WTF... is all I heard for about 5 years, why oh why did you do it? how could you ? It has been more than 10 years since I stopped eating meat, that is I do not put pieces of dead animals in my stomach. First it was because I did not want to inflict pain on animals, I have respect for life and I could not bare the idea of how cows, porks and chickens are killed in truly cruel ways to feed us. I didn't plan it, I just couldn't eat a burger without thinking that for me to be able to enjoy it a cow was murdered in a horrific way. So I stopped eating meat, soon I realized that it was not so easy. I had spent my life eating meat like there was no alternative, after all fruit and veggies are side dishes, right?, not main courses. By that time, vegetarianism was not mainstream like today, but I was fortunate enough to live in a place where "veggie food" was available at the supermarket, mostly tofu and soy beans in many many formats, that and pasta, fruit, bread,