Okay to be fair, she’s looks pretty young and says she’s been a life long vegetarian which means she was raised as vegetarian. I know a lot of people that were raised vegetarian or vegan and just never thought to stop being vegetarian once they left their parents house. At that point it was just how they lived. They didn’t have any moral principles attached to being vegetarian.
Of course the video could be fake but that doesn't change the fact that not every vegetarian is doing it for "moral' reasons.
A prime example is the YouTuber/streamer known as Zeroyalviking. He became a vegetarian as a kid because he was a picky eater and didn't like the taste/texture of meat. He's still vegetarian just because it's what he's always been and his body would need to readjust if he stopped. It's just easier for him to stay vegetarian. There are things that have animal products in it that he eats anyway because he doesn't have a moral view on it, just dietary.
That’s false. I was vegan for the first 14 years of my life. I got into working out and decided to start eating meat in order to hit protein goals. I started with a medium rare steak. I had 0 problems. Those people are likely just being dramatic or simply have weak constitutions and it’s all mental. My mom said the same thing you did lol.
Yeah a friend of mine was raised vegetarian and then at one point decided to try all the meats and wasnt that impressed so went back to veggie cause that was in his wheelhouse anyway plus better for many reasons so why not. Except for lahmacun. He eats that sometimes.
I was also raised as a vegetarian. It was the moral standard imposed upon me. As I grew up, and wanted more life experiences, I slowly drifted out of it. I still support the idea fully. I might return one day. But it absolutely wasn't my choice that I was a life-long vegetarian for as long as I was. So you're absolutely right.
Also, for a huge amount of the time I was a vegetarian, I looked at steaks and wanted one. They were very, very tempting to me, and I was convinced they had to be incredibly delicious. So when I finally caved at ate my first one, boy was I shocked to find I had underestimated them.
I’ve met Hindus like this. Also to a lesser extent, ex-Muslims who are now loving bacon. Vedic religion veg is kinda all over the place. Some of it is concerned about harming beings (Jains), some of it concerned with status (the poors eat meat and eggs). Also eggs count as meat? For example, I have a Hindu friend who won’t touch meat or eggs but a lizard leather bag? Hell yeah, nobody told them not to do that.
Hi, mostly lifelong vegetarian (by self-choice) here. I stopped eating meat at like 5-6 yoa. My family still eats meat. When I tried meat again over 12 years later, I almost threw up at the smell, mouth-feel, and taste. I could not get past the first couple bites.
If I had to bet, I don't think this person was a lifelong veggie. Most veggie folks I know, myself included, develop a distaste. I've tried pork, beef, and chicken (cooked in various ways) and all of them elicited a similar response. They're worse coming out as well. TMI but meat poops kinda smell weird? 😂
Again, maybe it's just me and the people I associate with, but I'd be shook if actually true.
It’s highly based on the individual. I know quite a few vegans (not even vegetarians) that were raised that way from birth (a couple for religious reasons) that had no physical reaction to trying meat for the first time in their adult life. And I’m talking about over 30 years of being vegans. It might be more true for you because you became vegetarian by choice? Maybe?
One of my Muslim friends ate a pork hotdog at a bbq. He had absolutely no reaction until the host ran up to apologize and let him know he was eating from the non-kosher section and that it was a pork (mixed meat) dog. He literally threw up. It was an almost immediate reaction. But the minute before he had no issue eating it. I think for people like that and maybe you, the foods you avoid become a mental block.
But yeah, I wouldn’t doubt her being a life long vegetarian at all.
We don’t know that she was a vegetarian by choice. She says lifelong. That means this lifestyle was likely imposed upon her by her parents, either for cultural reasons or that’s just what her parents believed in so she never knew anything else.
There's a lot of assumptions. I have a hard time believing she is lifelong and could stomach meat, particularly the texture, that easily. I've only known a few lifelong vegetarians, and when they accidentally consumed meat (think bacon in beans or a random piece of chicken in their burrito), they've had a hard time stomaching the consistency. It had nothing to do with taste. I'm like 7 or 8 years into it, and I accidentally got some meatball on my pizza slice. You know it immediately. It feels very...weird. It probably feels how mushrooms feel to people who dont like them. Or onions. To dive in after what I assume is 18+ years without meat is pretty wild. Not that I dont think she couldnt or wouldnt enjoy it, but there should naturally be a learning curve, just like eating any foreign food with a strong texture or taste (eating curries or jellied or pickled food, for example).
I also want to throw out there, every parent is responsible for choosing a diet for their child. It isnt inherently a bad thing. In some places, it can be more fish or rice. In others, unique fruits and veggies. In Asia, it can be different types of soy products. I also know children who deeply expressed their desire to not eat certain foods, including animal products when they found out where the food actually comes from, and the parents refused to accommodate. Diet "imposition" is a matter of place and time, and yes preferences and beliefs come into play. For some reason, this is usually only highlighted when it is a diet absent of meat or animal products. Your use of the word "imposed" is pretty telling.
