Ever considered becoming vegetarian?

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I like meat but I don't like animals being slaughtered. Do you see my dilemma?

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I don't have a problem with land animals getting slaughtered but I don't like how fish are literally hooked out of their world and suffocated

So I just have to put it to the back of my mind when I'm tucking into my chippy tea

Yeah, for a few years after seeing a few clips from a documentary that will remain unnamed, which showcased the horrors of factory farming, I couldn't eat animal products since seeing what's done to them at those nightmarish places. It's part of why my ex-wife left me and the in-laws started alienating me even faster than when I gave up going to the college my ex-wife nagged me into going to so as to hopefully maximize how much money I'd make for her to spend. After she left though, I still tried; but with relying on food shelves and the charity of neighbors, I didn't have a ton of choices sometimes and I stopped bothering to try anymore after a couple years of that. Still feel sad for the fallen world situation of doom the poor creatures go through, but it's just more a sense of futility now that bothering to try is just pointless.

The OP is prolly the best of all possibl diets . For a longer healthier life ,in my opinion. Awkwardly must admit that I have in my past had my shared red meat .

I have spent a good deal of time on ranches and in feed lots and have never seen the torture that many anti-meat people claim.

I've spent some time in rural Australia and there is humane treatment of stock/farm animals (as practiced in the western world).

In contrast animals are routinely tortured and exposed to various forms of cruelty in the middle east and China.

Our bodies aren't really adapted for a purely vegetarian diet. Our ancestors were omnivores,

Yeah, cool for you that while they're growing in those kinds of places they get to enjoy their lives more before slaughtered and butchered. I'll still never forget seeing baby birds ground up alive on a conveyor belt at hatcheries, despite better situations happening elsewhere.

Newly hatched males are often killed since they can't lay eggs and you can't keep them together.

Of course, there are people who complain about that and so most poultry farmers just kill them.
There is an alternative, though. Remove the testes from them at a young age and you have capons. You have to keep them in a separate pen from then on or the hens will kill them.



The result is a much larger chicken that will thus feed more people and the meat is far more tender.

Ovo lacto vegetarian here. I'm not sure, i think its been about 10 years? I eat cheese and yogurt but a very limited amount of egg and only when its in a bakery item or bread. I have had no problem getting my vitamins and minerals and do not take a lot of supplements, only a probiotic multivitamin as I took antibiotics a few months ago for a uti and it seemed to throw off my digestive system. That seems to be correcting itself slowly.
I take no medication for anything health related on an ongoing basis, just occasionally for migraines/headaches that I've had all my life though they have decreased a lot as I age.
I chose to be vegetarian for the health benefit and the vain attempt to help the enviroment though we are so vastly outnumbered that my contribution is probably minimal. I also love vegetables and fruit and always have. I have nothing against the humane slaughter of animals for meat though I think most people eat way too much and seem to think they can't live without it. With respect to people who think a vegetarian diet might lack flavor, anything you do to meat you can do to veggies - sauces, bbq, spices, etc.