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[Bone]

What made you become vegetarian? Why are you still vegetarian? What's the meat you miss the most if you're a convert?

 

Omnivores: please keep snark to a minimum as I am genuinely curious

[Rauul]

I hate meat, that bloody smell and flavour... Ewwww 

since im going to gym, tried to eat chicken, but i cant, its gross and slimy, so i only eat eggs 

[Bone]

I hate meat, that bloody smell and flavour... Ewwww 

since im going to gym, tried to eat chicken, but i cant, its gross and slimy, so i only eat eggs 

 

Did you cook it?

[Rauul]

Did you cook it?

 

lol yes

but here, in some restaurant they serve you an almost raw piece of steak and it is gross, since that day i hate all meat

[Adam]

lol yes
but here, in some restaurant they serve you an almost raw piece of steak and it is gross, since that day i hate all meat

cook it more.

[Rauul]

cook it more.

 

i dont eat meat anymore since... 2009 or so 

[KaibaSama]

Meat just tastes bad to me. Been a vegetarian since I was born, pretty much. 

[Hawk]

lol yes

but here, in some restaurant they serve you an almost raw piece of steak and it is gross, since that day i hate all meat

How raw?

 

Brown on the outside, pink on the inside is perfect (Medium).  I'd rather err on the side of under-done and get medium-rare over medium-well.  Shit's delicious.  Serve it with a loaded baked potato and that's why I'm fat.

[Shane]

I do not cook meat at home anymore because my fiancee is vegetarian. Basically it is out of respect to her and it allows me to eat less meat, less often. It isn't necessarily good for you in every day meals. You can survive without it very easily. But it can be nice to have it when you go out to eat once in a while.

[Rauul]

How raw?

 

Brown on the outside, pink on the inside is perfect (Medium).  I'd rather err on the side of under-done and get medium-rare over medium-well.  Shit's delicious.  Serve it with a loaded baked potato and that's why I'm fat.

 

Yeah brown outside, and red/pink on the inside, but almost all pink and a small outside line brown. eww need veggies now

[Hawk]

Yeah brown outside, and red/pink on the inside, but almost all pink and a small outside line brown. eww need veggies now

 

You're nuts.  That sounds perfect.  How was it seasoned?  If it's a good steak, just some salt and pepper is all that's really required.

[Shannon]

I was a vegetarian until I was ten. Not sure why - my parents are definitely omnivores. It must've had something to do with my taste buds, I'm guessing. Strangely, my first carnivorous meal was a McDonald's cheeseburger lol. What a waste of a first meal

[redlion]

I've been vegetarian since the age of ten. I didn't eat much meat before that, but that was the turning point.

I hate the texture of meat, and I don't really care for the taste. I eat fish occasionally, because it's pretty hard to keep up a good protein count without some meat. Fish and seafood doesn't have the texture of meat, or the smell.

I'm not a vegetarian for ethical reasons. At least primarily. I was vegetarian long before I was buddhist.

[Padme]

I'm vegetarian for ethical and health reasons. It started before I was 10 and I fully switched to no animal products at 10/11 at the oldest. I was then predominately vegan for a while because I was lactose sensitive. and didn't eat eggs anyway.

 

I enjoy salmon however I tried that a few years ago. I've eaten chicken and nearly every time I do (typically drunk) I cry.  I could give you a much longer in depth message but kind of terrified to share all of that here. :3

[Rauul]

I'm vegetarian for ethical and health reasons. It started before I was 10 and I fully switched to no animal products at 10/11 at the oldest. I was then predominately vegan for a while because I was lactose sensitive. and didn't eat eggs anyway.

 

I enjoy salmon however I tried that a few years ago. I've eaten chicken and nearly every time I do (typically drunk) I cry.  I could give you a much longer in depth message but kind of terrified to share all of that here. :3

 

that explain why u are so beauty

vegan rules

[Katya]

that explain why u are so beauty
vegan rules

God.
Now I know why I'm ugly. I love meat.

I can't eat meat that is not well cooked. I can't stand the feeling of eating bloody meat. It disgust me. I've thought about stop eating it, but I can honestly say I wouldn't be able to do it. But, being Portuguese, fish is more present than meat meat. I only eat it 2-3 meals per week that consist in meat.

