In Star Trek, the Vulcans are vegetarians, but, they do know how to hunt and gather and during their survival trips they eat stuff like lizards that they found. Their reasoning is that if they could easily avoid causing any harm even to non-sentient beings in their daily life they should as it is the logical thing to do. If the consumption of animal life is necessary for survival, then it will be illogical to feel guilty over it because the lions gotta do what the lions gotta do to survive.
Makes me wonder whether they eat replicated meat since it's molecularly the same but nothing died...
ZOMG!!! YOU DECIDED TO EAT MEAT AGAIN! OMFG!!!!! GO AND BURN IN A FIRE U ANIMAL MURDER!!!!!
Well..unlike half the people here, I sympthtize with you. If you want to go back to meat eating, fine with me. As long as people are slaughtering animals, somebody needs to eat them: waste of life.
Honstely? I would break veg/veganism if I was in your sitution. I don't think anyone here as really been to a forgien country, but you know how rude it is if you don't accept local meals? Especially if that's all they have? Yeah, I rather eat and live than commit to something that I would probably break once civilization ends and I have to hunt for food again.
So here is some nice advice from someone who went from being veg to being a meat eater to being veg again:
Start out with fish. It's the easiest to digest and work your way up to chicken and then finally beef. Beef is the hardest to digest and you'll get sick.
If you want to pick up veganism once you come to the country, go for it. If not..that's cool to.
i don't comment here too often, but i feel obliged to apologize on behalf of vegans for the rude responses you've gotten. it's posts like this that make me understand how some people can't stand us. i'm mulling over joining the peace corps and i'm having to think about the same decision that you've made. you shouldn't be judged for doing what you think is right for you, and i can't believe some people are being so harsh.
also, because i'm trying to make this decision too or figure out whether i would be able to go while maintaining a vegan diet, i would love to hear about your experiences once you get back if you are at all able to post here.
thanks for the comment. i'm considering joining the peace corps after college, too--i'll be milling the veganism thing over all over again after in a few years. yep, it seems like some people are vegans just because they can justify their lives vis-a-vi others.
as far you hearing about my experiences, i won't be going for another nine months, but feel free to add me, if you want to hear about them--i don't post very often, so i won't be clogging up your friends page.
The Peace Corps...that is incredibly cool. I was considering joining that, but chickened out for a few reasons. :-/ I admire anyone who is able to go through with it. My responses to you in this community were actually mostly based on what the Peace Corps recruiters had told me when I had asked them similar questions about vegetarianism. (So you don't have to scroll back looking: Basically, it might be mutually beneficient to explain how you normally eat to guard against misunderstandings, but to go with the flow as much as you possibly can while in their country.)
Don't let the assholes get you down--what you are doing is great.
I can't speak for mexico, but in central america, especially in poorer areas, you often aren't even offered meat...eggs and cheese if the family has a cow/chicken, but usually it's just rice and beans.
Anyway, my number one advice is take it slow with the dairy. more than anything, your body has probably gotten pretty stupid about how to digest milk in the past 6 years (since, you know, we aren't actually meant to digest dairy past infancy). Take it sloooow, and maybe bring some lactaid.
thanks for the advice--i'll definitely be taking it slow. i suppose it would be more accurate to say that my body has gotten smart, and i have to retrain it to be stupid again.
a friend told me when he began eating meat again after being vegan for years that chicken is the easiest meat to adapt to right away, outside of fish. its a lot easier on the stomach/intestinal tract than red meat/beef.
before digging straight into the flesh, though, i would start with some dairy (milk, cheese) & eggs to soften the effects of what is to come.
personally the one time i accidentally ingested a bunch of ground beef, it was absolutely killer on my stomach. it felt like i had a sharp, pointed, heavy brick inside my stomach & i couldn't stand up for hours because of it. after drinking some ginger ale to calm my stomach & eating a bean& rice burrito, though, the cramping went away. its just a matter of letting your system get used to the heaviness of it all again.
hopefully you don't come off as an american prick. good luck with that.
& remember things like ginger, acidophilous live cultures (you can find it in yogurt or pill-form), hot water (tea), etc will help keep your stomach at ease.
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Makes me wonder whether they eat replicated meat since it's molecularly the same but nothing died...
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Well..unlike half the people here, I sympthtize with you. If you want to go back to meat eating, fine with me. As long as people are slaughtering animals, somebody needs to eat them: waste of life.
Honstely? I would break veg/veganism if I was in your sitution. I don't think anyone here as really been to a forgien country, but you know how rude it is if you don't accept local meals? Especially if that's all they have? Yeah, I rather eat and live than commit to something that I would probably break once civilization ends and I have to hunt for food again.
So here is some nice advice from someone who went from being veg to being a meat eater to being veg again:
Start out with fish. It's the easiest to digest and work your way up to chicken and then finally beef. Beef is the hardest to digest and you'll get sick.
If you want to pick up veganism once you come to the country, go for it. If not..that's cool to.
It's your life. Do what you want.
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Aww, come on, it's not half...it's only been two people being rude to her so far. But boy are they *loud*. >_
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also, because i'm trying to make this decision too or figure out whether i would be able to go while maintaining a vegan diet, i would love to hear about your experiences once you get back if you are at all able to post here.
good luck!
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as far you hearing about my experiences, i won't be going for another nine months, but feel free to add me, if you want to hear about them--i don't post very often, so i won't be clogging up your friends page.
good luck to you, as well!
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I can't speak for mexico, but in central america, especially in poorer areas, you often aren't even offered meat...eggs and cheese if the family has a cow/chicken, but usually it's just rice and beans.
Anyway, my number one advice is take it slow with the dairy. more than anything, your body has probably gotten pretty stupid about how to digest milk in the past 6 years (since, you know, we aren't actually meant to digest dairy past infancy). Take it sloooow, and maybe bring some lactaid.
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before digging straight into the flesh, though, i would start with some dairy (milk, cheese) & eggs to soften the effects of what is to come.
personally the one time i accidentally ingested a bunch of ground beef, it was absolutely killer on my stomach. it felt like i had a sharp, pointed, heavy brick inside my stomach & i couldn't stand up for hours because of it. after drinking some ginger ale to calm my stomach & eating a bean& rice burrito, though, the cramping went away. its just a matter of letting your system get used to the heaviness of it all again.
hopefully you don't come off as an american prick. good luck with that.
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