New meat

[UrbanShocker]

I've been a pseudo-vegetarian for about five years. I eat fish and dairy, but no beef or pork or anything. I know, I'm a colossal hypocrite. Anyhow, it's getting a little old.

What would happen if I decided to eat, say, a hot dog? Is there some sort of enzyme in beef that my body gets used to not having? If I ate some after a five-year hiatus would my small intestine go mad and self-destruct? (Probably not, but you get the idea.)

I'm inclined to believe that since I've been eating fish and milk and cheese and eggs all this time, there won't be a problem and I won't become violently ill. However, one of my doctrines is that when it comes to my gastrointestinal system, I can never be too careful.

[Johanna]

I had been a vegetarian for eight and a half years. Then I was persuaded to start eating meat again. Dumb move.

Nothing happened at first. I didn't get sick. But after several years, my gall bladder went bad with a gallstone, often the result of too much meat and fat. I got an exceptionally severe attack after eating beef and was rushed to the hospital, and the gall bladder had to be removed. Also, attempting to chew some tough stringy meat destroyed one of my molars and it had to be pulled.

I went back to being vegetarian and quickly lost that heavy, dull feeling I had become accustomed to. I feel so much better that there's no way I would ever want to eat meat again.

[evilbeth]

When I started eating meat again after being a vegetarian for a little over four years, I did have some digestion problems. Later on I developed irritable bowel syndrome but doctors were not in agreement that the return to eating meat could have caused it.

[Bluepony]

If you're going to go back to meat, for god's sake don't start it off with a hot dog! Get yourself to a real steak house for the real thing.

Don't break in your digestive system with processed assholes and hooves! :D