Track 17

Track 17.

What reasons do people have for becoming vegetarian?

What motivates people to stop eating meat?

Usually, on the grounds that they object in some way to animals being kept simply as food, often in really unhealthy surroundings.

I think it’s a moral decision that people take.

They just decide to avoid meat completely.

And some people, to build on my point a little more, go even further and become vegan.

They don’t agree with the idea of animals being killed for food, or for making people’s clothes, or even for dairy products.

Looking at it from another point of view, other people give up meat purely for the sake of their health.

Take red meat as an example.

There’s a great deal of evidence to suggest that it causes all sorts of health issues, and people in general are increasingly trying to limit how much they eat.

Ultimately, I suppose, it’s a question of health, either of the animal or of yourself.