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Kelda:
I actually dont mind the smell of meat and sometimes I think it smells good but its never made me think - oh I need to eat that.

Callum (my partner) has a much better diet now that he lives with me and often doesn't eat meat for days at a time, which was very unusual for him, coming from a family which were very much meat eaters. If we go out for a nice dinner in a restaurant he always picks the meat main course!

I find that if i got to a vegetarian restaurant I can't choosee - I'm like - there's too many choices! Too many!

Wow - Katherine - for a 9 - 10 year old boy that really is self diciplined - I can see why you were proud of him for that.

My 4 yo niece has announced - nothing to do with me I might add but she does know I'm a vegetarain and has asked about it before - that she is now a 'vegetabletarian'.  :laugh: she's very proud od that fact and she wont eat any meaty things at the moment.

She often asks - can a vegtabletarian eat that? And we'll say - well it is meat but you can eat whatever you want - but so far she refuses any meaty things.. shes not got to the stage of refusing yougurts and sweets cos of Gelatine etc though!!

Brown Eyes:
Throughout most of high school and all of college I was mostly vegetarian (meaning I only ate chicken and fish very rarely... but usually stuck to a purely veggie diet).

And, just this week I've decided to try to go back to that routine.  This has mainly been spurred by the recent beef recall and the horrific videos of animal cruelty that have been on the news so much these last few days.  I can't get those awful images of those poor cows/bulls out of my head.
:(

There's no way I could ever be vegan, but I'm actually excited about the idea of going back to a vegetarian routine.  I hope I have the discipline to keep it up.  I love the flavor of meat and the vast variety of foods available to meat-eaters.  I fell off the veggie-wagon shortly after finishing undergrad college and have eaten meat ever since then (except for veal, which I've always thought was pretty horrific).  So, this will be a big change again for me.  I remember how easy it is to lose the taste for meat, so I'm hoping that will help with the discipline issue.

Meryl:
I've not eaten red meat since December, and I've had chicken only a couple of times.  So far, so good.  Haven't missed them very much.  I still crave butter and cheese, though.  :(

Brown Eyes:

--- Quote from: Meryl on February 27, 2008, 12:52:58 pm ---I've not eaten red meat since December, and I've had chicken only a couple of times.  So far, so good.  Haven't missed them very much.  I still crave butter and cheese, though.  :(

--- End quote ---

Meryl, next time we have a visit in NYC we'll have to seek out a cool vegetarian restaurant!  ;D

And, as I said, there's no way I could ever give up dairy.

serious crayons:
To me, what makes the most sense from an animal-rights standpoint is to eat meat, dairy and eggs that are produced under humane conditions.

My sons and I had a debate about this when my younger son was a vegetarian. My older son pointed out that if fewer people ate meat, more cows wouldn't be living long happy lives -- there would be fewer cows, period. Ranchers are not going to raise them just to be nice. If nobody ate meat (or dairy, or wore leather) the cow population would dwindle to -- what, a handful in zoos?

So then the question becomes, from the cow's point of view, is it better to live, but eventually be killed for meat, or not to live at all? I think when cows (and chickens, pigs, etc.) are raised and slaughtered under the horrible conditions we hear about, they might feel it's better not to live at all. But if they live happily and comfortably, you could argue that you're giving them a chance to experience life.

I know not everybody will see it that way, but it is one way to look at it. The other problem is it's hard to ascertain just how your meat has been raised. I have read that truly cage-free eggs, for instance, are really hard to come by, even though many eggs in the store are labeled as such.

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