The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.

The speaker describes a moral and bodily turning point: information becomes obligation. As she learns more about industrial meat production—especially through investigative “exposés” of slaughterhouses—revulsion and empathy override convenience and habit, leading to a firm dietary boundary. The quote frames vegetarianism (or meat-avoidance) not as a lifestyle preference but as a response to witnessed harm and to the impossibility of “unknowing” what one has learned. Its emphasis on refusing to ignore knowledge highlights a common ethical argument: once the realities of production are visible, continued consumption can feel like complicity.