My girlfriend want to me cut meat out of my diet. Besides listening to what she has to say, why should I?

Question

I know she is my girlfriend and everything, but instead of asking her, which will frustrate her even more ont he subject, why shoud I cut out my favorite part of food, the meat?

Answer 1

Their is no woman in this world worth giving up steak over.

Answer 2

Well, don't do it just because she wants you to, or you will be doomed to fail. You have to want to become vegetarian to do it. And if you can't talk to her about why she wants you to become veg, that's a problem. The least she could do is hand you a vegetarian starter guide. But since she hasn't, you'll have to get one yourself. Check out www.cok.net.

Now, I confess, I used to love the stuff. But as I got older, my body stopped tolerating it. I was dating a lovely vegetarian guy at the time (I still am) who didn't give me one bit of pressure. But it was a bit of an influence, I guess. One day, I got so disgusted with the meat I was eating, I went veg. A few months later, I went vegan.

Now you could agree to not eat meat in her presence, but eat it when you're not with her. You could eat less meat overall, whether you eat it less frequently and/or in smaller portions. There are lots of analogues out there, and if your girlfriend wants you to stop eating meat, she's going to have to show you good analogues you can eat instead.

Answer 3

Are you the guy that chick was raggen on yesterday about not wanting to do as she said about being a vegan?
Dude...You should dump her...It ain't about the diet...It's about the control.
They tell you that they love you because of who you are, then they spend years and plenty of tears trying to change you. What's up with that?
They all want to be in control but this babe was overboard...

Answer 4

You can only become a vegetarian of your own free will. Your girlfriend trying to make you is wrong. She could open your eyes a little to the vulgarity of the meat industry, but she should not demand it.
You are your own person and you can make this decision without her telling you to! Remember you are the one choosing to take meat out of your diet. You are the one choosing not to die from colon cancer. You are the one who is choosing to chose what to eat rather than be dictated to by the fast food industry.
Remember always that it is your choice, not the nagging girlfriend.

Answer 5

Your girlfriend is wrong to try and force her beliefs on you. Having said that cutting down on your meat consumption may be beneficial. Meat is very hard for your body to digest. This can lead to colon cancer. Try to replace some of your meat meals w/ vegitarian options. Ie. bean burritos instead of beef tacos, veggie pizza, no meat in your pasta sauce.

Answer 6

I would ask her why not, instead, she start eating meat? It's the same difference - no one should tell another person what they can or cannot eat. It's unreasonable of her to expect you to stop - I am assuming you were a meat eater when you started dating? Did she think she was going to change you or convert you? Tell her you like the way you eat just fine, and if she can't handle it, then you'll have to take it from there. Good Luck!

Answer 7

Ya know, I'm gonna have a drink for every time someone asks this. Look it up! Here's something you won't find in a search though: Vegans/vegetarians taste better. It's true.

Answer 8

Diet is a personal choice. If she can't understand that, then you need a new g/f. This is a simple thing and if she is making an issue over it . . . DUMP this control freak.

Answer 9

She might be making that suggestion because she cares about your health. Here are a few points of interest from the pcrm.org article (link below):

*Vegetarians are about 40 percent less likely to develop cancer compared to meat-eaters
*Harvard studies that included tens of thousands of women and men have shown that regular meat consumption increases colon cancer risk by roughly 300 percent
*Daily meat consumption triples the risk of prostate enlargement
*Studies have demonstrated that a low-fat, high-fiber, vegetarian or vegan diet combined with stress reduction techniques, smoking cessation, and exercise, or combined with prudent drug intervention, could actually reverse atherosclerosis—hardening of the arteries
*People who follow vegetarian diets typically have lower blood pressure
*Non-insulin-dependent (adult-onset) diabetes can be better controlled and sometimes even eliminated through a low-fat, vegetarian diet along with regular exercise.
*Vegetarian diets have been shown to reduce one’s chances of forming kidney stones and gallstones.
*A 1985 Swedish study demonstrated that individuals with asthma practicing a vegan diet for a full year have a marked decrease in the need for medications and in the frequency and severity of asthma attacks.

Answer 10

You shouldn't. People who don't want to be vegetarian, shouldn't be vegetarian. There's no way a person could survive on a vegetarian diet if they weren't committed to it.