Dairy and eggs don’t yet seem gross to me the way meat does I don’t feel the same guilt eating a bite of cheese as I do eating the meat of what was once a living animal. I recognize that milk and cheese are pretty sucky for my body. Veganism, right now, is still about health to me. Once it became about that, I became completely vegetarian. But it’s not just about health-it started out that way, but the act of eating less meat made me aware of the fact that on those occasions when I did eat fish, I was actually eating an animal. I’d eat meat maybe once a month as a special treat, about the frequency with which I eat any other unhealthy food. If not eating meat were strictly about health for me, I wouldn’t need to call myself vegetarian. But I’m not there yet, and I don’t want to make it a rule that I can’t eat any animal products. And that’s why I (and many others) have started out vegetarian and tended towards veganism. You’ll likely find that as you become accustomed to eating less meat, animal products as a whole become less appealing. By most people’s definition, you can be a perfect vegetarian and still enjoy milk, cheese, butter, and eggs. Maybe that’s because most of the recipes I’ve posted recently are from vegan cookbooks.īut I absolutely do not want potential vegetarians to be scared off, thinking it’s gotta be vegan or nothing.
A lot of people mistakenly think I’m vegan, and that No Meat Athlete is a vegan website.