I think more females tend to be vegetarian, so this should be interesting. My Aspie husband is a major carnivore, but I've been a vegetarian for about twenty years. I sometimes get the idea to eat some meat, but then I can't bring myself to actually do it. It seems like eating my pet cat.
Meat! Yum! Why have people become so squeamish about it? We didn't evolve to become what we are by grazing on grass
I have a hobby of trying to eat as many different types of animals as I can (yes, I realise many people will think this is sick or somehow immoral!). I am often puzzled about people being happy to eat some types of meat and not others. Somehow, it is fine to eat a cow or a pig, but not okay to eat a dog or a horse. It is fine to eat a prawn (a little invertebrate that runs around eating detritus), but it is disgusting to eat a grasshopper (a little invertebrate which eats live vegetation). There are some strange processes which go on in peoples' heads which I don't understand. I suppose with food, for most people logic goes out the window and it comes down to familiarity (eg prawns vs grasshoppers) and not feeling emotionally connected to the species (eg pigs vs dogs).
I'm hungry.
no, i love meat :p i don't think that be AS brings more tendency to be vegetarian, i think the proteins obtained from meat are very important for the brain, especially important for AS
I eat my fair share of meat, but I avoid fish like the plague, because the odor really bothers me.
It's really quite odd. I grew up eating meat. I remember when the neighbor's son shot a deer and we got to eat some of the meat, and I thought it was absolutely delicious, but had just a little (very little) frisson of worry that I'd just eaten
Bambi, or something like that. Sometimes I get pissed out that I can't force myself to eat meat now, but after twenty or so years I've just brainwashed myself too much. I know it's perfectly natural, and I don't have any moral objection to other people doing it, per se. It was a political thing, I think, like eat the plants the cow eats instead of eating the cow, and it's less greedy that way. I don't know. Oh yes, now I remember. I was taking high school biology from this extremely HOT young guy, and he kept a snake in class, whom he would feed live mice to, and he urged us to recognize the animal behind the meat we were eating. I was probably influenced by my crush on him, and then my adored older sister became a vegetarian, and the rest is history.
Edit button!! pissed OFF, not out
I'm a vegetarian and I've been one my entire life (that means, fourteen years). This is because my parents are, and I just don't see why I should eat meat if there's something else you can eat too. I don't want to offend anyone, while most of the people that have posted here eat meat, so if I did, I'm sorry.
Yes; I'm a vegetarian. And I'm proud of it!
I am vegan, and have been for 4 years. Before that, I have always been vegetarian.
Why I'm a vegetarian.
I just don't like meat. The structure, the smell. I always had to eat some at home, my mom thought I'd starve without. But I hated it. Some sorts of meat I did like, but only in very small quantities.
As soon as I left the house I stopped eating meat. And now my body has changed so much that I really get sick when I eat meat.
Somethings still smell good. Chickensoup from a homegrown chicken smells delicious. Chickensoup from an industrial chicken smells awfull.
I do care about animal welfare and the environment. I'm not against eating meat or against killing an animal to eat it. But I do oppose to industrial treating of animals. And good treated animals smell better when they're cooked.
And I do eat fish, the structure and taste are OK for me.
I hate it when people attribute all kinds of ethics to me because of my eatingpattern.
Becoming a vegetarian when you really like meat always seemed absurd to me. You could choose meat from animals that lived an animal life.
And who says plants don't feel?
feel should be between brackets of course
For the Omega 3, I take flax-oil pills. I've been taking one (1200 mg) every morning, but I'm under the impression they're meant to be taken two or three times a day. Anyone have any idea how much is the proper amount?