To have some meat for the first time in 40 years.

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Was brought up veggie but eat fish. DM ate like this. I’ve never had a sausage, steak, bacon in my life, only accidentally tasted ham.

I have a craving for a bacon butty (not PG, just ill). They smell sooo good! But what, if anything would happen to me?

YABU- eat the damn thing, you’ll be fine and glad you did;

YANBU- your body isn’t used to it, it’s like plonking yourself in the middle of a different continent and expecting to eat the local cuisine without a bit of D and V at least. You can’t change such major dietary habits of a lifetime easily.

Nothing will happen if you eat a small amount of meat for the first time, any perceived issue will be psychological. Obviously if you ate a whole packet of bacon that might be different but a normal serving, nothing.

I reverted to meat after a very, very long stint of vegetarianism and literally nothing happened. Your body is used to fish and other proteins and is designed to eat meat. You aren’t introducing alien plant forms.

Even as a lifelong vegetarian myself (40+ years) I laughed out loud at this 😄

It needs English mustard to be really good.

Sigh. Ok, the dog or cat belonging to your friends, if you have them.

I've been a vegetarian for all of my adult life and this is what I eat - really delicious! I couldn't eat meat bacon because I'm an animal lover and also I don't want to put dead flesh in my mouth.
https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/la-vie-plant-based-smoked-bacon/884415-788439-788440

Bacon is not the best meat... have a steak.

There really aren't vegan cultures, it's a very modern, artificial way to eat.

It’s not! Just to use one example…. Ethiopian cultures eat vegan for most of the year due to religious reasons.

What is artificial about eating plants?!

youll feel better for eating meat, especially red meat. It contains every vitamin your body needs. If it was a carrot, it’d be called a superfood

I would love to keep the cats near me in a cage, so they wouldn;t shit all over my garden...

And, more generally, those of us who eat meat all know that the meat we eat comes from animals - and we're fine with that, so it's not a particularly smart argument to pretend we're eating our... pet dogs?

Why is modern culture not a valid culture.

Go for it. Choose top quality bacon from a good butcher. Maybe a maple cure or some thing like that? Not cheap supermarket rubbish. You will never look back.

Quorn bacon is beyond revolting OP. Don't have that.

I stopped being vegan one day by eating a rare steak. It was very good. Nothing happened.

Previously vegetarianism was largely ethical, so there was no need for veganism at a cultural level.

Now the vast dairy and egg industry is responsible for perhaps more animal torture than the meat industry - endless factories full of sentient creatures who experience terror just as we would.

Millions of cows and calves in constant distress at being separated, hundreds of millions of chicken living in unspeakable conditions year on year, barely able to move, pecking each others eyes out from fear.

Chickens can recognise and distinguish between up to a hundred human faces. They display empathy when observing the distress of others. They can count, for god's sakes.

I'm not actually against eating meat as an absolute - I'm against causing terror, grief and despair.

Ive never understood the argument that a vegan/vegetarian eating meat would become physically sick. It sounds more psychological than physical otherwise surely everyone would get sick eating anything new and thats not the case .