I’ll start the ball rolling here. My wife has been vegetarian since she was 15. She’s now 45 (and will kill me for leaking her age 😀 ), so do the maths !
She became a veggie because of animals. We are both animal lovers, and run a not-for-profit rabbit sanctuary over at https://hoppyhope.org (with a forum at https://warren.hoppyhope.org for anyone interested). Around 22 years ago, I took the decision to become a veggie and haven’t looked back. You can’t be an animal lover and eat meat (well, I suppose you can, but it doesn’t seem right to me), so it was a natural transition.
We’ve been running the sanctuary for 20+ years now. Would I ever go back to meat ?
To quote Simon Cowell - “it’s a no from me”…..