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Are you a former vegan/vegetarian - why did you change?
Three questions:
1) Were you once a vegan/vegetarian?
2) Were you raised a vegan/vegetarian?
3) Why did you change to eating animal products, or eating meat, or other non-vegetarian/vegan foods?
Peer-pressure? Felt left-out? Too 'difficult'? Not enough will power? Social problems? Felt something was missing from diet? Nostalgia for certain food from your pre-veg days won you over? Societal pressures? Cultural pressures? A strong need to conform? You are a follower not a leader? Not sure why you became veg in the first place? Being non-veg is just easier. Health problems. Doctor told me to. Parents forced me to. Married into a non-veg family. I used to love animals, but a dog bit me one day, and I decided to eat it. ...feel free to really psychoanalyze yourself.
6 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
1) Were you once a vegan/vegetarian?
A vegetarian from ages 16 to 21.
2) Were you raised a vegan/vegetarian?
No.
3) Why did you change to eating animal products, or eating meat, or other non-vegetarian/vegan foods?
I just ended up having different views and deciding I needed more protein in my diet. I wasn't doing well with just plant based proteins and eggs / milk. I became a veggie because of views I'd developed. They since changed, but I'm still against current animal farming practices and cruelty.
TBH I really, really love sushi and it would so hard to go back. When I was a vegetarian, the smell of meat made me gag but now I love it again.
I heard dog is a specialty in Korea
- 1 decade ago
Firstly there are no ex-vegans ever because if you were truly a vegan you wouldn't give up and give in especially not for the lame reasons those that call themselves "ex-vegans" usually use. It is usually a simple easy to fix thing they choose not too fix or some excuse that makes little sense.
1. I was a vegetarian for about 4-5 years and am currently vegan
2. I wasn't raised vegetarian nor vegan (though I wish I had been)
3. I changed to being vegan because I knew eating meat was wrong then I learned diary and eggs were wrong so I stopped buying them and only rarely ate them from dumpster diving runs then I started looking into veganism and realizing that I have no right exploiting animals for any reason and also that I was doing animal rights work (and still do) mainly in fields that had little to do with diet so I knew I needed more than a diet. More recently I had been talking with friends and reading more and finally understood that animals are not property and I was treating them that way and I had no reason to do that especially since I have opposed slavery and abuse elsewhere in humyn and animal rights work.
I am currently still trying to unlearn all the false information I was told was true from people who really never knew what they were talking about and picked up the info the same way. It is a long process but I am trying and I won't give up because I have no reason to I know what I need to do too stay healthy and I can easily find out or already know if something is or isn't vegan and if I couldn't there is always the internet or other vegans or various books and guides.
I answered your question because I have gone on from vegetarianism and I guess have found a more reasonable position and a lot more knowledge of the evils of this world.
Source(s): Vegan because animals are not property - Anonymous1 decade ago
I was raised to eat the typical, omnivorous American diet but one year I decided to give vegetarianism a try and I was an ovo-lacto. I wanted to take it further but in my family and the rural/southern area I lived in, it was hard to maintain. I learned I have a bad sweet tooth and I love eggs and dairy so I wasn't good at it. I lasted only 13 months. It was hard back then because my family at that time would eat out a lot and where I live there's no vegetarian meals available except for salads or pasta dishes that you'd have to ask specifically not to use meat in. And it was frustrating because everyone had to announce to the waitor/waitress that I was a vegetarian. I think I could do it again when I have some of my own money and probably eat more naturally and more plant food now that I'm more educated and my family doesn't eat out or get fast food as much as they did.
- keetanLv 44 years ago
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- 1 decade ago
Yes. I was a vegetarian for over 20 years. No. I changed my diet when I was in my 20s. I'm going to be 52 very soon. I miss meat. I eat meat once or twice a month now. I make sure that it's the best quality I can find. I'm talking haute cuisine. It's so wonderful. Hey, nobody lives forever. Me? I'm gonna die happy. Probably with barbecue sauce on my chin.