1970's and I never really took to the animal-raising part of it. I made lots of vegetarian foods even then, learned to make tofu, tempeh and even a simple type of seitan (from a 7th Day Adventist friend).
6/27/2013 7:15 PM View respondent's answers
2&3
6/27/2013 7:12 PM View respondent's answers
having pets
6/27/2013 7:10 PM View respondent's answers
getting info on the horrors of the dairy industry via facebook
6/27/2013 7:08 PM View respondent's answers
A combination of all the reasons above
6/27/2013 7:06 PM View respondent's answers
I suddenly thought it wasn't right to eat animals
6/27/2013 7:04 PM View respondent's answers
seeing animals going to slaughter
6/27/2013 7:04 PM View respondent's answers
own personal realisation
6/27/2013 7:03 PM View respondent's answers
witnessing calves separated from mothers
6/27/2013 7:01 PM View respondent's answers
My reason for becoming vegetarian was completely an empiphany, it actualy had nothing to do with our fellow creatures. Once I had deprogrammed myself sufficiently I came to realize that if I still ate dairy and eggs I was contributing to the horrors of the factory farming industry.
6/27/2013 7:00 PM View respondent's answers
healt reasons
6/27/2013 6:58 PM View respondent's answers
Facebook Images of the poor animals
6/27/2013 6:58 PM View respondent's answers
Just always knew it was wrong and needed to make the transition
6/27/2013 6:56 PM View respondent's answers
Tony Robbins UTPW
6/27/2013 6:54 PM View respondent's answers
Poor health
6/27/2013 6:49 PM View respondent's answers
Posts on FBI by a vegan friend
6/27/2013 6:48 PM View respondent's answers
It was a combination of things. I had two vegan friends that I moved in with who influenced me, and then I began to read articles here and there. Eventually it had been on my radar so long it felt wrong not to make the same changes in my own life.
6/27/2013 6:47 PM View respondent's answers
Also had been thinking about going vegan for a very long time.
6/27/2013 6:45 PM View respondent's answers
Reading about an ancient Hebrew tribe that wouldn't kill for food or eat honey
6/27/2013 6:42 PM View respondent's answers
because of the constant animal exploitation
6/27/2013 6:39 PM View respondent's answers
stopped fast food and decided to quit the rest
6/27/2013 6:39 PM View respondent's answers
out of the blue one day
6/27/2013 6:38 PM View respondent's answers
Also had an intuitive empath experience in which I felt and 'saw' the suffering of the animal while holding a piece of his/her dead body which I was preparing to 'cook'. :(
6/27/2013 6:37 PM View respondent's answers
Growing up on a "beef" farm.
6/27/2013 6:37 PM View respondent's answers
Philosophy podcast
6/27/2013 6:36 PM View respondent's answers
All of the above
6/27/2013 6:33 PM View respondent's answers
I saw a brochure with a mama cow struggling to kiss her baby through bars with the heading "milk comes from grieving mothers".
6/27/2013 6:33 PM View respondent's answers
Internet photos of slaugthered animals
6/27/2013 6:31 PM View respondent's answers
Dr Douglas Graham
6/27/2013 6:29 PM View respondent's answers
Dr. Neal Barnard's Reversing Diabetes
6/27/2013 6:20 PM View respondent's answers
Doctor
6/27/2013 6:15 PM View respondent's answers
after being a vegetarian for many years
6/27/2013 6:14 PM View respondent's answers
can't remember - it was a gradual decision
6/27/2013 6:14 PM View respondent's answers
from starting to cook for myself and reflect about it
6/27/2013 6:14 PM View respondent's answers
Personal research
6/27/2013 6:13 PM View respondent's answers
Hearing Pink Floyd's Sheep.
6/27/2013 6:06 PM View respondent's answers
the movie Babe
6/27/2013 6:02 PM View respondent's answers
from a leaflet handed to me by an animal activist
6/27/2013 5:57 PM View respondent's answers
my father was a hunter
6/27/2013 5:50 PM View respondent's answers
The McDougall Program book in md 90s...
6/27/2013 5:47 PM View respondent's answers
I was vegeterian since I was child and the progression was natural.
6/27/2013 5:42 PM View respondent's answers
Personal experience
6/27/2013 5:41 PM View respondent's answers
I was raised vegan.
6/27/2013 5:21 PM View respondent's answers
from eating at a vegetarian canteen
6/27/2013 5:07 PM View respondent's answers
The China Study
6/27/2013 4:48 PM View respondent's answers
I suddenly felt the need to research it on the Internet.
6/27/2013 4:39 PM View respondent's answers
because of the truth....
6/27/2013 4:38 PM View respondent's answers
Self experimentation
6/27/2013 4:29 PM View respondent's answers
when i made the connection between the dinner and my grandparents' rabbits (unfortunately i needed more than 15 years to change)
6/27/2013 4:19 PM View respondent's answers
Podcasts of Colleen Patrick-Goudreau and Erik Marcus
6/27/2013 4:15 PM View respondent's answers
Combination of conversations with friends and researching further
6/27/2013 4:04 PM View respondent's answers
from doctor
6/27/2013 4:04 PM View respondent's answers
At a young age I realized I didn't want to eat my friends.
6/27/2013 3:57 PM View respondent's answers
from paying attention to the obvious alignment with my ethical code
6/27/2013 3:47 PM View respondent's answers
When I realised we are all equal
6/27/2013 3:34 PM View respondent's answers
Reading books about vegetarian diets and the ethical issues surrounding dairy and eggs.
6/27/2013 3:31 PM View respondent's answers
Gettng a dog
6/27/2013 3:08 PM View respondent's answers
Compassionate Cooks Podcast
6/27/2013 1:55 PM View respondent's answers
When I realized animals have feelings, as a child becoming a vegeterian and then in early adulthood, vegan, based on my own opinions and feelings.
