Merely for curiosity; for what reasons do a LONG TIME vegetarian or vegan go back to eating meat?!

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well I think it's doing something good for the wrong reasons. for example when someone goes vegan or vegetarian to lose weight, once they lost the weight they're likely to go back. if they don't lose weight, then they'll give up the veggie diet too.
if they do do it for the right reasons, then it's weak willpower or resistance. for example my friend was a vegetarian for a year until her brother wanted the Christmas present of her eating meat, so she did. my brother (age 13) has been lacto-ovo vegetarian for 2 yrs and he doesn't plan on going back.
I was lacto-ovo veg for 2 yrs also, but went vegan 7 months ago and I don't plan on quitting either.

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I only really hear of people who tried it, didn't work at it and failed because they just decided to give up. My husband has been a vegetarian for 15 years and I would find it very peculiar for him to just suddenly eating meat again...especially because he went vegan 2 years ago.

it doesnt really matter---no excuse is good enough. (EXCEPT those life threatening---but ***MANY*** people will falsely claim that. usually, they were just extremely irresponsible in planning out their diets or anti-vegan doctors giving out bad advice---which happens more than you would think, their training on nutrition is very limited---which is why there are nutritionists and dietitians)
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because they are missing protein due to not eating right while vegetarian. or one day they just try it and get hooked again. meat is disgusting though and i will never eat it ever again

For some ppl it cn be who they hang out with. Like if you move in with a boyfriend who eats meat or there are no vegetarians in your life anymore.

I don't know if this will help but I have been a raw food vegan for 11 years and have no intention of ever eating meat or dairy again and have no desire to. I love my raw food diet of fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds and all that i can do with them in the way of raw food recipes. i turned to a raw food diet when i was diagnosed with breast cancer and cured myself naturally. So many of the diseases and illnesses we see today are caused by meat and dairy. Nurse Jen

http://www.RawFoodDietCure.com
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http://www.RawFoodDietBenefits.com

Others will have different reasons but usually what I hear is that self imposed unnecessary restrictions get pretty tiring after a while. They became vegetarians at a relatively younger age (15 years up) so they have a lot of options since they are not really responsible for their diet, just "asking" to have something vegetarian/vegan" bought and/or cooked for them by their parents. As they got older, having jobs and a more dynamic diverse social and professional life, they realize that the absolutes they believed in as kids get lost in the "several shades of gray" realities that they now find themselves in. It does not help that they live in a society where food choices and options aren't as abundant as a Western country might have. That catering to the wants, tastes and whims of the minority are not a priority of business establishments. Only one in 350 restaurants will serve a vegetarian option that is more than just a token salad. The supermarkets have one shelf of canned vegetarian "meals" (usually from China) and one small freezer/cooler if at all mock meats. Tofu is plentiful but you cannot really subsist on tofu everyday for life can you? Fruits and veggies are of curse available but the quality and variety are very limited. forget abut Western based food companies because their products cost three to five times than the "regular" stuff" Example a can of Amy's vegetarian chili costs $3 while a can of local "regular" chili costs less than a buck. Silk soy milk is $2.50/liter while regular cow's milk is $0.75 and so on.

My wife's ex boss was a "devout" vegan for more than 20 years. When she became CEO, she found out that acceptance among fellow CEO's hinged on her being "one of the boys". During a benefit dinner, she had her first ever taste of roast turkey, said "wow" and never looked back.

Having a vegetarian diet does not generally have more benefits. A well balanced omnivore diet is as beneficial as a vegetarian diet (and vice versa). The problem is how many people actually have a well balanced diet vegetarian or otherwise? How many vegetarians/omnivores distinguish the propaganda and hype from real facts?

I'm not vegetarian, but when I say no cheese or milk on my food, people assume I'm a vegetarian.

In this country, the American viewpoint is that lactose intolerance is a disease that needs to be diagnosed by biopsy. What utter nonsense. If stopping dairy makes your kid feel better, there you go, lactose intolerance 'diagnosis' without the biopsy.

It is a nonsense viewpoint that I always try to inform people the truth about: the truth that dairy is non-essential, the truth that consuming dairy has health risks, and the truth that lactose intolerance is not a ''disease'' but a perfectly normal state that occurs for most of us after we no longer need to consume species appropriate breast milk!

I am in absolute disagreement with performing biopsies on a kid over lactose intolerance, and then forcing them to swallow down pills with milk that makes them sick, or to eat "just a little" dairy, for "their own good."

I'm not entirely sure. In some cases, yes, it is failure to thrive. For others, they take the advice of their doctors. For some, it is inconvenient or difficult. Some people cave to pressure from partners, family members, and friends. In some cases, it's darned near impossible to maintain. I gave it up when I lived in Korea for a year. I didn't speak Korean well enough to explain that I didn't eat any animals, let alone understand all of the gazillions of hidden ingredients on food label. I basically just ate around anything that looked like it had once been part of an animal, but I assume I was eating stuff made out of broth/fat/etc at least now and then.

Maybe you just get a taste for some pork hock one day, and you were never vegetarian due to animal welfare in the first place.

Because they get sick of having no muscle tone and looking like moby. Then they realize how eating the right amount of meat is even more healthy than their vegan diet.