Most vegetarians I know just can't stand the taste and texture of meat. I can vouch for that. For reasons I can not fathom, the past week I've become vegetarian without meaning to. It started with a steak dinner the prior week, I just found the taste and texture unpleasant even though it was a good steak and no different from every other steak I've enjoyed all my life. The same thing happened with my reaction to some chicken in some soup. I ended up avoiding all meat for about three days. I'm to the point now where I can tolerate fish and some chicken, but I don't enjoy the chicken like I used to. My attempt to eat spaghetti with meat sauce was a flop, too. I have no moral or philosophical opposition to eating hormone free, antibiotic free, humanely treated animals. I just have somehow joined the ranks of vegetarians who find meat rather gross. I don't know what triggered this or how long this might last. I started on some new over the counter allergy medication a couple of weeks ago, so that might have something to do with it.

As long as the synthetic bacon tastes as good as real bacon then im sold

Sorry but I won't eat GMO plants I certainly will not eat lab grown meats with who knows what in them and companies like Monsanto trying to re-engineer what nature took millions of years to perfect. I prefer to know whats in my meat and not trust it to mega corps who are only in it for the money.

Organic grass fed beef and free range chicken along with deer and elk etc. will always be on the menu. Vegetarianism/veganism is fine for a temporary cleansing and transition to organic eating but as a life style it has it's drawbacks and is very easy to lack enough nutrients and proteins if one is no vigilant and also does not eat organic...

Ok, so if everybody in the world started to eat veggies, we would need the land that the animals graze on for growing our foods. That's ok. Now those animals still need to be fed, or are we just going to kill them all and stick a few into zoos. We are giving these cows and animals a chance to experience life. We could be like India with cows walking the streets and eating the garbage. Nah, I don't want to step in a cow pasty full of plastic. We will need to neuter and spay any animals found in nature. Kill off any that interfere with our gardens. there will not be hunters to manage the herds anymore and no need to worry about the fish since we don't eat them. No conservation of any animal on the planet other than us will be needed. And if the grasshoppers decide to go locust, we won't have animals to back up our food supply while the plants grow back. Where do I sign up to become one of these people who think we are doing things wrong.

Eat what you like, why all the fighting....It is obvious from all these veggie vs. meat threads everyone has their own idea of what is good food. Why does everyone argue over it all the time.

Originally posted by ANOMALY502
Eat what you like, why all the fighting....It is obvious from all these veggie vs. meat threads everyone has their own idea of what is good food. Why does everyone argue over it all the time.

Amen to this. I 100% Agree.

If you enjoy steak, bacon, wings, then by all means, freaking eat it!

As for me, I never liked meat, even as a child I was forced to eat meat by my parents, I couldn't leave the table unless I finished my plate. I wanted to puke eating meat. It just never tasted good to me, and even to this day eating some heavier meats gives me stomach issues.

I'll eat fish, shrimp, chicken, and white turkey meat and the occasional burger here and there. I don't (and can't according to definition) consider myself a vegetarian but I'm on the border of being one. It's all a preference of taste in my opinion.

If you enjoy it, then nobody is stopping you from eating your steak, venison etc. If you prefer to go the vegan route, then go for it. I'm not judging you for being 100% vegan or for being a meat eater.

We're all human and we're in this for the experience.

It's the texture, the taste, the feeling. the fact that you know that you were eating something that was once alive. it personally disgusts me. that's just my opinion. no matter what. even eating "fake" meat grosses me out. I don't miss meat at all.

The real difficulty with vegetarian - specifically 'vegan' diets is meeting both the caloric and nutritional needs of the human body. Plants have incomplete amino acids to complete animal proteins, forcing anyone who wants to avoid animal proteins to consume a very wide range of plant material. It's not easy to sustain, nor is it cheap (or all that practical outside of families/individuals with considerable income).

And that doesn't begin to touch a lot of the more discrete nutrients.

Humans developed the ability to eat meats because of the practicality. Animals provide complete proteins and their fats provide a considerable array of nutrients packed with energy.

Presuming the "dawn" of our species was solidified in the trailing years of the last Ice Age - this makes a lot of sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

The same logic defines it, even now. Strict vegetarian diets are very difficult to sustain in a healthy manner. Props to those who do it (it's not a bad thing - the amount of research, preparation, and gathering to be done for it is impressive in and of itself); but I would hope that if they are ever faced with a survival situation, they can resolve to survive.

I went vegetarian after I saw my brother slice his arm open and it looked like damn raw lamb chops in there......

Dead serious... Same #... I had been eating my brothers arm for 19 years!!

As for lab grown meats, that is disgusting. That just means people are sooo addicted to meat that if they can't have the real thing, they'll take the fake.. Like cheap vodka...

I will put a line in this dirt, and stand one side of it on this issue. If you are going to eat meat, make sure it has been farmed by a person whose understanding of animal husbandry is generationally imbued, and second to none. Do not make farmers take another hit to thier strapped pockets at this time in history, and ensure thier livelihoods for all time.

If a man cannot make a living doing the most natural of work, feeding people with wholesome produce, then we must all accept that on the day that farming becomes utterly financialy impossible, all of us will be doomed. I was watching a wildlife show last night at a friends house, which featured some old documentary footage filmed in the eighties, about chimps. These happy little critters share ninety percent of our genetic make up, and as a result share familiar physical and dietary habits. A chimp troop, will rip a colobus monkey into pieces, and consume it raw.

My attitude is this. Our digestive system is built to accomodate meat.It has been doing so for more tens of thousands of years, than recorded history can say, and more years than archeology has yet discovered. Displacing ourselves further from our origins has made us as a species weak. We use guns to defend ourselves, rather than the strength of our sword arms, and the power of our shield arms. We use machines to do the work that our forefathers did. We use computers to do our thinking, and even families sitting one room away from one another will now sometimes phone one another to stay in contact, rather than relying on the intimate understanding that used to be shared between those of like blood, a deeper type of interfamilial communion than can even be thought about by the latest generation of materialists.

I see this pathetic turn of events, this fake meat, as no more than another bar on the cage that is being dropped around all wholesome things, all traditional things, and all that makes our species worth a damn. Soon we will not be allowed to eat real meat, because some simpering tit will decide that its not morally correct to do so. These fools will doom us to slavery to the chemists and biologists who have created these fake meats, the monopoly is ready to roll. The people who would like to see this happen are traitors against the entire human race, and are contributing to our downfall.

Spare me the ####### bacon bits and drug-tortured animal flesh.

If I want meat I'll kill it myself.