What are the reasons other vegetarians decide to become meat-eaters?

Question

Of course, there are meat-eaters becoming vegetarians. But what influence or reasons some vegetarians become back to meat-eaters?

Answer 1

It is mostly for convenience. Cooking and planning vegetarian meals takes a lot more time than driving through for a Big Mac (gross).

Answer 2

I think that people change/conform for many reasons.

Perhaps as many reasons as meat eaters and maybe even for the same reasons that meat eaters become vegetarians.

Among them could be a sort of "pressure" from family and friends, lack of choices/alternatives, often times many local area restaurants don't cater as well as they could to people on vegetarian diets, and choices can be limiting and frustrating.

Other times it could be sheer boredom, and wanting to make a significant change in their life style.

And often times, while if not necessary if done right,there could be potential nutritional/medical reasons which can stem from lack of self education.

Other times people have a certain "goal" they want to achieve, and after a set period of time they return to their previous "omnivore" diet.

hope this helps!

Answer 3

I only know a few vegetarians that went back to eating meat. One was because her doctor was one of those old-fashioned sorts and told her there is no way to get a balanced diet without eating meat AT LEAST ONCE A DAY! That's just nuts. But, I think she may have been looking for an excuse to not continue. Maybe she really just missed some of the foods she grew up with?

I know of another person, also female, who has a slightly better reason. She was diagnosed with celiac disease which means she was also avoiding wheat products and later developed an allergy to soy! I would have probably started eating meat again too (but would feel like I was adding to the destruction of the planet).

Another got too much grief from his family and he went back to eating meat to get his family off of his back.

Answer 4

Being a meat eater who has considered trying a vegetarian diet (for health reasons--not moral reasons), I can guess at this...I found a vegetarian lifestyle to be difficult to stick to, especially if you exclude milk, eggs, cheese, butter, etc. Seemed like too much of a hassle to try to cook without what I was accustomed to viewing as "key" ingredients. Maybe converts who RE-convert do it for that reason...maybe they find it easier to talk the talk than to actually walk the walk. My hat is off to anyone who can stick to it, whatever their motivation for choosing the lifestyle.

Answer 5

actual I grew up in an rather meat "committed" family members. sounds like very week there could be a fish fry picnic of a few variety enormously in the process the looking season the place venison may be the main significant function. yet I never did like the style of meat all that plenty and enormously plenty feasted on the section dishes. My mum and dad took all of it in stride. a number of my cousins tease me all of the time yet that's what cousins do so it never troubled me all that plenty. My siblings have been all fantastic with it. in certainty they liked that there exchange into greater of the "sturdy stuff" for them. None of my siblings are vegetarians nor are my mum and dad. I grew to become a "finished blown" vegetarian as quickly as I grew to become 18. Why did I do it? For no particular reason in the commencing up. It exchange into purely a organic progression. although i exchange into already responsive to lots of goings on interior the beef marketplace, it exchange into in this time that i began out to empathize greater with the suffering that animals would desire to bypass via. It exchange into additionally around this time that I grew to become greater lively with environmental themes. considering then, i've got desperate that at a similar time as meat ingesting is known and appropriate for many human beings, I on the different hand can not enable yet another animal to die for me. not knocking different human beings's options enormously omnivores. yet meat ingesting isn't possibly for me anymore. I also have a daughter and that i'm raising her as an omnivore until she is adequately previous to be allowed to make a number of her very own options.. My husband is an omni besides.

Answer 6

Convinence, craving probably.

Peer presure is a big thing. I'm a vegetarian and everyone at school found me out when I wore a shirt that said "cut class not frogs". I have been called a hippy, made fun fun of and asked "why would you do something like that". Some people aren't used to the idea of cutting out parts of the average diet. It seems wierd and not normal to them.

I also have presure from my family. My dad's side of the family are very old fashioned Itallians. My nana actually told me "God put animals on this world for one reason and that is to serve man". I'm not very close to them.

Answer 7

Did you know about half of vegetarian converts go back to eating meat?

Interesting fact, maybe they just realise it isn't the wonder diet some people make it out to be.

Answer 8

these people who say the answer is "peer pressure" annoy me. its hardly like vegetarians are a freak rarity nowadays. (i think many of these people WANT to think they are so rare and individual but get over yourself. there are thousands of vegetarians.)
i think often it is the opposite that is true. often people BECOME vegetarians because they think it is the "cool" thing to do. or they think it is a "noble" thing to do. or the "right" thing to do. (in whatever way they have been influenced to think what "cool", "noble", or "right" means). these people are usually in high school or undergrads in college.
they go back to meat-eating because they have become jaded and they realize that their decision to stop eating meat is an inconvenience for them personally and it will only ever yield a miniscule influence over the powers that be (meat companies, government, meat eaters, etc).
the short answer: the enthusiasm of youth is trampled over time.

Answer 9

Imho, I believe it's healthy to eat meat. As long as you can buy organic all natural meat. Maybe some vegetarians crave protein. I was a vegetarian for a while and for me it was hard to get my daily requirement of protein. But again that was me.

Answer 10

ha ha Speak Up you're way off! I've actually not really gotten sick as much as I did when I ate meat.

I have no idea why a vegetarian would turn back to a meat-eater, maybe they realized that they liked meat more or thought that they could live without it but couldn't. Who knows maybe peer pressure?

Good question though :)