<story><title>Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/3039505/the-vast-majority-of-vegetarians-and-vegans-eventually-return-to-meat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NhanH</author><text>One thing worth noting is that regardless of one&amp;#x27;s personal reasons to be vegan&amp;#x2F; vegetarian , being 90% vegan WILL almost always be 90% effective for said reason.&lt;p&gt;This is not to dispute anything from the article. Just a reminder that if you sympathize or relate with any cause to reduce animal product usage, you don&amp;#x27;t have to be &amp;quot;vegan&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;vegetarian&amp;quot;, just try to reduce your consumption to the point where it starts to inconvenient you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schnevets</author><text>I wanted to cut meat for environmental purposes, so I&amp;#x27;ve started only eating it on holidays - turkey on Thanksgiving, fish on Christmas Eve, a burger&amp;#x2F;barbecue on 4th of July, buffalo wings on my birthday. I don&amp;#x27;t describe myself with the &amp;quot;V&amp;quot; word, and usually just say I &amp;quot;avoid eating meat&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;People are usually critical when I opt for vegetarian options, and then completely lighten up when I describe that I do eat meat. It&amp;#x27;s strange how defensive people get about eating meat, and how quickly they lighten up just because I eat meat 5 times a year.</text></comment>
<story><title>Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/3039505/the-vast-majority-of-vegetarians-and-vegans-eventually-return-to-meat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NhanH</author><text>One thing worth noting is that regardless of one&amp;#x27;s personal reasons to be vegan&amp;#x2F; vegetarian , being 90% vegan WILL almost always be 90% effective for said reason.&lt;p&gt;This is not to dispute anything from the article. Just a reminder that if you sympathize or relate with any cause to reduce animal product usage, you don&amp;#x27;t have to be &amp;quot;vegan&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;vegetarian&amp;quot;, just try to reduce your consumption to the point where it starts to inconvenient you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rqebmm</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve wrestled with it, and settled into prioritizing humanely-raised meat. I have far more qualms about the inhumane treatment of most farm animals than I do about the concept of raising and slaughtering animals for food.&lt;p&gt;The heuristic I apply is I only eat antibiotic free meat. It has nothing to do with animals taking antibiotics per se, but rather that large farms abuse them as it&amp;#x27;s cheaper to pump a pig full of antibiotics than it is to provide remotely sanitary living conditions, nevermind the environmental issues around creating antibiotic resistant superbugs.</text></comment>