It was bacon, but I’ve had shrimp and steak fajitas since then. Yes, I was an annoying activist. Yes, I was preachy. Yes, I regret that and it’s part of why I’m posting.
Edit- If you’re vegan and have doubts, lets talk.
I was a vegan activist for 25 years. A few days ago I ate meat for the first time in all those years. AMA
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Why did you choose to give up veganism? Do you find the meat industry horrific?
Did you like the taste? Did it make your stomach upset or anything ?
Why the change of heart all of a sudden ?
What’s your next meat you’re gonna try?
what’s something you really wanna eat
When you were full vegan was there a dish that you secretly wish you would eat like you couldn’t even get over the smell of it it just made your mouth water.
Are you gonna eat a dry aged steak now that you’re back?
Isn’t bacon fucking delicious?
did you have health issues/nutrient deficiencies? I’ve been vegetarian most of my life but now eat more meat due to anemia.
I sometimes wonder if i should become vegetarian, though i love meeting eating meat. It does seem cruel to kill animals. I wonder if people in the future will look back on us with disgust. What’s your perspective on the matter?
Don’t feel bad. Vegans may be annoying but the Carnivore diet people are wayyyyyy worse…
Did you lose friendships or relationships over veganism? What do you think about that now?
Do you feel like you made an impact on any level?
Not a question, just wanted to say welcome back!
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much are you enjoying meat (bacon is delicious)…and is it more enjoyable than any other fruit/legume you have eaten?
I support your decision to eat what you want just like you should have others, how do you feel about that statement.
How was it?
Thanks for posting. I know that you said it was a gradual thing but did you get a pang of guilt eating meat for the first time in so many years? On the flip side, did the taste of the delicious bacon give you a bit of a euphoric rush of blood to the head?
What have you enjoyed the most so far?
Was it non -factory farmed bacon at least? Did those clever caring creatures get a good life, including being outside in the fresh air and sunshine with room to run around when they want, before they were killed for their flesh?
Full disclosure: I love meats. Same with my family. Do you think there is any viable way we could get the general population to recognize the harm in factory farming and make a difference? What if everyone decided to eat less meat? Like a national don’t eat meat on Fridays type thing?
To be clear, there’s zero judgement on any of this from me!
I was a vegetarian, then a vegan for a while. I used it as a cover for my severe eating disorder. Do you see this often in the community?
I’m not vegan or vegetarian I do, however, eat very little meat. My question is, have you experienced ‘meat breath’ after eating beef as I do? I never noticed it when I ate beef regularly, but only eating it occasionally as I do now I am very aware of my breath smelling unpleasant to me afterwards.
Longtime vegetarian here (still am). Eating what you want is fine, but there are so many reasons not to participate in factory farming. It’s mass murder on an industrial scale. Yes, bacon, sausage and BBQ are all delicious. But the pain caused innocent animals was too much for me. I chose, and still choose, empathy. It doesn’t matter if it makes a difference to anyone else. It makes a difference to me.
Downvote away! 😘
Do you think there’s some truth to the theory that some bodies need meat more than others? And that blood type matters? I have type O blood and I crave red meat. I don’t feel right if I don’t get meat in my diet at least a few times a week. And why did you decide to eat it after all these years? Was it a health reason?
I’ve been vegan for 18 years and feel like eating meat would make me violently sick.
How long have you been on the toilet?
Have you learned to cook steak yet? Have you learned about locally sourcing/supporting local farmers
How difficult is it to abandon such a large part of your personality? Do you feel like you’ve left a part of you behind in abandoning veganism? Or is it not that deep.
I don’t believe it
Did it upset your stomach?
What kind of activism did you do?
You’ve said you’ve had health issues due to veganism.
I’m wondering could it be you haven’t found a good combination of diet in it?
I’m thinking of large groups of people who built their culture around vegetarianism. Such as Indians.
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What brought you to a point of trying meat? Are you still and animal rights activist in the point of better farming practices? What’s your thoughts on hunting?
Ever think of starting to hunt? It closes the loop. You can ethically harvest animals of a certain age and know exactly where you food is coming from.
I love meat and have always been firmly against veganism. I have a health tracker now and I’ve noticed when I avoid all animal products my metrics are much better. I don’t see myself ever becoming a true vegan but I will likely be eating vegan most days for the rest of my life. I’m glad you’re getting to enjoy meat. I wish I was. What was it that you ate?
