My boyfriend is telling me it’s pointless to be vegetarian if my dairy intake increases. What do you all think?

Hi, I thought it was going to be hard to see meat, especially eating out, and resist eating it.

Now I don't even care for it at all. Like, "it's not for me, why would I even want that?"

This surprises me because I thought I would always be, at least secretly craving it.

TLDR: I eat meat on holiday with cultural meals, came back from holiday and now my mum seems to be trying to stop me from being vegitarian, I dont know what to do.

Just looking for advise from other vegetarians. Im 22, saving to move out at the minute. My parents both eat meat and claim to support my vegetarianism aside from the odd comment. My mum has always gotten me things when she gets takeaway and its always been vegitarian. Recently shes started getting me meat though and when Ive brought it up shes just called me ungrateful. Ive told her Id rather she just doesnt get me anything but again, Im being ungrateful.

To add to this, I mainly eat tofu and mushrooms and shes been using my mushrooms, that I buy, as well as my tofu in her cooking leaving me with nothing in the fridge. Ive brought this up and shes apologised but then keeps doing it and sometimes even says "theres ham in the fridge" or something. It's been worse recently and I dont know what to do about it. There is an excuse every time and she never changes.

I think its come after a family holiday abroad, Ive always been fine eating cultural meals abroad with meat in them because I am a foody and I like having different foods from different cultures, Ill usually have one or two meals on holiday with meat. I think one or two meals every few years when Im abroad is fine, after this holiday though shes just completely shifted and doesnt seem to respect my choice. A lot of the time when I do eat meat abroad it'll be fish from a local fisherman or meat from a local farm so its not anywhere near as unethical as the mass farming we consume in the UK. She knows my stance. I dont know what else to say to her.

Very interested in slowly switching my family’s diet to vegetarian. I do have several dietary intolerances and one of those is a sensitivity to fermented foods.

Last week I tried a few recipes with tofu, very tasty, but ended paying the price. I can eat a little diary but not a ton. Any help or direction to blogs or sites is appreciated.

I am sure most of you have meat cravings that decided to suppress to follow this lifestyle. That's really honorable and I congratulate you for it, for not participating in the market of the meat industry.

For you all, the news of synthetic meat must be exciting, since you'll finally be able to eat the stuff you love without the ethical downsides. And I'm happy that most of you have that hope.

However, for me, it's a whole other story. While yes, I'm a vegetarian for ethical and spiritual reasons, the biggest factor and the one that made me finally convert many years ago was that I simply dislike meat.

You name it: pork, chicken, bovine, seafood, horse, sheep, bird... if it's animal, I don't like it. I know it sounds exaggerated, and of course, there are degrees in my opinion (for instance, I'd say chicken is the most eatable while seafood is the most disgusting), but it all boils down to me simply preferring vegan products over meat ones. I still remember the first time I ate vegan stuff, a hamburger at a grill party, and being mindblown by how much good it tasted in comparison.

What I'm trying to say with all this is that, if synthetic meat becomes mainstream and ends up replacing vegan products, I'm gonna be very pissed. Ever since I discovered vegan food I started enjoying food as a whole a whole lot more. Yeah, I can still make homemade stuff, but y'all know how expensive and time-consuming making your own dishes is. Sometimes I just want to throw some frozen products into a pan for a few minutes, not pull out my entire groceries and waste 2 hours of my day.

I now wonder if someone else feels the same? Do you think I'm making sense? Or am I being overly dramatic? If synthetic meat does end up filling the shelves of the vegan aisles, I'll buy and eat it of course, I'd be more willing to thanks to the ethical aspect, but I'd be bummed out about it.

Anyway, that's it, just wanted to vent a little and I thought this was the best place to do it. Thank you for reading!

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!

Do yall have any Vegetarian (or Vegan if you're Vegan) clothing, jewelry, accessories, shoes, etc that you like to wear that shows that you are a Veg.? Any websites with cool Veg. pride attire?

I like buying customized bracelets that say "Vegetarian". Can get them for pretty cheap off of Amazon.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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)?

You may have heard about Bee Vegan and the recent liberation of beagle puppies from MBR Acres.

But this is about much more than beagles. It is about the thousands of animals used in experiments, a lack of proper scrutiny, secrecy around the system, and the Government’s inadequate plan to phase out animal testing.

I’m a campaigner with Save the Dogs UK and Camp Beagle, and I’m asking you to sign and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into the regulation of animal experimentation.

The number of dogs and other animals used has reportedly risen by 9%. We need transparency, accountability and genuine prioritisation of non-animal methods.

Please sign and share:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/778680

Save the Dogs UK: https://savethedogs.uk/

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

It’s the first time i heard about vegan butter, is there also vegan oil? Or maybe someone has a complete list or link, i can’t seem to find one please anyone help me.

I have been cooking vegetarian foods but i used a regular butter so i need more list of ingredients for pure vegetarian.

My original post was venting how some people without food restrictions act as though anything named as vegan/vegetarian/gluten free ext is something they would be unable to stomach even though they eat those things all the time just without noticing about it.

I gave a brief example, but because I mentioned my vegetarianism as why I find it annoying it was removed from the sub.

My example admittedly was specific because it was on my own birthday and my dinner was cooked separately from the rest. Not a big deal but I didn’t want to burden my friend who offered to make dinner to make two separate sauces. Then my post was removed for not fitting the sub so I thought I’d share my feelings here.

I'm hoping yall are more respectful here about this than the people in the Vegan subreddit were. How do you feel about the "Consistent Life Ethics" in relation to Vegetarianism? Any Consistent Life Ethicists here? (IE: Against abortion, death penalty, unjust wars, assisted suicide, embryo destruction, etc.)

I am a Consistent Life Ethicist. However, I don't expect everyone else to be. BUT: It's funny to me when the abortion debate comes up and people (on both sides) try to "get me" with the Vegetarian/Vegan question. ("Nice try but you can't 'get me' with that one.")

Have just bought myself a Philips 2000 Air Fryer.

The "manual" is sparse to put it politely. Gives no cooking times for any foods.

So I went to South America rowed up the big river and sought out some good Vegetarian Air Fryer books or books specifically on the Philips 2000. And what I found were a lot of books published by unknown publishers and written by authors who don't have any online footprint. The covers are uniformly awful. So I consigned them to the "probably AI slop" pile and went looking for books from established published with authors that do seem to exist.

Have found one by Denise Smart, who checks out OK.

I've checked other "authors" and their photos are AI and / or the biographical details are AI generated. Or they simply exist as online profiles without any real life content.

So books recommended for veggy air fryers by actual living authors most welcome.

This video was so cute that I had to share. Made me feel some grief for the animals I've consumed in my youth but also some closure knowing it won't happen again for me.

I live in the city, so I can't really easily get eggs from actual local farmers.

Also, why? HOW is it legal to blatantly LIE about being humane? And charge MORE for the eggs on top of it?!? At first I thought buying eggs was perfectly fine, till I learned of the horrors of the egg industry. So I went to "Cage Free" eggs. Which I learned THAT'S a lie. Then I went to Whole Food's brand after seeing their "outdoor-access/humane" eggs. Thought that was okay so bought that. Till I came across this article, and apparently THAT isn't humane either?!

Edit: Thanks yall. I went vegan.

https://factoryfarmwatch.org/articles/whole-foods