Giving up being a vegetarian

jellyhead

i was vegan for 6 months and veggie for 8 years. i was always ill as a vegan but i was poor and couldn't afford to eat properly. as a veggie i was always anaemic.

i started eating meat during my first pregnancy and never went back to being veggie but i got IBS as soon as i started eating meat again, my trigger foods are pig and cow. i'm fine with chicken and fish. i stopped eating red meat for a few months and the IBS got better, now i eat it very rarely.

the RSPCA started their freedom food while i was a veggie
http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/RSPCARedirect&pg=Consumersection

debecca

I wish I could eat red meat as I suffer from anaemia now and then, but the smell and taste of it just makes me feel sick (not for any moral reason, I might add).

I eat chicken and fish.

I agree with the poster who said her IBS had got better since giving up meat - mine is now almost non-existent.

JWM

I have been veggie for 22 years, couldn't imagine anything else, but everyone's opinion is different.

If you are bored - do you need to try other things? Are you stuck in the same old food rut?

If you did it for 'moral' reasons and have now changed your mind - thats OK you know. Its no one eles's business what you think or eat.

Re the digestion thing - I think suddenly going back to meat probably would upset your tummy so be careful.

Good luck whatever you choose.

coolio_2

MissSunshine wrote:

We mainly eat chicken and Nando's is my favourite, but there's not one close by

The only sensible option would be to move

coolio_2

JWM wrote:

I have been veggie for 22 years, couldn't imagine anything else, but everyone's opinion is different.

If you are bored - do you need to try other things? Are you stuck in the same old food rut?

If you did it for 'moral' reasons and have now changed your mind - thats OK you know. Its no one eles's business what you think or eat.

Re the digestion thing - I think suddenly going back to meat probably would upset your tummy so be careful.

Good luck whatever you choose.

It's been fine, I feel a lot less bloated too

doddy9111

I'm a vegan, and have been for over a year, before that I was a vegetarian for about 4/5 years.

If you eat fish and think it's alright to call yourself a vegetarian, then you need to re-think. Vegetarians do NOT eat fish, so don't pretend you are what you are not.

As for the topic poster, I recommend you do NOT give up being vegetarian, if not for yourself, but for the animals - the animals don't have a choice whether to be murdered or not, but you have the choice to not eat them and give money towards companies that support animal welfare/rights and not give money to companies that thrive off the suffering of other sentient beings. There are plenty of recipes to eat whilst a veggie. Buy a vegetarian cookbook and try some out. Or try tofu (if you have not before), tofu is very nice and is great in chinese recipes.

Gorgeous_George

If we were all vegetarians there wouldn't be any animals. Farmers do not keep the fluffy lambs or cute calves as pets. They are food - just like cabbages.

Technically, I'm two-thirds vegetarian.

If animals weren't meant to be eaten they wouldn't taste so good.



GG

doddy9111

Gorgeous_George wrote:

If we were all vegetarians there wouldn't be any animals. Farmers do not keep the fluffy lambs or cute calves as pets. They are food - just like cabbages.

Technically, I'm two-thirds vegetarian.

If animals weren't meant to be eaten they wouldn't taste so good.



GG

I'm going to go boil up some of your family for a stew. If humans weren't meant to be eaten they wouldn't taste so good. If humans weren't meant to be punched and killed, it wouldn't be so fun. I could go on.

There's no such thing as "two-thirds" vegetarian, you either are one or you're not. And if we were all vegetarians there would be dairy cows and laying hens, sheep who give wool, and so on aswell as farming vegetables and fruit and such. And believe it or not, farm animals CAN be kept as pets, given the chance. A lamb enjoys the same fuss and attention that a cat would enjoy, or a dog would enjoy. The same would go for any young animal that is then raised as a pet. You give an animal the chance to be trusting of your friendship, then their personality will truly show, but rarely are farm animals given this chance. Nor are they socialised enough with humans, hence they're fear of humans. And what's truly sad is even the most high up of welfarist farms treat the animals like objects to throw around. I recently saw sheep being dragged around by their back legs, and then thrown to the ground violently in a race between to men to see who could sheer the sheep fastest. This was at a farm that prides itself on high welfare standards.

There's no such thing as "animals are food" because they blatently are not. We do not need to eat animal products to survive unlike your average omnivore, so therefore animals are not food, but more so there for those who think with their tastebuds and not with their mind.

Ted_Hutchinson

There is a useful summary of the benefits/dangers of a vegetarian diet here World's Healthiest foods
As a meat eating landowner I don't think many farmers would keep animals just as pets. If you like the UK landscape as it is, then meat eating is an integral part of keeping it properly green and grazed. If we all went veggie farmers simply wouldn't keep sheep as the wool is simply a by product and without the carcass it wouldn't be economic. Similarly for beef, it's barely an economic process now, if the priced dropped significantly the landscape would be seriously changed.

doddy9111

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

There is a useful summary of the benefits/dangers of a vegetarian diet here World's Healthiest foods
As a meat eating landowner I don't think many farmers would keep animals just as pets. If you like the UK landscape as it is, then meat eating is an integral part of keeping it properly green and grazed. If we all went veggie farmers simply wouldn't keep sheep as the wool is simply a by product and without the carcass it wouldn't be economic. Similarly for beef, it's barely an economic process now, if the priced dropped significantly the landscape would be seriously changed.

The majority of the meat in this country does not come from grass-grazed cattle. Our demand for meat means that factory farms are in their prime, so cattle won't be grazed because that does not suit the profit ideals for the factory farmers. Plus, if I go outside my hometown, the majority of fields I see are crop fields, not grazing fields, so I've no idea where you get the whole the landscape will change thing from. And I was saying how farm animals CAN be kept as pets, I didn't say by who. And there are some farms who take wool from a sheep, and that's it. These being farms that do NOT sell animals for food but sell eggs and wool and such. If anything, the environment and landscape would no doubt look better due to lack of having to get rid of feaces and other by products of farming (one example is a extensive pig farm in america where the faeces and all the other muck runs into a nearby reservoir - killing all aquatic life and make the land infertile and such). Not all farms sell such or burn such.

And tbh, I'd rather live a cruelty free life than risk a small chance if not any chance of having one less grassy field that cattle aren't even grazed on. :rolleyes: