Considering quasi-vegetarianism.

[foolishtook]

I'm trying to slowly eliminate most meat from my diet (except fish). I was walking around the grocery store (read: super walmart), losing hope about ever finding anything healthy that didn't sound gross, or something good that didn't contain some meat products in it. Then I found the soy section

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[newredshoes]

Vegetarianism happens to me by accident sometimes -- mostly because I crave red curry tofu like a fiend for about three weeks at a time, and then I fall over and start begging for steak.

[foolishtook]

Even so, the thousands of cows you save in your lifetime just by cutting back will thank you. ^_^ (And people like my dad will eclipse both our habits with the amount of cow he's capable of eating in one month. ><)

[newredshoes]

They should throw me an appreciation dinner, with a presentation of a plaque and everything!

(The thought of eating meat in units of cow is... terrifying. Gah!)

[foolishtook]

The average human eats around 1,500 animals in their lifetime, according to PETA. But they might be bulking up those stats and giving people 90 year lifespans and 3 sirloins a day, counting each egg as an animal, blah blah blah. Either way, looking at slaughterhouse pictures and reading about the practices involved in mass producing meat screwed up the way I look at the grocery store. Downright scary.

((laughs) Yeah, but the best unit of measurement when dealing with Texans.)

[ajodasso]

I've been relying on tofu a lot lately, because my stomach is having an even harder time with meat proteins than it used to (must be a thing that happens as I progressively get older :-P) As for fish, though, bless it, because it's never given me any trouble and I hope it never does. I've become half vegetarian out of sheer necessity more than out of any sincere desire to do so.

[foolishtook]

Do you have any tofu recommendations? To me it's this nebulous white substance that doesn't look at all like food, but I want to try it. The jello jiggleresque tofu at Grand Buffet with vanilla flavoring was pretty good.