I think people MOSTLY go vegan or vegetarian because they think raising and butchering animals is wrong... not to "feel better" or to "lose weight".

To be fair, watch some vids of chickens and cows being crammed into rooms, beaten with sledge hammers and slaughtered. May make you change your mind too. It's one reason farm to table, and the like, has become more popular.

If you just want to be healthy, you should eat meat once a week, kind of like our ancestors did. It's unhealthy to cut it out completely.

I eat meat more often than that, but I like to go for vegetarian dishes every so often, simply because many of them are delicious.

I tried going vegan but it's really hard to keep up over the long term, and for some people you become underweight and lose some strength.  Going vegetarian though was a really healthy choice for me.  Various spices and sauces can give variety to even the most rudimentary dishes and crushed chick peas can mimic the texture of meat if you prepare it right.  A good way to go vegetarian is to reduce your meat consumption to a quarter-size of your usual portions--this way you can get a feel if you're making the right decision for yourself and it helps prevent any digestive troubles one might get from radically changing their diet.

Word of caution: if you go without meat for a long time, your digestive system won't tolerate it well if you eat a lot of it in one sitting.  It isn't fun feeling cramps and farting all night.

I recommend talking to a Doctor about how to go about it so you can make the transition to vegetarian/vegan (and back again) in a way that's healthy for you.  A dietician can even make a meal plan based on those recommendations.  Once you're used to it and know the routine, it's awesome. 

I've been a vegan for almost a year now! For me it wasn't about any health benefits, I have always tried to live a health life, but rather more of an moral decision... About environmental issues and animal factory-farms!!!

I could never live without bacon, so, it'd never be worth it to me. I'm not only going to eat, what my food eats.

I agree with this, it's just the same for me. But i don't like doctors, mine told me i have to eat meat and drink milk and told me i was too skinny (i was wearing a long sleeve t shirt, he never weighed me) so i told him maybe he is so fat because of meat, cheese and junk. Once you go Vegan it's hard to go back (for me anyway ) i'm a Vegan for life.

I'm lowkey pesco pollo vegetarian, needing meat for protein is a lie we've all been indoctrinated into believing. Plenty of plant based options for you, not to mention a lot of meat substitutes out there, you don't even have to really change your lifestyle that much. Don't be a raw vegan though No enjoyment in that

You should not go all vegan, just limit yourself to Chicken and fish, with vegetables, rice and so on.
There are some good Meat-replacement Vegan recipes that taste almost like meat but it's completely fat-free, it's a nice place to start cause you can eat as much as you want and your addiction for certain unhealthy food are so much easier to deal with.

Humans evolved to eat meat, a true healthy diet requires meat, substitute proteins do not have the same effect despite what your vegan gossip groups try and tell you.

Dropping meat from your diet completely is not a good decision,neither for health nor moral reasons.

If your reasons are because of health concerns you have to find the right balance to achieve whatever your goal is(losing weight, gaining muscle or just feeling healthy in general.)

If your reasons  for doing it are ethical, you still shouldn't stop eating meat here's why.

A year ago I contemplated eliminating meat from my diet.My deep love for animals made me get to the point where I would go into full brainstorming mode every time I saw a steak, and at that moment in my life the negatives far outweighed the positives; thus why I gave veganism serious thoughts.

I started looking for information on veganism, I looked at vegan restaurants, and then for some reason I came by this article.That article really got me thinking;  it made me realize that veganism is not the answer.But therein lied the real problem, if veganism was not the answer then what was?

I then looked at this video that someone in the comment section provided there.I personally loved the idea of a self-sustainable farm, I had never heard of the concept, and I hope that I have one some day.

The problem with that idea though is that the whole planet Earth is self-sufficient, and yet we still drove many land species extinct and managed to kill 90% of fish in the sea.The REAL problem here is the industrialization of food production.

Nowadays I still eat meat, I get it from the farms market just like all my other food, where there is less destruction of the environment, greater connection between man and animal and more importantly no CORPORATE GREED.I am aware though that very few people can afford the time and the higher cost of doing this though.

As to how I get over my moral compass when it comes to eating animals, I always take a moment before I eat to thank for the meal specially to the animal for allowing me to keep on living healthy.That has helped me tremendously even though I am not religious at all, and I encourage anyone that is struggling with eating meat to do the same, it absolutely  helps.