Vegetarians: If you liked meat before, what is it like to give it up entirely?
I guess I’m not the one to answer this but I was a meat eater before - but I knew since the time I was 8 years old that eating meat didn’t feel right to me. Sitting next to the fish aquarium and eating a tuna sandwich was the eye-opener for me then.I remember asking about meat and how does it get to the store - my dad just said:” Just eat it.”I never liked meat, but I just listened to everyone saying you need your protein. So I ate it, but very little. It was difficult for me to eat I forced it.Then in my 20’s I tried to be a vegetarian but everyone said it was so complicated - you had to eat grains at certain times and…… I just couldn’t figure it out… so it wasn’t until I was in my 40’s that I saw my black pug’s face on the face of a black cow - I have never picked up another bite since.Giving up meat is a personal choice as I am not here to tell you how to live your life. I just hope that you’ll have enough compassion to realize that almost all animals have suffered for your appetite.
This is for all you VEGEMATARIANS?
My brother went hardcore vegetarian for about a year, and he said his secret for keeping it interesting is experimentation with your cooking. If all you do is have a salad and plate of cold veggies every night you'll get bored with it. Be creative and don't be afraid to try new ways of preparing your dishes. OT- I can't *wait* for some mad scientist to cross breed a cow with corn. Then, vegetarians & us carnivores can live in peace. *Mmmmmmmmmm* Beef on the cobb *drool*
Vegetarians why you barely eat and touch meat after you give up meat ?
Well, the fact is most vegetarians can and do eat meat. A CBS news poll has shown that 3 out of 4 vegetarians eventually go back to eating meat....mostly because of health problems. You've had no meat for three weeks. Wow! We're really impressed. Let's see how you feel in three years. Chances are good (3 out of 4) that you'll be back to eating meat. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/anim...
Are you a vegetarian? What makes some people give up eating meat?
I stopped eating meat about 4 years ago because I felt hypocritical and guilty about seeing myself as an animal lover while eating meat. It just didn't add up for me. An unintended benefit of giving up meat has been an improvement in my physical health.
Why do some vegetarians not eat meat, but do eat fish? What is their rationale?
My mother does this. The technical term is "pescetarian," meaning people who have a typical ovo-lacto vegetarian diet (plants, plus milk and eggs and honey) but also include fish and shellfish. Pescetarians are technically not vegetarians, but at a restaurant or airplane are likely to request the "vegetarian" diet because it is more likely to be palatable to them, while non-vegetarian diets typically include terrestrial animals. It is incorrect for a pescetarian to call themselves vegetarian, but the term pescetarian is not widely known and identifying as such may come off as being fussy or pretentious.Pescetarians cite the same rationale as vegetarians for their diet, but don't go as far. Namely health (they avoid the health risks of red meat, but see seafood as healthy), ethics (they don't want to cause pain to animals, but don't see fish as capable of experiencing pain they way higher vertebrates can), environmentalism (they dislike how meats are farmed, but don't mind fishing or aquaculture), and taste (they don't like how mammal and bird meat taste, but don't mind seafood). Similarly, some people are ovo-lacto vegetarian but also eat chicken (called pollotarians), and some eat anything but mammals (pollo-pescitarians). These three all form the semi-vegetarian or "flexitarian" diet. Here's the real question: what about Frog legs, which taste somewhere between fish and chicken? Do pescitarians draw the line at amphibians, or just endotherms?
Should we all stop eating meat and become vegetarian?
First of all, you don’t need to go vegan to stop eating meat.Ever heard of vegetarianism?Now for the “Should humans [as in all of us] stop eating meat” part - no, I don’t believe in that. If we reduced our consumption by, say, 50%, we could get some pretty big changes in the industry and be rid of factory farming and the horrific lives animals are forced to live in order to feed us.This is a goal which is achievable and sustainable. Reduce, not forbid. We need animals for food production, we need cattle for grazing. We need grass for the biodiversity of life of several types of land.Aboltionist veganism is absurd. It makes no sense and it only exists in books and blog posts. It would never work in real life. We need balance in our food production and consumption. Extinguishing the raising of livestock alltogether is not an option.Can we all live without eating meat? Yes. Should we forbid people to do it? No.
Vegetarians, how long did it take before you stopped craving meat/ were repulsed by the smell?
Some meat became repulsive immediately. The first one I stopped craving was ground up cow, I mean hamburger. There is DNA from over 100 cows in every burger. Just let that thought stay in your mind for a minute. When you see commercials for tacos or burgers on TV, that stuff you see is the ground-up remains of exhausted rape victims (dairy cows, which made it easy to give up dairy as well). Pork became repulsive next because I couldn't and still can't get the image of those pigs being bolted in the head with a nail gun out of my head. I could hear them crying and screaming and the factory farm worker just shot them and let them fall on each other! Pigs are so cute and adorable! How could someone treat them that way???? I'm tearing up now thinking about it. The next thing I found gross was seafood. We dump so much crap into the oceans that male fish are now starting to grow ovaries! Would you eat that? I sure wouldn't. Plus I grew up with the movie The Little Mermaid and I thought all the sea critters were so cute! That and the idea of eating something that eats worms and has scales just makes me kind of sick. If you haven't seen "Earthlings" yet, please see it. You can watch it for free online, just google it. You'll see the atrocities committed upon animals so that humans can please their taste buds. And spitfiredd is right. Meat in and of itself is not tasty in the least. We have to burn it, marinate it, season it, and spice it just so we can handle it in our mouths.
Can you be a vegetarian and still eat meat sometimes?
I really want to make my New Years Resolution to be going vegetarian in 2014. My problem is, is that I eat meat every single day. I'm a very picky eater and do not like anything new. Plus, I have very little money and can't afford to spend money on food that I will hate. I really want to be a vegetarian for one reason, that is for the animals. I hear about all these things that people do to animals and it makes me sick. I love animals. Actually, I like animals more than I like people. Whenever I eat meat, I always feel bad about eating it and I have no idea why. It's not like I killed the animal myself, but it makes me feel bad that an animal had to suffer for me. I was wondering, is there a type of vegetarian that is still able to eat meat? I usually eat steaks and chicken (I hate fish, plus my mom is allergic to the fish). Would it be possible to still be a vegetarian and only eat meat a certain amount of time? For example, if I was to eat ham and turkey on thanksgiving and Christmas, then eat steak at my favorite restaurant a couple times of year, would I be considered a vegetarian? I honestly want to eventually give up on meat, but I do think it will take time until I find new dishes that I like. This is something that I have been thinking about doing for the past year. I just want a little more information.
Why do so many meat-eaters feel threatened by vegetarians?
why would they be unless they think they eat meat way to much and should stop because meat can have a lot of fat in it so they arn't really threatened but just worried about their physical appearance.
Is it illegal to knowingly give a vegetarian food containing meat?
a) not illegal but I would say unethical b) illegal if you advertise something as "vegetarian" but knowingly add meat or meat components in it then serve it.