Becoming a vegetarian...

Fubsy

Fubsy

Fubsy

Soldato
Joined
12 Dec 2003
Posts
11,580
Location
Wiltshire
I would like to stop eating meat. I have always enjoyed eating meat. However, I first started questioning the morality behind eating meat a few years ago, but have kept putting it off and just kept on eating it and blocking out any thought behind how it actually gets to me. Now I just can't put it of anymore.

How hard is it to totally cut out meat, fish, poultry, gelatine etc...?
 
emot-gay.gif
 
although i am not a vegitarian, i say the first thing you should do is look at all the foods you enjoy and see how many you will not be able to eat. this may give you an idea on how hard it could be as you may loose a lot of your favorite food stuff to your new diet.
 
Fubar said:
I would like to stop eating meat. I have always enjoyed eating meat. However, I first started questioning the morality behind eating meat a few years ago, but have kept putting it off and just kept on eating it and blocking out any thought behind how it actually gets to me. Now I just can't put it of anymore.

How hard is it to totally cut out meat, fish, poultry, gelatine etc...?
Click to expand...

not hard at all, there are actually quite a few members on here that are vegi or vegan (including me) it's all about subsitutes and making sure the dairy you buy is free range/organic (most veggies disagree with factory farmed eggs etc)

quorn is a good healthy alternative, and the linda mcartney range is very good.

but it's just about balance, for example it's quite easy to be an unhealthy veggie nower days (much of the junkfood now produced is veggie) and i unfortunatly went done the junk food route (but am now rectifying this :()

in most cases it will be just about swapping out the meat for a meat alternative (ie beef mince for quorn mince) and so on (oh, the cheatin range is good for sandwich 'meat' and 'bacon' and things like that).


once you get used to looking out for stuff that will come easy as well. the four things that seem to crop up most in food you may think is veggie are

E120 or cocheniel (same thing)
whey powder (sometimes vegitarian, but often not)
animal rennet (often found in cheeses)
geletine

most big supermarkets are good lable wise nower days (i know working for sainsburys they have got really good at it, even putting vegan on the products that are).

alcohol is also a dodgey one, as fish is often used in the production of some wines. lilt and fanta (orange) will also need to be avoided as fish is used in production of the beta carotine.


if you have any more questions fire away

edit:
cadbury are good for chocolate, and so are mars, nestle should be avoided but apparently the products produced in the UK are fine for vegetarians. :D
 
Last edited:
bledd. said:
emot-gay.gif
Click to expand...

It's pointless and every single person I have ever met who claimed that would never go back to eating meat, even after years.... did in fact go back to eating meat

Usually round the same time they found when they got ill it took longer to recover. My housemate was always getting run down and generally not looking so well and in the end he decided to shift his diet back to a good blend of the two. He's been fine since.

Hardly scientific proof but certainly true.
 
Last edited:
bringerofdecay said:
why?
Click to expand...

Not pointless, but annoying. Because Vegetarians are like bloody Jehovah's Witnesses and insist on telling everyone else, or frowning when they see others eating a normal meat based diet

It's so tedious. If you want to be a vegetarian then fine, just do it. Don't mention it to anyone else (because we don't care) and don't post it on a forum (see above)

:p
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Not pointless, but annoying. Because Vegetarians are like bloody Jehovah's Witnesses and insist on telling everyone else, or frowning when they see others eating a normal meat based diet

It's so tedious. If you want to be a vegetarian then fine, just do it. Don't mention it to anyone else (because we don't care) and don't post it on a forum (see above)

:p
Click to expand...

and many do 'just do it' it's only the really fanatical freaks that go on the whole no one should eat meat trip, and tbh they give the rest of us a bad name.

i never bring it up in normal conversation, i quite happily eat with people who eat meat without making rude faces and telling them they shouldn't be eating it.

obviously some people do care and are interested, ie the OP, so please don't post rude condescending stuff about people who are interested and people who try to advise them.

you can always just not post in the thread or even not open it up ;) :rolleyes:
 
Diesel said:
Because you give up all the nice things that you can eat, and instead chow down on rabbit food.
Click to expand...

what makes you say they are nice? i dont find the brutal life and final slaughter of animals nice or justifiable, hence i am a vegetarian, if you really have nothing constructive to add to this thread please don't post, the OP asked for help in becoming a vegetarian, not people mocking him for doing so.

Stonedofmoo said:
Mmm, KFC :)
Click to expand...



another pathetic comment, as said, if you have nothing better to say dont post
 
bringerofdecay said:
see, that really doesn't sound appetising, just makes me feel sick :)
Click to expand...

It doesn't make me feel physically sick, but it sure as hell doesn't tempt me either. Things like haribo are far more likely to tempt me, but I haven't fallen to temptation since I became veggie ~6 years ago anyway.

Homo-veggie is an unfair stereotype - I much prefer hippie-veggie if there must be a stereotype! :p

Going veggie is easy. Quorn has a huge range of non-meat meat alternatives, and there are loads of own-brand alternatives too at Tesco/Sainsburys. You might find snacks a bit tricky though (no sausage rolls, cornish pasties, pork pies, bacon sandwhiches) but personally I've overcome that (cheese and onion rolls or 'veggie sausage' rolls, veggie pasties, fried egg sandwhiches rather than bacon).

Gelatine is a harder one, but really it involves looking at what you eat - just read the ingredients. Always look look for a V or "suitable for vegetarians" first though 'cos it'll save you time reading through ingredients!

Sometimes you get a lot of stick from intolerant meat eaters or people who have the need to voice their extreme anti-veggie opinions but you just have to ignore that. My experience tells me that they're usually not worth listening to nor arguing with - their arguments often deteriorate into "but tomatoes are living things, too, and you're killing them" then they will refuse to accept that there is a difference between a plant and an animal :rolleyes:.

I'd also say don't take much advice from PETA/GoVeg unless you want to become one of those "moral high-ground" vegetarians, who most people (myself included) find very annoying ;) If you have morals then act on them but don't feel compelled to force feed them to anyone. You might think not eating meat is a good thing but others might not - so unless you think it's okay for them to try and convert you to a meat eater, don't try and convert them to a veggie either.

So yeah, try it for a week or two and see how it goes!
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom