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For as long as I can remember I never liked to eat meat. Just the thought of eating something that was living makes me sick to my stomach. I am not one of those people that preach veganism to everyone, but I just cannot bring myself to eat any type of meat. Is that normal?
@ Dappled......Oh and btw, I agree with you about the fish though. Some might see it as hypocritical, but everyone has their own preferences :-)
It's the circle of life. (sorry for the cliche) Plants are life too. They sustain many and I do my best to honor all life and what it can provide me. Even the wood for my campfires. For me, food is medicine and sometimes meat is the most effective means of getting the nutrients my body craves. If you don't like something, you don't have to eat it. And as long as you aren't preachy I won't preach back:)
My husband is the same way. I try not to cook it if he's home because he complains about the smell - roasting flesh.
I started out going vegetarian last year in September and now Vegan as of January. Every now and then, the thought of eating meat or seeing someone else eat meat makes me feel nauseous.
I haven't ate meat since... well I don't exactly know. Probably a more than a decade ago and I'm only 20. So I feel ya man. Some people just don't like it straight on from birth. completely natural and normal.
Yeah!!!! I'm vegan because I can't stand the thought of eating meat, or should I say eating a corpse. It is just so gross. Meat is definitely very tasty! But I could never ever enjoy it knowing that it is a corpse, something dead and rotting... So yeah totally normal not to eat meat!
I was lacto-vegan for about a year but it was too expensive and, probably related, there was no selection for vegans or veg in my area. I soon switched to lacto-ovo-vegetarian, and slowly introduced beef back into my diet.
I grew up on a large dairy farm, so saw milk and egg production. Cows, even in slaughter, are treated rather humanely. And all our chickens were free-range and aged, so nothing cruel there. I avoided other meat as they're more commonly mistreated, and I don't like fish so didn't eat any.
Eventually, I gave it all up because of cost, lack of variety/choice, foul-tasting TVP, and I figured if I choose my sources wisely I'm 'recycled' an otherwise 'waste' animal. It doesn't sound acceptable in type, but I have justified it in my head. Aha.
@Dappled.....My problem is, I have given serious thought on being a vegetarian, on many occasions, but as a food connoisseur, perfectly cooked lamb shank or lamb rack with white truffle oil mash and red wine jus, is just irresistible. :-(
Ahh, mine too. I've failed at vegetarianism at least twice and gone back to meat. Rather than say I'm a failed veggie, though, I usually say I'm meat-curious.
Rack of lamb, char siu, pepperoni pizza, Brussels pate - there's no fake veggie version that tastes anywhere near the original. But chilli con carne with soya mince, and quorn and mushroom pie with veggie puff pastry, it's just enough to keep me on the straight and narrow.
I've flipped between vegetarian, vegan, and pescatarian throughout my life. All credit to vegans for being able to maintain that lifestyle. It was too difficult for me.
The thing that started me on this path was finding a small tube in a piece of meat I was eating, and realising it was a vein. I felt sick to my stomach.
I'm not ignorant. I know where meat comes from. But it was this sudden, nauseating perception shift that what was on my plate is not a tasty piece of roasted meat but instead a dissected body, a carcass.
I'd like to pretend it was all about the poor little animals (and a lot of it is now), but I'd be lying to you if I didn't say this journey started because of my own nausea rather than concern for the animal I was eating.
I eat fish and lie to myself that it's somehow different from eating meat. It IS different, but not much. I am up for attack on this because I have a complicated relationship with food and thus my motives aren't as clear as on other topics.
If I could live on purely synthesised nutrients I'd give it a go. I suspect I'd fail. I pine for meat, as it is. And bad meat, at that. When you become vegetarian, you don't pine for Kobe beef or steak tartare. You pine for bacon cheeseburger and donner kebab. The things you rarely ate as a meat-eater but which now become goldenly forbidden.
There are days when I seriously believe I'd trade one of my fingers for a cheeseburger in my hand and a person to convince me that it's some new kind of vegetarian meat substitute they've invented.
Hmm, and this post has given me an interesting idea for a poll. It's about time I contributed something more than just replies.
I know a lot of people who feel the same way. As for myself, I don't think I could ever be that way. I'm more of a fish kinda girl, but I still don't think I would rid myself of meat. In fact, my sister is throwing a barbeque this weekend, and I think she'll have lots of meat! :) I'm kinda in the mood.
"just the thought of eating something that was living makes me sick to my stomach" you'd be dead by now if you never ate any dead organism. Plants are living just as much as animals. Your point is senseless.
And if you took everything you heard in LITERAL context..you'd be severely misguided..oh wait? lol.
My point was that when an animal is killed is feels pain that can be avoided. What plants have nerves and pain receptors? Stop being rude and ask for clarification.
"Your point is senseless"
Very subjective statement. Given the fact some of us feel the same way about your point =)