Question: Why did you choose to become a vegetarian?

Michelle Murphy answered on 15 Jun 2010:

Hey
Thanks for the question. I have been a vegetarian for 7 years now as I waited until I left home and was cooking for myself. It was an accident at first I just really like veggie food and noticed I hadn’t been cooking a lot of meat. While I dont like industrial style farming/fishing I have a lot of respect for small or rare breed farming where attention is payed to each animal and wouldn’t rule out eating meat in the future. For now though I am aware of how many people are hungry (and I dont mean skipped breakfast) with no idea when they will next get food and how unfairly we share food supplies. Did you know for example meat production uses more than twice the water and energy than crop production not counting what is needed all the crops that they are fed. I think we should be doing things better for our environment and other people!