The questioned/ing? vegetarian

I set up an interview for my food editor at work with ABC radio, who were doing a special on vegetarianism. The lovely food editor was up for it, but mentioned that she of course is not a vego. "I am" I informed her. "Great. Do you mind if we schedule in a chat before the interview so I can ge a better idea of why people become vegetarians?".
When we had a chance to sit down for our little 'chat', and Jane started asking why vego? when vego? how vego? why fish and not meat? etc, I realised that I have been a non-meat eater for about 9 years. So, it was 9 years ago that I was reading up about animal cruelty, abattoirs, battery farms and the other bloody and passion inciting topics -and it was hard to use these wafting memories (and lets face it, my memory already sucks at 28) as justification for a choice that affects my life daily. I've always proclaimed that I am a vegetarian because in the society that we live in, we can get all the nutrients we need for a healthy diet in foods other than meat. I absolutely still believe that this is the case and this is the basis of my choice. After a fair bit of umming and arrring however, I left the talk realising that maybe it was time that I actively became re informed about some of the nasties of the food industry...after all, alot can change in 9 years.