[SuperDuperPuppu]

I LOVE meat. Love Love Love Love meat.

It just taste soooo good.

 

I've been vegetarian for ~1 year now due to ethical reasons. After learning the states that animals are raised in and the butchering process, I couldn't eat meat anymore. Hopefully, this is a lifestyle that I will stick to for life.

 

Despite that, I sometimes do miss the taste of meat.

 

Out of all the meats, I miss beef the most. Pizza is just not the same without sausage.

[Rocket]

I went pescatarian once, I tried to do vegetarian but only lasted a few weeks. I missed steak the most, I was probably lacking in iron from no red meat. I did it to "try and be more healthy" but in the end not much changed since I still ate junk food.

[NapisaurusRex]

I was vegetarian for four years or so. I did it for ethical reasons (I'm sure some of you people are laughing at me right now) but I've since figured out that my body doesn't do well under that kind of diet and there really is no "ethical" diet that I can afford.

[Fikri]

i tried it for a week last year because i wanna look cool but i when i went home for a semester break and told my mom she refused to serve me any vegetarian meals so i had to drop my newly-discovered lifestyle.

[Eefi]

Interesting that most of the vegetarians here don't do it for ethical reasons.

 

I guess my opinion is not on topic because I'm not a vegetarian but I'll share it anyway. I would never try being a vegetarian because we were made to eat everything so I don't see why I should artificially restrict myself. Some things I don't like about western vegetarianism is desperately trying to create food that resembles meat dishes. It's a lot of chemicals, advertised as "healthy" because everything vegetarian is healthy and may remotely remind you of the original thing. Or when meat dishes are altered to make them vegetarian it usually tastes like crap. I tried (supposedly because I can't say for sure) real Indian food and it was mostly vegetarian and was really tasty. If dishes are vegetarian in the first place, they're great.

I wish I could eat a bit less meat than I do though. Too much of one thing is never good.

[Gnome]

Www.earthlings.com I couldn't eat meat for a week after watching it.

[redlion]

Interesting that most of the vegetarians here don't do it for ethical reasons.
 
I guess my opinion is not on topic because I'm not a vegetarian but I'll share it anyway. I would never try being a vegetarian because we were made to eat everything so I don't see why I should artificially restrict myself. Some things I don't like about western vegetarianism is desperately trying to create food that resembles meat dishes. It's a lot of chemicals, advertised as "healthy" because everything vegetarian is healthy and may remotely remind you of the original thing. Or when meat dishes are altered to make them vegetarian it usually tastes like crap. I tried (supposedly because I can't say for sure) real Indian food and it was mostly vegetarian and was really tasty. If dishes are vegetarian in the first place, they're great.
I wish I could eat a bit less meat than I do though. Too much of one thing is never good.

Artificially restrict yourself? Nature doesn't plan your diet for you. Or any animal's diet, for that matter. All animals survive by finding food sources that prolong their lives. It's natural selection. As long as you're still living, you have eaten successfully. Anything past that is politics.

And about the 'western vegetarianism' you should know that east asian buddhists have made imitation meat for centuries. We may be new to the game in the West, but that's no reason to knock the food.

I will agree that a lot of packaged food has chemical preservatives that may not be good for you; but this is true of almost all processed foods, not just vegetarian dishes.

[GothicxToy]

Does just not eating sea food count? Lol

But on a serious note, I have hypothyroidism, snapping hip syndrome, and SED/ARFID so my "safe food" group is insanely small :l

[Turnip]

I was raised as a vegetarian right from birth and I never really minded? My mom just told me I wasn't allowed to eat meat and I was just like okay lol and put up with it.

But I don't want to be a vegetarian anymore!! I'm having a hard time getting used to the textures/flavours and all though. Like I've tried chicken and jesus christ that shit is nasty!! And I tried other meats and I usually just think "wow I didn't really like it as much as other people like it" or "I'd rather have the fake-meat version of this" or something. It sucks because there are just so many delicious-looking meals with meat in them out there but I'm too scared to try them. Since my palette is sorta limited it makes eating with other people a bit of a hassle and I hate it. It's so inconvenient!! Like I'll be at someone's house and get the
>Oh sorry I forgot you were vegetarian and didn't prepare anything for you lol
every time and I always feel bad about it... ;_;

I hope I get used to things soon lol