Reasons People Stopped Being Vegan/Vegetarian

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Eric Lund
Mar 21, 2020 10:00 AM EDT

Messing too much with your diet can prove to have some unintended consequences, and vegans and vegetarians who aren't careful about balancing their diet correctly can end up with some annoying problems that could be solved by eating meat. If anything, the topic of eating animal products gives us some interesting moments like this tumblr post that calls out vegans for not eating honey or this tumblr post that schooled people on plague and veganism. Here are people's reasons for returning to the meat.

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    Text - SquizzleSE 1.8k points · 6 days ago I wanted to see if it made me sick. I've since eaten it here and there but it's not often. I was vegan (food and otherwise) for near a decade. I'm planning on going back because I can honestly say that I've not been missing out. It's possible to veganize about anything these days. Oh, also. No it didn't make me sick at all.
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    Text - AAM13353 1.7k points · 5 days ago Was vegetarian for 12 years. Had a mental breakdown after a death in the family and instead of drinking or getting high, I went out and got a steak taco. Life is too short to miss out on tacos.
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    Text - ADR_03 1.3k points · 6 days ago I went from fat, to extremely skinny and I hadn't strength. I wanted to have bigger muscles, so I started eating protein from veggies. It wasn't enough, I needed a lot per day to increase my muscles, so I started eating two eggs everyday. And now, I eat 200 grams of meat two days a week just for easy protein. I still eat fruits and vegetables everyday, I love it. The eggs and meat are just because I want muscles lol.
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    Text - lovelymoth 57.5k points · 6 days ago 3 5 My aunt was a vegetarian for health reasons. The day she got diagnosed with cancer she went to In-n-Out.
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  • 05
    Text - SummerMournings 24.3k points · 6 days ago I'm still as veggie as possible but I moved to a country where is is 10000% harder to be vegan (Japan). This is mostly due to not knowing a ton of Japanese and the fact that there is fish or meat in soo many restaurant foods and the culture here isn't like in America where you can ask for items to be removed or substitutions... Not that my Japanese ability would allow me to do that anyway
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    Text - f-f-fuckit 21.7k points · 6 days ago I still eat mostly vegetarian food and have done all my life. However my husband was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and coeliac which means that a high fibre/lower iron diet is not an option and a lot of the substitutes aren't gluten free. More often than not when he has meat I'll leave it or have the veggie equivalent but there are just not enough hours in the day to make 2 separate lasagnes and sauce etc.
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    Text - originalchaosinabox 4.6k points · 6 days ago Not me, but my brother-in-law went vegan for a stretch. Ône of his pet causes is donating blood. As soon as he's able to, he's down at the blood clinic donating again. Anyway, on a vegan diet, his blood iron levels got too low to donate blood. So it was back to meat for him. But his daughter (my niece) is still vegan, and it's driving them nuts, because she'll only eat those vegan chicken nuggets, and they're getting pricey.
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    Text - jad3dcrow 15.4k points · 6 days ago G 2 3 5 I was vegan for 3 years and had gone home to my community which is tremendously poor. To have cold cuts and a bag of Doritos is a luxury. My Aunt who was going blind made a family feast and everyone came, and she made a very traditional Lamb Stew. My heart broke when I thought of how much of her income she must have spent to make this possible and felt like a completely entitled outsider when I told them I was vegan. They couldn't comprehend whe
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    Text - stolenkar 13.7k points · 6 days ago · edited 5 days ago Got a genetic illness which makes me permanently anemic. My body only absorbs a tiny amount of iron from food and that amount is "burned" pretty fast. Turns out it doesent help to cut that tiny amount aswell. Also i didnt replace the meat, i just left it out so i basically ate less food.
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    Text - Ivytongue 18.6k points · 6 days ago · edited 4 days ago I was vegan for a year when I lived in a big city that had lots of inexpensive options for what one could eat. When I moved to a small town in beef country, the cost of good produce quadrupled, as did the cost of meat substitutes. I quickly learned that if I didn't eat whatever I could get my hands on, I would starve, so I started eating meat again. Some people say food deserts aren't real. They are.
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    Text - SassBerryPie 9.2k points · 5 days ago I was using veganism as a guise for an eating disorder for well over a year. When I finally realized I was in trouble, after losing 80lbs, I went and bought lamb chops and devoured them. Also therapy.
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    Text - grindermonk 31.0k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago 2 @ I was traveling in Africa (edit: this part of the trip happened to be in Zambia, not that the specific location really matters for the point of the story), and stayed in a small village off the beaten track. I had just arrived and as the matriarch of my host family was showing me to my room, and helping me get settled in, her boys were out back slaughtering a goat for me. I couldn't turn down that meal, because that goat repres
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    Text - įgoigjfs 697 points · 5 days ago I became homeless and couldnt afford to be picky about my food. My life is stable now finance-wise and i now eat a balanced diet with meat, try to eat a lot of veggies, and i sometimes eat fast food and candy, which i didnt do when i was vegan. Reason i became vegan was i thought meat is gross, and i still think it is so i still dont eat it too excessively.
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    Text - lovelymoth 57.5k points · 6 days ago 3 5 My aunt was a vegetarian for health reasons. The day she got diagnosed with cancer she went to In-n-Out.
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    Text - DasDoesSomeThings 8.1k points · 5 days ago S I was on a diet for health reasons. When I was told I was allowed to eat meat again my fridge started looking like a Mexican fever dream.
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    Text - HamfastFurfoot 5.4k points · 6 days ago I lost a lot of weight (to the point that people asked if I was ok). I was tired and had low energy. I ended up being anemic. I slowly ended up getting to a point that I started eating meat again.
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    Text - PJSegers89 4.9k points · 6 days ago · edited 5 days ago 32 fairly stupid reason, because I broke up with my ex. I begame a vegan to support her, and it felt weird eating meat while she was so against it.When the relation was over however, I no longer felt the need to support my ex in that way. Thus meat was back on the menu boys!!
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    Text - SinfulNights6119 3.7k points · 6 days ago Hair loss and health issues got worse. I'm fine now. I was vegan for a year due to wanting to eat clean and it back fired.
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    Text - Cringing_Regrets 3.3k points · 6 days ago Not vegan but vegetarian, I was vegetarian for a good 4 years, once I hit the 4 year mark, energy was at an all time low, my whole body felt weak, and the kicker I had very, VERY frequent nose bleeds. it was so often I was use to it for a while, eventually the nose bleeds came to be too much, and I started eating meat again, then the nose bleeds stopped all together I haven't had a single nose bleed thus far, mind you I quit being vegetarian 2 yea
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