[jdavis703]

After 14 years of eating a plant-based diet my partner got a cat. Then I started buying the cat raw meat. Shortly after I became an omnivore again. I still try to minimize meat for my own health and the climate, but it’s hard to argue about the ethics of meat eating while feeding an obligate carnivore.

[toper-centage]

That's my main argument against flexitarianism. You can't be "kinda vegan" without leaving your brain in permanent stress due to dissonance. It's part of what stops me from adopting an animal, specially a cat.

[jdavis703]

> You can't be "kinda vegan" without leaving your brain in permanent stress due to dissonance.

To be honest, a lot of meat still tastes kind of gross to me. Give me fried tofu over baked chicken in a salad. Heck if I’m just having a a boring burger for a random lunch on a Tuesday, give me an Impossible patty over some crappy fast food beef.

That said if there’s a dish that’s enhanced by meat (say a Wagyu steak or a pastrami sandwich) then sure, I’ll eat that a few times a week.

At least so far, this hasn’t caused me any stress.

[throwawayboise]

I tried impossible beef for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It's nothing like real beef. It sorta passes for a meat-colored component in something like lasagna, but the texture and taste is not the same.