6/27/2013 1:05 PM View respondent's answers
when being a child and heard a pig crying for life
6/27/2013 12:58 PM View respondent's answers
increased knowledge about treatment of farm animals
6/27/2013 12:57 PM View respondent's answers
Epiphany? I became a vegetarian at 7 when, while dining alone on steak and feeding my dog the fatty bits, I realized just what I was eating. A switch went off and I never ate meat again. I also abstained from eating 'fried eggs' and such. I became a vegan when I was 14 and heard there was 'pus' in my milk. I never drank milk again. I never knew about the living conditions of farm animals until after that when I did research.
6/27/2013 12:30 PM View respondent's answers
by a celebrity (AAA)
6/27/2013 11:51 AM View respondent's answers
Specifically: PETA Conference: Helping Animals 101
6/27/2013 11:46 AM View respondent's answers
I got sick of eating meat
6/27/2013 11:24 AM View respondent's answers
I just had an idea to try it, after which I read Skinny Bastard and then realised there was no turning back.
6/27/2013 11:01 AM View respondent's answers
After meeting a cow during a 3rd grade field trip to a farm and learning what would happen to him
6/27/2013 10:49 AM View respondent's answers
Being Vegetarian for 9 years and finally making the shift
6/27/2013 10:46 AM View respondent's answers
Love of animals and dislike of meat
6/27/2013 10:39 AM View respondent's answers
Combined of a friend that is vegan and upon doing research for a dog fighting documentary, the search results often included video/documents of factory farming. The final straw for me was, a 33 second video, no blood or gore, just a close up of a cow's face about to be slaughtered. Seeing her cry, helpless to stop what was about to happen, made my decision right then and there. I threw out every item that had animal products/byproducts and never looked back.
6/27/2013 10:32 AM View respondent's answers
Rescuing a potbelly piglet that was going to be killed.
6/27/2013 10:30 AM View respondent's answers
EARTHLINGS
6/27/2013 10:19 AM View respondent's answers
love of all creatures
6/27/2013 10:10 AM View respondent's answers
I was vegetarian and when I moved to England I saw a stall in Oxford St with literature: I had no idea of the cruelty involved in dairy and eggs.
6/27/2013 9:52 AM View respondent's answers
It was a combination of a book and a conversation
6/27/2013 9:48 AM View respondent's answers
it happened by chance...i just started cutting animal products out of my diet in hopes my migraine headaches would go away. Who knew dairy triggers migraines!
6/27/2013 9:25 AM View respondent's answers
A spiritual awakening,the day I decided to stop abusing and torturing myself is the same day I decided doing the same to any sentient beings.
6/27/2013 9:06 AM View respondent's answers
1 minute into Earthlings and I became vegan from being a Pescetarian
6/27/2013 8:56 AM View respondent's answers
tried saving a baby dove,neighbor cat got to first,guess it eas just time.
6/27/2013 8:48 AM View respondent's answers
myself, own views from being vegetarian before
6/27/2013 8:42 AM View respondent's answers
By experimenting eating plant
6/27/2013 8:41 AM View respondent's answers
My 1st Job from leaving full time education was in a Health food shop
6/27/2013 8:39 AM View respondent's answers
from my own thinking about it... I realized being a vegetarian isn't enough.
6/27/2013 8:30 AM View respondent's answers
Professor in college during an environmental ethics class.
6/27/2013 8:23 AM View respondent's answers
when i found out how evil the dairy industry is.
6/27/2013 8:22 AM View respondent's answers
by thinking about it
6/27/2013 8:02 AM View respondent's answers
poor student, couldnt afford it
6/27/2013 7:36 AM View respondent's answers
Because I love animals and never thought it right to eat or harm them in any way....BUT I have found all the educational posts on Facebook have further educated me in regard to the widespread abuse of Farm animals and these posts (which I am so grateful fo) have served to strengthen my resolve..and pass it on to others.
6/27/2013 7:15 AM View respondent's answers
Doing research on the diary industry for a college class
6/27/2013 7:13 AM View respondent's answers
30day vegan challenge
6/27/2013 6:44 AM View respondent's answers
from no longer being able to disconnect from what I was eating
6/27/2013 6:35 AM View respondent's answers
from reading blogs
6/27/2013 6:18 AM View respondent's answers
Saw rabbit on sale in grocery store while mourning a pet rabbit
6/27/2013 6:06 AM View respondent's answers
Was raised vegetarian and consciously evolved to veganism.
6/27/2013 5:25 AM View respondent's answers
from being taken to a cattle market 39 years ago.
6/27/2013 4:49 AM View respondent's answers
From working with PETA
6/27/2013 4:39 AM View respondent's answers
Reading Vegan mag in library
6/27/2013 4:27 AM View respondent's answers
Because I love animals
6/27/2013 4:19 AM View respondent's answers
health issues
6/27/2013 4:18 AM View respondent's answers
Earthlings
6/27/2013 3:58 AM View respondent's answers
For health reasons
6/27/2013 3:32 AM View respondent's answers
from seeing an educational posterboard
6/27/2013 3:27 AM View respondent's answers
because of food allergies and endometriosis
6/27/2013 2:43 AM View respondent's answers
I decided on my own
6/27/2013 2:39 AM View respondent's answers
From new reports on cattle with BSE spreading CJD to humans
6/27/2013 2:15 AM View respondent's answers
failing health
6/27/2013 2:06 AM View respondent's answers
volunteering for domestic pet situations and then learnig of farm animal suffering
6/27/2013 2:03 AM View respondent's answers
inside devine message
6/27/2013 1:38 AM View respondent's answers
A photo I saw on Facebook about dairy cows
6/27/2013 1:21 AM View respondent's answers
Was already vegetarian then became intolerant to dairy & eggs
6/27/2013 1:21 AM View respondent's answers
animal agriculture
6/27/2013 1:07 AM View respondent's answers
gradual evolution from vegetarianism
6/27/2013 1:05 AM View respondent's answers
Logical conclusion from care for others and the planet
6/27/2013 12:40 AM View respondent's answers
Being curd/milk intolerant, was wondering how to carry in a pregnancy without dairy.
