r/Vegetarianism

Just kind of curious, I’ve been vegetarian almost 10years and I still can’t eat anything from KFC

Hello all, I'm an aspiring vegetarian. I can eat vegetarian for a few months with a variety of foods like tofu, soy curls, lentils, beans, etc as my protein sources. I take a multivitamin as well for b12.

I genuinely enjoy eating vegetarian and it aligns with my morals and eases the guilt I feel eating a dead animal. However, there always comes a day that I'm ravenous and no veggie dish fulfills me. I crave chicken and even trying veggie chicken nuggets doesn't hit the itch.

I give in and eat chicken (my husband is omni) and then i feel physically satisfied but mentally ashamed and conflicted. The same chicken i ate can repulse me just a few hours later but in the moment it's all I want. I even try to look up slaughter house videos to combat the craving.

Is it just mental? Do i just need to push through it? Has anyone else struggled on their veggie journey and if so what helped?

I wish I could be like those vegetarians that stop eating meat and never look back. I don't know what my hang up is but it's distressing and I genuinely want to stay vegetarian.

Another issue that's stopping me from going Vegan is how most Vegans feel about things unrelated to food. One of them is having pets. I have a Pitbull, a ball python snake, and a tarantula. I see nothing wrong with having companion animals and I'm not giving mine up. Now or in the future.

Anyone here have animals? How do you feel about people (Veg. or non-Veg.) having pets (domestic or exotic)?

Hi, I’ve been considering going vegetarian for a while now and maybe eventually vegan, but I think that commitment is too much for me right now especially as someone who eats meat a lot and my whole family does as well.

I mostly just eat chicken—the other animal products I consume on a regular basis are milk and maybe cheese, but outside of that I don’t have much else to quit.

For chicken, does anyone have any recommendations for mock/fake chicken either at walmart, aldi, or other places that tastes pretty similar?

I’m open to other recommendations as well and if there’s stuff I should look for when shopping!

I stopped eating meat entirely about a month ago, but had been phasing it out and wrestling with my beliefs for over a year. Recently I’ve been really struggling with talking to my family about food. I know they are good people, and I think they would feel the same as me if they could get past their cognitive dissonance, but seeing the people who taught me to treat all creatures with dignity and respect not respect those creatures enough not to slaughter them has been upsetting. My family has always been very supportive and they have very similar political beliefs as me, so I’ve never had to handle this feeling of loving someone but being horrified by their actions. How do you guys deal with it?

title is self explanatory 🙁 i just started eating an omlette from a hotel breakfast and 3 bites in realized there was ham in it, and i had already swallowed some. i've only been vegetarian for about 6 months and i guess this is something that happens to people sooner or later, but i'm so irritated that 1) NO ONE SAID IT HAD MEAT IN IT and 2) that i didn't even think to inspect it before. i'm on a trip rn so i'm hoping i don't get sick, i'm already feeling kind of nauseous but that could just be me psyching myself out

In your experience, which ones have the most options or are most vegetarian or even vegan friendly ?

I am sorry if this sounds like a silly game, but I thought of exploring this question today:

If I eat 1 egg per day and drink 1 cup of milk per day, how many chicken and cow lives can I save by switching to veganism?

The answer i got from Google was interesting. I am seriously considering cutting down on eggs and switching to ahimsa milk.

Here is the answer I got from Google:

Based on your specific consumption of 1 cup of milk and 1 egg per day, it would take about 10 months (0.82 years) of veganism to save one chicken’s life, and roughly 100 to 200 years to save one cow's life.

Because modern agricultural animals have been bred for incredibly high yields, your individual impact breaks down differently for each animal:

🐔 Saving a Chicken: ~10 Months

Commercial laying hens produce about 300 eggs per year. By eating 365 eggs a year, you consume slightly more than one hen's entire annual output.

• The Lifecycle Cost: For every commercial laying hen hatched, one male chick is culled at birth because they cannot produce eggs. The laying hen itself is typically slaughtered after 2 years when her production drops.
• The Math: This means 2 chicken lives are ended for every ~600 eggs produced (or 1 life per 300 eggs). At 1 egg a day, you account for about 1.2 chicken lives per year, meaning you spare your first chicken in just under 10 months.

🐮 Saving a Cow: ~100 to 200 Years

Modern dairy cows produce an immense volume of milk—averaging about 2,500 to 2,800 gallons per year (around 6 to 7 gallons a day).

• The Lifecycle Cost: A dairy cow is typically slaughtered around age 5. Over her lifetime, she will give birth to about 4 calves to keep her milk flowing. The male calves are usually slaughtered for veal or beef, and the mother is slaughtered when her production slows. This averages out to roughly 3 to 4 cattle lives taken over a lifetime production of roughly 11,000 to 14,000 gallons.
• The Math: Your consumption of 1 cup a day equals 22.8 gallons a year (365 cups ÷ 16 cups per gallon). Because a single cow produces so much milk, your annual footprint represents a tiny fraction (less than 1%) of a cow's lifetime output, meaning it takes a century or more of abstaining from 1 daily cup to mathematically offset the life of one cow or calf.

I'm new to being vegetarian. I'm mostly doing it because of the moral side of it and the health side. I'm not fully vegetarian yet since I'm still young and living with my family, when I get to cook I make vegetarian food but when they cook and make meat I eat it too. Are there any healthy, quick, easy to make vegetarian receipts that I can make? <3