 The Rochester Zen Center has always emphasized vegetarianism, and within a year I made the identification with animals where I recognized that by consuming them, at some point in the process, I was harming others.I wasn't harming the one that I was consuming, because I couldn't see it die, but I knew it would be replaced by others.And when that realization hit me, it hit like a ton of bricks and I was a vegetarian within a week.