If you are entering my web site through a webring (or a search engine, or any other source), then I would like to welcome you to my vegetarian page! You can easily go through all of the pages on my site by clicking the following links:
According to The New Vegetarian by Amato and Partridge (Plenum Press, 1989, p. 34), vegetarian motives were as follows (the percentages add up to greater than 100% becasue of respondent's multiple reasons for becoming vegetarians):
Out of concern for animal suffering -- 67%
For personal health -- 38%
Religion or spirituality -- 17%
Distaste for meat or aesthetic concerns -- 12%
Personal growth -- 7%
Desire for non-violent lifestyle -- 5%
Environmental concerns -- 5%
Meat is not the natural human diet -- 4%
High cost of meat -- 3%
To conform to a social norm -- 1%
Other idiosyncratic motive -- 1%
Please view or sign my guestbook by clicking "View of Sign my Guestbook" in the list of links at the top of this page.