Giving up being a vegetarian

coolio_2

I'm bored of being a vege. I started it out of principle more than 10 years ago. I want meat. But I think I would be disappointed in myself.

Anyone else switched back?

[Deleted User]

I've heard that vegies that go back to meat suffer indigestion because they're bodies have forgot how to digest meat....

Personally, i love good steak. Go and get the best fillet mignon, get it cooked medium rare and enjoy the meaty goodness

coolio_2

ive heard that too which is why i want to give it a whirl sooner rather than later. i eat such !!!!!! anyway so im hoping ill be ok.

ive got duck for dinner
and a freezer full of vege burgers

ruthyjo

I've been a veggie for twenty three years and feel a lot less strongly than I used to. I almost think there might be an argument for eating meat if you ate decent quality local meat where you knew the animals had been kept in goodconditions - probably less appalling than drinking supermarket milk/eating battery chicken eggs etc. (I used to be vegan so I guess I have already weakened).

However the idea of eating dead flesh now that I've got out of the habit just makes me feel ill. Doesn't it seem like a bizarre thing for you to do - consume dead flesh? I'm sure lots of meateaters will be along to declare their allegiance to bacon butties etc and that's fair enough - I just can't get over a disgust I've built up over time at the idea of eating a corpse. Yuk!

coolio_2

I eat fish. If I ate meat now, I wouldn't become a vegetarian. It's all become about sticking to my guns, rather than the actual fight. I look at meat, and I drool. I find it very unsociable too, the idea of cooking 2 meals does my head in

barber1982

Im not strictly a veggie i do eat chicken and fish .....i dont eat red meat at all, i have tried to eat it a few years ago and it literaly turned my stomach i couldnt eat it even though i wanted to....stick to you guns stay a veggie . Think of all the little cows and sheep being slaughtered

ruthyjo

coolio wrote:

I eat fish. If I ate meat now, I wouldn't become a vegetarian. It's all become about sticking to my guns, rather than the actual fight. I look at meat, and I drool. I find it very unsociable too, the idea of cooking 2 meals does my head in

For me the idea of eating a dead fish is almost worse - they are such disgusting things!

If you're not squeamish like me I think you should go with your inclinations and eat meat but try to be an ethical (and healthy) consumer rather than rush back to MacDonalds.

I've had to have iron injections in all my three pregnancies which wasn't much fun, so I no longer believe being a veggie is necessarily the most healthy diet, but there's defintely more scope for eating some pretty grim things as a meat eater.

Anniek1969

my husband was a veggie for 8 years until about 5 years ago when I was cooking a chicken with bacon on it and he was drooling. He eventually gave in to himself and ate it and has eaten meat since.

He has appologised to me several times for making life difficult with having to make two different meals most nights. We're not big meat eaters but we eat a lot of chicken and fish which he wouldn't eat at all through his veggie stage.

When you ask him now why he gave up meat he doesn't really know but he does know that he couldn't do it again.

Optimist

I became a veggie several years ago having been diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis. I read a book suggesting diet and red meat might be a factor so I stopped eating meat. The pain went within weeks. I have no idea if stopping eating meat was a contributory factor or if it would have clead up anyway but I am now perfectly happy with no meat.

babitat

I switched back to meat but it only lasted for a couple of months - i felt bad about what I was doing every time I ate meat and in the end I couldn't do it.

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It's funny, i think i've got a very nhilist view on my food. The post-portem remains of an animal are just membrane bound cells, built up into tissue and organs, that happened to once be running around in a field / swimming / flying. Cook it and it tastes nice.

You don't get other animals deciding that eating other animals is wrong when their bodies are designed to eat meat.

Go to a BBQ; the antithesis of vegiterian living. Get a pork rib, burger and chicken leg then wave good bye to meat-free living