6/27/2013 12:34 AM View respondent's answers
church
6/27/2013 12:27 AM View respondent's answers
It was a lot of things, people, seeing farm animals, driving by a cow slaughterhouse in Montana-it was more than one influence.
6/26/2013 11:58 PM View respondent's answers
didn't like meat
6/26/2013 11:52 PM View respondent's answers
from being hooked on drugs in the 70's
6/26/2013 11:50 PM View respondent's answers
elevated cholesterol even on vegetarian diet
6/26/2013 11:50 PM View respondent's answers
From having pets
6/26/2013 11:48 PM View respondent's answers
At a Dog Show - my first intro to animal suffering, there was an Animal Rights booth w/pictures of experiments on dogs & cats
6/26/2013 11:37 PM View respondent's answers
From a friend's college term paper
6/26/2013 11:33 PM View respondent's answers
from attending the Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown, PA
6/26/2013 11:25 PM View respondent's answers
A birthday present for a friend
6/26/2013 11:21 PM View respondent's answers
from a vegan detox and noticing how I felt eating dairy
6/26/2013 11:21 PM View respondent's answers
From handraising my babies lovebirds
6/26/2013 11:16 PM View respondent's answers
It was a combinations of loving animals, fitness goals, meating super healthy vegan athletes and finally talking to a raw plant based cancer nutritionist
6/26/2013 11:13 PM View respondent's answers
I am not vegan, but eat very few animal products.
6/26/2013 11:00 PM View respondent's answers
conscience and love of animals
6/26/2013 10:49 PM View respondent's answers
I was a vegetarian from birth so vegan was the next step. Has to do health and also cruelty to animals.
6/26/2013 10:48 PM View respondent's answers
PETA pamphlet
6/26/2013 10:47 PM View respondent's answers
Don't recall
6/26/2013 10:01 PM View respondent's answers
By my boyfriend who is vegan
6/26/2013 10:00 PM View respondent's answers
The book Skinny Bitch
6/26/2013 9:52 PM View respondent's answers
It was a natural evolution for me.
6/26/2013 9:46 PM View respondent's answers
on my own
6/26/2013 9:40 PM View respondent's answers
Just by myself. I went vegetarian first and then I thought whether consuming dairy was fair to animals. I decided that I didn't have the right to use them.
6/26/2013 9:33 PM View respondent's answers
Health concerns - dairy triggers my asthma. I was vegetarian for 1.5 years before going vegan
6/26/2013 9:31 PM View respondent's answers
it was kind of gradual, i wanted to go vegan after being vegetarian, and then one day found out what the egg industry does with their chicks and I said okay thats it, animals are not our effing slaves.
6/26/2013 9:28 PM View respondent's answers
From meeting a lot of vegans through hardcore/ punk music & watching "Meet your Meat"
6/26/2013 9:25 PM View respondent's answers
From my love of animals
6/26/2013 9:24 PM View respondent's answers
when I finally heard the word "vegan".
6/26/2013 9:17 PM View respondent's answers
As a kid, saw a plucked chicken corpse and realized it used to be a living chicken.
6/26/2013 9:12 PM View respondent's answers
Skinny Bitch my daughter checked out of the library!
6/26/2013 9:09 PM View respondent's answers
from seeing how badly cows are treated on farms
6/26/2013 9:05 PM View respondent's answers
From the consideration of information from various souces over a period of time
6/26/2013 8:58 PM View respondent's answers
Reading about animal testing in the encyclopedia
6/26/2013 8:56 PM View respondent's answers
gradual decision
6/26/2013 8:38 PM View respondent's answers
Dr McDougall
6/26/2013 8:37 PM View respondent's answers
After long thought. I was ready.
6/26/2013 8:32 PM View respondent's answers
my own conscience
6/26/2013 8:28 PM View respondent's answers
From my relationship with my pets
6/26/2013 8:27 PM View respondent's answers
I transitioned from a vegetarian to a vegan....it's only natural.
6/26/2013 8:18 PM View respondent's answers
FB Eddie Mah, Cat Jones....
6/26/2013 8:14 PM View respondent's answers
I rescued a male baby chick from garbage, that's what makes me thinking
6/26/2013 8:12 PM View respondent's answers
Peter Singer, Jeff McMahan, Shelly Kagan
6/26/2013 8:07 PM View respondent's answers
i just always had an aversion to animal products
6/26/2013 8:01 PM View respondent's answers
PETA's website
6/26/2013 8:01 PM View respondent's answers
from looking into a cows eyes. Her name was Bernie. I was 10.
6/26/2013 8:00 PM View respondent's answers
from the way meat made me feel when I ate it
6/26/2013 7:58 PM View respondent's answers
being a mom to two cats
6/26/2013 7:52 PM View respondent's answers
I always felt that it was wrong to eat other animals...
6/26/2013 7:48 PM View respondent's answers
The World Peace Diet class complete with vegan meals
6/26/2013 7:41 PM View respondent's answers
I began to feel so bad to eating dairy
6/26/2013 7:26 PM View respondent's answers
from reading articles and watching videos on the Internet
6/26/2013 6:57 PM View respondent's answers
HSUS Take Action for Animals conference
6/26/2013 6:51 PM View respondent's answers
A natural progression from vegetarianism as teenager
6/26/2013 6:45 PM View respondent's answers
I chose to stop eating animals etc because I gfelt it was a kind thing to do.No one influnced me at alll. I always knew this in my heart, I just finally did it, had to, my soul felt better, I feel like me now.
