#19. Lots of vegetarian meals have a lot of flavour and there is quite a few brands that make vegetarian products that look exactly like mince and chicken etc. but really it's made from fungus or tofu or whatever. I accidentally ate meat mince instead of my mince and I was completely disgusted when I found out and that was only one serving. If I was OP I would dump his ass and tell him to get some respect for other peoples choices!! Anyways I don't think most meat eaters would notice if we changed your mince to vegetarian mince

I had someone try it on me certain things can have meat extract or if you grind it up really good you can pass it off for cooked veggies mixed together

Well that's a dumb joke. Even if it miraculously were true, so what? Don't think any vegetarians would particularly care that they were bad at killing animals.

Did you know that's actually a lie? Not even you could kill an animal and digest it with your bare hands.

What are you even trying to say? Nobody digests anything with their hands. And plenty of people do kill their own meat with guns, bow and arrows, etc. It's not like you need to wrestle a deer to death with your bare hands in order to be a true meat eater.

I was going to day this same thing! I'd break up with him.

There are ways to make meatless dishes with the texture and taste like they have meat in them. Example: using cut up portobello mushrooms or even egg plant. Perhaps that's what the OP thought she was eating? Or she ate her vegetarian food that he cooked/prepared in bacon grease. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did and it is wrong!!

There are meat substitutes that have the texture of meat, if he used that and then just hid a little ground beef in that it would be damned well impossible to notice.

OP may not eat meat for ecological or environmental reasons but maybe for ethical reasons. It may not hurt her physically but mentally she may be hurt now that she knows.

I agree with the first part of your comment but how about let the OP decide what she wants to put in her body instead of telling her what you think she should or should do since it didn't "hurt" her?

It probably wouldn't *hurt* you physiologically if someone secretly cooked up a human body and pretended it was chicken, but that doesn't mean you should be okay with it and switch to becoming a cannibal.

Oh, and spend a huge amount of money to pay for the meats! That she doesn't even want to eat anyway.

78, do you honestly think eating a little beef now and then is comparable to cannibalism? Since she's only been a vegetarian for a few years, she clearly ate meat for a long time before, and I'm guessing that didn't traumatize her.

Yeah, in this situation they're comparable. A vegetarian may not want to eat meat for the same reasons most people don't want to eat other people -- because they would feel like they'd taken part in unnecessary death and/or think it's disgusting. Just because you're okay with a diet option doesn't mean everyone else is. Besides, how she felt about something at one point isn't how she has to feel about it the rest of her life. People change, grow, and make different life decisions. Other people, if they're decent, respect them whether or not they make the same ones.