I have been leaning towards a vegetarian way almost all of my life since age 4 when I found out in kindergarten where meat came from. I was shocked and horrified that it did not grown on a tree.

(Although it is more shocking and horrifying that some of the HIGH SCHOOLERS I teach now don't know either!)

I was pretty disgusted by it and have never eaten much meat since then. In high school I gradually cut out the meats and my last was a piece of shrimp freshman year in college. I have muscles, etc, like all the things I was eating and to me I could just never get used to that idea.

Thank goodness for meat substitutes!