Do you ever feel like vegetarianism is too hard?

Question

Sometimes I feel like its too hard, but I keep strong! Its worth it! I mean some restaurants dont even have veggie choices, and its especially hard when family doesnt acknowledge it..like at cookouts!!

Does anyone else feel like this?

Answer 1

Not long from now or before another year is up, it should feel completely natural. If not, you must be depriving yourself and not trying new foods or not having any substitutes.

I've been vegan for 5 years and veg for 6 and it doesn't feel like there is any other way for myself to live. I don't have problems with cravings and I go beyond my craving with vegan versions of almost anything.

If you don't cook, you need to start now. Then you can bring your own food to cookouts and eat before going out so you can get buy with drinks and whatever you can find in a restaurant.

Answer 2

No, it just becomes second nature. It's like "not smoking" being too hard, if you don't ever smoke.

Answer 3

BEAN, BEANS, BEANS im a veggy head and i love tacos but a main part is beef right... so when i go to taco bell i just ask for beans it tastes alot better

Answer 4

No

Answer 5

Vegetarianism is the new Puritanism. This is my belief. It is also one of my arguments, and although it may at first seem a flippant argument, I believe that it is very powerful. Vegetarianism is miserable. It attacks one of life’s greatest and surest pleasures - enjoying good food. Anything which makes people less happy is bad.

I don’t think that there is any real danger that vegetarianism will ever become the norm, because meat is too nice, and membership of a club is no privilege if everyone becomes a member. The club has to be exclusive in order to be appealing.

Answer 6

Why would you even want too?  Go BEEF!

Answer 7

No, not for rabbits. Since red meat is hard on one's system, just eat chicken and fish also.

You sound like your trying to train/convice yourself to be one.

In that case you just leave more meat for someone else to eat.

God wont think less of you because you eat it. Part of the sacrifices were given for the priests to eat. God did not blitz them the next moment because they ate part of it.

Enjoy.  

Answer 8

Unfortunately Taking up a vegetarian lifestyle feels almost natural for me and making the transition from eating meat to not eating meat was not difficult at all, but I can see how it is affecting you with family. My family are practically carnivores, and I completely accept there choice, but its hard when they have big family meals that include nothing but meat! but I just battle on.

I tend to believe vegetarianism isn't something for everyone, but you seem like a person who could live happily as one, so just keep trusting your judgement.

Answer 9

OMG i totalllly agree with you. none of my family likes this because they always eat beef kabob and chicken and ughh it makes me sick! i totally know what ur talking about and sometimes it can be a pain but i just cant eat animals.

Answer 10

I've been a vegetarian for around 16 - 17 years and a vegan for 3 - 4 years....trust me I know how you feel! I got so sick of onion sandwhiches I ate at BBQ's when I was a kid (as there was only sausages otherwise), or going to places where they could only make you a salad (2 lettuce leaves, half a carrot and half a tomato) which everyone else was sitting around eating the decomposing flesh of murdered once living creatures.

Vegetarianism btw too is not 'puritanism', nor is it worrying about if god smited priests, you just have to remember it's about doing what's right. 99% of meat eaters have no idea what actually goes on to grow, produce and kill their 'food', and they don't want to know either. Instead they use feeble arguments like, 'it's tasty', or 'it's natural', 'god said we could'. Humans might be tasty too, doesn't mean we eat them. There's nothing natural about the way living creatures are killed on modern intensive farms, and don't get me started on a lot of other things 'god' has apparently said.

Just remember you're doing what's the right and ethical thing to do. Vego's/vegans consume less resources, no sentient creatures are tortured so we can 'enjoy a meal'..., vego's live healthier and longer (about 10 years) and in general have a higher IQ than omnivores too! (sounds such a shameless plug, but it's tue).

If you want more inspiration try looking up some of 'Peter Singers' writings; Buddhism (they're mostly vego/vegan - as are most Hindus as well); PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - their 'Meet your Meat' CD is good), or even groups like the 'Sea Shepherd', 'McLibel' etc. Don't know about where you live, but for my state there's the,  http://www.vnv.org.au/site/

Worst case scenario, eventually you leave home and choose your own places to go eat!

Now that rant's over...

Seriously, good luck to you!

ps - incidentally one thing I always thought was cool, did you know all the gladiators of ancient rome were vegetarian?

Answer 11

No I think it's easy, I'm a vegan since about 2 years now and I gotten used to bring snacks as a back up when I'm out and about.  

Answer 12

No, vegetarian is not hard.

For me, vegan is a bit hard.

I would like to be vegan but so far haven't success yet.

That is my next target......to become vegan.