For those who just plain don't like it!

Is anyone vegetarian just because they can't stand the sight, taste, texture or smell of meat? I'm new to this forum and I have only come across people that choose to be vegetarian for political etc reasons. I really just plain don't like it!

 

I was when I was a little kid. It drove my parents nuts...but I just didn't like it. And for some reason I couldn't swallow meat, I'd have to spit every single bite out...so needless to say I developed an aversion to meat early on. When I went veg for good it was for moral reasons though.

 

I have never really liked red meat, even going back to childhood. I did eat fish and fowl with no real trouble until I went veg 12 years ago. It's absolutely an ethical and environmental choice for me, although meat of ANY kind now gives me the heebie-jeebies. I can taste if a sauce is made with fish or chicken stock, I can detect any meat-derived additives in parts per billion. Yuck.

 

I didn't necessarily dislike it, but there were many kinds of meat I just wouldn't touch (e.g offal, cheap processed ones). Really I just ate it because it was there, and haven't missed it.

I did give up [dairy] milk just on the grounds of taste/smell/texture though. We got soya now but I still only consume that cooked in things, or with cereals that disguise the taste. Just carrying over existing habits.

 

Hey captain veg, I was obsessed with meat and actually cried for a few weeks when I made the switch to vegetarianism, grieving the loss of the bacon; if you have ever heard anything as odd as that. My boyfriend is a long-term vegan and he never liked the taste of meat really, would only eat it if it were hidden shiftily in food and would never seek it out. I suppose it makes the switch easier. He's vegan for ethics mainly. Then again, the fact that it was so difficult for me to get into veg*ism (I'm vegan) made it seem all the more empowering and earth shifting for me.

Re. cheap processed meats - when my parents first dated my dad presented my mum with a shitty salami wrapped in red ribbons for their anniversary, because she was ALWAYS eating strass, salami... all that other weird industrial deli shit. har har har.

 

ive been vegetarian for a few years. like. several. hoever i do like it. and i dont have any political beliefs. i just like cute cuddly animals and i wouldnt kill em or eat em. i do however eat the ugly brutes that come out of the sea. shrimp and fish. which i guess makes me not a vegetarian? i dont know. the thought of eating meat disgusts me. even though its not based on logic.

my philosophy is if i am to choose between a pepperoni slice of pizza and a cheese one. i would choose the cheese. as the raising of a pig to maturity and slaying it is a little un necessisairy for little ol' me. (ye i know cheese is murder but i tried being a vegan for about 8 months with the exception of fashion and found it extremely unpractical for me. besides im happy enough wiht my choice not to eat meat) critisize me if you will. im a murderer.but animals are SO DARN CUTE!! would any of you eat your own dog? come now!

 

You are not a vegetarian. Your semblance of reasoning is a little puerile, sorry. I'd suggest reading Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, it's a great book and may help you get some of your thoughts together. The point of vegetarianism is to release and stop the machine of abuse and cruelty and you do not distinguish between the cute animals and the "ugly brutes". Yeah, meat pizza is exactly the same as a cheese pizza, the dairy industry directly supports the veal industry. Are baby cows cute?

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Thats how I became a vegetarian. I've liked meat all my life but I guess I just thought about it too much and it started to really gross me out. I remember spitting out steak a little bit before I totally went vegetarian. I just couldn't eat meat anymore, it was kinda weird. Of course there are many other reasons (I was a vegetarian once before a long time ago) and there are always more reasons and I'm never going back!

Man I love this forum

 

I have to say, although most probably don't agree, I am in line with Dr Pepper. I don't eat fish, but I also don't have any strong ideas about who has the 'right' to call themselves vegetarian. For me, vegetarianism is not a way of life, it simply means 'I don't eat meat' for whatever reason. As a newcomer to the forum, I have been disappointed to come across so many people who are willing to put others down and talk about the subject with such a 'holier than thou' attitude. If we are really worried about the cause shouldn't we be welcoming everyone who makes some sort of contribution, rather than picking them to pieces? I have been vegetarian for over 25 years and, unless you are born into it, you can't get more vegetarian than that. Despite my leather boots I have still managed to spare a great many lives in my time and will spare a great deal more as I will always be this way. It isn't a sudden 'choice' inspired by some documentary on animal slaughter, nor is it a 'fad' for me. I'm sick of having to justify myself to teenagers that have just 'discovered' this new way, act as if they are the first to come up with the idea and delight in their newfound ability to rant on about the ways in which everyone else is at 'fault'.

 

when I first stopped eating meat it was chicken first because it grossed me out, then fish, and finally red meat however the red meat one was far more intellectual with connections being made between my pets and stuff in my young brain. So now I sorta just don't like it and have since followed up by learning about the politics of it all. If it's round me I don't gross out but if someone puts it in my food and I accidentally taste it then it makes me spit....gross, chewy fibrous stuff it is!

 

ive never liked meat. but my mom used to make me eat it. until i was 17 and realized i was almost an adult and didnt have to put bloody flesh in my mouth and swallow. so yeah i dont like the taste,smell, texture of meat...yucky!!!

 

I actually love the way (cooked)meat tastes and smells. There's just no good reason to eat it. There are so many yummy foods out there, that have never dripped blood. I'm not political when it comes to veganism, just pragmatic, perhaps.
Offer me a reasonable reason why I should eat meat; I have yet to hear one.