desh | But what do humanitarians eat?

As of sometime this evening, I hit one month without eating any meat. (Well, depends on how you define meat, I guess. I've had fish.) The last meat I had was some chicken at

rue101's wedding on the afternoon of August 5th.

I'm not becoming a vegetarian. Most of this was "accidental", in that I wasn't aiming for a one-month goal until recently, when I had to do a little meat-avoiding in situations when one of my parents was offering to cook for me. I just don't have meat that much. And then I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do a month, and do it easily. I guess I'm a true flexitarian now, or something. It's certainly not going to last another month, especially not with Rosh Hashanah meals about a week away.

I don't think I could ever become a vegetarian, mainly because I can't imagine Passover or Thanksgiving without meat. And it's probably bad for you to only have meat once or twice a year, since your body gets used to not having those particular proteins or something (or is that just a nasty rumor?). So the minimum I could see myself having meat is probably a half-dozen times a year or something. But I have no real desire to cut down my current rate: every couple of weeks or month or so, usually on holidays or weekends.

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I am a vegetarian, but there's been a few situations where it was either 'eat meat or starve' (starve meaning skipping a meal), and so I chose to eat the meat. No real guilt about it, but neither do I have any desire to eat meat after those few times.

I actually don't have meat every day, but I really liked the first answer so I decided to choose it. The most I go is a few days. Like when I was at Penn, I usually did not have meat on dairy days. Though sometimes I would if there was deli-roll around...

Well.. I wouldn't say "damn carnivore," but the jist is the same =P It's easier when you're raised a vegetarian. *nods*

woohoo! another VFB!

I don't eat meat much at home, as Jasper can only eat chicken and fish out of the list of meat things, so what usually happens is I eat a bean rich diet and get beef when we eat out every couple of weeks.

He's been cooking with chicken more the lately, but unless he cooks it we don't have it since I won't cook chicken. (Uncooked chicken is like the grossest thing known to man.)

I've never understood the classification of fish as non-meat, but if there had been a "several years" choice I would have picked that instead of "infinity time."

In my circles, fish-as-non-meat makes sense because of keeping kosher. There's nothing wrong with mixing fish with dairy, but there is with mixing other meat with dairy; so it's easy to just think of fish as not meat. But outside the context of keeping kosher, yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either.

eh, it depends by what criteria you define what makes something meat. It may seem obvious to some that flesh of any animal is necessarily meat, but one might consider only certain classes of animal flesh to be, davka, meat. I mean, the flesh of a fruit is also sometimes referred to meat. Same as that of a nut. I can also understand someone classifying only land animals as meat, especially since fish flesh has a very different texture from mammal meat or poultry... I have also known people to not classify poultry as meat. You know, different world views, semantics, etc. Which we as Jews should have no problem understanding. ;)

I was a vegetarian all through high school and college and then started eating meat in law school to appease my doctor and my father both of whom had the midwestern sensibility that if a meal didn't have animal-based protein, it wasn't healthy.

Now that I'm back on my own, I find more often than not, I don't eat meat. It's not a conscious descision (as were those to cut it out entirely and reintroduce it regularly) - I just find that I'm usually able to get everything I want out of a meal without it. I never eat any pork anyway, and don't particularly care for red meat. I'm not a good enough cook to prepare seafood at home, so that leaves poultry, and that gets old pretty quickly.

There was a year in there when I ate meat twice, on Pesach and Thanksgiving. The physiological adaptation to not eating meat varies a lot between people, or at least, that's the wisdom among my pikan friends.

It does seem to vary from person to person, and as such, I would not assume that intermittently eating meat would adversely affect you, Josh. At least from what I've heard, the real problem that people run into is when vegans start eating dairy again. And that makes sense, adults are typically lactose intolerant anyway.

I'm one of those fish is not meat people. I'm definitely willing to admit the fish/meat distinction is arbitrary, but it works for me and when I tell people "I don't eat meat, but I do eat seafood" they usually understand what I mean and it's way easier than saying "I don't eat beef, pork, poultry, ostrich, buffalo, and whatever the heck other mammals people are putting to plates these days, but seafood is good."

I've accidentally had meat in the last 8yrs and it wasn't really a problem. Maybe that's cause my body is used to processing flesh still, I dunno. But I really wouldn't let that concern stop you from not eating meat most of the time!

i'd go much longer without if the paramour who lives with me were not such a bloody carnivore who, yeah, would choose option 1 on your poll. :)

i've gone veg as long as a couple of years when living with roommates who cooked macrobiotic goodness. on my own i'd probably continue to occasionally eat chicken and fish, because i do get cravings, and don't have sufficiently strong ethics preventing me from eating my fellow animals.

If I had my way, it'd be steak for breakfast, pork chops for lunch and roast lamb for dinner. And nothing else ;)

General Anna's dad pointed out that the can't digest meat anymore is rumor. And he's a gastro doctor.

--Ruby K

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