Going back to eating meat?

Who here has formerly been a vegetarian and gone back to eating meat, and what were your reasons?

 

I have been a vegetarian since I was 8 and a vegan since I was 12, and it has never crossed my mind to start eating meat again, even though I never ate that much of it in the first place. I don't really see how anyone could start eating meat again, as I don't see how their beliefs could change so drastically that they could condone the killing of animals just to satisfy their appetite!

This is just my own opinion btw...

 

yeah it's never crossed my mind either.

when i went to germany for the summer, i met another girl there from america, and when a group of us was out eating, i ordered something veggie, so of course everyone is like "oh are you a vegetarian?" and i'm like yes, etc.. and this girl was like "i was a vegetarian for seven years before i came to europe this summer, and then i just decided to eat meat."

i was totally taken aback - i asked her why she had not eaten meat for so long and then just completely changed her mind, and she said "well i don't know why i was a vegetarian anyway" and how basically she didn't really care, she'd just been doing it to do it.

and in that situation, yeah i can see going back i guess. but if you're really doing it for moral reasons, then i doubt you go back.

 

Tried to be veggie when I was nine. Failed for many reasons the main one being I didn't actually how what the hell I was doing. Having just read something in a magazine and thought it sounded cool.
That and my Mum tricked me back into eating meat. So I figure if my own mother was going betray me then the whole thing was doomed.
After that I just kind of forgot about it.

I'm not going back this time, if only to prove the point. I can be stubborn like that. Which is surely a good thing in this context.

Our neighbours daughter in law used to be a devout vegetarian (she's also Buddhist, no idea if there's a connection) but she got very ill with some viral thing and was prescribed fish to get her stength back up. Now she's a pescatarian (sp).

 

i know one or two older people that have retreived their carnivorous desires ... since it's not me, I can't really tell you the reasons too deeply ... from what I've gotten from them ... one I guess kynda sounded like he has payed his dues of 40 years not eating meat ... I guess he wants to go out with like a bong or something why'd I wink? i dunno ... too late.

the other person I think just couldn't handle the temptation after awhile ... began eating meat once again, then kynda like got hooked back in I guess ... no suprise ~~> with myself at least, it makes me less motivated sorta ... you know like harder to stick by my self and live by my values & ideas ... belligerant i guess would be appropriate for the effect of eating meat

 

I'd kill myself before going back!

 

Me. Meat tastes great, so I started eating meat again. It's really not much more complicated than that.

 

I think its difficult for people who view it as a morality issue to see ever going back, but if you did it for health/other reasons, then wavering is pretty common.

I was veg for about 8 months. My main motives were I wanted to try it out, I felt like overall its a positive thing, and I liked the food. I quit being a veg for a number of reason primarily a change in lifestyle, living situations that forced me to eat some meat. I still eat much less meat than my pre-veg days(maybe 5 times a month usually when I eat at other peoples' houses).

For me, being veg was never a animal rights issue, although I certainly don't advocate inordinate amounts of brutality. I just don't see eating meat as a grave moral depravity. Its a personal opinion, I can't change yours and you won't change mine, so lets agree to disagree.

Basically, I wasn'ta veg for moral reasons so eating meat again was not a huge leap for me.

Peace

 

I went veg suddenly, ie. 3 pm on May 22, 1996, and I have never cheated. Never will, either. But I've read alot and here's what I remember off the top of my head on some people's reasoning:


Ben Franklin: Said he used to be a vegetarian but "thought better of it" later in life.

Albert Schweitzer: Tried desperately for I think his whole adult life to stick with vegetarianism, but fell off the wagon repeatedly because he couldn't resist the occasional nibble.

Adolf Hitler: His doctor told him to go vegetarian because of stomach problems, which he agreed to, but he continued to eat sausages anyway.

Plus countless members of the general population who jump on and off of whatever bandwagon is passing through town. I agree with everyone above who posted that if the decision is a moral one, you're not likely to stray.

 

i was a vegetarian when i was younger. it was a morality thing, but later i had a paradigm shift. it was like, how can it be "wrong" if there are animals that eat other animals too? are these animals wrong for eating meat? but i don't particularly agree with the way most companies add things to meat to enhance it or the way it is mass produced.

 

I was veg for three years, then I couldn't resist smoked salmon. So for two years I have eaten fish. My new boyfriend is veg, so I decided to get off the fish and i've never felt better.

 

part of being a progressive human being. The human race has much more capability, physically and more importantly mentally and spiritually. we aren't the same

do as you will ... just my 3 cents

 

We are not be the same but we are all a part of one circle of life. Who knows what man is really supposed to eat because we teeth capable of chewing both meat and vegetables, I guess it just depends on the quality of life you want. I was raised eating meat, and I like it.

BUT, I'm not married to my position on this topic, currently I've been wishy washy about it. I don't like the idea of killed food but until I figure out what bothers my about it I'm not going to move. (it doesn't follow the concept of better safe than sorry, but it's what I know)

And eating shouldn't be a big part of life anyway, we eat to survive. In our society we have everything in such abundance that we don't need to eat meat for survival. Unless of course your poor and the some of the only things you can afford have meat products in them.

 

It's not that we eat animals, it's how they're treated....it's isn't humane...AT ALL. I don't support suffering.Then again, that's the reason I'M vegetarian, and most people here, ethical reasons (or morals...whichever you prefer.).

So...that's about it!^^;

 

I have gone thru different stages in my life where I would eat eggs & cheese but no meat. When I'm living in a meat eater's house it can be a slight hassle to skip dinner every night...and at times when I didn't have a job to do my own grocery shopping it got tiresome living on Ramen Noodles, oatmeal, plain rice, mac & cheese, and coffee

 

I was in the same position for about a year. It wasn't "killed food" per se that bothered me so much as the torturous treatment of the animals behind the "killed food." About 3 months ago I realized that I would never make up my mind from that position, and decided it made much more ethical sense to stop eating meat/eggs/dairy until I decided whether doing so compatible with my ethics. Well, I've been vegan for 3 months now (and although I miss meat it's been easier than I would have imagined), and I guess I still haven't made up my mind about the whole issue -- but I've been giving it a lot more thought/researching issues/etc. recently. You've be surprised how much more motivated you are to really search this out and discover how you feel about these issues once you are in a position where you are already foregoing the questionable activity. And if you really care about your own ethical composure -- if that is truly something important to you, as it should be -- you should want to give yourself all possible motivation to get things right. It's not really an issue of "better safe than sorry," as much as just putting yourself on the right side of the line so that you are in a position to think clearly about these things and to make the best decision for yourself. [The decsion is easy/clear-cut for some people, not for others - and clearly not for you, since you said you're not sure how you feel about it.] You admit that this has been something that has been troubling you - which is good, it means you are capable of undertaking advanced ethical considerations, but you must realize that your ability to evalute the situation is greatly compromised by your continued complicity in the activity you are hoping to question.

Again, I'm not condeming meat-eating. I still can't figure out what I think about it -- it's a terribly complicated issue (for me, at least). But you really might want to consider giving up the activity at least during the period you are actively questioning its morality. Just a thought.

 

i ate crab today because i was at a seafood joint with my carnivorous parents and i felt terrible so i vowed to never eat it again...i hate it when people dont understand that fish including shrimp isnt vegetarian. i dont see why anyone would want to go back to being an omni.