But what do humanitarians eat?

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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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Comments

[conana.livejournal.com]

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.

[evr1bugsme.livejournal.com]

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!