Does eating meat or something cooked in meat/meat juice make you sick after being vegetarian for years?!


Question: Does eating meat or something cooked in meat/meat juice make you sick after being vegetarian for years?
Was on a long weekend break from university. My mom died not too long ago, so went back home to see my dad. Ended up going over to a family friends house. They're VERY anti-carb and pro-protein (animal protein, special note). We went over slightly after supperr time, and stayed the night (they have three children, 5, 5, and 4, and they've been begging us to sleep over for a while!). In the morming, breakfast was made. They made bacon, beans cooked with chunks of pork fat, left over lobster, beef patties, and eggs. I'm technically lacto-ovo vegetarian (tho eggs make me sick, ill still have it when i have no other choice, like this situation), but they live in a sort of cabin, and had very little food (NO (literally) fruits or veggies in the place; no bread, etc). They were on a sort of meat protein diet (very muscle-building oriented family---both parents extremely muscular). I was so hungry, and we wouldn't be leaving for another 5-6 hours. So I though eggs were the safest bet. They usually made me feel not too great, but this time, I had the WORST stomach ache I have ever had in my life. In my nearly 4 years vegetarian (since I left for university), I have been a strict vegetarian. So the stomach ache surprised me at first, but then one of the people there said they cooked the eggs in the grease from the bacon (disgusting) which I had ALREADY consumed, unknowing at the time.

Was this absolutely HORRENDOUS stomach ache (which was 3x worse what it usually is for eggs) due to the bacon grease (i.e. "animal protein" or such intolerance Ive built up because of being vegetarian?), or just a coincidence? The pain DID pass, but it took 18 hours.

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It was probably more that it was such an unprocessed, out in the country meal, rather than what you are used to. The bacon fat likely had minimal impact on that.

It also could have been the water. It could be perfectly healthy, but have different things in it than you are used to, so it would get you sick until you got used to it gradually.



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That happens to me as well, I get sick if i accidently eat meat, but usually if it's very oily.



no. you don't get intolerance to meat after not eating it even for twenty years.

MAybe it was just too oily. It wasn't the meat.

Otherwise you'd get sick every time you ate something you've never eaten before.
If you don't eat eggs because they make you sick, then you ate eggs and got sick, I think it was the eggs.



Lasting that long is abnormal. Usually, food will pass through in that period of time. It isn't abnormal to get sick after eating something that is rich in animal fat after a long period of abstaining. You should always bring something suitable for your diet when you eat at someone else's place if you haven't let them know ahead of time that you don't eat meat.



I highly doubt this, it seems to be a myth, there would be no reason for your body not to be able to digest certain proteins just because you abstain from meat.

More than likely its
1) hormones/blood etc ie things not found regularly in a vegetarian diet that are ofund in high proportions in meat
2) meat is heavy, fats + high levels of protein etc. Potentially this could give indigestion & such

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