How can I stop liking meat?!
How can I stop liking meat?
I want to be a vegetarian (my wife is, so I dont eat that much meat anymore) I a m completely pro- cruelty against animals, but I do see the environmental issues. And I like meat which causes me to dream about sausages, for example. Its really hard. How could I get rid of liking meat so I can be a vegetarian?
Answers:
Some conundrum! (look it up!)
You can't! The further you get away from it the more you may want it. Eat a Tofurkey for Thanksgiving.
But the more you are satisfied by a vegetarian diet the less you'll find youself thinking about it! A Gordian Knot, eh?
Now don't think about pink elephants. Hard, eh?
Good luck!
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for example if you like meat just buy veggie hot dogs veggie burgers it is exactly like meat except it has vegetables in it and also eat more fruits and vegetables
You gay people love the meat.
try eatting vege burgers and boca products see if u like that and if u can forget about meat eatting that
A lobotomy may work, or serious brain washing.
I say" Eat Nebraska Beef"it is good for you.
gradullay cut ur meat income down than u wont be as hard to complaetely stop cold turkey
The question is not how, but why. There are many reasons to enjoy meat. Meat is what you are made of, so you need to eat meat to be healthy. God said that Man was intended to eat meat, as well as vegetables. God himself eats meat.
Ah, and sausages. Waste nothing of the animal - put it into a sausage and eat it. It is good to meet someone who enjoys sausage. There are so many varieties. My favorite was a deer heart sausage I ate in Germany once. Those folks know sausage!
Eat wonderful meat and let your wife graze like a rabbit or a cow.
-Half of the water used in the U.S. is used for animal agriculture.
-Every year in the US an area the size of Connecticut is lost to topsoil erosion--85% of this erosion is associated with livestock production.
-Livestock already consume half the world's grain, and their numbers are still growing almost exponentially.
-Every kilogram of beef we consume, according to research by the agronomists David Pimental and Robert Goodland, requires around 100,000 litres of water.
-Approximately 1.3 billion cattle populate the earth at any one time. They exist artificially in these vast numbers to satisfy the excessive human demand for the meat and by-products they provide. Their combined weight exceeds that of the entire human population. By sheer numbers, their consequent appetite for the world's resources, have made them a primary cause for the destruction of the environment.
-In the US, feedlot cattle yield one pound of meat for every 16 pounds of feed. It takes an average of 2,500 gallons of water to produce a single pound of meat.
-According to Newsweek, "The water that goes into a 1,000 pound steer could float a destroyer." In contrast, it takes only 25 gallons of water to produce one pound of wheat. Feeding the average meat-eating American requires 3-1/4 acres of land per year.
-Feeding a person who eats no food derived from animals requires only 1/6 acre per year.. - Studies by North Carolina State University estimate that half of the some 2,500 open hog manure cesspools (euphemistically termed "lagoons"), now needed as part of hog productions there, are leaking contaminants such as nitrate--a chemical linked to blue-baby syndrome--into the ground water.
-Worldwide demand for fish, along with advances in fishing methods--sonar, driftnets, floating refrigerated fish packing factories--is bringing ocean species, one after another, to the brink of extinction. In the Nov., '95 edition of Scientific American, Carl Safina writes, "For the past two decades, the fishing industry has had increasingly to face the result of extracting [fish] faster than fish populations [can] reproduce." Research reveals that the intended cure--aquaculture (fish farming)--actually hastens the trend toward fish extinction, while disrupting delicate coastal ecosystems at the same time.
-A scientist, reporting in the industry publication Confinement, calculated in 1976 that the planet's entire petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 13 years if the whole world were to take on the diet and technological methods of farming used in the US.
-If tomorrow people in the US made a radical change away from their meat-centered diets, an area of land the size of all of Texas and most of Oklahoma could be returned to forest.It is estimated that livestock production accounts for twice the amount of pollution in the US as that produced by industrial sources. Livestock in the US produce 20 times the excrement of the entire US population. Since farm animals today spend much or all of their lives in factory sheds or feedlots, their waste no longer serves to fertilize pastures a little at a time.
