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So I've been asked a few times why I decided to eat meat again. I really don't have a clear answer. It seems I simply tired of vegan fare and really, really wanted to sample meat again. I feel that's a pretty weak answer myself, but it's the truth...
In any case, I'm curious why others made the change of diet. Do tell.
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Re: a reason?
Sun, April 17, 2005 - 7:12 PMMy body craved meat after a couple of years of vegetarianism, but I wouldn' have known if I had not been stuck at a BBQ on 4th of July with my choices being ambroisia (jello/whipped cream/canned cocktail mix) or a hot dog or burger. I had a burger and my body relished it so that now I'm a 2nd hand vegetarian... I prefer to eat things that eat vegetables.
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Re: a reason?
Wed, April 20, 2005 - 1:35 PMHI Mella!
what a great concept for a tribe! relates to my current prediciment pretty well. i think it was that i was eating lots of veggie burgers, and not a lot of variety of foods. The french friends i had at the time probably did not help, as the one night i became a meat eater was over a delicious duck and beans dish from france! After that it was all kinds of meat all of the time! However, i know that i will eventually have to go back to vegetarianism becuase 1> i feel so bad 2> my agriculture and food development class this semester has taught me too many creepy things about meat production. ick! but until the change yummy meat!
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Re: a reason?
Wed, June 22, 2005 - 7:23 AMYeah..I know about all the creepy things with meat production..also, it has not been a great improvement to my health. At the time I started eating meat, I did it because I felt like my head was full of holes due to b vitamin deficiency (or something).
I have enuff trouble with my brain as it is and after so many years of being vegetarian I was feeling so mentally lethargic and my short term memory sucked..not to mention my long term memory..so at 22 I went through a brief phase where I ate a ton of tuna...then decided that didn't feel good...and didn't touch meat again 'till I was 24-25.
I eventually want to be a vegetarian again... but only if I can be a healthy vegetarian. It is kinda hard with my weird lifestyle and schedule and whatnot.
I have a good friend who is a so-so Buddhist who always says that it is bad a body that is made up of organisms that have suffered...because all that pain and suffering is transferred into you when you eat them...I need to keep trying to remind myself of that...(sigh)
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Re: a reason?
Tue, July 26, 2005 - 1:42 PMit was the bacon. it's always the bacon -
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Re: a reason?
Wed, July 27, 2005 - 9:03 AMIt wasn't particularly conscious.
I'd spent 20 years in various levels of vegetative strictness, and had settled most of that time into an occasional poultry or fish but no pork or beef sort of routine.
Then one day, about five years ago, somebody took me out for a good steak dinner. One bite of that steak and I damn near growled and rolled around under the table. It was an epiphany. In a rush of joyous, feral energy, I'd rediscovered my inner carnivore, and wondered how I could ever have let that part of myself go unfed. -
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Re: a reason?
Wed, July 27, 2005 - 9:23 AMA funny thing about the ten years I spent as a vegetarian: MOST resturaunts will lie to you...and tell you there are not animal products in their food, when really there are...(remember the McDonald's fry class action incident?
Furthermore, LOTS of people who cook food for you will lie to you. My boyfriend-at-the-time's mom would sneak some kind of meat product into my food at any oppertunity...This I was told after we broke up...
So the whole time I was a vegetarian I wasn't really one..I consumed a lot of chicken stock and lard...i guess..
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