Meat eater, vegetarian or vegan?? Which are you?

I'm an ex vegan/vegetarian. Vegan for 5 years, Vegetarian for 3. My partner eats meat, so it was too hard to cook extra meals, so I eat meat a few times a week, but when I cook for myself or go out, I eat vegetarian.

Don't really care about the taste of beef/pork/chicken but I do like fish. Dislike cheese - cheese seems like the big deal breaker for peeps who want to go vegan.

Most annoying thing when I was vegan was just my pure existence pissed off meat eaters, I never opened my mouth regarding ethics/ why I was doing it - they'd just find out and unload on me why I shouldn't be vegan and how vegans are jerks.

With that said, people need to respect others. What we eat is our choice.

I'm an ex vegan/vegetarian. Vegan for 5 years, Vegetarian for 3. My partner eats meat, so it was too hard to cook extra meals, so I eat meat a few times a week, but when I cook for myself or go out, I eat vegetarian.

Don't really care about the taste of beef/pork/chicken but I do like fish. Dislike cheese - cheese seems like the big deal breaker for peeps who want to go vegan.

Most annoying thing when I was vegan was just my pure existence pissed off meat eaters, I never opened my mouth regarding ethics/ why I was doing it - they'd just find out and unload on me why I shouldn't be vegan and how vegans are jerks.

With that said, people need to respect others. What we eat is our choice.

Good point about your pure existence as a vegan ticking some people off. I've been vegetarian for almost 40 years, and I used to experience this acrimony a lot when I was younger. Now that I'm older with a few wrinkles and gray hair to my credit, I think some people treat me with a little more grace. My kids (ages 17 and 20) are non-confrontative vegetarians, who rarely even mention it unless asked pointedly, but they are still frequently criticized and mocked when their food choices tip their hand. Might be an age thing.

I'm a total carnivore, baby! I loves me some meat! Rawr!

I recently stopped eating meat as a main course and use meat now as sort of a side dish or flavoring, like in asian cooking. The added bonuses of this are lower cholesterol AND I can afford to buy local, organic, grass-fed beef and free-range chicken. I don't miss it plus get the benefits of eating less meat!

Not being disrespectful, but I've honestly never understood vegans/vegetarians. If eating meat was so bad, the human race would have become extinct long before they'd invented the internet. LOL I also do not understand why they would choose not to eat meat but then choose to ingest all sorts of chemically altered, processed, food-like additives that they must add to many foods to recreate either textures/flavors that can be derived naturally with the use of animal products. Ah well, to each his/her own. Just leaves more steak for me to enjoy.

I was a vegitarian for 11 years and now I eat everything. I LOVE BACON! :P
I say unless you are allergic to something (i.e. you break out in hives or die...) I see nothing wrong with eating meat...anymore anyway....
It's all about moderation though.

I'm definitely a meat eater. I mostly only eat chicken, but on the rare occasion we will have foods with ground beef or pork chops or steak. My boyfriend and I are definitely NOT fish people though...except for his love of sushi.

I eat everything! lol! (as in all kinds of meat and veggies). Most of our dinners consist of a meat and a vegetable, although I do make vegetarian meals only occasionally.

I'm a vegetarian, but I'm a bovo-lacto-porko-pollo-pescatarian. I still eat beef, dairy, pork, chicken, and fish.

Haha yes that brings up a whole debate I had with someone once. If you call yourself a vegetarian then you should only be eating vegetables, because most people who call themselves vegetarians eat everything except meat. Actually they are non-meat eaters. Cutting meat out of your diet shouldn't be the only requirement to be called a vegetarian, Pasta and rice are not vegetables.

I don't care what people eat, I just think it's funny to call yourself a vegetarian when all you've done is cut out meat.

Meat! Meat has iron, it has nutrients. I need that iron very badly. So I am a MEAT EATER.

Top non-meat sources of iron:

Spirulina (1 tsp): 5 mg
Cooked soybeans (1/2 cup): 4.4 mg
Pumpkin seeds (1 ounce): 4.2 mg
Quinoa (4 ounces): 4 mg
Blackstrap molasses (1 tbsp): 4 mg
Tomato paste (4 ounces): 3.9 mg
White beans (1/2 cup) 3.9 mg
Cooked spinach (1/2 cup): 3.2 mg
Dried peaches (6 halves): 3.1 mg
Prune juice (8 ounces): 3 mg
Lentils (4 ounces): 3 mg

I've been a vegetarian for over 20 years now. I haven't eaten meat since I found out it was dead animals. Not because "Oh noes! Poor aminals!!!111" or any of that ****, it just grossed me out that meat was a dead animal. I've never even had the desire to eat it since then.

I don't care what other people eat. When I was a little kid I was a bit of a **** and would try to put other people off meat, but I grew out of that by the time I was 7 or 8.

Meat isn't bad for a person in moderation, just like anything else. Obviously, too much meat isn't going to be good for you and everyone knows eating red meat every day will probably give them cancer, but most people don't eat ****loads of red meat and those who do... Well it's none of my business anyway and doesn't affect me or my life in any way so why should I care?

We have the luxury to eat what we want. We are spoilt for choice. When you are starving it won't matter what you eat as long as you have a full belly.

I am a vegan, but thats just because I really dont like the taste of it. It's really heavy on my stomach, dairy as well. I have seen a noticeable drop in my weight though...as well as my endurance when I exercise, I have a ton more energy since I stopped eating it!

Not being disrespectful, but I've honestly never understood vegans/vegetarians. If eating meat was so bad, the human race would have become extinct long before they'd invented the internet. LOL I also do not understand why they would choose not to eat meat but then choose to ingest all sorts of chemically altered, processed, food-like additives that they must add to many foods to recreate either textures/flavors that can be derived naturally with the use of animal products. Ah well, to each his/her own. Just leaves more steak for me to enjoy.

Huh? I think more omnivores eat chemically altered & processed food than most vegans/vegetarians. I don't look down on those who choose to eat highly processed foods, omnivores or not, but it isn't a choice for me. Eating vegan/vegetarian actually cuts out a lot of processed food choices.