-One poultry researcher, according to United Poultry Concerns literature, explains: "A one-million-hen complex will produce 125 tons of wet manure a day." To responsibly store, disperse, or degrade this amount of animal waste is simply not possible. Much of the waste inevitably is flushed into rivers and streams.
-Becoming a vegetarian does more to clean up our nation's water than any other single action.
-Methane is one of the four greenhouse gasses that contributes to the environmental trend known as global warming. The 1.3 billion cattle in the world produce one fifth of all the methane emitted into the atmosphere.
-Meat contains no essential nutrients that cannot be obtained directly from plant sources. By cycling grain through livestock, we lose 90% of the protein, 96% of the calories, all of its carbohydrates, and all of its nutritional fiber.
-Agricultural engineers have compared the energy costs of producing poultry, pork and other meats with the energy costs of producing a number of plant foods. It was found that even the least efficient plant food was nearly 10 times as efficient in returning food energy as the most energy efficient animal food.
-Since so much fossil fuel is needed to produce it, beef could be considered a petroleum product. With factory housing, irrigation, trucking, and refrigeration, as well as petrochemical fertilizer production requiring vast amounts of energy, approximately one gallon of gasoline goes into every pound of grain-fed beef.
-The direct and hidden costs of soil erosion and runoff in the US, mostly attributable to cattle and feed crop production, is estimated at $44 billion a year. Each pound of feedlot beef can be equated with 35 pounds of eroded topsoil.
-A nationwide switch to a pure vegetarian diet would allow us to cut our oil imports by 60%.
-Compared to a vegan diet, three days of a typical American diet requires as much water as you use for showering all year (assuming you shower every day).
-An acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but only 165 pounds of beef.
-In the U.S., 260 million acres of forest have been destroyed for use as agricultural land to support our meat diet (over 1 acre per person). Since 1967, the rate of deforestation has been one acre every five seconds.
-Trees are being cut down at an alarming rate in the US, as well as around the world, for meat production.For every acre cleared for urban development, seven acres are cleared to graze animals or grow feed for them.
It's kind of funny the conflict this causes people. I think if you really wanted to be vegetarian you would be. How many times in your life when you really wanted to do something did you have to consult with many people to get you started?
It's purely my opinion, but I think the animal cruelty crowd is getting a little out of hand. Actually, there are just too many activists telling everybody else how to live.
I was vegetarian for a while because it is healthy, not because I care about chickens a whole lot. If you really like sandwiches and "man food" then try some of the meat replacements from Morning Star Farms. The were the best tasting. Some are vegan and some are not. Surprise, the vegan ones aren't as tasty.
Also, I ate a lot of black beans and rice, pasta, rice with lots of different veggies. Actually, vegetarian diets can be pretty good. Of course, nothing beats the taste of some pizza with whole milk cheese or a slain ground cow w/ melted cheese and bacon with a slice of onion. Actually fried chicken rocks too.
Hey, I think you are carrying around a little too much guilt. Tonight I am going to bbq some delicious little chickens on an open flame and drink a beer in honor of the men on this earth burdened with the guilt of being at the top of the food chain enjoying the comforts of living in a good country.
If you truly want to be vegetarian, you will know.
Either way... feast well & enjoy every day of your life.
Well, have you ever seen a video of red meat digesting in your body and what it looks like during the process? It literally sits in your digestive system for days, causing it to rot, because it takes so long for your body to digest.
Have you ever seen where sausage meat actually comes from in a pig processing plant? It is absolutely disgusting, it comes from various left over body parts of a pig. Like the last remaining pieces that they can't do anything else with.
I now, only eat fish and chicken.....
You're FOR animal cruelty?!?!?! That sickens me but goveg.com has a lot of info...sicko...if you watch the meat your meat video, MAYBE, HOPEFULLY you'll change your mind....
You always could grab some meat analogues (faux-meats).
The best cure for flesh cravings is good vegetarian food. Grab a cookbook at your local library. Look into eastern and indian dishes. The more varied and tasty your veggy meals are, the less you miss meat.
And you're pro-cruelty? Check out the link below.
Being callous and unfeeling towards the animals we share the earth with doesn't make you any more of a "man," whatever that means.
