The Problem With Vegetarianism

Why I stopped being vegetarian

M. Murphy
Published in
6 min readOct 16, 2020

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I became vegetarian because I didn’t want to kill anymore. I hadn’t read any animal rights philosophy, and I didn’t see any factory farm footage. I was just sick of killing. It’s a long story — longer than it should have been — but here’s a summary: I slaughtered a pig with my friends late in high school, tried to justify it to myself for months, failed, and…

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