I’ve been a pretty hard core vegetarian for 35 years and yesterday I ate a bowl of minestrone that apparently had meat bits in it. I didn’t know it until 3/4 of the way through. Though I was disgusted, I can wholeheartedly say, that it was fucking delicious 😆
Did you enjoy the bacon? I suspect yes cuz looks like future meats are being planned. I vote either steak or im a sucker for some yummy chicken….my family has always made Dorito chicken with rice and cheese sauce and it’s so dang good. Dammit I just made myself crave that, that’s what I did lol
What made you change so radically
Did you get any health issues being a vegan for a long time?
I never liked meat too much growing up – never liked eating off bone, any gristle, didn’t like steak at all and avoided most pork. I quit eating land animals almost 20 years ago.
I was never a preachy vegetarian/vegan (longggg periods during that time where I was full vegetarian or completely vegan diet wise)
In that time I’ve eaten fish from time to time but have avoided most other sea life. Can’t bring myself to eat a cephalopod. I don’t like shrimp or hard shell crab.
The longer I’ve gone without eating land animals, and the more I see them prepared, cooked, and eaten, the less interest I have in trying them again. Chicken meat disgusts me, for example.
What changed for you that made you start eating meat again?
Bacon- the gateway meat.
What are your thoughts on hunters and hunting? Do you think is more ethical than supporting the meat industry?
Idk where the comments went but for Dorito chicken very preachy and I actually didn’t say shit I just kept making me horrible trash dinner, once she smelled it and then as I made the cheese sauce to go on top I knew she was gonna eat it. And she ate a ton lol oops
Were you vegan for health reasons or because you believed it was wrong to execute animals?
This smells like some karma farming pick-me bullshit to me. You created a new account just for this and have done nothing for the past month but posts AMAs about it.
It’s hard for me to believe a vegan “activist” of 25 years doesn’t even have an answer to the argument that a vegan diet is inherently unhealthy because most vegans take b12 supplements. As if that is the only marker for health. How about the fact (well known to most vegans) that the vast majority of meat animals in the US are given b12 injections or supplements? So the health of meat eaters is also heavily dependent on b12 supplementation. Isn’t cancer a pretty big indicator of health? Because vegans have the lowest cancer rates between meat eaters, pescatarians, vegetarians and vegans.
I don’t believe that a vegan diet is a moral imperative, I don’t think it’s the healthiest choice for everyone, and I don’t preach my diet to other people. That’s a choice everyone gets to make for themselves. But so many of your comments from your new “look at me, I stopped being vegan, give me karma” account are agreeing with people about how you’re SO much less annoying now! Good for you. Stfu
I know it hasn’t been long yet, but have you noticed any health changes? Mental clarity, better sleep, etc?
Plot twist tis propoganda /s
Did you have an eating disorder at the same time? Alot of strict vegans are using it as a convenient excuse for a ED
I have a genetic disposition toward gout, I looooove meat but eating beyond a small amount messes me up.
Sadly shrimp does it too.
Anyway, is there anything I can eat that will scratch that itch as a person who was a vegetarian in the past? Like what can I eat to supplant delicious succulent steaks?!?
I crave meat, but it hates me back. 🙁
what do you drive?
How annoying is it that I say “Vay-Gun” instead of “Vee-Gun”? Like, I know “Vee-Gun” is the accepted pronunciation but I always find myself saying “Vay-Gun” instead. I don’t know why and it’s not deliberate, it’s a habbit.
I was a vegetarian for years and then I ate a sausage. It was underwhelming. Was it the same for you with the bacon?
Cool, you knowingly are contributing to the suffering of others and wanna brag about it on the internet…….
You stated that you doubt various vegan claims. Which ones in particular?
Also, would you be interested in taking some of your positions over to the vegan debate sub? As an activist of five or so years who has attended vigils, protests, outreach and am very present in the movement on a national scale, I thirst for different and opposing viewpoints. I’d love to hear the actual nuance behind your position.
I was vegan for 9 years before I finally started eating eggs because I can go and collect them from my local farm and visit the chickens & ducks whenever I want, they’re pretty chill & happy.
I still can’t bring myself to eat meat, it’s an emotional thing. I’ve always been a big animal lover but honestly seeing baby lambs etc makes my heart ache knowing they’re going to be slaughtered sometime…
I’ve contemplated going back to fish produce but even with that I feel guilty. What made you take that big step?
Did your body have any sort of aversion to it? I ask because I was vegan for about 5 years and vegetarian for like 10 years prior to that
I struggle to eat most meat still. I mostly eat chicken. I physically struggled to eat steak and I’m not sure why