i like my meat and dairy products.

vegans/vegetarians can eat whatever they please. i don't tell them to eat meat, so if they don't tell me to only eat veggies, all is well. i could care less that they don't feel like eating meat or dairy products... but if they start lecturing about animals dying or how i should be a vegan/vegetarian like them while i'm eating, or even when i'm not eating, i'm going to be aggravated.

I'm a vegetarian (actually, it's vegan now, I'm still not used to saying that) and it doesn't bother me when people around me eat meat. Seeing uncooked meat does make me feel quite naseous and when people decide to go into detail explaining the origins of some meat product, that grosses me out. Other than that, no issues.

I really hate meat and dairy. In my situation, (being broke and all) I eat what I am given because I don't have a choice (not a big choice anyway).

I love vegans and vegetarians, and I envy them. I wish I were one, each and every day. I am a passionate animal lover, and I get so damn angry at myself for eating meat and dairy.

Both make me sick. I had eggs and bacon for breakfast, with cheese. I felt like vomiting.

I ate a sausage dog for lunch, I wanted to throw up again.

When I smell meat cooking, just like you described, I get so nauseated. I link the smell of meat to when I had chicken pox, because my aunts boyfriend made nasty meat all of the time during that period in my life.

When I eat meat, I have to avoid looking at it. I honestly cant eat it and look at it.

I love you vegan people. <3 I hope I can meet enough of them to guide me towards becoming vegetarian or vegan.

I am 90% vegan (still working on the switch, should be complete in the next month or so) and my husband is omnivore. When I first started vegetarianism I was okay with him continuing to eat meat, I even cooked it for him. As time went on... I just couldn't do it. I would start gagging at the thought of it. Now he cooks his own meat and I just try not to think about it when we eat dinner together. I keep my opinions to myself until someone directly asks about being vegan. I can be disgusted on the inside.  

meat and dairy gross me out. I hate the site of raw meat. I wont touch or cook it. If someone in my house wants meat, they are on their own to cook it. 

I'm a Vegetarian. I have been by choice since I was 10, 11ish. I'm almost vegan, I don't eat eggs & don't eat much milk & never drink it straight.
I agree, It just grosses me out. I think its yucky, the milk thing. And where eggs  come from, out of a chickens rear end, yuck!
I agree a hundred and ten percent.
And eating around meat eating ppl-    Its thier choice not mine. But I hate it when they give me shit for not or (cirtain)dairy/eggs eating meat. Sometimes thou, I cant stand to see at.
And the smell bothers me, especailly in mass quantities or when its diffrent.

//Milk contains hormones, pus, and blood. The cows are overmilked, the
milkers are always on the udders which create sores and therefore leak
into milk. That is why I stopped drinking milk, guys. Then the whole
idea of clotting the milk to make cheese with enzymes from a baby cow's
stomach - no siree I don't want any part in that.//

Pasteurization takes care of the issue of contamination... usually.

Dairy doesn't bother me in the gross-out way you described (though I can't eat it anyway due to lactose intolerance. Go soy!)

But the whole concept of meat weirds me out a bit. It always has. I don't like the texture, I don't like the concept of chewing a once living animal's muscles. Raw meat especially makes me nauseated, in the same way seeing a chunk of human muscle torn from someone's side to be cut up and breaded would disturb anyone else.

Though I felt this as a kid, I would still eat meat (although most of it ended up pushed aside and eaten as a last resort) but now that I'm on my own, I would never cook meat for myself. In restaurants, I try to go with a meatless option, but if it's meat or nothing, I'm usually fine eating it.

Why would I be uncomfortable eating around someone who's a vegetarian? I eat vegetables too :) If a vegetarian/vegan starts lecturing me though, I WILL say something not-very-nice. I don't bother them, they don't bother me.

You know what grosses me out? Okay, not really to that extent...but the fact that they put tofu in all kinds of stuff to replace meat. NO. If I want meat, I eat meat. I actually DO like tofu--my mom is Korean so tofu is a regular item in our fridge, as well as a lot of other healthy stuff that Koreans eat.

As far as the blood and milk thing...that's why milk is pasteurized, right? I actually don't like drinking milk (unless it's with cookies) as well as a lot of dairy-based products like yogurt and cheesecake, not because it's "gross" but because I just don't like the taste of it. People call me weird and stuff and it pisses me off, but I just ignore them. So good for you that you don't take the flack that people give you.

The germs thing, though...germs are everywhere, and you can't get away from them. Fruits and vegetables that aren't washed properly have germs on them. I hope you're somehow getting all the vitamins that you would be getting from what's missing in your diet.

One of my best friends is vegan and I eat meat and dairy. We never have any problems! :)

thanks for writing this, it was good.  I agree on the grossness- I became a vegetarian a year ago and without really "meaning" to ended up cutting out milk as well (I used to drink a LOT).   And the idea of milk now just plain grosses me out.   You could buy me a cow, milk it right in front of me, show me that the cow is not abused at all and the milk is "clean" of hormones and shit and I still would not drink it.   But anyways...

it's weird but meat eaters seem to feel more uncomfortable about me not eating meat than I am uncomfortable about them eating meat.   Like i really don't care if people are eating meat around me.   I accept that it happens and I'm not going to go hunting down an all vegetarian group of friends or something like that.   But meat eaters will always catch themselves; like they won't want to say things around me like "Hey it's the mama and the baby chicken!" when we were at denny's and someone had chicken fingers and another person had an egg.   And I'm always like "What?   Look, I really don't care."   Or relatives will arrange meals around me when I'm at their house and I'm like "seriously, it's okay if you have steak one night!   I don't care!   There's always a lot of other things I can eat."   It's like everyone is afraid of offending me XD

forgive me for sounding ignorant but I just have a question.. how do vegetarians/vegans make up for the lack of protein? I've been wondering about that for a while.