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I Don't Eat Meat

The Cows Eyes:

My family was always big on meat. A meal was not a meal, if no meat was included.
When I did live by myself, to cook meat was not on my agenda, I soon got used to only eating meat if I went out with friends/relo's.
When I would drive behind a cattle truck that was heading for the abattoirs, then for weeks after wards, I abated eating meat.
While visiting a country Vet, I was watching a Cows in a paddock. My eyes locked onto a cow, her eyes were so big and beautiful, and I was so intent/lost in her eyes, that from that day, I stopped for good.
That was at least 8 years ago.
AND….I don’t miss the meat at all.
When we are far removed from the food on our plate, we forget where these poor creatures did come from. How they are killed and housed.
JakeShade · 61-69, M
I quit eating meat from 15-32 and *still* minimize it. It was pretty much as a "boycott" against the abuse of animals. I grew up in a hunting (and ranching/farming) culture, and saw the relative grace of eating things you hunted, skinned, etc. Or even raised and butchered yourself. I knew at 15 that if I didn't have the stomach to kill and butcher myself, it was an important "message to self".

I returned to meat eating during/after my divorce, mostly because I was tired of working around it with my friends, etc. but still cooked vegetarian, fed my daughters vegetarian (mostly) and so forth. Later I lapsed back into more meat eating, but am NOW more inclined to return to a (nearly) vegetarian diet for the original reasons *PLUS* the very awareness of the greenhouse-gas footprint meat consumption implies!
DreamxCatcher · 61-69, M
Could not agree with you more. Lifelong vegeterian (vegan last 10)

 
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