| Topic: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 26/07/08 / Views : 1800 / Replies : 62 | |
|  | As I get older, I'm starting to bump into a lot of people from my past who were hardcore veggies/vegans.. And have started eating meat again!! "Oh, well it just got so hard.." "oh well I realy felt I was missing the protein.." "I just smelt a bacon sandwich cooking and couldn't resist it..". It often seems that the more aggressive and gobby the person was about their vegetarianism, the more carniverous they've become!!
Has anyone else noticed this?? Personally I just can't understand it.. I can sympathise with an ignorant meat eater who is too lazy or stupid to realise what they're doing, but once you've made the change.. how could you ever go back? |
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| Reply #1: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 11/07/08 | |
| | I have seen this occuring in my old friends too. One of my friends was a vegetarian for 5 years and said one day she just decided to go to kfc.
It does seem that the more passionate my friends were about not eating animals the more they turned their veiws around in later life.
Even the girl who urged me to stop eating meat if again a meat eater.
I have been a vegetarian for about 8 years now and i couldnt dream of one day eating meat again.
Some people seem to have no willpower at all. |
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| Reply #2: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 11/07/08 | |
| | | yeah with me willpower just isn't a problem.. I simply haven't been tempted to eat meat in 20 years. I never enjoyed my food very much until I became veggie and started properly cooking for myself (sorry mum!!). I just think that once you add up all the ethical, health, and environmental benefits, how could you choose to take such a step backwards again?? wierd.. |
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| Reply #3: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 11/07/08 | |
| | | PS Calico devils Rejects is a blinder.. Although I prefer house of a thousand corpses.. |
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| Reply #4: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 11/07/08 | |
| | | Well I think in the case of men they usually end up getting married and their wives refuse to cook vegetarian meals so they have to go back to meat. |
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| Reply #5: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 11/07/08 | |
| | Yeah, it's tragic when a bloke gets married and suddenly loses the ability to cook for himself. Probably accounts for the high divorce rate - all those men who desperately want to be able to cook their own food again!
Interesting though that it's the hard core veggies (not sure if that's the right term, sounds like something from a dodgy internet site) who have dropped their principles and reverted to omnivory. Maybe it's a transition that's similar to those one-time political activists who were all for leading a revolution in their youth but now work as estate agents, drive 4x4s and read the Telegraph. (Apologies to any estate agents out there, especially cycling, Guardian-reading estate agents.)
I suppose while some people discover the road to Damascus, stick by their principles and never look back, others end up getting diverted onto easy street. |
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| Reply #6: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 12/07/08 | |
| | Hmm is it easy street for meat eaters, lazy maybe or weakness not to get there teeth into flesh, but their start with the commitment wasn't true to begin with or couldn't find the reason to explain to the spouse why. Nowdays people never seem to question why I don't eat meat, I fly a lot and find many on the same flights having vegetarian meals, a few weeks ago I sat next to a chinese woman (normally Asians don't really understand), I was served first with the airline cuisine of over cooked veg then later her (smelly meat) dish hit my nose, she opened a conversation with me and I was expecting the why's and where of my diet, but no, not one word of it, so I believe it's more acceptable around the World, then again I went to dinner with an American recently who loudly proclaimed to a the company we was in that he is a vegetarian, at the restaurant his plate was full of meat?.
I do have a problem with meat eaters and only wish I could walk this earth and not communicate with them.
I agree Rich35 how could anyone go back.
Karen it's possible if life is busy, then again most supermarket have ready-made veggie meals to pop into the oven, weakness and something else.......... |
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| Reply #7: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 13/07/08 | |
| | | ive known a couple of people who have gone back to eating meat when they have found a partner who eats meat.ive had many people say well if you meet a girl who is great to get on with ,likes the same things,looks like shakira,all these things but eats meat surely you would go out with her.i can only say no way,its not a game.not just whats in your fridge but what is in your head i say.as for things being easier for meateaters,not these days so much.we are not treated like the lepers as we were years ago.finally,we shouldnt attack each other over strictness even the ones who make the first step and go from cheap intensive farmed to free range should be applauded and not told you must do this now,well done hugh f.w. and jamie oliver for getting some to even think |
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| Reply #8: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 13/07/08 | |
| | I have been made to feel like a leper on many an occassion. It has only made me stronger. I would like to say though that I agree with you Adam. We should not condemn people who eat meat but try to enlighten them. I did not give up eating meat until I was 40. Some friends of mine went veggie and it made me start thinking about it. I have always been pro animals and it made sense to me. I believe there is a right time for everyone though. It's like seeing the light.It's a journey I am enjoying and would love to influence others to do the same. I'm now working my way towards being vegan. My dogs still eat meat though and it is something I am looking at. It is something I struggle with though as they love meat so much. It seems natural for them to eat it but at the same time it feels hypocritical. I have cut down their meat consumption and what they get is at least organic. I would like to hear peoples views on this and perhaps some advice.
Adam - do you feed meat to Sasha?
Worldtuner, I know you look upon people like yourself who have never eaten meat as being special. It is true, you are and I wish I had never eaten meat in my life. I did though and I cannot change that fact but I do feel special too for making the change. We all are. Vegans could feel the same way about you as you feel about meat eaters. I have read alot about the dairy industry and it has made me feel like being vegetarian is not enough. Some people just need enlightening but it is hard not to come over as preaching. Whatever point we are at on our journey, we are all trying to make a difference. |
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| Reply #9: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 14/07/08 | |
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| | Just to counter an earlier suggestion, I actually think that people who actually make the decision to go veggie are more praise-worthy than people whose parents made that choise for them. I made the decision to go vegetarian when I was fifteen. I come from a family of 'gourmets'- people who love cooking and eating good food- and, as I was growing up, I enjoyed the meat dishes I ate. However, it got to the stage where I realised that I could no longer morally defend eating meat and, well, if you carry on doing something that you know is immoral, it doesn't say much for your character. Unike many 'second generation vegetarians, I have to face the problem that my parents don't think vegetarianism is healthy and I also still get the odd craving, which wouldn't occur if I'd never eaten meat. So, I think it takes a lot more strength for people who decide to go veggie to 1) make the change and 2) maintain it than 'second generation' veggies.
On the subject of 'lapsing' I can't see myself doing so; the equasion is simple who would choose a month (at least) of guilt for a minute of 'pleasure'? Not that eating meat is at all pleasurable after you've gone veggie for a couple of years- once, in a restaurant abroad, I was served goulash by mistake and I tasted it without realising. Tendons and muscle and blood- mmm yummy :p Definately not worth sacrificing your morals for, that's for certain.
(However, at university I met someone who did lapse; when I told him that I was veggie, he told me that he was too. Then, about a month later in Starbucks, he was eating an 'egg' sandwich and suddenly there was this pitter patter on his plate as pieces of bacon fell out. His face was a picture of guilt as I asked 'so how's the vegetarianism going?' He lapsed but, as I don't see it as my duty to badger people into converting, I just left him to make up his own mind. |
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| Reply #10: Re: Lapsed Veggies |
| Posted : 14/07/08 | |
| | Hi wolfspirit,
Not at all thanks for the knock, I do mean all vegetarians are special not someone who's never eaten meat in their life, the journey is exciting, when I travel this road I feel free from all the hang ups, the thing that hit's me hard (sick, and I may need to be corrected) is the smell of pasting restaurants, butcher shops, sitting near meals of meats/fish etc, others say temptation, for those overcoming that temptation makes them more special. |
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