I've been veggie for 4 or 5 years now, and I won't ever eat meat again, of that I'm sure. However, I remember when I first converted, I did have a few cravings which lasted a few months. How many of you have tried being vegetarian and gone back to eating meat? I'm asking because I know a guy who was vegetarian for about 2 or 3 years, and then went vegan for a year or two.. and then just suddenly dropped it all and went back to eating meat - most of which he killed himself, birds and rabbits in the forest or something. However, although he said he was opposed to the factory farming aspect, he did also occasionally buy steaks and chicken burgers and stuff too... Do you know anyone who has done this? Have you done it? Why?
I know people who have done that. In my opinion, they don't have much integrity. But I guess ... they have more integrity than the people who never tried going veg to begin with. I'm vegan and I'm vegan FOR LIFE.
My sister was vegetarian for 4 years but her ex-boyfriend dissuaded her and she was very depressed too
by the time more of your friends are 45 than 15, you will have seen this a LOT. I , for the first few years, would "make it easier" on everyone and eat fish if I had NO option I can't eat a lot of dairy, so about once a year I'd have to deal for a meal.I don't any longer (that would have been 1980-83). So I was part of the veg-but-eat-fish problem. (although I never SAID I was veg.) I don't judge people who make an informed decision to return to omnivore. A large part of nutrition is anecdotal and theoretical & a moderate diet of anything is scientifically good enough. Most backsliders who WANT to be veg just need some support over humps or options for crazy busy times. I know people who just could not make long-term veg work. They do eat a lot of veg cuisine, but they will eat flesh. It's their karma, not mine. I just make the veg cuisine decision easier.
i was a vegetarian in middle and high school, six years. i didn't do it right, though. sure, i didn't eat meat, but i grew up in a family that wasn't very nutritionally aware, so i ate a lot of junk food. i gained a lot of weight. i started eating meat again, on occasion, after high school. granted, i got all of my meat from the very store i work at, which carefully researches and even visits the SMALL, LOCAL family farms where the meat comes from. we carry nothing that comes from a factory farm, guaranteed. i learned to balance my diet and eat healthy with meat as a SMALL part of my diet, but i ate a lot of veg cuisine. humans really are omnivores by nature...why do you think we have canine teeth? vegetarianism is a choice, and it's a wonderful, healthy choice. i believe if people are conscious of what they put in their mouths and where it comes from, they don't have "bad karma." anyway, about a month ago or so, i decided to go veggie again...why not? i only wish my family had been more aware of whole foods when i was a kid, then i would have probably stuck with the veg thing, and i wouldn't have been such a fatass chunky monkey. now i'm veggie again, and most likely will remain so indefinitely, now that i'm on my own and i'm not too cheap to buy the right foods for myself. i love how light i feel when i don't eat meat. i love how little cramps i have when i'm on my period. i love just being healthy. i took myself off meat when i was ready, and i feel fine about that. i don't think i lack integrity or am a bad person because i went back to eating meat briefly, especially since i came back to vegetarianism...
you are lucky if that happens for you cause it certainly has never been a side effect of being vegetarian for me!
I did that when i was 15, but i just did it i think cause i was new at this school and my crush was veg....but now Im grown and did it for myself and will 4 the rest of my life.
It probably depends on the reasons you went veg in the first place. It sounds like this guy you know went into it because he was opposed to the factory farming aspect. So when he started catching his own dinner from the wild he didn't have that issue any more. Because I went into vegetarianism for health reasons amongst other things I will probably be a veggie for life. Another reason I went into it was because I couldn't chew meat. So I have an easier time and can enjoy my dinner without having to spit out half of my food. Matt
