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Oh boy, now that's a pickle: every single day, new researches add more fuel to the debate, and while doing a little search of my own in the Internet for this article, I've found that the two positions ("yes" and "no") have extremely vocal advocates, support groups and associations, some of which actually fund research on this topic in order to present evidence to sustain their stance. And let me tell you, some of them, in both camps, present very compelling points, too.

So let me start by the basic point: I am NOT a vegetarian. At least not a self-professed one: see, I never made a conscious decision to stop eating meat; I ate meat all my early life and did so until I was something like eighteen or nineteen, I honestly don't remember. The fundamental reason why I ate meat was because both my parents bought it and cooked it at home. But I personally was born with a natural preference for vegetables, eating tons of fruits and salads from an early age, sometimes going as far as to eat salad for breakfast (something I did only when I was very little). I just loved them, I didn't learn that conduct from anyone in my family, as no one else in my household ever did anything like that.

But then a fortuitous combination of factors came together as I was exiting my teen years to make me gradually turn away from eating meat: first, as my brothers and I grew up and started to spend less and less time at home, there were less and less family meals, so my parents started to cook less and less until they pretty much quit, so the need to buy and cook tons of meat at home decreased considerably. Second, one of my older brothers actually became vegetarian after attending some college course or something and learning about the "unethical" treatment of animals; personally I couldn't have cared less about that at the time, but that fact meant that unless we wanted our appetite to be spoiled by an endless diatribe about animal rights, whatever family meals that were still to be had would be required to include vegetarian options, which was fine with me. And finally around that same time when I was finishing high school and entering college I decided that after years of being overweight I wanted to be fit, so I started to exercise and to choose better the food I consumed. Just so happened that fruits and vegetables were very cheap in comparison with meat and they also made it easier for me to lose weight, and since no one at home was cooking anymore and therefore no one was buying

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