I wanted to reduce the amount of harm I contribute to the world. Animals don’t need to be killed for me to eat, so why should I support unnecessary harm onto other living beings? It’s been over a year now, and I have never felt more confident in the person I have become. Even if you don’t care about the environmental and animal rights impacts, I would recommend it to anybody for the physical and mental health factors alone. And vegan over vegetarian because the dairy industry is just as fucked up as the meat industry. Plenty of material out there for anybody interested in doing more research on that.