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I've also been a vegetarian for the last decade and change, and the idea of eating dead animals disgusts me, as does the taste of it.

I find it very difficult to understand how meat eaters can manage to get it through their throat without throwing up, but to each their own.

I sometimes get comments about how environmentally conscious I am or how ethical I am for being vegetarian, but I don't feel virtuous at all. It doesn't take any special willpower for me not to eat meat, I have zero craving for it.

I hate vegetarian food that tries to replicate the taste and texture of meat.

As other commenters have mentioned, there's a big market for just honest vegetarian cooking that does not try to imitate anything.

The same goes for food as for people: just be yourself! Don't try to be something you're not.