How old were you when you went vegetarian? Then vegan?
Posted by ledzepfan12 on Aug 05, 2008 · Member since Jan 2007 · 675 posts
Totally random question. I don't actually know for sure, I remember thinking about it at the end of 10th grade, reading some books and stuff and then being vegetarian.
So I could have been 15 or 16 when I became vegetarian. And 19 when I became vegan. I started actively avoiding animal products about a year later but, I didn't know about "hidden" animal ingredients for like two years so, I was actually 19 when I became vegan.
I actually tried to go vegetarian when I was about 22 but at the time there weren’t a lot of gluten free options out there for veg food. That and I wasn’t very educated on the different types of proteins, I thought I had to eat meat analogs to replace protein and every meat analog out there has wheat in it! >:( Now that I know about tofu, tempeh, beans, rice, ect its not such a big deal. I was just young and naïve the first time I tried I guess. ::)
I never was veg. I went omni ---> vegan.
I was 24 when I first started eating vegan food on a regular basis. I went vegan for a few months at 25, then lapsed for a few weeks, and am now back to being a vegetarian who eats vegan probably 70% of the time. I avoid eggs and eat a small amount of dairy. I am gradually transitioning back to vegan.
I never ate the cute animals I had enjoyed alive, like rabbits and sheep. I "came out" when I was 12 - my mom freaked out about how I was going to be healthy without meat and all this, so I backed off a little and just gave up mammals at first, then birds, then fish. By 14 I was completely ovo-lacto. I went vegan at 18, got too lazy from 21-23, then went back to being vegan (about 3 years now). This time I actually learned to cook, which makes it so easy I can't even comprehend my own old excuses anymore.
even when I am technically vegan I am just saying vegetarian...after reading the honey thread and all the possible ways I probably screw up I just feel more comfortable saying vegetarian.
I learn all the time here about new ingredients I've never watched out for before, so I don't know if I'll ever *really* be *truly* vegan. I usually call myself a "very strict vegetarian" so I don't risk omnivores associating my mistakes with other people's stricter diet - I know how much that's bothered me with, like, vegetarians who eat fish.
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