Aspies For Freedom

I have decided to become a vegetarian Mondays to Fridays.   On the weekends I will eat meat, poultry and fish.  Is this weird?

So does your mom get upset when you come home with hamburger breath?

No.

I haven't had meat in years actually. Good meat just never comes my way.

She knows my dad isn't a vegetarian, and doesn't mind if he eats meat, though.

Monday through friday vegetarian - I don't believe I've heard that one before. What is your motive behind it? I can't find the logic in it. I eat fish and poultry but not red meat. I don't think humans were meant to eat anything they couldn't easily catch and vegies are just easier to run down than a rabbit or deer. Other primates don't eat meat and they even have canine teeth. How much less then am I designed to devour flesh with my teeth obviously (to me) designed for Vegies? Just my opinion.

Humans are also rubbish runners and haven't got any claws or really any way of hunting effectively. We also, like other herbivorous creatures, have ridiculously long intestines which animals that evolved to eat meat simply don't have. That's why it takes us so bloody long to digest meat - up to three days as opposed to as little as 12 hours for veggies. It literally has to rot in our inestines! Not a lovely picture that. Also there's the obvious fact that we're not even capable of digesting meat at all unless it's charred beyond recognition.

There is logic to me.  Usually we eat take-out or at other people's homes on the weekend.  I guess I could pick the meat out but I do not mind it really.  I just think it would be a good idea to cut down on my consumption of meat for health reasons and for environmental reasons.  Mon - Fri, I am home and can eat what I cook.  The problem is my husband.  He would absolutely refuse to give up meat since that is about all he eats.  I will still cook it for him but now he is saying that why should I bother to cook for one.  It is actually saving so much money.  But then my husband won't tell me what he wants for dinner and spend the money on take-out when he is hungry.

No, it seems perfectly normal to me. I'm vegetarian on some days and not vegetarian on other days. The exact days change from week to week.

I'm a vegetarian all the time and have been for about 5 years. I think it's not too illogical if it's purely for health and environmental reasons but it would be illogical to continue eating meat for 2 days a week if it was for reasons of animal welfare (as it is for me).

I agree. But that doesn't seem to explain the canine teeth. O.o And some monkeys eat both meat and plants.

Many meats house parasites that eat through our bodies (such as triccinella in pork), unless we burn it out. We're obviously not supposed to eat it.

I just can not decide whether to become a full-time vegetarian so I am trying it part-time.  I think that it is a better decision to reduce the amount of meat I am consuming rather than say why should I try at all it I can not do it full time.  Anyway, I am discovering that not eating meat is not so difficult and I am not suffering.  Now my husband wants to try because he thinks he will lose weight.  

If more people did not eat meat everyday then it would make a difference.  It is the same with the vehicle emissions.  When people are asked to reduce their car trips per week or take public transit, it is more effective for reducing emissions than to ask people not to own a car at all.  Ideally if people did not eat meat at all and could walk or ride a bicycle most everywhere, the environment would be greatly benefitted.  But then that is an ideal and ideals are rarely taken as action.

It sounds like a very good idea.

I tried the vegie way for a few months but it did not work out because I am too lazy to prepare food of any sort.

o cool, I am not the only vegetarian in here

I don't think it's weird at all to eat meat only during the weekends. I started somewhat like that. First stopped eating meat for about a week, in a mourning ritual because my cat had died. And then later I wanted to also only eat meat during weekends to spare animals' lives (cauz I love animals a lot), but soon I stopped eating meat completely because I didn't miss it that much. Actually, the last time I ate meat I thought it tasted pretty bad (sorta tasteless) actually, so I decided not to eat any meat anymore. And that was about 11 or 12 years ago....

I started being a vegetarian in 5th grade. I gradually omited mammals, then poultry, and even fish, from my diet. I've never eaten veal or lamb before, and never will. I have eaten crab and lobster once, but I despise the idea of boiling them alive.

The part-time vegetarian is working out alright.  My husband has even decided to join me for a while.  He thinks he will lose weight.  He even went through my vegetarian cookbook to pick out recipes for me to try.