My husband wanted to be vegetarian but didn't want to give up fast food. I took him to Burger King and got him a Whopper with cheese (no onion) and no meat. When he found that to be a good thing, he was able to go veg. MorningStar Farms sausage links are a great thing on veg pizza or in pasta sauce. Tofurkey makes veg kielbasa and "brats." To much garlic for my personal taste and rather dry as they aren't made with lots of animal fats, but perhaps passable to get you through "dark times." If you live anywhere near WholeFoods Market or Trader Joe's you should stop in and try some fake meats.
I am a vegan and I have always liked the taste of cooked meat. However, I think what you really enjoy is the flavoring brought about by spices. If you really think it is the meat then try to eat some raw chicken and some raw beef and a raw egg. There is some health risk in this but it might just teach you a lesson. But, the biggest reason to become a vegan and stay one is not to compete on the pleasure of eating well cooked food, it is ethically based. Just know that animals suffer needlessly for you to eat meat. Go to Youtube and look up animal slaughter, that should help. I still remember the taste of meat and how pleasurable it was, but, my ethical imperative overules my passion. Spend some time enjoying nature, watch the birds sing, look at the dogs play, but most of all look at their consciousness and know that they feel pain when they are slaughtered, and they are grown like plants for nothing but this painful slaughter. And, know that you do not need, like lions, to contribute to that pain. Besides, non-human animals killing each other is a much different thing. They no where near kill on the mass scale that we do. It is usually the weak that are killed by carnivorous non-human animals. Animals in the wild get to live out there lives the way nature intended rather then being farmed for human consumption. I hope that helps. In the end it will really depend on your education and your conscience. If you know the facts then all there is left to guide your actions will be what you think should be done. Personally, I just feel bad killing animals because I think it causes pain and I don't like causing pain. Of course, I do have my limitations. I mean if I had a house full of cockaroaches I would kill them, because I could not see any other way to get rid of them. But, I have bugs that wander in from time to time, spiders, grasshoppers, crickets, etc... I simply pick them up and put them outside and say sorry buddy but this is my house now go and find your own, rather than squash them pointlessly.
You probably can't stop liking meat because your body is telling you it needs it in order for you to live.
Just go to some abators where they butcher animals.. watch them kill them and hear the animals scream look at all the blood.. after all that I bet you won't want to see any meat! You will probably won't even like being near people as they eat meat! Sometimes that can't be avoided! I make excuses to avoid eating with a meat eater! I don't lie I just say things I need to do.. give the impression I'd rather do the things or give the impression that I don't have time to go anywhere!. If a Vegetarian comes and asks to go out with me then that's another matter! There needs to be more vegetarian and vegan restaurants!
Switch over to meat substitutes like "Morning Star Farms" or "Boca". Wonderful companies that make veggie burgers, dogs, chicken patties, and other frozen food products.
But do it gradually, because if you eat meat consistantly the sudden change in diet can put your body into shock.
dont change for your wife....eat your damn sausage. besides going vegetarian isnt good for your health.
It takes awhile. I've been vegan for almost a year and I still crave meat once and awhile. You will grow out of it and it does get easier. If you stop eating all meat for about a month, then try to eat meat again, it will probably not taste like what you remember and might even gross you out. My ex was that way...plus after a month of not eating meat you'll feel so good you won't want to ruin it by eating meat.
ToFurky..........it's so good you won't know the difference. Go to your local organic or health food grocery store and just look at the foods they offer. Be opened minded
switch to cucumbers instead of suasage..TADA!
but first! peel the bumps off the cucumber.
i know there are lots of awful videos you can watch if you don't want to actually go to a slaughterhouse. i don't know the names of them because i haven't been able to bring myself to watch any yet. i still haven't gotten over this commercial i saw. i can't get it out of my head. so sad... it will help you though. check it out:
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/vegetaria...
you can also read about the true cruelty that goes on in a book called Slaughterhouse and another one called Skinny B*tch
Hey, I love what you are trying to accomplish. In my household, we love meat, but can eat a lavish salad and nothing else for dinner. I also have a cat that loves fruits and vegetables. Not just one or two, that cat eats EVERYTHING except cilantro. He doesn't like that. What a weird household I have. My walking stick bugs are vegetarians though until their cage gets overcrowded and they eat each other. ew.
sorry I don't have a viable answer for you, but good luck. You are noble.