I read the autobiography of Gandhi and became a lifelong vegetarian shortly after that. I met a friend at work who had been a vegetarian for many years, and he showed me how easy, or at least how manageable, it was, to stop eating animals, and to do it in a healthy way (I’m no Cheetos vegetarian, Lol). I’ve been a vegetarian since 1990. It was a bit harder back then to give up eating meat, but now, because of all of the choices, and because of the ease of learning how to do it in a healthy way, that can be researched very easily on the internet, it’s pretty easy.