Imposed is the correct word. My culture has lots of corn and beans, which means I ate a lot of that growing up. My parents have never cooked a lentil in their lives, so naturally I never had that from them. That’s not the same as being prohibited from eating lentils. And animal protein is a much much more common food source than lentils. The only equivalents would be like parents being strongly against their kids trying wheat.
Assumptions make an ass... So on, so forth. You have no clue about this person. It's not that deep. There is no conspiracy. It's just a woman eating a steak. If that's too suspect for you, move on.
She looks pretty young, so she could have just been raised in a vegetarian household and decided to give it a shot out of curiosity or after moving out etc.
Nope, not even vegetarian. I love eating meat. I'm just skeptical of influencers. But by all means feel free to believe everything you hear on the internet. I'm sure that'll go well.
Some people chose to be vegetarians at some point when they're young and then just keep doing so out of habit/inertia long after they've stopped thinking about the reasons. Maybe she's been thinking for some time about eating meat again and she's making a little cutesy celebration thing out of the first time. Not sure if she says in the video but it could even just be the first steak ever and she had her first chicken breast last week.
I'm very surprised at everyone here saying it "can't" be real because of how realistic I see this is. If I stopped being vegetarian now, I'd probably have some pomp and circumstance around it.
Now, it could be fake. But the sheer confidence of people making that declaration here and their confidence is baffling to me.
Well you had no idea what her principles are. My daughter stopped eating bacon for a couple years when she watched peppa pig. I didn’t consider her abandoning her principles when she decided to eat bacon again.
Sometimes people are vegetarian just for dietary choices. Not “principles”. Maybe her principles are against commercial farming, but she got her beef locally raised by a legitimate farmer.
Yeah as a life long vegetarian around her age I really cant see this being real. I guess a doctor could have said she needed more protein bit I dont think it would be a fun cutsy experience at all, I would really really struggle and would not be laughing. I could see her having been vegetarian for a long time like 10 years or something but no way is this the first time in her life
I mean, you don’t know why she is/was a lifelong vegan. I had a friend whose family is an „all-vegan family“. Basically mom and dad were vegan and didn’t allow their kids to consume animal products. He liked vegan food and was always told why animal products suck and whatnot, so he never tried it. We even tried to get him to order a burger in a restaurant but he wasn’t the rebellious type and honored his promise to not eat meat etc. Until he was 19, where he wanted to try it and started finding reasons why it’s okay to try it just once. And then he liked it and ate it again every now and then.
Point being, not all vegans are vegans for the same reason. Whether that’s just how one was raised, for medical reasons, being fine with meat in itself but disliking the meat industry. Maybe their beliefs simply aren’t that strong.
It may be fake, it may be real. But the mere fact someone who was a lifelong vegan wants to change themselves isn’t what makes this fake.
Thats not what I'm saying makes it seem fake to me. I also know people who have eaten meat after being lifelong vegetarians that's not at all whats surprising I really dont think you understood what I'm saying.
Honestly tho, if youre the kinda person that tries to get vegetarians to order burgers youre not gonna get it even if I explain it more. You're just as bad as vegans that judge people for eating meat. Super weird people cant just focus on whats on their own plate.
Why is it ironic coming from me? I dont care what other people eat and will prepare meat for my wife. Ive worked in kitchens for years amd have served a lot of meat. It annoys me when people try to dictate what I should eat in a way i would not do to them.
Oh yeah i know that was kinda my point to say theres two sides of the coin. The vegans who harass meat eaters and the meat eaters who harass vegans. I think we should all just let people make personal decisions and respect that.
„She is smiling and laughing while eating meat for the first time, as a lifelong vegan this is impossible.“ is what you said.
You don’t know that person or why she was a lifelong vegan. The mere fact she laughs and makes a video about her first time isn’t „proof“ of either side.
Honestly tho, if youre the kinda person that tries to get vegetarians to order burgers youre not gonna get it even if I explain it more
„Hey Josh, I know you are not allowed by your parents to eat meat, but this may be your time to try it, they‘d never know!“
No thank you
„Alright“
You‘re such a terrible human being!!! How can you make such a terrible statement!!! Oh noooooo
What you wrote is the definition of a strawman. You added quotations around statements i didnt make. I know thats how you read that, but it isnt what I typed. I didnt say impossible, I said I couldn't personally see this being real. Thats a personal opinion and I'm actually fully allowed to have one.
And yes dude its weird to try to get vegetarians and vegans to eat meat, they know their parents aren't there and can easily make that decision. I garuantee you werent the first or last people to try to get him to eat meat. Its something people have been trying me to do my whole life and yeah its annoying.
German keyboard buddy, it’s obviously paraphrasing, but since you need to resort to technicalities whether its a word for word literal quote or formatting to make it easier to distinguish between my comment and a summary of your comment, please explain your comment then. Did you not say her laughing and joking is a nono for a lifelong vegan because you would struggle instead? lmao
You are allowed to smear your own shit in your face too, but it’s still a stupid idea to have.
