Does vegetarian mean no meat for the rest of your life?!?

Question

If you choose to be a veggy is it like sexuality and it's because it's the way you are, or do you tell yourselves that its ok if you change your mind one day and start to eat meat again?

As a meat eater i just can't understand the other side. its like you are being stubborn to your urges.

Answer 1

I was a veggie for almost 2 years. One day I just looked at this cheeseburger and that was that. I could only eat 1/2 of it and boy was I sick from it since my body was not used to it anymore.
Next meal was a big juicy steak. I didnt realize how much I missed eating Cow! :)

Answer 2

"Stubborn to your urges"? Not all people have the desire to eat meat. When I ate meat when I was younger, it wasn't really that big of a deal to me, I pretty much ate it because that was how I was raised. When I decided to become vegetarian, it is a choice I made for life and I can honestly say that I never EVER miss meat. I have absolutely no urge or desire to consume meat and I plan on being a vegetarian for life. I don't really understand what the huge deal is. My decision to refrain from eating meat is exactly the same as a person's decision to eat meat. It's what I choose to put in my body, and that's it. It's not some major enigma that is so difficult to understand- it's a dietary choice- not the 8th wonder of the world.

Answer 3

To your first question, yes, in my opinion. A real vegetarian is vegetarian for life.

If I ate meat I would be "stubborn to my urges." I have always been offended by the idea of eating animals since I was old enough to know what meat really was. My mother manipulated me into eating meat and I was unable to really put vegetarianism into practice until I was an adult.

Answer 4

It's a lifestyle choice. It means you have chosen to exclude meat from your diet, for various reasons. Most vegetarians decide to eat no more meat for the rest of their life.. but of course they can stop being a vegetarian and start eating meat again any time they want, but they won't be a vegetarian anymore..

I chose to become a vegetarian when I was 10 years old, and since then I have always excluded all meat from my diet, and still do..

EDIT!! The person who said they were "vegetarian by birth" meant that their parents were vegetarian and never fed her meat. She was a vegetarian from day one. They weren't trying to say there is some "Veggie gene" like peple claim there's a "gay gene".. BTW..vegetarians can consume dairy, AND human breastmilk is a whole different matter anyway.. Vegans who don't drink milk don't drink it because COWS milk isn't healthy (But human breastmilk is completely healthy for a baby human) or because it causes suffering of cows (which human breastmilk obviously doesn't) So a baby fed human breastmilk doesn't classify it as "unvegan"..Especially if the mother is a vegan!!

Answer 5

Veg*anism, like religion, is a lifestyle choice. Sexuality is not a choice.

Most veg*ans, hopefully, intend to remain that way for life, although sadly some people fall off the wagon. And I would say it's meat eaters who are "stubborn to their urges." It's a bad habit and an addiction, really.

Answer 6

I expect i'll be veggie for life, can't see why i would ever change. Its the way I am.

Being veggie is a moral thing for me, part of my lifes core values.

It takes something extraordinary to change a core value, something like alien abduction and frontal labotomy. But hey, never say "never", after all there have been some strange lights over the house recently.

Don't understand your last sentance, what urges ??

Answer 7

I've never heard of a vegetarian gene.. it's completely a personal choice. It is a choice that most vegetarians make after a bad experience with meat/animals, or b/c they were raised that way. Vegetarians usually don't have those "urges".. or at lest not as often.

and you dont have to be a vegetarian for the rest of your life, only for as long as you want to be a vegetarian. :)


oh.. and I've never seen a rule that vegetarians can't eat dairy... thats a VEGAN

Answer 8

LOL..No even at 1 time Dalai Lama ate meat
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/329912.html

I have gone back & forth with being Veggie/Vegan & now Raw Vegan ALL my life. Even as a child I found meat repulsive. But found if you put enough BBQ sauce on just about anything I can eat it. Same thing with eggs, lots of catsup etc. Yet there were times I did eat it just fine. I did believe the propaganda that we had to have it(animal flesh) to be healthy & really tried to "Be Healthy". Sad to say the opposite happened.

Slainté(to your health)

Answer 9

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Answer 10

hey wounded duck, if you don't drink milk it makes you a vegan, not a vegetarian. Plenty of people of the Hindu Religion have never tasted meat before in their lives.

i'm a meat eater and I could not stop eating it if you paid me! But people who have never had it don't have a problem because they have no idea what it's like. Eventually, they think its gross.

Answer 11

Um... if vegetarians had the "urge" to eat meat, they wouldn't be VEGETARIAN.

It's not like some restrictive diet. Most people go veg because they realize they are eating dead bodies and because they care for animals and their health. I eat everything you eat, it just wasn't dismembered alive, starved, beaten, and doesn't contain pus, steroids, blood and poop. Trust me, the "urge" to eat it is nonexistent.