• Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Man, here’s the thing. I can’t digest fermenting ogliosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols.

    So no beans, mushrooms, onions garlic wheat rye or barley, apples, apricots, most berries, etc etc etc.

    I also lead a “fairly” active lifestyle against my own wishes. So where does my protein come from? Meat. Chicken, eggs, and hard tofu.

    If I cut meat from my diet, I’m eating three meals a day of hard tofu. What even is the point of life, then?

    • Sonline@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been vegetarian for around 3 years after I discovered how badly we treat animals, and also by connecting meat and animals in my mind… Realising that the same pets that I adore are the steaks that I ate. But still, I went vegetarian because I could. I could manage to find time in my life to change my diet and to make sure I had no deficiency in nutrients… So don’t be too hard on yourself mate, your situation is totally understandable! Actually I strongly disagree with people saying that anyone could become vegetarian if they wanted to, it takes a lot of thought, trial and error, time and obviously a lack of allergies… Saying that, anyone can fight for animal rights in their own way, being vegetarian is only one of the many tools we have…

      • abraxas@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’m grateful that you say that (not OP). So many vegetarians/vegans are convinced anyone who isn’t vegan hates animals, or is at least “worse” than them on some magical scale they came up with.

        I fought for my state’s free range chicken law, but I wouldn’t fight for bans of consuming chicken or eggs. I would love a law that banned chick-killing (the practice of immediately killing all newborn chickens of the “wrong gender” when reselling chickens to farms or growing egg breeds). I’m sure they’d find a way around that. Despite that, I’ll still eat chicken.

    • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Same here. I’m nominally vegan but coeliac disease limits most meal options - I’ll still glady eat meat if available.