I went to India and it made me vegetarian.
I’m a huge animal lover and had been considering trying to go veggie for a while because it didn’t feel right eating meat to me. I thought I wouldn’t be able to do it though because I’d been brought up on meat and ate it every day.
Went to India for a month travelling and India is a mostly a vegetarian country. Visited some different temples and seen some religious quotes about not eating animals or living creatures and, because it was harder to find meat to eat there anyway, decided to go veggie.
To be honest I didn’t find it hard at all and had no cravings for meat whilst in India. I worried when I got home I wouldn’t be able to stick at it though.
We flew home and the airport is about 45 minutes drive from our house. As we were driving home from the airport I was talking to my husband about how I hoped I could stick at it but wasn’t sure I could now I was home and just as we got off the motorway I looked up and noticed that someone had graffitti’d on the motorway entrance ‘if you like animals, don’t eat them’. Literally seeing that made me more determined than ever to stick to being a veggie because I love animals and didn’t want to eat them! It was like I was meant to see that sign at the right time!
Been veggie ever since. That was five years ago.