Pescetarian and Vegetarian

People are always wondering why I don't meat, well, that is only because I am a pescetarian and a vegetarian. "Pescetarian? What is that?" people always ask me, a pescetarian is the same thing as being a vegetarian, the only difference is that the only meat that I eat is fish and vegetarians don’t eat any meat at all.

I have only been a pescetarian for almost two years now, I used to eat meat and chicken before, I had the "typical diet", but that had to change when I found out that I have rheumatoid arthritis on my knees, my specialist said that the hormones that the meat contains, was making my knees get swollen and also cause pain. Not just finding out about my illness made me change my diet, but also, some videos that my family showed me of how cows and chickens are treated before going into the slaughter houses, it made me sick to the point where I will never eat meat or chicken ever again. The movie, Food Inc., which was shown to us, only showed a 10% of what I have seen. 

Was it hard to switch from meat-eater to pescetarian? No, it was actually pretty easy; my family supported me completely, I have always eaten everything that I still eat, I just had to take out the chicken and meat out of my diet, and every food that had any type of grain, I switched it to whole-grain products.