The Opposite of Vegetarian

My son likes to tell people that he is a carnivore.  Is that the opposite of a vegetarian? He really might be completely a carnivore now, he’s been at college for several months. During the first 17 years of his life the only time he ate fruits and vegetables was when I cut them up and put them in front of his face. I asked him the other day what he’d had for breakfast and he said, “a corn dog and three chicken strips.” Oi Vey.

I know that eating meat is a sensitive subject and that people’s feelings are very strong on the subject. I personally feel that everything I put into my body is sacred in a way. I try to be mindful of all of it, where it came from, who might have raised it. I love to look at the colors and textures of food and I try to “eat a rainbow.”  The truth of life is that for me to live, something else had to die - the apple, the cucumber and the sheaf of wheat, just as much as the chicken or cow. The only exception to this are dairy products, and I find that interesting. I think your body probably wants more protein and you are, happily, giving it what it is asking for.

Dryad, Wandere, this reminds me : as a vegetarian mom of meat eaters [non-vegetarian is such a non-word!], I had to found a way of finding the sacred in eating meat; while I would watch in wonder that one who's my flesh and blood could eat something I couldn't even say the name of without flinching and feeling extremely hurt!

The Native American philosophy helped me; as I blogged about :A vegetarian mom meets a meat-eating child

I have read how meat eating makes people more violent and so on. I beg to differ; after seeing the wonders who are my children.  I feel there's a balance in life, and as Dryad said, perhaps that's what your body needed, wanderer7!