For only vegetarian or vegans -?

Question

Do you ever feel like giving up? Do you ever feel like well, one more person won't make difference? or what about - its just too hard - I want to be like the rest of the 95% of society and eat animals as well.

My personal thought. No. I love being a vegan. I hope I am never in situation that makes me eat animals.

Answer 1

No. Never. I'm vegan to.

Its not about "One wont make a difference to the rest".

Its about being true to yourself, eating great vegan food, and being a healthy vegan.

Answer 2

No, I love being a vegan.  And we make a difference with every meal - a vegetarian diet saves over 100 animals every year.  We're not supporting the unnecessary cruelty, suffering, and murder of billions of animals every year, or the largest cause of greenhouse gases, water pollution, land degradation, rainforest destruction, deforestation, and global warming.  Nor are we wasting resources.

Answer 3

whattt never! I am going to be a vegetarian until the day I die because i cannot stand the suffering of these poor animals - as someone rightly said it encourages me further which is why i am turning vegan as soon as i can - when i leave home that is - and people say it's hard but i am so determined. Never give up people.

Answer 4

No, never.. I wouldn't change back for anything. Too many wonderful benefits. And who says one more person won't make a difference?!

Answer 5

there was one point after my three year mark and i was just kind of like whats the point? and i really wanted to give up

then... miraculously PETA, a day later, mailed me a vegetarian kit.. like it was a gift from god i swear

and it included a DVD and everything and it kept me going.

so i'm still going strong :]

Answer 6

Too many upsides to being a vegan:

I'm healthier

No animals suffer and are killed for me

My kitchen is not contaminated, I only need one cutting board

Answer 7

there's a bunch of bleached flour, refined sugar, egg based muffins in the freezer and I so badly want one. But so far I haven't due to the fact that I don't believe in "eggs" (they kill baby roosters on egg farms.

Also, I am addicted to sugar and flour, so it's taking a lot of willpower not to eat them!

I have no problem not eating meat/fish/poultry/ of milk based diary. meat is particularly barbaric. dairy tastes all right, but cheese is chemically addicting. Plus the pus, hormones, and pesticides, make it all not worth it!

I love animals and it kills me to know the torture they endure every day.

Stay strong.

Answer 8

I'm never going back to eating meat, however i still crave dairy products, and just original snacks that I can't have. I have been a vegetarian for about a month, Lacto-Ovo, so I could eat eggs and dairy products. Now I just became a vegan, and I'm not used to have such a small variety to choose from.

Ive sen horrid clips of how cows are processed into the foods we eat, and I will never go back to being an omnivore. Vegetarianism/Veganism is much healthier and better for the animals and enviorment.

It is just hard sometimes when your in the middle of making a new meal, all excited ot try something new, and you check the label of one of the most important ingredients and it says it has milk in it. That's when I think about going back to being Lacto-Ovo vegetarian.

Answer 9

NO! the more i remember, the angrier i get with myself for even eating meat i nthe first place. to me, eating an animal, murdering an animal, only for the purpose of eating, is disgusting! i dont know why i didnt go veg sooner!!! i will never go back.

Answer 10

No. I think about all the cruelty and the poor animals that suffer. That makes me want to be one even more.

I'm SO dedicated to being vegan - I cannot imagine ever going back to eating meat and dairy. EW!

The only thing I do long for (every now and then) is convenience. It would be SO nice to go to a drive-through and order something to take home... I cook at home a LOT and sometimes I tire of it, but never to the extent that I would go back to being an omni.

Good question!

Answer 11

I would never go back to eating meat!! I'm vegetarian too.

Answer 12

i wouldn't want to go back.......like hellinore said, sometimes i miss being able to order something convenient without having to scan the ingredient list, ask "is it in the same fryer as the chicken?", etc.....

but i don't miss eating innocent animals for my own selfish benefit.

it's funny how going veg makes you look at meat SO differently.  i used to love it and now it disgusts me.  i went to a burger king today to get a bk veggie burger (i found out the lunch i brought to work had chicken fat in it) and was served a cheeseburger by mistake.  i had never had the bk veggie before so i didn't know that it looks very different....i almost bit into it!!  it smelled a little too suspicious so i checked with the cashier and she said that it wasn't a bk veggie.  i was so grossed out that i just got a refund and said, "thanks anyway".  just the thought that i ALMOST ate that burger made me so sick to my stomach that i didn't want to eat (especially after finding out my other lunch choice had chicken fat....so gross!!).  

there are tough moments, and dissappointing ones......but anything worth doing will be difficult sometimes.  i'm proud of the choice i've made and it's great to finally be guilt free. going vegetarian is one of the best decisions i've ever made!

GO US =)

Answer 13

NO!  I never ever feel like that.  I feel like one person can definitely make a difference.

If all vegetarians/vegans suddenly decided to eat meat again the sale of meat would go sky high.

Nothing would make me want to eat meat again...For those vegetarians who want to give up: www.meat.org.

That's what changed my mind and what has kept me going strong for more than a year.

Answer 14

No, I don't feel like giving up, since I went through all this work and research. You can't just undo your moral and ethical feelings about something. Maybe one day I will be jaded and disillusioned enough to stop, kind of like when people throw aside a religion or something. However, for now, I feel motivated every day because I believe it's the right thing to do for me. I just know too much about the meat industry and it's just so easy for me to be vegetarian that it's really almost foolish for me to give it up now. And of course, maybe I make little difference in the long scheme of things, but at least I'm not a part of the brainless crowd that does what everyone else is doing. It feels good to be unique and to do your own thing, whatever the case is. I'm me, not some little puzzle piece that's meant to fit neatly into the status quo society around me!

Answer 15

no. Thats silly if a person were to experience those thoughts. i am not in it to "make difference"

the animals will die regardless. i am a vegetarian because i can't fathom eating meat. I wouldnt "cave in" because the majority of Americans think otherwise.

i starred your question-- thought it was really interesting!

Answer 16

i never really liked meat so i don't miss that, (though i do miss tacos). and the more i read, and i read far too much, the more i don't want to eat milk and eggs (or honey so i probably will become a vegan soon.

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now i want some nachos (no meat of course!)

Answer 17

No.  Never.  The thought of putting a fellow animals flesh in my mouth disgusts me.

Answer 18

i think no i loooooooooove being veg

Answer 19

I also love being vegan and have no intention of giving it up. Social situations can be tough though.  We just got invited to a dinner party on Saturday night at which I couldn't eat a thing that was served.  The hosts felt badly and it was all awkward for a while.  That's the kind of thing I hate, being the person who invariably makes someone feel bad because I won't eat something they slaved over.  I don't hate it enough to want to change my lifestyle, however.