having AS makes it more likely a person will be vegetarian?

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My sensory issues make it more difficult to eat (or enjoy) anything, period. All manner of people have AS & how that manifests differs from person to person. I find most meat to be yucky-but I hardly like any vegetables, so I'm definately not a vegetarian. Idea of being carnivorous (eating dead animals) does disturb me plenty, but my need to consume that which I crave is greater than my ability to control/direct my preferences/tastes. Can't stand soy/tofu healthy-type foodstuffs.

More likely to become vegetarian?
Absolutely, yes, because people with AS tend to be very logical, and eating meat, although a very socially accepted and even desired behaviour, is logically inconsistent with your best survival and your healthiest choice. Meat is very difficult for your body to process, it putrefies in your intestines, as opposed to plants, vegetables, and berries, that are actual internal cleansers and contain many healing properties.
Unfortunately, many Aspies won't even consider it for fear of seeming even more weird than they think they are.

Oh, and I didn't even start to talk about the fact that meat is a dead animal, so by definition, you're eating the rotting flesh of an otherwise beautiful animal who most probably had a horrible and anxiety filled existence confined to a tiny crate and fed all kinds of chemicals for its short life. Einstein said it best when he proclaimed that the world would be a much better place if we were all vegetarians.

I'm vegan. I didn't initially make the choice because of my health though. It had more to do with not wanting to cause animals undue suffering, and not the slaughter part just the way they live up until then. It wasn't because it offended me to eat meat either. I very much enjoy eating meat and never thought while eating about the animal it came from.

If you stop eating meat thats not going to stop the slaughter of animals... But I can understand not wanting to eat something that use to be alive and was brutally murdered for your enjoyment by the hands of another.

Me; I love meat; it's delicious. Especially chicken, beef and bacon.

But due to the prices of such a commodity I tend to eat it in moderation (unless it is free).

You're assuming that wild animals can emote, who knows if they can but you can't just assume that they can (theory of the mind issue). I would say "an instinct ridden existence."

I'm not concerned with the slaughter of animals, just their living conditions before slaughter. While one person not eating meat won't make much of a difference, if enough people stop it will lead to change. And then on top of that you can add the people who only eat free-range. The unfortunate thing about free-range right now, at least in the States, is there's not really any regulation. Doesn't take much for a company to call itself free range. I think the biggest problem is that like most businesses it's all driven by quotas. The animals are treated like any other inventory.

If I had a steak in front of me from a cow I knew was raised with its welfare in mind, lots of room to graze, killed humanely, I'd probably eat it. And I might go out of my way to support those companies that operated under those standards.

I'd say AS and being a vegetarian are separate things. One doesn't lead to the other.

hmmm I live in Canada so I am not sure... I have driven through ALberta and seen cattle ranges and they treat them better here, our beef rules.

Uhm, sorry, but I also lived in Canada for many years, and no matter where you come from, meat is still rotting flesh that's very hard for your body to break down and process. I wouldn't eat red meat even if it had been the most purely grass fed, coddled beef from a cow that was sung to through its entire happy and hormone-free life, served on a freshly baked organic bun.
And don't get me started on slaughterhouses.
I'm not saying no one should eat meat, all I'm saying is that you should know where it comes from and what meat does to your body. I'll eat fresh wild caught fish, yet I know that being vegan is the freshest, most natural and nourishing way to fuel my body. Green juice, salads, avocado, nuts and seeds are the ultimate comfort foods, because intellectually, emotionally, and instinctually you learn that those are what REALLY feed you and make you feel taken care of.
And you know what? I'm worth it, I'm worth having the best fuel for my body. And even if at some level I'm not so sure of my worthiness, I'll pretend I'm worth it until I finally believe it.

"There's plenty of room for all God's creatures... Right next to the mashed potatoes"

I may be vegan, but that's funny

As a Russian Orthodox Christian, I am vegan for a little over half the year. This is due to the fasting seasons prescribed by the church.

Outside of the fasting seasons and individual days, I eat a fairly standard diet.

I really don't see any correlation between being vegetarian and being on the spectrum.

Ill scoff down pretty much anything

I am a vegetarian and I am one because of my strong connection with animals.
I have a stronger connection with animals than I do with people, so no way would I ever eat one!

I wouldn't eat my dog. Everything else is fair game.

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