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Ive always kind of new about the animal cruelty that goes on in the "meat market"
and recently ive become more and more interested in becoming vegetarian, and eventually vegan.
I have tried it before, once for 2 months, and once again for about a week. i just cant seem to stick it. I live with my boyfriend who is a "meat and potatoes" kind of guy.
Are there any tips that you can give me, that will make it a little easier to not eat meat?
Its alot harder than it sounds, when i was doing it for 2 months i totally forgot one night and had a bite of a hot dog…. and i kinda just gave in after that.
Has anyone else struggled with this? i really do want to become vegetarian..its just getting started and making the transition.
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First dont go cold turkey at once… slowly cut down on eating meat. Eat Vegi-burgers, Vegi-chicken, and so on.. they dont necesslary taste like meat but they taste good. The first week or 2 is the hardest. Once u get over that it pretty much becomes like habbit. I was a vegi. for 9 months but had to stop because im anemic and my docter advised not to keep going.
Good luck
Nah, it’s been pretty easy for me. I’m a pastry guy
well, u can find substitutes for meat like tofu
eat soy products, and veggie everything.
All you can do is battle against your craving.. don’t try vegetarian meat, trust me, it’s the most disgusting crap ever. In fact, most of the stuff I tried made SPECIFICALLY for vegetarians taste horrible. Only a very select few.
Try and stay mentally strong against those meat! The achievement will make you feel very good, and you’ll also lose weight, but don’t forget to find a protein and iron source in place of meat.
In place of meat, try and find some food that you especially love which is non-meat, stock it up, and eat it instead when you’re craving meat. That’s what I do.
If you love the animals so much, why do you eat all their food?
This is a joke you guys.. Alot of my family is vegetarian and we all laughed at this one!
I’m a vegetarian and one of the reasons I cannot go back is because I watch many videos from the PETA website..and others. By doing this, I see what happens to these poor animals, and then if I feel like eating meat, I feel guilty because I remember the videos. So, watch more of the videos lol and research: why becoming a vegetarian can save the planet
i hate when i saw some animals killed just for food
like in our town, there are some people killing dogs and cats just to eat them while drinking beverages
like im always questioning myself: "are pigs born to be eaten?"
but still i eat meat, and also i dont eat veggies
I consider myself Veggie-concious… I mainly eat vegitibles, the only food i eat that comes from animals are the kind with certain labels on them ( http://www.hsus.org/farm/resources/pubs/animal_welfare_claims_on_egg_cartons.html )
i only eat certain parts of beef and chicken. No bones or skins and such. only meat i eat. I’d never be able to become vegan though… but the people who can.. wow my heros! lol
it always helps to keep in mind that u have a goal, and to dedicate yourself to reach that goal. it is very hard to transform into a vegetarian just like that, but try and find some really good recipes for vegetarians, and get used to eating things like that. a good way to get yourself started, would be to get rid of, or put some place all the meat in your home, so that 1. )it wont tempt you 2.)if your not tempted, it will keep your mind off of it.
so just remember that u r setting a goal for yourself, and keep in your mind WHY u r doing this, and what the outcome will be. GOODLUCK!
I only eat meat. my thing with vegetarians are the ones,like you, who become a vegetarian because of animal rights. Now you dont have to eat meat I dont care but not eating meat wont help those animals at all. If you truly cared about them you would do something to help them directly such as donating to a chrity that helps animals in danger or who are treated badly at meat processors. Also there are companies like Purdue who give the animals a good life before turning them into food product…there chickens are free range for example. There products might cost more cuz of this but if it makes you feel better then do it.
If you really want to become one, consult a nutritionist/dietician who can gve you recommendations on what kind of nutritiou vegetarian foods you can eat that will satisfy your hunger, and not leave you craving for meats.
I just want to throw this out there: I have never seen a healthy vegetarian….
A few weeks ago, in one of my classes, there’s this girl who always looks pale and thin and generally unhealthy. I overheard a discussion from her about being vegetarian.
Just last week, I saw a girl with yellow skin at a restaurant. Her entire family was sickly…and she complained that there were bacon bits on her salad. I swear, her brother started drooling at the sight of meat. Though it could have been some form of mental deficiency from too little protien and fat intake.
Going along with that same idea, there’s another boy in another class of mine who is mentally deficient. He said that he had never eaten meat in his life, and the doctor said that that was quite possibly the cause.
You see, you need meat to survive. Or, at least, you need special nutrients that only meat can provide. And if you take nutrient pills, you’re not really helping yourself. Oh, sure, you’re able to survive as well as us omnivores; but where do these nutrients come from? Yes, plants–but hundreds of thousands of acres of plants, all ground up to fit your needs.