6/26/2013 6:38 PM View respondent's answers
From meeting other vegans and doing direct action!!
6/26/2013 6:37 PM View respondent's answers
Natural progression from vegetarian, which I became as a child, on my own initiative.
6/26/2013 6:34 PM View respondent's answers
My sister opened my eyes and I learned about it all starting with Colleen's Food for Thought , Earthlings, and Slaughterhouse.
6/26/2013 6:30 PM View respondent's answers
Reading a book on vitamins and minerals and realizing everything we need can be obtained from plants.
6/26/2013 6:30 PM View respondent's answers
Witnessing live shipments and making the connection between veal and dairy
6/26/2013 6:30 PM View respondent's answers
from a shocking tv report about crazy behaviour in a slaughterhouse.
6/26/2013 6:27 PM View respondent's answers
Was vegetarian for 23 years and on and off had a feeling consuming eggs and dairy was still animal use . I saw pcrm's kickstart ad (21-day) about 3 years ago and that got me started.
6/26/2013 6:23 PM View respondent's answers
from my love of animals
6/26/2013 6:17 PM View respondent's answers
From seeing Prince (the artist) on the news.
6/26/2013 6:06 PM View respondent's answers
natural progression from vegetarianism
6/26/2013 5:53 PM View respondent's answers
A friend posting info and pictures on Facebook
6/26/2013 5:33 PM View respondent's answers
volunteering on a vegan farm and animal sanctuary and learing things i had never heard of or thought before
6/26/2013 5:30 PM View respondent's answers
It was a book about cancer called "Foods that Harm and Foods That Heal. It didn't even talk about veganism but it talked about dairy and I was vegetarian.
6/26/2013 5:21 PM View respondent's answers
...when I thought about eggs in vegetarian food and questioned why battery caged hen eggs were used in vegetarian food
6/26/2013 5:17 PM View respondent's answers
from my own introspection of my love for animals.
6/26/2013 4:01 PM View respondent's answers
social media picture stating "dairy industry is the veal industry is the meat industry"
6/26/2013 3:34 PM View respondent's answers
My daughter - pescatarian
6/26/2013 3:29 PM View respondent's answers
what is done to animals in slaughter
6/26/2013 3:17 PM View respondent's answers
Skinny Bitch
6/26/2013 3:14 PM View respondent's answers
It was intuition.
6/26/2013 3:03 PM View respondent's answers
after seeing fb posts about veganism from my virtual friend
6/26/2013 3:02 PM View respondent's answers
I felt it was the right way to go
6/26/2013 2:59 PM View respondent's answers
also seeing the misuse and injustice of our animals
6/26/2013 2:50 PM View respondent's answers
Medical journal research while treating a pet for lymphoma using holistic methods
6/26/2013 2:49 PM View respondent's answers
from passing animal transports...
6/26/2013 2:43 PM View respondent's answers
General knowledge of the suffering of animals used to make food and clothes motivated me to cut out all other animal products after being vegetarian from ages 10-24.
6/26/2013 2:18 PM View respondent's answers
When I experienced health problems then shortly after I educated myself on rights of life for non human animals.
6/26/2013 2:16 PM View respondent's answers
From seeing a calf being picked up by a man, thrown to the ground and stomped in the head repeatedly.
6/26/2013 1:45 PM View respondent's answers
just hated eating meat from young age... I guess it has left me with trauma seing my folks murder animals for food
6/26/2013 1:45 PM View respondent's answers
my own believe
6/26/2013 1:43 PM View respondent's answers
i read that a snack food firm in Devizes Wiltshire had been given an award for their new snack 'oinkies', i thought it was scandelous to name a thing after the noise the creature made before it was slaughtered.
6/26/2013 1:41 PM View respondent's answers
Facebook
6/26/2013 1:38 PM View respondent's answers
up close and personal contact w/a calf.
6/26/2013 1:37 PM View respondent's answers
can't remember
6/26/2013 1:21 PM View respondent's answers
because at 9 years old i knew that was the only way to live,eat dead things , i dont think so
6/26/2013 1:19 PM View respondent's answers
i've been vegetarian for over 20 years, vegan now for 2
6/26/2013 1:18 PM View respondent's answers
been vegetarian for over 30 years and decided that I should really not use eggs and milk either, sons allergies helped me decide
6/26/2013 1:18 PM View respondent's answers
Started from environmental concerns and later learned about animal suffering
6/26/2013 1:16 PM View respondent's answers
pod casts from colleen patrick goudreau
6/26/2013 1:11 PM View respondent's answers
nothin specific... just started opening my eyes
6/26/2013 12:44 PM View respondent's answers
I just wanted to rebel against my lacto-veg parents
6/26/2013 12:27 PM View respondent's answers
my 18 yr old daughter
6/26/2013 12:20 PM View respondent's answers
When my cholesterol rose beyond normal limits.
6/26/2013 12:17 PM View respondent's answers
In a TV show they said: "Trere is enzyme called renin in the cheese" - so this means a dead body
6/26/2013 12:07 PM View respondent's answers
My answer is A B CD
6/26/2013 11:32 AM View respondent's answers
From someone I respected who lived the lifestyle
6/26/2013 11:05 AM View respondent's answers
an amalgum of influences working over time
6/26/2013 10:55 AM View respondent's answers
I was already a vegetarian, then I saw a stall about veganism
6/26/2013 10:34 AM View respondent's answers
Dr. Michael Greger and Dr. Joel Fuhrman
6/26/2013 10:20 AM View respondent's answers
Followed by helping organize a Ringling demo and looking eye to eye with one of the elephants. I burst into tears and gave up dairy/cheese. This experience pushed me totally into going all the way vegan
6/26/2013 10:14 AM View respondent's answers
I am mostly but not completely vegan. Just fyi.
