Ever considered becoming vegetarian?

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I m pescatarian, meaning a vegetarian who eats fish, and I eat dairy and eggs, so I am not a very strict vegetarian and not vegan. But I have been this variety of vegetarian for over 25 years and I can't imagine eating beef or pork (I've had chicken twice in 25 years to be polite to a host). If I accidentally put something in my mouth that has been flavored with meat it tastes really awful and I notice it immediately. At this point, I have trouble even understanding why people eat meat. It's bad for the animals, bad for the environment, terrible for climate change, not great for one's health, and for me it doesn't even taste good.

Have you ever considered going vegetarian or vegan? Or are you already?

I thought about it, but I don't have that level of interest in animal rights and I generally believe that the body does need and want some amount of meat and animal products. There's also the practical bit about how much work there can be in terms of avoiding products with small amounts of meat in there just as a flavor enhancer. Cutting out chicken from the diet makes a massive difference in terms of animal welfare compared with most other meats.

That being said, I do tend to try to keep to a moderate amount as you really don't need that much meat for optimal health. I can't recall where I read it, but a diet that's roughly 10% or so meat tends to minimize the environmental impacts of food and maximizes the health. The reason why some meat is more environmentally friendly is largely based on calorie density of the meat and that some animals don't require a lot of work to cultivate.

No, never.

I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for 9 years - from ages 15-24. I’m thinking about going pescatarian in the near future.

Hell no.

Apologies to my animal friends, but you're delicious.
I was surprised to learn dogs are considered omnivores despite having fed them vegetables all my life.
I do not understand veganism...Honey? Milk?
Im also unsure about those who eat meat (or fish/insects) who have never killed to eat.

I've always wanted to but never done it. I'm hoping to phase out meat this fall once I start making more of my own food. I really don't like how much meat I eat now.
*swallows mouthful of chicken bacon casserole*

I've always been a very picky eater who really likes fried seafood & fast food so I never considered becoming vegan or vegetarian.

No. I love my meat too much.

You sound just like my aunt, Bee. She's the same. We went to this Greek restaurant that stored their spanakopita under meat for some reason, so the meat dripped down onto it, but we had no idea that they did this until she took the first bite and made the funniest face and then asked them why there was meat in it. Luckily they apologized and gave her some uncontaminated food.

I've personally never considered becoming vegetarian. A lot of the medical diets I've been on have restricted everything but meat. Which I always thought was a weird choice, but apparently unless you get that weird Lyme disease issue meat is considered pretty safe for digestive problems.

I am pescatarian. I was raised lacto vegetarian but added eggs and fish to my diet in my twenties to make it easier to put on more muscles from my weightlifting.

I try and eat healthy. I eat a lot of vegetables, love Morning Star veggie sausage, beans (although I flavor them with smoked turkey necks which I find is a good substitute for ham bones that I can't find anymore), I drink 1% milk and sweeten my cereal with honey. I very rarely eat beef and pork, eat substitute eggs. I love chicken and limit my sweets.





P.S. I used to be a vegetarian

I love meat me

I had a bf once who told everyone he was vegetarian but he wasn't

I could never understand why he did this but he kind of trapped himself by his lie because when we was all digging into burgers he was stuck with a bit of lettuce and tomato

He just used to like to impress people but with lies really weird

I don't think I could survive as a vegetarian me and I certainly wouldn't lie about it to impress anyone

A couple of years ago, I won a set of vegetarian food - vegetarian gołąbki, hummus etc. They were disgusting They tasted like wet paper so hell, no way