I ask you this: Without us eating the cows and the chickens and the turkeys, what would they be doing? I’ll tell you what they would be doing: Eating our crops, that’s what! And, if we never ate meat at all, not only would we not have that food source, we wouldn’t have even the plant source we have. We’d have to kill all of the animals and leave their meat to rot in the plains, instead of using them to feed 6 billion hungry mouths.
In fact, come to think of it, we wouldn’t have even close to 6 billion people. Do you know what else meat does? It helps strengthen the immune system and transfer of antibodies and T-cells. So without meat, we’d have a much lower ability to survive an infection, so we’d have overdone the penicillin more than we already have, and we’d have even more superbugs that can’t be controlled–we’d all be sick and dieing right now!
So, as you can see, world-wide vegetarianism will bring the fall of humanity as we know it. And without us to change the wrongs weve done, global warming would grow rampant (assuming that the atmosphere doesn’t clean itself like it’s done 15 trillion times in the past), and every living creature on the Earth would die. The end. Buh-bye.
You’ve got to admit, that was fairly imaginative! But I did mean what I said in the beginning. You need meat….. Or vast plains of plants and absolutely no animals whatsoever.
It’s hard because I presume you’re Caucasian. The culinary culture and food sources / market availability make it hard. Plus, like you mentioned, you have a meat and potatoes boyfriend which also doesn’t help. Besides, don’t change your diet because of your belief, change it for your body. Animal cruelty is just another one of those things that organizations take advantage of to profit. Don’t read too deep into it. You just have to accept humans do cruel things and you’ll be just fine. And if you REALLY want to be vegetarian. Get some old-skool Asian dude age 30+ and tell him to shop for your food or whatnot. I personally come from an old-skool Asian family and it’s really easy to be vegetarian as my grandmother is. It all comes down to culture and market needs… Number of vegetarians < number of omnivorous people. You lose in terms of customer population… That’s all.
You’re going to be thinking: "Hey, he didn’t answer my question yet."
Well, my advice for being a vegetarian is: Don’t.
They are finding that soy is bad for you. You would do better Googling "Flexitarian Diets" and checking out the websites. Of course you can’t "stick" with it . . . your body is telling you you need something.
Being a "strict" vegetarian is an abnormal way of living in a modern society, unless of course you are following a spiritual path as they do in ancient cultures. And that is why flexitarian vegetarians and flexitarian vegans like myself are a growing and transforming vegetarianism.
We say that you eat smaller amounts of meat .. we usually don’t eat "red" meat except on VERY rare occasions. Mostly it’s fish, seafood, and poultry and the MAJOR part of our diet is veggies and fruit.
So start that way … limit your fish, seafood and poultry to 50%, then move to 20% of your diet and make sure the other 50 and 80% is fruit and vegetables.
I have been a vegetarian for…6 or 7 years and at first I really missed some meats but now I don’t even remember what they taste like. I like my diet, but you do have to be careful about what you eat so that you still get all the nutrients that you miss out on by not eating meat. Buuut that’s for when you are actually a vegetarian.
And I have occasionally had the accidental animal product, but you just have to keep going. And actually, it kind of makes you sick after awhile if you have meat…or it did that for me.
What I did, and what worked, was not just suddenly make the switch. I started by cutting out red meat and only eating chicken and tuna (I personally never liked other fish, but you could eat fish as well). I did this for about 6 months or so until my cravings for burgers and stuff went away. Then I slowly ate less and less of the white meat. During this I was also eating Morningstar products which are, in my opinion, delicious…which is saying something because a lot of vegetarian foods are kinda hard to get used to. But you have to try Morningstar stuff, I think it tastes just like the real thing and so do my friends who eat meat. Well, most of them.
You could also try cooking separately from your boyfriend. He cooks his foods and then you make your own meal so you aren’t tempted to eat his. And there are so many rich recipes that you can try so you don’t feel like you are missing out! Also, if you are serious about it, you might want to visit a nutritionalist for advice on a balanced and satisfying diet.
Aside from all that, you could just think about what you’re eating everytime you eat meat. That thought alone always freaked me out.
Good luck!!!
Oh also, I totally eat cheese and eggs and milk. But I get them from local, free range animal farms. If you decide to include those items and not go fully vegan, I think that it will be easier for you because then you can still have rich foods and also it helps contribute needed proteins.
It was really easy for me…after i went veg..i never even considered going back.