@1EarthLovingGal I just want to eat in peace. Any reference to God is annoying.

@1EarthLovingGal I was lucky, lol. My folks are enjoying life there now; I, however, am in landlocked north Texas, so I go to Walmart too and get the smoked salmon. Not sure about the tilapia and catfish. It's not the same. I'm strongly considering going on a fishing trip!

Crazy stuff. As I understabnd it certain animals developed a reputation or image of being unclean because they will knowingly, without qualm, eat the flesh of their own kind.
Eating the flesh of your own kind is highly correlated to disease...That is what my studies suggest was behind the Jewish prohibition of eating pork...

@Alchemy That makes sense. Cannibals could catch Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease from eating human brains and of course there was the short lived mad cow disease

@Moravian ummm, Mad Cow wasn't short lived. A college friend of mine died of Mad Cow around 15 years ago. She was born and raised in the USA. She also raised 5 wonderful children. Because she had traveled outside the United States, they claimed she had gotten from travel...yeah, sure, ya betcha...while the USA is one of the few countries that still allows the practice of feeding cows the ground up bits of other cow...cuz the practice spreads Mad Cow....

@Alchemy Sorry to hear that. I am surprised that animal protein is still fed to cows over there. The practice was stopped here and only cows up to a certain age can be sold for human consumption'
There were a handful of deaths attributed to Mad cow disease at the time and lots of doom laden forecasts but nothing since as far as I am aware.

@Moravian its disgusting but true... the powers that be here in the USA know that this vile practice is the primary vector for the spread of mad cow not to mention a plethora of other serious disease and on it goes with no regard for consumers. Its practices like this that are causing US food products to be band from import through most of the EU, Britain, and shockingly even China.
As I understand it, China is now one of the biggest suppliers of "organically grown" produce world wide... lol, while in the US we still rely so heavily on poisons that even foods labeled "Organically Grown" tests out as containing toxic levels of Monsanto's glyphosate. Amazing as Round Up is a defoliating agent and should kill plants. Hmmm... 1+1 does not equal 2...

I think its fab that you decided to do what feels good to you rather than follow the hype. Bravo.

You need will and not willpower. Also, what does being a Presbyterian have to do with it?

@DenoPenno Pescatarian not Presbyterian. I like meat and I am a good cook.

@1EarthLovingGal congrats on the diet change and having the available funds to pull it off.

Expense is one of the primary reasons I prefer to grow my own... everything. I use a gardening method called aquaponics supposedly created and used extensively by the Aztec. You farm fish and use plants to clean the water of nitrogen build up inherent to keeping fish...Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth...This system can be as beautiful as it is brilliant making it as easy to keep yourself in salad greens and fish as running the common home aquarium.
Obviously, its a technique I love promoting... lol

Depends on your association with groups and people.
I enjoy social media- I skip the things and people I don’t agree with.

@1EarthLovingGal Well that feeling could come from having too large of portions. A 4 oz serving of pork actually provides more nutrition than an 8 oz serving of beef. Any food you overindulge in will give you that feeling.

@1EarthLovingGal You might want to get checked it could be a food allergy.

Couldn't have said it better.

Or a Mediterranean diet...

7th day Adventist do seem to live longer but they are also extremely judgmental and irritating to be around.

@Lorajay indeed...!Who The Hell wants them around longer......

Field research has been done into the diets of chimpanzees and bonobos (our nearest relatives. Your body would accept a blood donation from them...keep that in mind.) They RARELY eat meat...every now & then someone will kill a monkey and use it to ''share''...temporarily increasing his power in the group. But they do NOT eat meat anywhere near as routinely as we do. This accounts for health problems in humans.

As repellent as their religion might be---I'll give the Adventists credit for recognizing long ago that too much meat is bad for our health.

@LucyLoohoo Meat is not the cause of our health problems. Most of the nutrition headlines and advice you see are based on observational epidemiology, which is at best weak. Interventional studies do not support the meat-is-bad hypothesis.

As to the monkeys, and I say this respectfully, they are still monkeys. We are not. Why? The best available evidence is because we ate a lot of fat and protein, ie meat and fatty fish, to fuel our metabolically expensive brains.

@Mitch07102 In the first place....chimpanzees/bonobos are NOT ''monkeys." Like us...they are apes, and we share over 98% of the same DNA. That's why our bodies would accept blood from one...we're essentially the same animal. And observing the dietary habits of our cousins tells us a lot about human nutritional requirements.