How to ween yourself off meats?!

How to ween yourself off meats?

I want to start becoming a vegetarian. How can I give meats up with a family who eats meat all the time? (btw I'm definitely going to be made fun of by my family but whatever, I hate cruelty towards animals.)

Start off for exaample
Since vegetarian diet is the most suitable human being, it ought to be pleasant, easy and joyful for us. However, people who try to transit to vegetarianism experience big difficulties instead. Several days of strict vegetarian diet would surely wake up a hungry beast of prey within you.

Many famous people failed in adherence to vegetarianism and appeared later to be not vegetarian - despite reports.

However, even people who currently reckon themselves as vegetarians are not such in the original sense of that word. In point of fact, there is no true vegetarianism among varied present lifestyles called vegetarian.

This means that something is wrong with vegetarianism at present.

3. What is amiss in the present vegetarianism?

Thus, we see that lifestyles pretending to be vegetarian are not natural contrary to the expectations. Their followers have to take pills or some kinds of animal food mainly because of principal absence of vitamin B12 in usual plant foods.

However, the problem can be easily solved in full accordance with the basic vegetarian principles.

The matter is that vitamin B12 missing in plant food appears within fruits as a result of fermentation after they come off their mother plant mature, or cutting off and following long-term lying in a warm place.

The fermentation occurs owing to activity of good microflora (community of microorganisms) that naturally lives within fruits. Remember how nice are slightly overripe fruits (bananas, kiwis, pears, for example). The nice taste of such fruits accords to their benefits! Our feelings do not mislead us!

But usually such fruits are treated as refuse. Really, they are perishable, and quickly turn bad.

However, just such fruits should be eaten. And just consumption of such fruits (or their substitutes - see further) makes vegetarianism in true sense of the word possible and allows us to reject any animal food and artificial supplements. You just experience no wish for animal food if you consume overripe fruits.

Besides production of vitamin B12, good microflora destroys some specific substances within fruits (phytates). Those substances prevent absorption of essential minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc etc. - another common problem of the present vegetarianism that is currently solved by means of supplements. Maybe this microflora improves fruits in some other ways too.

In a wonderful way, this way of eating corresponds to the basic principle of vegetarianism that tells us not to injure any living creature.

Saying living creature we usually imply 'animal', but plants are alive too and one injures them when one picks fruits, leaves, stems, shoots from them, or entire plant from the ground. Thus, we shouldn't eat food obtained in that way. Of course, we mustn't injure plants for any other purpose.

In the case we eat ripe and overripe fruits fallen off their mother plants we do not injure plants.

4. Available substitutes of ripe fruits

Of course, at present it's practically impossible to obtain enough supplies of ripe and overripe fruits. Currently fruits are produced industrially and taken unripe for the purpose of shipping and storage. However, this is no reason for giving up.

There are several easy ways to overcome the problem.

Leaving purchase fruits in a warm place for several days to let them ripen.
Leaving a mass of crushed/rubbed/cut/pulped fruits sit in a warm place for several hours (a night, for example).
Leaving extracted juice of fresh fruits sit several hours (a night, for example).
Leaving cut fruits, plus cold water with sugar dissolved in it, for a couple of days in a warm place (a night, for example).

Don't put together different kinds of fruits! The matter is that different fruits contain different types of the microorganisms that can prevent activity of each other.

Consume the foods and beverages obtained in these ways any time you want and as much as you want. Rely on you feeling, and relish them, they are not pills!

Those fermented foods and drinks are to be merely additives to your vegetarian board. You need not live on them only. But it is important that you refuse eating green parts of plants (lettuce, fennel, parsley etc) because they contain bitter substances that suppress that good microflora.

5. My own experience

More that two years ago I became a vegetarian without the intention. I conducted one of my usual kitchen experiments, namely I added to my meals a homemade fermented beverage. As a result I started to note that my piece of chicken always stayed untouched on my plate whereas my rice was eaten. I just did not want to eat any animal food and do not up to this time.

I boiled it again and again several days until it became like a rag. It was the last piece of animal flesh I ever bought.

I also eat neither eggs nor dairy and take neither vitamin nor mineral pills. At this I don't "vegetate"!

Before that I had decided that vegetarianism is not natural human diet because of absence of vitamin B12 in plant food, but I surprised myself.

I should add a couple of noteworthy features of the diet I adhere to, which I consider essential.

I'm not a row food diet follower, and am convinced that mild cooking; especially baking is quite necessary for human health. I believe so because fallen ripe fruits that are apparently the only human natural food ought to be slightly baked under the hot tropical sunlight of biological homeland of humanity.

Also since I accept ripe fruits to be the only natural food, I refuse greens that, incidentally, taste unpleasantly bitter. The bitter flavor just signals and warns us that the food is bad. Of course, the greens are a traditional food, but likewise meat is.