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i wont give up meat, not only for health, or flavor reasons, i know hundreds of people, including my family in the food business, from farmers, butchers, and store owners,,,,, they'd be all out of jobs , if we didnt eat meat.
If you HAD to, how difficult would it be to give up meat for the rest of your life?
I've done this and it was a little difficult at first, but given the situation I was highly motivated. Now, nearly ten years later the sight and especially the aroma of cooked meat is distasteful to me. I had not expected that.
I do eat fish and seafood, so these plus cheese & eggs are my main sources of protein. I also love nutmeats of various kinds, but I limit these because of caloric limitations.
I have an indoor-only cat and as she is an obligate carnivore, I feed her canned meat cat food and honestly that aroma is quite pungent. That's a little hard on me, but you know, we just need to do what's best for our feline creatures, don't we!
And yes, my decision and requirement about my own meatless regimen is for the rest of my life
I only eat meat (including poultry and seafood) 3-4 times a week. The rest of our diet is produce/grain/dairy based. We eat a lot of quiches, savory tarts and vegetable/bean dishes with hearty bread. Meat has become an afterthought and when we do have meat it's usually just one ingredient in a larger dish rather than a standalone feature.
I do enjoy a good steak or lamb cutlets but if I had to become a complete vegetarian it wouldn't be too difficult nor would I miss the meat too much.
While most people do need meat as part of a balanced diet, we eat far too much meat these days. It's not essential to have meat three times a day, seven days a week and I'm not happy with the modern butchering process / factory farms for raising and slaughtering mass produced animals. The ethics of it does bother me as it's a far cry from the hunter of old stalking deer in the woods to feed his family or the once yearly butchering of the family's prized pig, for in those examples every bit of meat was used and used sparingly as the animal itself was an appreciated luxury and rarity.
When I buy meat I do my best to buy the best quality that I can find and I buy most of the poultry from a family owned farm where one can see the chickens running around in the fields.
I could not do it because of my health, meat is the best protein for me to consume with the auto immune disease I have.
I have Celiac Disease which is also an auto immune disease and I don't eat meat. I eat a gluten free diet. Once in a while. I eat salmon but I haven't had it in over a month. Other than that I eat no meat. I do a 5 to 6 mile hill climbing walk 4 times a week and am perfectly healthy and very active (I am 63). You don't need meat as a protein source in order to be healthy. I can certainly understand preferring meat as a protein source but again, it is not necessary in order to be healthy.
I couldn't do it. I can manage meatless days once in a while but I love meat so much that I couldn't stop eating it completely, plus I'm very prone to anaemia.
No offense but you don't need meat to get sufficient protein. Have your meat and enjoy but the protein defense just doesn't hold water.
Well, it kind of does if you can't/don't eat the other main sources of protein. According to this: Top 10 Foods Highest in Protein - excluding meats, there's fish, tofu, beans, eggs, diary, and nuts/seeds. I hate tofu, beans, eggs, and nuts/seeds and I'm lactose intolerant so really, the only protein alternative from meat for me is fish. Sure, if I HAD to eat the stuff I don't like to survive, I could, which is why I voted for "It would be a struggle, but I could manage". But frankly, if I were in a survival situation, I'd probably just be glad to get ANY food at all and I'd probably have bigger things to worry about than my protein intake. Human beings can and have survived for centuries without sufficient protein or general nutrition. Until the potato famine, many Irish survived mainly on potatoes. And for most colonists, their main source of protein was cheese. Meat was a luxury throughout many periods of history.
So yes, I agree that in a survival situation, everyone could survive without meat - many might be malnourished but they would likely be lacking other essential foods aside from meat too.
I could live without it, but I don't want to. I just wish the slaughter houses were humane. The cruelty is just horrid in some. Harsher inspections and standards are absolutely needed.
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If you HAD to, how difficult would it be to give up meat for the rest of your life?
