Why?

I tried giving up meat back in high school after dissecting a chicken and a fetal pig in biology. I didn't fare very well. I'm an obnoxiously picky eater and I didn't have the ability to substitute anything healthy for the protein I wasn't eating. I replaced it with potato chips, french fries, and sweets. I got sick pretty fast because of that. Of course, rather than researching and trying new foods, I went back to eating meat. I won't touch raw meat and I'd only eat it if it were so overcooked there were no juices in it to remind me that what I was eating was once living. 15 years later I saw something that makes me want to give up meat all over again. I saw an episode on Oprah where her staff did a 5 day Vegan challenge. I thought it'd be funny to watch, and it was, but I also spend a lot of the episode crying. She showed a clip of what happens in slaughter houses. They've obviously become more humane that they use to, but I still had a hard time stomaching what I was seeing. So, I decided to give up meat. I'm not sure if it will be permanently, but it will definitely be until I get those images out of my head. I'm hoping that if I learn some new recipes and change my eating habits a bit that I'll at least eat meat sparingly, rather than with almost every meal as I use to. For now, my goal is simply to make it 30 days without meat. Wish me luck!