Since I can remember I've been somewhat fussy when it comes to meat, if I think about the meat whilst i'm eating it I start to feel nauseous and can't eat anymore. I remember one time I was eating a chicken burger from McDonalds and I started thinking about what I was eating, for the rest of that week I could't bring myself to eat meat. The problem is, I absolutely love beef. Burgers, spaghetti Bolognese and roast beef! Anything with beef, I will eat. Until I think too much about it...
I also have a very strange sort of phobia of fish. I can't remember the last time I ate it, definitely over ten years ago, I can't remember what it tastes like. All I know is that it's stinky and when you go in the sea they swim between your toes and pop. Well, thats what happens in my mind. I can't eat around anyone eating fish and I can't look at fish because they make me feel sick.
So this leaves me with 3 problems...
1. I can't eat meat without feeling nauseous
2. No one around me can eat any kind of fish unless it doesn't look like fish
3. I'm very strange
For years my dislike for meat (or the thought of meat) grew stronger and I started to eat it less and less. When finally, at the beginning of january this year, I decided that I was going to be become a vegetarian. This might not come as a shock to you as I wasn't really eating meat anyway, but my decision wasn't based on the fact that I couldn't eat meat anymore, it was based on how absolutely crazy it is that we actually eat meat!
Now this might sound slightly over the top but after watching
Vegucated, a documentary that I strongly recommend to watch (unless you believe that ignorance is bliss), I just felt vegetarianism was the next step for me. Everything just made sense, I couldn't believe that I hadn't done it sooner and I felt and still feel now that my eyes have been opened. I want to preach my vegetarianism to the whole world and make people understand that they do not need to eat meat to survive and that by eating meat we are destroying our planet and KILLING ANIMALS, but i won't go into that...
I'm not even a huge lover of animals but the things that I have seen on numerous documentaries regarding how animals are treated and where our meat is actually from (which no meat eater ever seems to know) have completely changed my whole mindset. Why should we kill and eat another living thing and feel no shame about it? A comedian (can't remember who) once said that we cry when our dog dies but when we eat meat we don't even think about it, I think this just describes the human race. What you don't know wont hurt you, eh?
Despite everything I've said I honestly do not judge anyone for eating meat, if I could eat it then I would. I wish that I was able to eat as much chicken and beef as I wanted without thinking about it too much, but I can't and thats just me!
Have you ever considered being a vegetarian? Do you think I'm a crazy person?
