What are you: omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, or other?

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I chose to stop eating animals for health reasons.

I started out by just cutting out red meat. Then I cut out white meat and dairy.

It has been about 4 years

 

I chose "other".

Primarily vegetarian, in that we do five out of seven days with nil meat. Probably two of those five days would be vegan - because I love experimenting to see just how 'junk food satisfying' meals can be using only plants - one of my favourites being cheesy bacon fries:

When we do eat meat, we avoid scavengers (IOW chicken, pork, and certain types of fish).

We do all the above for financial and health reasons. Meat is just way too expensive, and requires costly refridgeration/freezing etc - plus it's not great for the lifespan.

 

Speaking of 'junk food satisfying' vegan meals .. the following are all 100% plant based:

 

Most people who try going full Vegan who don’t quite make it will turn back because of the cheese.

 

For sure. It's almost always the deal breaker, and rightly so. I don't think those born into any culture outside of perhaps East Asian, can live without some form of cheese.

Finding a source of decent vegan cheese - or learning how to make it yourself (which is much cheaper) - is the golden key. The outfit who do the burgers/fries in my pics, do really good cheeses. Melty, sharp cheddars, mozarellas, etc etc.

 

Yeah I haven’t eaten dairy cheese in a couple of years so to me plant based cheese is fine.

 

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian.

 

You get used to what you get used to, I guess. A friend has been vegan for 15 years, and can't remember what dairy cheese tastes like at this point. Though she struggled without it before vegan cheeses were readily available!

 

So far: 8 omnivores

Including me

 

Now again:

8 x omnivore

 

It wasn't on the list. I'm an omnivore but the smallest step in the direction of a vegetarian.
Meaning I will sometimes eat meat but often I will try to avoid it; or will try not to eat too much of it. But I will not avoid fish anywhere near as much as other meats.
I also eat eggs and dairy products but will try to avoid them just because I do not like to eat very much of them.

It is partially for ethical reasons, but partially for reasons of disgust.
The eggs and dairy products do not sit as well in my stomach and it is not appetizing to me to eat too much.

 

Look how little meat there is in the Canada food guide these days.

 

Mostly carnivorous, salad and vegetables and so on and so forth, that's what my food eats.

This country was not settled on salad.

 

I do have less aversion to Turkey for some reason. I guess it is a big bird, not very smart, one death ends up creating a lot of meat, and it somehow seems less disgusting or horrifying than a cow having to be butchered.
Turkey can be made into some great things, turkey sausage, turkey bacon, turkey chili, turkey pot pie. True, it's not a meat for eating everyday, but it can help fill in the gaps.

 

~ That was me for several years.

~ Meat & gunpowder settled the wild west .

 

My boss man just told me that he has about a 100 lb wild sow hog that they live trapped and have been feeding corn for a couple of months.

He offered to give it to me so I said sure. Have to go out there in the next couple of days and shoot it and butcher it.

We will be eating on it for a while.

Wild hog is improved tremendously by being captured and corn fed for a period of time couple of months anyway.

Might just take it over to a friend's house and cook the whole thing at one time on his big smoker.

Sounds like a good excuse for a party as I've ever heard.

 

Very true!
And Rome was not raised an radishes!

 

as of yet, we still need meat, science is not 100% there in making food 100% in the lab that has all the nutrition and low carb abilities of meat

been keto for years and not going back to the high carb American diet

 

This.

You didn't stop being an omnivore when you stopped eating meat.

This is 6th grade science class, people! LOL.

 

~ Don't eat the cat ... !

 

What about the dogs?

 

~ Don't eat them either ...

 

What about hot dogs, then?

 

~ As long as there is no tail .

 

12 say: omnivore!

Vegan is see as a great error.
And very un-healthy.