Not for Me,I love My bacon n eggs and the occasional medium rare cooked steak..yummy!...My eldest Daughter and Her Family became veggies a few Years ago,now She's complaining about the weight She's put on as She has always been very slim...I said no wonder as Their diet consists mainly of Pasta/sauces/rice/chips/potatoes/home baked bread,cakes scones etc'...norra lorra vegetables/fruit there :~)...But of course,what do I know,I'm just Her Mum,a fit healthy 72yr old!!......

I help to raise and butcher rare breed pigs. They are kept to as high a standard as practically possible and produce pork far superior to the factory produced stuff that supermarkets sell. I totally condemn the ill treatment of farm animals and I'm selective in what and where I buy meat.

For the 2nd time in my life, I became a vegetarian. This as of about 5 months ago. It is for ethical and health reasons. I do eat seafood on occasion.

I barely ate meat anyway, since my divorce, because my budget doesn't allow the expense. However, after watching a film titled 'Forks Over Knives', I finally went back to my old ethical reasons for not eating meat. I guess I'm back to being true to myself (someone I lost when I was married and the sole cook for a meat & potatoes guy.)

If you are indulging in meat it may be for many reasons. Every so often something made with meat just sounds really good to me, but when I give it more thought I realize that there's something else associated with why it sounds good: Maybe certain dishes are comforting because we grew up smelling and eating them. Maybe it's really other flavors (such as a sauce), not the meat, that sounds good (I used to love Sloppy Joes, for example).

I think some people also have a hard time with vegetarianism because they live together with someone who eats meat, so it's around at meals, or they have close friends who cook, or order, meat dishes.

I really don't miss meat anymore. Recently I tried something that had a very small bit of turkey in it and I could not take more than a few bites, and threw it away. It didn't even taste good, even though it was of good quality. The actual flavor of meat is simply a turn-off for me now. Also, I know how badly America's factory farms treat animals. On a spiritual level, it's important to me not to have that on my shoulders anymore. We've been brainwashed all of our lives to think we need to eat meat. I feel so much better now that I'm not supporting people who are okay with the torture of animals, and not supporting them financially. It's a feeling that I want to keep.

I believe that how we treat animals, and the level of empathy we have for them, is a sign of who we are at our core...or who we are not.

Just keep trying to stay away from meat and it will become a habit NOT to eat it, and eventually it won't taste good anymore. I commend you for trying!