# Would you eat meat daily for one year for a hundred grand? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 1, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-meat-daily-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598238 "2011-10-01T08:50:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AndyLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-meat-daily-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598238/41 "2011-10-03T18:53:42Z")
I’d do it for nothing. In fact for a hundred grand, I’d become a vegetarian for a year, then quit and go to eating meat only for a year. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-meat-daily-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598238/42 "2011-10-03T18:59:21Z")
I’m generally omnivorous and I would have trouble doing this, not for any moral reasons, but because that’s a hell of a lot of meat and I’m sure it’d get old really fast. Plus, eating that much meat would do some serious damage to my intestines. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-meat-daily-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598238/43 "2011-10-03T21:52:25Z")
\On the last day of each month, you must undergo medical testing to verify that you are not cheating by running to a hippee commune during your lunch break or whatever. You may also be subject to random tests during the month.\ What exactly are they testing here? Are they making sure you don’t eat EXTRA food bringing your proportion down? I don’t really see where that’s against the spirit of the question – if I eat meat 3 times a day[1], and then have an extra vegetarian meal as well for some reason that brings my proportion temporarily too low, I’m still doing all the things I don’t want to do, I don’t feel I’m really gaining anything! There’s no vegetarian food that I’d really, really miss: it’s eating meat that’s the problem. Surely the tests should be to certify that I _am_ eating meat (eg. that I’m not skipping meals), but that I’m _not_ eating vegetables as well? That said, I would go for it. I’m sufficiently curious to try it. Even if I donate the entirety of the proceeds to a (non-extemist) animal welfare charity, the chef probably means I and the animal welfare probably come out ahead. I would probably have to ramp up beforehand, but OTOH, I can always quit. It’s probably at the lower end of what I’d do it for – I’m well off enough that $100,000 wouldn’t dramtically change my life (especially if I donated \>half of it), and the negative social effects of going back on what I believe would be significant. But I’m sufficiently curious I’d _maybe_ like to try it, and this is a good opportunity. (Although, be careful of the “it’s a net benefit” argument. It sounds plausible when it’s animals, but I hope most people would refuse to eat non-natural-causes human meat however much they were paid, which suggests the “take the money and donate it” – even if correct in this case – is not a complete argument.) [1] Ugh! I’d definitely like meat for breakfast \on holiday\, but what do meat-eaters normally have for breakfast that constitutes a “portion”? Does pate spread count? If I have a late-night scotch egg, does that count as a meal for the purposes of having three? Am I disqualified if I’m jetlagged and end up eating two big meals instead of three or more small ones? Can I persuade the billionaire to just pro-rate the proprotion of meals and be done with it? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-meat-daily-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598238/44 "2011-10-03T22:18:39Z")
\*Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol’ steer. Eat steak, eat steak do we have one dear? Eat beef, eat beef it’s a mighty good food. It’s a grade A meal when I’m in the mood. Eat a cow, eat a cow 'cause it’s good for you. Eat a cow, eat a cow it’s a thing that goes “Mooooo”. \* - Reverend Horton Heat ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-meat-daily-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598238/45 "2011-10-03T23:06:59Z")
I will not only take up the challenge, I will bring my own knives, forks, and a year’s supply of dental floss. Plus a big gingham napkin tied around my neck, cartoon style. Bring it! ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-meat-daily-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598238/46 "2011-10-04T07:53:21Z")
> [@Shade](#): > > Can I persuade the billionaire to just pro-rate the proprotion of meals and be done with it? Yeah, the billionaire only cares that you follow the spirit of the rules. Go right ahead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-meat-daily-for-one-year-for-a-hundred-grand/598238.md?page=2)