Some, apparently, are born that way. Others convert when they make the animal-food connection. No matter the reason, it can require adjustments on the home front.
Most young vegetarians are meat-eating converts.
But a few are born that way. Just ask Sandee Coulter or Rebecca Bryant. Me, I would have to be at death's door before I would eat broccoli, but he can make a whole meal out of it. She was switched at birth, everyone says. Vicky Schwartz passes a bowl of Moroccan Chickpea Saute to her vegetarian daughter Emily, 17.