| morenoingrato said: I am part of the hardline pro-meat camp. I wouldn't be able to give up meat for a 2 weeks, even less a lifetime. |
I used to think this way. But it's a dangerous way to think, IMO. Replace that statement with heroin, or sex, or child porn, or whatever. I believe we should be able to give *anything* in our lives up, given a good enough reason. Addiction to anything is a very bad thing, IMO.
I ate mostly meat, dairy, eggs, and refined carbohydrates for the first 40-ish years of my life. Now I eat a diet that includes no meat, no dairy, no eggs, and very little in the way of refined carbohydrates. So I've done an almost complete 180 degree turn in my diet. And there was a time that, just like you, I couldn't imagine giving it up for 2 weeks, let alone a lifetime. But then I did, once I realized there was a good enough reson to do so. I try to be open-minded in all things, and have done several 180 degree turns in my life once new information presented itself.