6/26/2013 10:05 AM View respondent's answers
after becoming vegetarian for animal rights issues, the only logical next step was vegan
6/26/2013 9:59 AM View respondent's answers
been a vegetarian for my whole life, converted to veganism a year ago
6/26/2013 9:54 AM View respondent's answers
... became vegetarian on-the-spot !
6/26/2013 9:45 AM View respondent's answers
I was already vegetarian and expanded
6/26/2013 9:39 AM View respondent's answers
Skinny Bitch
6/26/2013 9:38 AM View respondent's answers
I think i always sort of wanted to be, but conversations with people + "Vegucated" made me realize I could
6/26/2013 9:31 AM View respondent's answers
I had been vegetarian most of my life, it was a natural progression
6/26/2013 9:09 AM View respondent's answers
Found my way to animal rights forums on the net.
6/26/2013 9:00 AM View respondent's answers
from seeing an undercover video shot in an egg-producing factory
6/26/2013 8:59 AM View respondent's answers
Watched A Peaceable Kingdom with my then, 9 year old son. He decided to go vegan for his 10th birthday, I went with him.
6/26/2013 8:58 AM View respondent's answers
Natural progression from being vegetarian
6/26/2013 8:56 AM View respondent's answers
podcasts: Colleen Patrick Goudreau and Vegan Freaks
6/26/2013 8:38 AM View respondent's answers
transition from vegetarian
6/26/2013 8:17 AM View respondent's answers
at a vegie/vegan fair
6/26/2013 8:01 AM View respondent's answers
evolving from a lifetime of vegetarian diet
6/26/2013 7:54 AM View respondent's answers
decided on becoming a vegetarian on my own
6/26/2013 7:52 AM View respondent's answers
facebook
6/26/2013 7:46 AM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofsky
6/26/2013 7:41 AM View respondent's answers
Animal Aid's website and my 9yr old daughter reading ROAR book
6/26/2013 7:39 AM View respondent's answers
From seeing articles about animal abuse
6/26/2013 7:36 AM View respondent's answers
Those who love animals don't eat them. The rest are hipocrits.
6/26/2013 7:23 AM View respondent's answers
From my educational experience in agricultural science
6/26/2013 7:06 AM View respondent's answers
Probably a mixture
6/26/2013 7:01 AM View respondent's answers
was already vegetarian. Just had not taken the step
6/26/2013 6:53 AM View respondent's answers
I was a vegetarian since childhood (when I learned that meat comes from animals)
6/26/2013 6:40 AM View respondent's answers
A nutritionist speaking about general nutrition and from animal rights videos and films/books, internet research
6/26/2013 6:37 AM View respondent's answers
And leaflets
6/26/2013 6:32 AM View respondent's answers
felt right
6/26/2013 6:18 AM View respondent's answers
from reading several books over one month and my husband being on south beach diet
6/26/2013 6:11 AM View respondent's answers
the 4 corners program on the live export cruelty, with Tommy
6/26/2013 5:46 AM View respondent's answers
And my own research plus an add that animals Australia had about bobby calves
6/26/2013 5:43 AM View respondent's answers
I realized that "organic" animal products cause animal cruelty
6/26/2013 5:38 AM View respondent's answers
No insperation as such, just a feeling within myself that this was the right thing to do
6/26/2013 5:36 AM View respondent's answers
from seeing a news report of animal cruelty in Indonesia. The Ban Live Export issue.
6/26/2013 5:27 AM View respondent's answers
I was vegetarian for a long time, but became vegan by finding out more about the dairy and egg industries, and by having a few vegan friends to inspire me.
6/26/2013 5:06 AM View respondent's answers
Just natural progression from vegetarian .
6/26/2013 5:03 AM View respondent's answers
The live export issue and my decision to go vegetarian was challenged by a stranger on FB. She sent me video of a dairy calf, so that was enough for me to go vegan.
6/26/2013 4:47 AM View respondent's answers
internet
6/26/2013 4:40 AM View respondent's answers
Working near a dairy farm.
6/26/2013 4:30 AM View respondent's answers
It was a natural transition from being a vegetarian; the next step
6/26/2013 4:28 AM View respondent's answers
from gathering information on the subject and finally realizing this is the way I want to live my life.
6/26/2013 4:25 AM View respondent's answers
I've been vegetarian since 70's, but with Facebook, I came to understand the misery of e.g. the cows
6/26/2013 4:16 AM View respondent's answers
Recognised sentience when in my twenties
6/26/2013 4:00 AM View respondent's answers
My sister told me I was drinking pus and blood, I was appalled by this. I was Vegetarian since 11 for compassionate reasons
6/26/2013 3:43 AM View respondent's answers
Originally vegetarian after series of events, including reading, TV (this was pre-internet). Eventually went vegan after seeing chicken fetus come out of a one of our free-range chicken's egg. Already gave up dairy as allergic.
6/26/2013 3:38 AM View respondent's answers
From wanting to be a vegetarian, trying to cut out unhealthy food such as cheese and then researching Veganism and watching Vegucated (it won't let me unselect from a video).
6/26/2013 3:31 AM View respondent's answers
became vegetarian by istenining to my own heart and later vegan by informing myself on the internet about the dairy and egg industry and other issues
6/26/2013 3:28 AM View respondent's answers
Living with my vegan spouse.
6/26/2013 3:04 AM View respondent's answers
natural progression from vegetarianism
6/26/2013 2:53 AM View respondent's answers
A combination of factors but mostly my own beliefs.
6/26/2013 2:46 AM View respondent's answers
after reflection on the nature of life.
