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Ok people I am trying to change my eating habits .I am thinking of becoming a vegetarian. I am of course a meat eater Does any one have any pointer on changing to a non meat eater
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I am more of a fan of going vegetarian for a month. That way you’re not going to just eat more of the "allowed" meat, and you get a chance to really commit to it, trying to recipes and products. You can also treat it as a kind of challenge.
The month is also nice because it gives you a date to reassess. That way when you’re craving a chicken sandwich or are out with friends and there’s no appealing vegetarian options at the restaurant, you at least can think "Only two more weeks" instead of "I have to do this forever." Don’t get me wrong, I hope you continue to do it after the month, but by reassessing you can figure out if it is really something for you.
Also find some cookbooks and/or websites that have recipes that appeal to you. Some of my favs:
http://101cookbooks.com
http://blog.fatfreevegan.com
http://vegweb.com
Veganomicon
Vegetarian Sandwiches
Hope that helps!
no chicken this week no beef the next
like that
slowly
good luck
i would start by eliminating red met.
just eat fish/chicken, once a day.
then gradually ween off of it
**eat lots of soy, and watch out for soy-dog and stuff like that!! it’s FULL of salt!! anything pre made is full of salt, not good for you
You have to seriously think about changing your diet, though a Veggie diet IS healthier. When I first changed I became a Pescatarian (only eating fish) but later on when I got used to my new diet and then became a full vegetarian, and so far so good
Though it is up to you, and remember everyone has different ethical views or whether they are changing to a veggie diet for health reasons.
Hope this helps
start slow, first stop eating your least favorite meat, like i didn’t really care about beef and pig, so i stopped eating red meat first then slowly stop eating the rest, if you just fully stop it maybe hard and you may want to eat the meat. but if you eat meat less and less it will work better in the long run.
I can’t really take your perspective because I am vegetarian due to my religion and beliefs but I do have a tip. Stay disciplined and don’t buy meat. Try to avoid places that sell a lot of meat (KFC!)
You will find that your heart/cholesterol problems will decrease. Also, take the transition slowly. Give up more nonveg food slowly until you are vegetarian.
* Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.
* Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.
* There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.
* Meat contains absolutely nothing – no proteins, vitamins or minerals – that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.
* African countries – where millions are starving to death – export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.
* ‘Meat’ can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an animal.
* A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure that the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to eat the content of a pig’s intestines?
* If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world’s food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.
* Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used for fertiliser or fed to other animals.
* Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.
* It’s must easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian. (By ‘slim’, I do not mean ‘abnormally slender’ or ‘underweight’ but rather, an absense of excess weight!)
* Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughtly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals – if Americans ate 10% less meat.
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The world’s fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn’t supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.
* If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.
* The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholestrol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.
* Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Other routinely use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 14% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
* In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?
* Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.
* Animals which are a year old are often far more rational – and capable of logical thought – than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.
* Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters. many of the world’s most successful athletes are vegetarian.
I did that for about 6 months, Best thing to do is eat fish, stop all the other meats and just eat fish.. Its very good for u and its not high in fat
When I was in third grade, as my New Year’s resolution, I ate no meat. I carefully considered this idea for two weeks or so before I jumped into my new diet. I didn’t take steps, like no fish this week, no chicken in February, I just did it. So I did that for a year, and then in October of ’08, when I was in seventh, the thought returned to me. For two days I pondered, and since then, I’ve been meat free. You could try the gradual thing, but maybe you’re not that type of person. I know that you, like most others, will probably have a hard time giving up something you’ve lived with for so long. If this is the case, watch "Meet Your Meat." That should make you quit cold-turkey — no pun intended. Anyway, just let all your family and friends know beforehand — anyone who might ever be cooking for you.
Good luck, and I hope I helped (:
My one simple pointer to smooth the path to becoming vegetarian:
Don’t be afraid to try new things, especially ethnic foods. You will probably like a lot of the stuff you try and if you don’t, at least you had a new experience.