I'm an animal, and I wouldn't want someone to eat me, so it only seems fair that I treat others the way I want to be treated!

For a long time I ate animals and felt guilty but was just kind of a doomer about it. A couple years ago I started watching Ceres Fauna on Youtube, and she's vegan. I thought, she makes it seem easy, I could also stop murdering animals. So I did, and I've been vegan for a little over a year and a half now.

For myself, I am vegan for the animals.

I just could not justify participating in industries which exploit, abuse and kill them; especially once I learned about the true horrors they experience and the vast scale at which it all takes place in such frequency. It is a real, unending hellscape that happens behind societal curtains-- to such an extent that I can only imagine it must come to an end one day if we really believe ourselves to be an ethical species.

Vegan for them, vegan for life ♡

I'm a vegan for health reasons. I just feel better. Over time the ethical aspect grew more and more.

Felt bad about the torture and murder. Accidentally killed an animal once and never got over it.

The world's pretty absurd. I'd like avoid participating in the absurdity as best as I can.

It's pretty absurd that we impregnate cows just to milk them.
It's pretty absurd that we slaughter pigs who have intelligence on par with three-year-old children.
It's pretty absurd that 80% of agricultural land is used for livestock even though 83% of our calories come from plant-based foods.
It's pretty absurd that our cattle herds are so large that they produce multiple gigatonnes of greenhouse gases from their digestion alone.
It's pretty absurd that we've bred chickens to lay 29 times more eggs per year than their wild counterparts.
It's pretty absurd that we do all of this at subsidized, unsustainable, industrial levels.
It's pretty absurd that we do this mostly for pleasure, taste, and tradition, not necessity. Especially when the vast majority of us have access to perfectly viable and often delicious alternatives.

Primarily environmental. Animal agriculture is causing ruinous damage to our world and I want to limit my participation in it all.

There's also the ethics of it but that is a much more secondary concern for me.

Animals.

I can't argue the way out of it being the right thing to do.

It also brings and inner peace that I'm doing the right thing, though it's hard to pinpoint exactly what or why other than because it'a just right