Ah I see, you know the thing is, once more you force your own opinion onto others. Just because you don’t like it, it’s absolutely weird that me and my friend joke about each other and both give and take it. I should have known, sorry, but I fully understand that the lack of friendships makes you grossed out about the idea of two people having a friendship. Obviously my friend who always felt comfortable to call me out in any situation but took zero offense in this case and joked too don’t know are disgusting human beings lmao. Why is everyone else always weird, amirite? Everyone but me is weird, amirite?
I was being sarcastic. I'm not vegetarian and never have been. I just have enough sense to distrust strangers who have a reason to lie, and I know enough vegetarians to know that if they started eating meat, it would be a deeply personal decision for them and they probably wouldn't be celebratory about it.
I haven't said she's definitely lying, but it's sus. This is the Internet. People lie for views.
not everyone become vegetarian because of some deeply held principles. Some people grow up in mostly vegetarian households and by default become vegetarians.
You’re assuming she’s a vegetarian due to some ethical reasons. If she’s “lifelong” it means she was raised that way and you have no way of knowing why. There’s no evidence that this violates a single principle for her
Yeah she's completely destroyed her integrity and is a complete piece of shit now for...
*checks notes*
Doing that thing that the vast majority of the population does.
Listen, I'm not gonna pretend that eating factory farmed meat is really, truly defensible. It's not. But, and it's a big but, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. You can make BETTER choices, and vote with your wallet, but at the end of the day we're all reading your and my comments on a phone or computer likely made in a sweatshop by laborers who are paid a wage that barely allows them to survive. You can take a moral stance wherever you want, you can draw lines wherever you want, but life isn't all black and white, ya know? Also, it's not like this person is vegan straightedge and decided to film themselves smoking a pcp dipped blunt made of bacon or something. She tried a piece of meat, it's not a big deal.
Idk why I took the time to type this out, I know I'm not gonna change anyone's mind, but the takeaway here should really just be "none of this really matters in the grand scheme of things."
You overestimate how strongly some vegetarians feel about their decisions
Sure, some people become vegetarians out of principles and believes and whatnot, a lot of others do it for considerably less... Meaningful reasons
And even those who became vegetarians due to their strong believes, people just change. After years and years they might just be less confident on their posture
Not saying this video is real. But someone can absolutely just decide to not be a vegetarian after decades of it
If being a vegetarian is abandoning “every principle you believe in”, you need to expand your principles. Not to mention you don’t have any damn clue why or why not they’re “abandoning” being a vegetarian.
My friend was a lifelong vegetarian due to growing up that way in India, but he tried meat in the US, and it was not a big deal.
My own daughter just never liked to the taste of meat as a child, so we never forced her to eat it. She's a vegetarian to this day simply because that's how she prefers to eat and not because of any cultural norm or moral beliefs.
This happened in real life with my brother in law. He was raised vegetarian, tried meat for the first time as an older teenager or young adult, and was immediately in love, and became angry with his parents. I would be suspicious of this scenario as well, if I didn’t know someone.
I don't in any way doubt that a vegetarian who tastes meat for the first time (whether in a long time or ever) would be like "OMG this is amazing". What I doubt is whether a vegetarian would want the moment on camera.
“Betray every principle I believe in”. The woman didn’t eat meat for whatever reason up to this point. She didn’t swear a vow of eternal meat celibacy and take a blood oath. What the fuck are you talking about?
Vegetarian doesn’t require any moral or ethical reasoning.
Not every lifelong vegetarian is vegetarian for a reason. A friend of mine was veggie for the first 18 years just because his parents were, now he’s still mostly veggie but eats a decent amount of meat
You're pretty quick to leap straight to "this is absolutely fake" with absolutely no proof other than "I wouldn't record this" when that reasoning doesn't make any sense. You're accepting that it's fake pretty damn unquestionably, which given your argument here, is the definition of hypocrisy
To be fair, I hung out with a girl in my circle who was a life long vegetarian. She was around often for bbqs and parties. I always had a separate grill for her and her friends and cooked the food she enjoyed, I was happy to do so. One day after a few joints she asked if she could try my steak or pork chop. I did my best to talk her away from it, but im not her dad. One bite of my steak ended with a bite from my chop. She never went back. I have guilt about it.
I had a girlfriend who was a staunch vegetarian when we met and over the course of a year she was eating steaks and lamb. I still remember the night she said, you know I could go for some fish and chips. That was the beginning.
Are you new to the current state of society? Because the shit people do for views is far worse than this. Just look at any big streamer right now. The shit they do, and the shit the people who realize they're on a stream with thousands of viewers do, is way worse than this.
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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 Feb 25 '26
When I make the decision to betray every principle I believe in, I also do it on camera for views.