ConfessMail

Comment from haha
Time: September 9, 2007, 12:28 am

Haha. Guilty pleasures. Anyway, are you a vegetarian for animal rights or for health?

Comment from adminst
Time: September 9, 2007, 12:35 am

This is one of the problems with many vegetarians – the extremism. If they want to do that, fine, but like religion, they often try to force their values onto you. I rarely eat meat, but I do enjoy a nice BBQ from time to time. If my vegetarian friends knew about it, they would freak out and I’d get the lecture of “don’t you realize what you are doing.”

Comment from michelle
Time: September 9, 2007, 5:44 am

I wonder if the problem with not telling others you eat meat is your own issues or issues of the people around you. It’s impossible to tell from this confession. I would just say be true to yourself and there is no reason to lie about it.

Comment from sue
Time: September 10, 2007, 12:26 am

I’m a sort of vegetarian. I don’t call myself one, but I rarely eat meat. When people ask if I’m a vegetarian which often happens, I say that I’m a partial vegetarian.

Comment from Frigga
Time: September 10, 2007, 4:14 pm

Haha, that one’s funny to me. When I first became a vegetarian (just personal preference) I used to sneak cheeseburgers when I’d have cravings. But is wasn’t out of embarressment, it was just easier than explaining my eating habits to everyone.
People like to either give me a hard time for being a vegetarian or they ask a zillion questions. Sometimes I just want everyone to shut up while I enjoy food that tastes good to me.

Comment from Umm, someone
Time: September 12, 2007, 7:20 am

You want to wear the vegetarian label because it’s “cool” or something. Guess what, if you don’t mean it, it’s not cool at all.

If you choose not to be vegetarian, fine, don’t. You’re the only one who can legitimately hold that against you.

… but by calling yourself vegetarian when you’re not, you make all of us real vegetarians look like the hypocrite you are.

I’m a vegetarian because I choose not to take part in global deforestation for grazing land, greenhouse gas production by meat farms, out-of-proportion inefficient fossil fuel consumption by the meat industry, and institutionalized cruelty to animals. I’m very serious about it, and these causes have been more important to me than any “craving” I may have had over the past 24 years.

If you’re not serious about it, fine, no one’s saying you must have standards or causes, but stop calling yourself vegetarian.

Comment from lufarah
Time: October 22, 2007, 3:09 am

I sympathize. But you can call yourself a ” selective omnivore” instead, like i do.
It’s different than being vegetarian or vegan. Nowadays i can say that i eat like a vegetarian 3 days a week, and like a vegan 4 days /week. And i never eat eggs because i think they are disgusting.

My issue with the meat industry is a moral one, i only eat meat when i am absolutely sure it is 100% halal, which sounds easier than it is in reality as you can see in this article: http://www.islamicconcerns.com/halalmeat_teaching.asp
This leaves me with very little option when eating meat: i either have to fish or slaughter whatever animal myself, or to know and trust whovever is doing it. So i eat meat about twice a year, but don’t call myself a vegetarian.

Comment from Holly
Time: November 21, 2008, 11:42 pm

Wow, I used to have that secret. Then I “came out” to my family about it. Now it’s fine.

“Umm, someone”, you may be misinterpreting this persons reasoning.
I myself was a vegetarian, then started eating meat in secret because I craved it but didn’t want to admit what I was doing to the environment.
I came to terms with it, though.

You’re a presumptuous fool.