Any Vegetarian Aspies Out There?

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Will eat meat if it is served, but I don't buy or eat meat if I am cooking. I guess... Vegetarian-ish. Primarily based upon morality and the environmental footprint stance. To be honest I don't feel a 'desire' for meat even though I grew up with it as a staple. FYI cashews stir fried in sunflower oil are delicious.

A lot of people who eat flesh like to call themselves "flexitarian" rather than "omnivorous".

If you're happy eating flesh when other people are buying and cooking it and have the desire to do this, but don't choose to be buying and cooking flesh yourself then perhaps this is a term which would suit you?

Here's a Guardian article about flexitarianism -
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... h-cheating

I'm a vegetarian, I've been one since January. But it wasn't a big change for me, I never really ate meat. The only meaty thing I ever ate was a burger from a McDonalds or Burger King. I became a vegetarian because of the poor animals. (Not because of them getting killed, because I know they need to be killed for food.) It was because I saw a video online on how cows and chickens are really treated, and that turned me off about meat and dairy. (But I could never become a vegan, because 80% of my diet is diary.) So I became a vegetarian. C:

I used to be a vegetarian because of a health issue. After about two years I was able to gradually go back to eating meats and the health issue never returned.

These days, I just eat whatever is available without regard to whether it is a vegetarian meal or a non-vegetarian meal.

For what it's worth, I don't have a lot of tolerance for either meat eaters or vegetarians who are self righteous about it. Eat what makes you feel good and don't try to arbitrarily be vegetarian or a non-vegetarian.

I've been vegetarian (but not vegan - I'd like to be, but I have too many strong sensory issues with foods (such as most beans)- getting enough protein would be an issue) for five or six years, because I don't approve of the way animals are treated in factory farms and I decided it would be easier, especially since I'm not in charge of the food shopping, to just be completely vegetarian than to make sure all the meat I got was from animals that had been treated humanely.

I love meat too much to be a veggie. I do like some veggies but there's a lot I don't like. Also
I've heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)

I've been thinking of going on a semi-vegetarian diet for a while. Quorn do some nice meat substitutes.

I'm not anymore, but I was for about 4 years.

I've been vegetarian since 5 and vegan since 13, just because I'm trying not to hurt animals not because I'm worried about my health.

Yes, am vegan since last december. I work for a vegan charity too.

Was vegetarian 5 years before that. I never liked the texture of meat, slimy etc yuk. So it was easy for me to stop eating it, and things kinda went from there. Most foods I love and like are plant based, so it´s relatively easy for me. Sometimes I miss cheese but the substitutes are getting better currently.

Cool to see so many aspies are veggie.

I don’t eat meat and I don’t eat/drink dairy when I’m at home. Sometimes it’s unavoidable when eating out, but we don’t eat out much.

I eat eggs from the local farm because I can see that the birds are well cared for.

I would like to be fully vegan, but it’s hardcore and very difficult to avoid milk and eggs in processed foods.

I'm vegetarian. Was vegan for a fair few years, but back to normal old vegetarianism now. Y'know, the kind that doesn't eat meat. For some reason, people seem to think a vegetarian eats chicken and fish.
Have been vegetarian for most of my life - long enough to be completely uninterested in getting into pedantic arguments with people who actually have no interest in it, just want to self-justify eating meat and tell me I'm wrong for my personal lifestyle choices.

My husband and I are vegetarian most of the time and will have fish or shellfish once or twice a month usually.

Yeah, the most common thing people say when I tell them I'm a vegetarian is "Do you eat fish?" No, if I did, I'd be pescatarian, not vegetarian. It's really annoying that some restaurants will have chicken and fish listed as their "vegetarian" options (and usually those places don't have anything that's actually vegetarian, and I have to just get some fries or something and have some protein at home). I don't even know anyone who calls themselves vegetarian who does eat fish and chicken - it seems to really just be people who eat any kind of meat that think that, in my experience.
To me, being vegetarian means I don't knowingly purchase or consume anything that requires the death of anything classified in the kingdom Animalia - that even includes things like leather and silk.

I eat a lot of meat but I once stayed vegetarian for a whole week! It didn’t last.

Meat makes up most of my diet so I'm afraid I could never be a vegetarian.
I do respect vegetarians and vegans for their choices and beliefs, though nothing could convince me to quit eating meat, I'm afraid.