6/26/2013 2:41 AM View respondent's answers
on medical advice for health problems I had
6/26/2013 2:36 AM View respondent's answers
Website - 30 bananas a day
6/26/2013 2:34 AM View respondent's answers
from my daughter
6/26/2013 2:31 AM View respondent's answers
Religion
6/26/2013 2:27 AM View respondent's answers
thinking about it I was a vegetarian more than 20 years
6/26/2013 2:24 AM View respondent's answers
my wife
6/26/2013 1:59 AM View respondent's answers
Was lacto-ovo for 32 years, then my daughter got me to read Skinny Bitch. That plus the internet. There are NO happy cows and eggs even from pet hens aren't good for us.
6/26/2013 1:59 AM View respondent's answers
Earthlings touched my heart! I had my daughter who was 3months then, I was breast feeding, the video made me quit milk completely! gosh!
6/26/2013 1:57 AM View respondent's answers
Seeing a compassionate role model who was vegan
6/26/2013 1:55 AM View respondent's answers
all of the above
6/26/2013 1:46 AM View respondent's answers
Contemplation and perception
6/26/2013 1:41 AM View respondent's answers
personal experience
6/26/2013 1:33 AM View respondent's answers
killing
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Finding a filleted rabbit in my aunt's freezer while having a companion rabbit
6/26/2013 12:55 AM View respondent's answers
Daniel Johns - Silverchair
6/26/2013 12:44 AM View respondent's answers
Medical intolerance to animal products.
6/26/2013 12:43 AM View respondent's answers
teacher in home economics told me how they kill a cow. i was done. i grew up with the vegetarian mom though.
6/26/2013 12:32 AM View respondent's answers
My wife's influence, and for the animals.
6/26/2013 12:15 AM View respondent's answers
From you and other people on FB who post about veganism. I was vegetarian, but didn't realize the full extent of suffering that was still being caused from my vegetarianism.
6/26/2013 12:13 AM View respondent's answers
Buddhism
6/26/2013 12:11 AM View respondent's answers
All of the above... years of cumulative research
6/26/2013 12:10 AM View respondent's answers
From having rabbit companions and being disgusted at such beautiful creatures used as meat. Also seeing exploited animals species as equal as myself.
6/26/2013 12:10 AM View respondent's answers
became ovo-lacto veg @ age 15, then finally transitioned to vegan 2 yrs ago
6/26/2013 12:09 AM View respondent's answers
My own spirituality
6/26/2013 12:08 AM View respondent's answers
It was more disgust than inspiration. Eating animals did not appeal to me. Consuming their secretions seemed ludicrous. I have been vegan for over two decades and knew no other vegans (or even vegetarians) at the time of my decision.
6/26/2013 12:08 AM View respondent's answers
From Farm to Fridge
6/26/2013 12:06 AM View respondent's answers
By witnessing a slaughter
6/26/2013 12:02 AM View respondent's answers
Because my body started rejecting eggs after I was Veggie for 30 years.
6/26/2013 12:01 AM View respondent's answers
PETA Naked demo
6/26/2013 12:01 AM View respondent's answers
My own realisation about the dairy industry and other cruelty
6/26/2013 12:01 AM View respondent's answers
Listening to a vegan podcast
6/25/2013 11:59 PM View respondent's answers
Just from a slow realization it wasn't right
6/25/2013 11:48 PM View respondent's answers
was taken into slaughterhouse at 3 years old
6/25/2013 11:45 PM View respondent's answers
came to an ethical decision without any external information
6/25/2013 11:34 PM View respondent's answers
when i was givinig a presentation in my masters degree about animal rights and the profesor asked me if i was vegan.After that I decided after 13 years of being vegetarian i needed to become vegan ASAP
6/25/2013 11:33 PM View respondent's answers
I went vegan in my heart at 13 when I read the short-story, "A Mother's Tale." Four years later my body told me to put that "piece of chicken" down and that was that.
6/25/2013 11:32 PM View respondent's answers
personal evolution, with my eyes open
6/25/2013 11:27 PM View respondent's answers
Summerfest Rae sicora Howard lyman
6/25/2013 11:07 PM View respondent's answers
I think that i became a Vegan after years on a spiritual path. It just happened, much to my family's surprise.
6/25/2013 11:05 PM View respondent's answers
Childhood book Beautiful Joe written 19th century
6/25/2013 10:58 PM View respondent's answers
none of the above, I love animals and thought of eating them makes me sick
6/25/2013 10:57 PM View respondent's answers
On a whim. I decided I wanted to take steps to reduce harm as much as possible, and going vegan seemed like an easy way to do that.
6/25/2013 10:55 PM View respondent's answers
from watching my child's first reactions to meat
6/25/2013 10:55 PM View respondent's answers
because my parents are Vegan
6/25/2013 10:54 PM View respondent's answers
Just something that I realised like being gay
6/25/2013 10:49 PM View respondent's answers
Mad cow/ developed allergies to dairy
6/25/2013 10:44 PM View respondent's answers
first became vegetarian thru friends, vegan came later as I learned more
6/25/2013 10:41 PM View respondent's answers
For ethical reasons...it just clicked for me one day.
6/25/2013 10:39 PM View respondent's answers
when I was 5 I made the connection between animals and food and stopped eating animals...Ive always had an aversion to dairy/eggs
6/25/2013 10:34 PM View respondent's answers
Some of the above, several instances.
6/25/2013 10:29 PM View respondent's answers
from connecting with animals as a kid and not understanding why adults were killing them to eat
6/25/2013 10:24 PM View respondent's answers
When I was younger living on my Grandfathers Farm and witnessed a bull heading over to the stainless steel truck to be slaughtered for its meat.
