Have you eaten meat after being vegetarian for years?

I'll never eat meat again. Just revolts me what the poor animals go through in those slaughterhouses staffed by arseholes who we know from whistle blowers are often cruel to the terrified animals.

An upshot is my bowels are in tip top condition without meat rotting inside me. Go to the loo after a meat eater and Christ it's windows open and air freshener at the ready 🤮

Interesting!

I’m vegan and if I ever accidentally have milk (if I pick up the wrong coffee cup at home for eg) it tastes rancid to me. I used to love cheddar cheese but now even if I smell it, it smells off. It must be to do with the change in taste buds and therefore sense of smell also?

I was a vegetarian for 17 years, after coming out of hospital after emergency surgery my partner asked me what I wanted to eat and all I wanted was fish and chips. There was no looking back. I throughly enjoyed them and have eaten meat and fish every since, about 24 years.

Accidentally - it was pork and gave me a bad stomach

I went back to eating chicken and fish after 20+ years as a vegetarian. I like the taste and find it easier to achieve a good protein intake without too much fat when I include a bit of meat, but I still eat veggie about 60% of the time as DH is veggie. I don't feel guilty - there's just as much animal exploitation in producing eggs as there is in producing chicken meat, and I never gave up eggs. There's no such thing as ethical purity, even vegans make some compromises, we each just do our best.

Been veggie for 45 years from the age of 13. I wouldn't eat meat again. I couldn't bear the thought of it.

Yep, I went from strict vegetarian to eating meat and now I’m back to less meat as I got sick from chicken at a meal out

I've been vegetarian since I was tiny and have accidentally eaten meat on a handful of occasions. The main reason I've known I'm eating something meat is because it tastes so disgusting to me.

Ham tastes rancid. Fish is absolutely rotten. I genuinely couldn't believe how rubbish chicken was given how much people eat it. I honestly believe meat is an acquired taste, I'm sure I could acquire it if I really tried but I have no reason to.

I tried going vegan and really hoped I'd lose the taste for eggs, milk, cheese etc but never did. I think it was too late for me sadly.

Been vegetarian since a teen (50+ years). Only ever eaten meat accidentally and even then would spit it out rather than swallow it. I was surprised to find that the taste of bacon isn’t anything like as nice as the smell of it

edited to correct my maths!

Veggie for 18yrs and have started to eat very small bits and pieces of meat. I honestly am just over it, and ageing has changed what I can eat and not gain weight so I find food choice increasingly difficult. Not sure I’m ready to go the whole hog yet.

I am vegetarian but cook meat for the family. I have had an occasional nibble of roast chicken, but it’s never tasted nice enough to make me want more. I’m a bit grossed out by mince or sausages so couldn’t bring my self to taste them. It’s been 30 years since I stopped eating meat, and I can’t see any reason why I would eat it again.

Yes. Made me feel ill. Definitely won’t eat meat again.

Not red meat, but fish and very very occasionally chicken after being veggie then vegan for all my life basically. I was feeling very unhealthy and run down so added in fish and I can eat it without feeling guilty unlike red meat as I feel horrendous and have nightmares.

I felt like this, and still do sometimes but it was what worked for us at the time and ultimately I am grateful for the experience as I have learnt more about nutrition, cooking, ingredients and we have an overall healthier diet than before I was veggie. Most of our meals are veggie or vegan, and we eat meat or fish around once a week.

Depends why you're veggie i suppose.

Ive been veggie for 15 years and at one point in the early days i was served a chicken meal on an aeroplane and rather than waste the meal, i ate around it as i couldnt bring myself to eat it. I felt guilty about the waste of life but no personal guilt as I didn't make the mistake and meat gets binned every day. I wasnt creating demand for the industry.

There was a point after about 10 years when i thought about what i'd do now in thst situation and i had a physical, lip curling reaction to the idea of even eating around it. Now the actual idea of chewing on a chicken's body just makes me feel repulsed on a really deep level, probably like how a non veggie would feel if they were served human meat.

I was veggie for a couple of years then vegan for a few years. Went back to eating eggs and dairy a few years ago as I was craving dairy during my second pregnancy. Also because it was easier to avoid UPF if eating dairy and eggs. Then in the last year or so we eat meat or fish around once a week. I buy meat from Farm2Fork which seems to be very ethically produced, or as far as possible at least. I am glad of my time as a veggie or vegan because it's taught me a lot about nutrition, food production, ingredients and cooking new things (tofu, tempeh, etc).

I've been off and on veggie since my teens. Ethically and morally I want to be veggie, but I end up craving meat. Most recently, when I was pregnant I craved ham one day (not something I would ever normally eat) and then just protein generally - satisfied by chicken or tuna in small quantities.

Six years on I haven't gone back to being veggie, as I feel better and don't crave meat if I have a bit of it. Probably two or three portions per week, on average.

Are you me? I’ve not looked back after that bacon toasted sandwich. Best thing I’d eaten for 8 years. That was over 40 years ago and I can still remember it. I’d never ever go back to being vegetarian again.

I was vegetarian for about twenty years, became more squeamish about dairy products towards the end of that so although I wasn't vegan I only had dairy in very small amounts.
I made the conscious decision to start eating fish, then chicken, and now I eat everything, and probably more meat and red meat than most people. I ate healthily as a veggie, I just couldn't eat the volume I needed while having a physically active job and doing sports.

I started off with very bland, dry stuff - tinned tuna, plain chicken breast. No way could I have stomached something fatty or oily like pepperoni!

When I first ate any meat I just remember thinking it took ages to chew! I wasn't used to the density, and it filled me up for the rest of the day!

I was vegetarian for a year, it made me quite poorly. I was a bit silly really, I’m coeliac, lactose intolerant and have M.S. too many food groups had been cut out, I even had the vitamin B injections and it made no difference. Within two weeks of reintroducing meat I started to feel better again.

I tend to order veggie when out for a meal over meat for a treat. My acupuncturist says he’s yet to meet a healthy vegetarian 🤩

I went back to meat after 20+ years vegetarian. I had a massive burger and then a rare steak. Not looked back!

Yes, after 28 years (almost my whole life). I have coeliac disease and several intolerances and I was underweight, malnourished and something had to change.

I feel guilty about it, and so only buy meat from local farms etc but I have to admit I feel much healthier since eating it (been about 2 years now).

I have never eaten meat and am now mid 40s (raised veggie). The thought of eating animal flesh is as alien to me as eating human flesh at this point.

I was veggie for 20 years and then started eating meat. I had no problems but I stuck to chicken for a while at first. I ate meat for about 5 years but I’m back to being veggie now.

I have. After 25 years. I needed to. My body was lacking in something and I felt so much better afterwards. After 5 years and trying processed meat I'm not surprised you didn't like it.