Any vegetarians/vegans on FFR?

[Chrissi]

I was vegetarian for 10 years. Here's how it goes down.

I never liked meat that much so I kinda just slipped into being vegetarian. It felt nice because I knew I wasn't ****ting on animal rights and I got to eat whatever I wanted pretty much. I like animals and don't like the idea of having them die so that I can eat, when it isn't necessary.

I had gotten sick a few times as a kid, doctors weren't sure what it was, so when I mentioned I was vegetarian, they made sure to check my blood levels every year to ensure that I wasn't deficient in anything veg-related. I never was.... until a few years ago. At that point I guess my body had had enough, and I became deficient in B12 and Iron. Pretty low blood levels. It wasn't good.

So they put me on like 10 vitamin pills a day for a couple weeks to try to get my blood levels back up. They sorta came back up to normal but were always low. I decided "**** it, if it's between my health or animals, I choose my health" and started eating all the meat I could tolerate. I never really liked beef or pork and still don't usually eat those. Sometimes I eat chicken and turkey. And I actually ****in' love fish. So I eat them now.

What bugs me is when people are not respectful of their food and where it comes from, or laugh at vegetarians for being so sensitive, or think it's okay for them to taunt vegans/vegetarians because they don't understand their food choices. Hey. Dudes. It's just food. Calm down and let people eat what they want. As a vegetarian I never bugged you, why would you bug vegetarians.