6/25/2013 10:15 PM View respondent's answers
a mouldy hamburger coupled with the desire to be a skinny ballerina
6/25/2013 10:15 PM View respondent's answers
facebook posts
6/25/2013 10:12 PM View respondent's answers
by becoming vet nurse and not wanting to eat/harm my patients and their kin
6/25/2013 10:07 PM View respondent's answers
A combination of film, convos and books
6/25/2013 10:01 PM View respondent's answers
Increased running/sports stamina & weight loss
6/25/2013 9:55 PM View respondent's answers
From a animal rights group
6/25/2013 9:52 PM View respondent's answers
"The Silent Ark" Juliet Gellatley
6/25/2013 9:49 PM View respondent's answers
I watched the trailer of Earthlings, I couldn't even watch the movie
6/25/2013 9:46 PM View respondent's answers
I got sick and did not want extreme/radical treatment
6/25/2013 9:34 PM View respondent's answers
from what I saw from going to fairs.
6/25/2013 9:29 PM View respondent's answers
From figuring out what would happen to my precious 4h piggies at fair when I was 9 years old
6/25/2013 9:28 PM View respondent's answers
I was working in a restaurant. A customer's question about rennet led me to think about dairy. Then exposure to the other answers gelled it in my mind. Possibly video is what really persuaded me.
6/25/2013 9:26 PM View respondent's answers
After years of consideration?
6/25/2013 9:25 PM View respondent's answers
Seeing animal death.
6/25/2013 9:24 PM View respondent's answers
Just didn't want to be part of the cruelty anymore
6/25/2013 9:08 PM View respondent's answers
But it was a gradual process leading up to being vegan over two years from the exposure of Live Exports from Australia and the cruelties of factory farming.
6/25/2013 9:00 PM View respondent's answers
I read "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Robert Newton Peck Jr. when I was 7, and it broke my heart. I became a vegetarian that day (and later, a vegan). It was hard to become a full vegan as a child, in a non-vegan family.
6/25/2013 8:59 PM View respondent's answers
Reading about The Gentle Barn, watching Food Inc. and Forks Over Knives, personal philosophy
6/25/2013 8:58 PM View respondent's answers
video bckdrop of avant-garde musician Dave Phillips
6/25/2013 8:57 PM View respondent's answers
all of the above
6/25/2013 8:56 PM View respondent's answers
It just occurred to me one day it was the right thing to do. I felt extreme guilt about killing animals
6/25/2013 8:56 PM View respondent's answers
At age 14, at home, looking at the brown oily liquid around a steak. It looked like dried blood.
6/25/2013 8:55 PM View respondent's answers
I felt the need to eliminate from my diet more than just meat.
6/25/2013 8:53 PM View respondent's answers
Forks over Knives in movie theater
6/25/2013 8:50 PM View respondent's answers
I'd always wanted to since being very little.it seemed natural.
6/25/2013 8:47 PM View respondent's answers
My own decision
6/25/2013 8:45 PM View respondent's answers
Dr. Neal D. Barnard - The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
6/25/2013 8:44 PM View respondent's answers
Understanding animal curelty.
6/25/2013 8:37 PM View respondent's answers
self education
6/25/2013 8:36 PM View respondent's answers
25+ years ago for spiritual, political, and ethical reasons reached after many inspirations.
6/25/2013 8:35 PM View respondent's answers
saw a slaughterhouse on the web
6/25/2013 8:30 PM View respondent's answers
Taking my son and vegan girlfriend on vacation and wanted to prepare vegan friendly for her and never went back to eating any other way. Felt awesome!
6/25/2013 8:29 PM View respondent's answers
I was already a Vegetarian at age 36 and was aware of veganism so i sought out more info.
6/25/2013 8:29 PM View respondent's answers
from reading some friends Facebook posts
6/25/2013 8:27 PM View respondent's answers
It was a combination of the above factors that led to the decision. The final push came from a convo with a friend followed by a video about the dairy industry (I was already meat free).
6/25/2013 8:21 PM View respondent's answers
From my fb friends
6/25/2013 8:19 PM View respondent's answers
heath reasons
6/25/2013 8:09 PM View respondent's answers
On meeting vegans and learning more about it. I have been Veggie since age 17 (41 now)
6/25/2013 8:08 PM View respondent's answers
From my sister who wanted to help with my Multiple Sclerosis
6/25/2013 8:07 PM View respondent's answers
Possibily a mixture of things
6/25/2013 8:04 PM View respondent's answers
first point was my health condition, whatever i changed in my daily food, I kept feeling sick... so the last thing was "okay, try vegan" - and: it worked! my greatest fear was, i would lose more weight than before, on a vegan diet, but I didnt, I managed to gain weight better than ever before! ...meanwhile I saw a lot of videos and posts about animal cruelty, factory farming... another good reason to show me, that's the right way. (hope my english was good enough, I'm from germany)
6/25/2013 8:03 PM View respondent's answers
From myself
6/25/2013 8:02 PM View respondent's answers
My own personal health/digestive situation.
6/25/2013 8:00 PM View respondent's answers
From visiting local cows as child
6/25/2013 7:58 PM View respondent's answers
Had an epiphany while eating meat. I couldn't eat it again.
6/25/2013 7:58 PM View respondent's answers
From attending Viva's 2009 The Incredible Veggie Show - I was a Vegetarian until then and felt so positive that day that I decided to take the next step and become a Vegan.
6/25/2013 7:58 PM View respondent's answers
by rescueing wildlife
6/25/2013 7:56 PM View respondent's answers
Veducation, and Gary Yourofsky and more!!!
6/25/2013 7:54 PM View respondent's answers
visiting the Gentle Barn
6/25/2013 7:54 PM View respondent's answers
By seeing vegan food available for sale, and by being active in the environmental movement.
