Vegans and vegetarians, do you feel guilty when you see meat, chicken, or fish that looks good or smells good?

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I have been a vegetarian since JAN 3 of this year. I tried becoming vegan all completely but failed. I want to start off by steps. What I am doing now is still not eating meat or chicken, I stopped eating fish now too because it doesnt taste the same anymore. I decided to go a step further and stop dairy as well. My next step is to actually read all labels and check to see if they contain any hidden animal products.
do you fill guilty when see chicken, meat or fish that looks good and smells good?
do you miss eating all that?

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  • Going in steps is good, but go with what your body tells you. Here’s what I did: First I took out red meat around Oct/Nov of last year. However, I had one slip up where I was extremely hungry, and my body needed it again. But it’s ok, that happens during a transition. Then, I eliminated pork (hardly ate it anyways). Next was poultry. It was a bit harder, because I love chicken tbh…. but then I thought about the reason why I’m becoming vegetarian and it stopped me. Now the smell of fried chicken isn’t too appetizing to me. Right now, the only meat I eat occasionally is fish. tbh, it’s even harder to let go than the poultry. But right now, I’ve fine with that. I’ll eliminate it when my body is ready. The trick isn’t to stop cold turkey (um… sorry about the pun). But I think my rate of meat elimination was 1 meat type per month or so. But anyways… to answer the real question, yes… sometimes I felt guilty when I saw meat that looked good…. especially burgers…. because it’s literally one of my favorite foods. And vegan patties you buy at the store are good, but it’s just not the same as homemade… so when I learned to make blackbean veggie burgers, that’s when I knew that I was gonna make it through lol. Even now sometimes steaks look good, but then I have images of a cow on the plate. But anyways, just take it slowly…. It’s taken me 6 months to get to the pecsetarian stage.
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  • No, I feel sick. I have to hold my breath while going by butchers shops and I avoid supermarkets where they waft the smell of the rotisserie about. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 17 years now and I don’t miss meat a bit.
    I’d have said that reading the labels was fairly fundamental to being a vegetarian – unfortunately a lot of foods have animal slaughter by-products in them. It’s not just lumps of meat you have to avoid but sneaky things like gelatin, rennet and lard.

    Good luck with it.

  • You could try other things like leaving some rotting meat out. Leave it til it stinks. Keep it in a plastic bag or something.
    Try smelling burning human flesh and you’d change your tune.
    By now, when I smell cooking flesh , it smells the same as human flesh ( yes. I’ve smelled it), and it’s so disgusting, because all flesh, all legs, arms and so on, are the same. ALL flesh is the same in composition.
    I don’t miss it one bit, never have. Tofu steaks, fried gluten, tempeh, setian kebabs, tofu skins, I’m luck that I’ve literally never craved or missed flesh.
    Eat like a Japanese person, tofu, gluten and a bunch of other iron-rich, protein rich foods with most meals. Or Indonesian- they invented Tempeh and it’s really good.

  • Sometimes meat cooking smells good but then I realize it is the plant seasonings smothered on it. Meat is bland & nasty in taste & smell without plant seasonings. I have a hyper sensitive nose & to me areas with raw meat have a strong chemical bleach smell. I heard they do bleach meat to kill microbes, but dang they must soak the meat in bleach.

  • Sometimes it does smell good to me. And sometimes I miss eating raw fish and oysters. But I don’t feel guilty.

    Do people on weight loss diets feel guilty for thinking that cakes and ice cream look really good and they’d love to have some?

    I just remind myself that they’re pieces of animals’ corpses. Eww.

  • I don’t particularly miss eating meat, but I see no reason to feel guilty about enjoying the smell of it. I think I enjoy the smell of some things more than I enjoyed eating them.
    If you aren’t eating it, where’s the harm?

  • I don’t do guilt for random thoughts. Yes, sometimes that chicken turning on that grill looks mighty good. Sometimes it makes my mouth water. So what? I’m not buying it or eating it, so what is there to feel guilty about?

  • Guilty isn’t the right word. I just think hm that smells good, but would never eat it and move on with my life. I dont dwell on it

  • To be honest, it dosn’t even smell or look good to me any more. It dosn’t bother me, in fact i often find it really gross

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