What does a vegetarian think about eating meat?

This isn't meant to be a crack or insult. I'm honestly curious what a vegetarian thinks/feels mentally, emotionally and physically when they think about eating meat. I am a meat eater and I eat lots of veggies. My family that includes 3 children only eat meat about 3 - 5 times a week. We do eat a lot of tofu as well cooked into dishes to not eat as much meat.|||I recently became vegan, since last Friday, and have been thinking about the issue a lot recently. It's probably because I'm a college student, and specifically a philosophy minor with a concentration in health, ethics, and science. I'm also a molecular cell biology major, and animals and food do come up a lot in my studies. My lifestyle change has affected my family a lot recently, since I commute from home. My mother is Jewish, so she pays a lot of attention to her diet, and with my recent changes in diet, she is even eating less chicken and more fish, which is healthier in my opinion. I even got one of my sisters hooked on tofu, and my carnivorous dad is eating less pork and beef (although he complains regularly about his cravings for steak). My other sister, unfortunately, hasn't really changed her diet. I give my parents and sisters tons of facts all the time about meat like, "marshmallows are made from Geletin, which is made by boiling chicken feet to get the cartilage that is inside the bones," or "If we each cut the equivalent of one hamburger from our daily diet, it would be like taking half million cars off the road." I don't really think it's about physically eating the meat that disgusts me, it's the treatment of the animals, the food industry, human health, and our environment that does. What made me decide to be a vegan instead of a pescatarian, is watching the you-tube video "Meet your Meat" in my ethics class. I nearly cried twice during that video. I knew that all that was going on (except for the connections between the dairy industry and veal), but it didn't completely hit me until I saw it for real. For me not eating meat is representative of upholding my beliefs about the food industry and animal cruelty. And if I were to eat meat, it would be like killing the ethical part of me, and going against my own ideals. I don't get physically sick around meat, it's all about the ethics for me.|||What do i personally think when i think of eating meat? I may recall the taste i used to enjoy off it, it doesn't really compel me to eat it however.


I do think of what i've learned of meat production %26amp; animal use by humans (videos books etc) + the moral arguments for why its wrong. That thought alone makes me feel disgusted, it tends to also motivate me as to why it is important to inform people %26amp; let them make their own choice.





Whilst its great that you do avoid eating meat somedays, it means little to a vegetarian vegan. Practicing what we view as immoral once a weak month or year doesn't make it any better. To use an eg murdering/raping/bullying etc is no better because its done only 2 days a week instead of 7. Its intrinsically wrong to do regardless of how its done|||I physically feel sick at the thought of eating meat, after over 20 years of being vegetarian, now vegan, i know i will never eat meat again and i know i would be physically sick if i tried.


Emotionally i could not eat it either sa i have a deep conscionce and compassoin for animals and am aware of the pain and suffering they have to endure, i will never be a part of that and i refuse to support any industry that abuses animals.|||When I'm in the grocery store and see the raw meat I honestly feel heartbroken. Pictures of animals writhing in pain on slaughter house floors flash in my mind. I love aminals so much. I'm the crazy animals lady in my house because I make friends with ALL of our neighbors pets which include turkeys, chickens, dogs, cats, horses, and pigs. I always give them treats and pet/play with them lol. I could never imagine eating them.





I am so ashamed of the american food industry. Meat is packed with so many hormones, chemicals, antibiotics, and diseases. It's all about making money. There is no concern for human health anymore.|||There are probably as many answers as there are vegetarians. Some find the idea mildly distasteful, some are completely grossed out, some think meat is yummie but just choose not to eat it, some just don't consider it food and are completely neutral about it.





I personally love the taste of meat but simply choose not to eat it.|||Well honestly I don't think about eating meat ever again, its just like a life style change :) you want better so you avoid putting things in your body that isn't the best. I Don't think ill ever eat meat again because how poorly they treat theses animals that end up on our plates ,there abused and unhealthy there for when we consume these things we get sick and well unhealthy 2.. its a personal decision that you have to make :)


Cool question


Take care :)|||feelings are as individual as fingerprints. no group of people (including veggies) feel identically about the subject they center their beliefs on, but a vegan friend of mine once told me they cannot see a drumstick or chicken wing without picturing the live animal they came from utilizing the limbs while they were still breathing. another told me they love veggies because "if it ain't green, it ain't clean". that gives you 2 out of 2billion opinions. your own thoughts are equally important if not most important.|||i was vegetarian for 6 years and never thought about it really. i read a pretty gruesome book about factory farming but it didn't really change my opinion other than that the animals in that particular farm were treated inhumanely. animal products and by products are found in almost everything we use, including computers. so i really don't worry myself over it. i eat meat about as much as you do and i still enjoy my veg meat substitutes more often than i eat actual meat.|||??


Depends, if it's for the animals sake, then what is there to think? it's just nah i don't want to eat/support meat, what do you expect? an emotional breakdown or something?


Unless they actually don't like meat for it's tastes or something, or any other reason.|||Doesn't bother me a bit. The other night, I sat across from someone eating a steak, and I ate some zucchini sliders and a side salad. We even discussed the benefits of going veggie, but they said it just wasn't for them, and I respected that.





What do I think or feel? Hmm ... for me, it's "wow ... that steak has about a million calories from fat and tons of bad cholesterol. glad i'm veggie!"|||Personally i think of it as a waste of life. Why would i eat something that once had a heartbeat and feelings? I just can't do it. I have nothing against those who choose to eat meat, since it's a choice, but i can't.|||I don't. I have been a vegetarian for most of my life, so eating meat isn't something that I think about.


My kids are vegetarians and my husband doesn't eat meat at home, so it's not an issue.|||I think that it's not the best way to live in this world but I understand how we got here and I hope that more people will come to reflect on their choices and the consequences of same.|||It doesn't really bother me when people around me eat meat, but whenever I think of eating meat myself it makes me a little queasy.|||I don't care about others eating meat, it's their choice. But I wouldn't eat it, The thought makes me feel sick.|||(demon ) they think eating a died body|||i'm fine with it.


once it's meat it's not an animal


my problem is with killing the animal for food|||It just seems a weird thing to do.|||That they are not going to eat it.