6/25/2013 7:50 PM View respondent's answers
Seeing Animals Australia slaughterhouse video on TV.
6/25/2013 7:49 PM View respondent's answers
All of the above.
6/25/2013 7:44 PM View respondent's answers
Being around like-minded people pushed me from vegetarian to vegan
6/25/2013 7:39 PM View respondent's answers
Earth day 1990 - I became vegetarian
6/25/2013 7:38 PM View respondent's answers
From my life long love of animals since a child.
6/25/2013 7:33 PM View respondent's answers
skinny bitch
6/25/2013 7:31 PM View respondent's answers
I looked into a farm animal's eyes and made a connection w/o outside help.
6/25/2013 7:27 PM View respondent's answers
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6/25/2013 7:26 PM View respondent's answers
For health reasons, but am now An ethical Vegan
6/25/2013 7:24 PM View respondent's answers
Grew up mostly vegetarian then went vegan about 8 years ago
6/25/2013 7:23 PM View respondent's answers
After going to a Vegan Restaurant too.
6/25/2013 7:22 PM View respondent's answers
from my natural path best decission I made 10 yrs ago
6/25/2013 7:16 PM View respondent's answers
My family includes pig farmers. First hand experience.
6/25/2013 7:14 PM View respondent's answers
Personal experience
6/25/2013 7:10 PM View respondent's answers
my daughter
6/25/2013 7:09 PM View respondent's answers
PETA
6/25/2013 7:07 PM View respondent's answers
My friends learnt it from the inernet and told me straight away
6/25/2013 7:03 PM View respondent's answers
I had always felt bad for eating animal products, I was vegetarian for 4 years about, and vegan for about 2 months and plan to stay vegan. c:
6/25/2013 7:00 PM View respondent's answers
Reading JM Coetzee's work on animals
6/25/2013 7:00 PM View respondent's answers
I learned about the existence of veganism and I was previously inspired greatly by other animals in many ways
6/25/2013 6:59 PM View respondent's answers
it was a process which included a lot of different things and reasons for becoming vegan.
6/25/2013 6:59 PM View respondent's answers
from having emotional feelings toward a compaanion animal
6/25/2013 6:59 PM View respondent's answers
Live export issue in australia
6/25/2013 6:57 PM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofsky's best speech ever. Put the nail in the vegetarian carnist coffin.
6/25/2013 6:50 PM View respondent's answers
My parents grew up on a farm, I knew about the slaughter
6/25/2013 6:47 PM View respondent's answers
My husband was on high dosages of hypertension prescriptions
6/25/2013 6:45 PM View respondent's answers
through natural thought process and vegetarian for 20 years beforehand
6/25/2013 6:44 PM View respondent's answers
Had a slaughterhouse near my house
6/25/2013 6:43 PM View respondent's answers
From reading about factory farming
6/25/2013 6:43 PM View respondent's answers
I read Skinny Bitch
6/25/2013 6:41 PM View respondent's answers
Also past experience as a vegetarian
6/25/2013 6:39 PM View respondent's answers
From a combination of the above
6/25/2013 6:36 PM View respondent's answers
I just woke up one day and decided I was done.. I didn't plan it. There was no one inspiration.
6/25/2013 6:36 PM View respondent's answers
A long process of many experiences
6/25/2013 6:35 PM View respondent's answers
I was vegetarian for a year eliminating animal products as the year progressed. It was probably a multitude of things like talking to people, reading info online and my own thoughts on health, animal cruelty and environmental concerns that made it completely sensible to become vegan.
6/25/2013 6:31 PM View respondent's answers
I never wanted to be called a vegan
6/25/2013 6:27 PM View respondent's answers
After a long time vegetarian it seemed the next step
6/25/2013 6:25 PM View respondent's answers
From following a spiritual path- all on my own
6/25/2013 6:23 PM View respondent's answers
Vegetarian from seeing chickens suffering via transport. Shortly there after vegan from social media
6/25/2013 6:22 PM View respondent's answers
Vegetarian food for thought podcast
6/25/2013 6:14 PM View respondent's answers
Many. I was never seduced by meat. Vegetables were naturally my thing.
6/25/2013 6:12 PM View respondent's answers
I've always been interested in being vegetarian to help the environment. The year after I went vegetarian I went vegan, it seemed the next logical step.
6/25/2013 6:12 PM View respondent's answers
Because I care about animals, my health & the envrionement
6/25/2013 6:11 PM View respondent's answers
concience
6/25/2013 6:10 PM View respondent's answers
Becoming a mother
6/25/2013 6:09 PM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofsky
6/25/2013 6:08 PM View respondent's answers
Animals australia website
6/25/2013 6:04 PM View respondent's answers
general awareness
6/25/2013 6:03 PM View respondent's answers
Attending a Cooking Class from the Seventh Day Adventists
6/25/2013 5:55 PM View respondent's answers
As a four year old wondering why animals had to die
6/25/2013 5:54 PM View respondent's answers
became more aware of cruelty involved in eggs and dairy industry, already veggie for decades. Meeting other vegans was a big help socially!
6/25/2013 5:43 PM View respondent's answers
Little by little, seeing pictures..
6/25/2013 5:42 PM View respondent's answers
I worked for a printer, designing leaflets for a local Animal Aid group
6/25/2013 5:41 PM View respondent's answers
Gary Yourofski's speech
6/25/2013 5:39 PM View respondent's answers
it's been a process which I was growing to
6/25/2013 5:34 PM View respondent's answers

VEGANISM: A TRUTH WHOSE TIME HAS COME

September 16, 2013

I was first inspired to become vegan.....(comments from survey of vegans)

Q: I was first inspired to become vegan.....6,503 answered, 1,560 skipped, 1,829 clicked “other” and left a comment. Those will be analyzed and released at a later date.

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