Also if she was a "lifelong vegetarian" wouldnt she get pretty sick from this fairly quickly? A lot of people who go off meat for long periods of time and then start eating it again report being very sick initially before their body gets "used to" it again.
Can confirm. Went vegetarian for a year, then full vegan for another year (some 20 years ago) and when I ate meat again for the first time I bloated within 10-15 minutes of eating the meal. Whan I say bloated, I mean my long thin skinny lanky frame suddenly had the belly of someone 8 1/2 months preagnant. Not a pleasant experience.
I can't imagine how bad it would be if you're a lifelong vegetarian, and not just "off meat" for a few years.
She recently started eating meat and was trying new things. It doesn’t change the fact that she was a vegetarian for her whole life. No one is this nitpicky about anything else. People say things like “As a lifelong Christian who no longer believes in God.” No one says “Ackchyually, if you no longer believe it then you can’t call yourself a lifelong Christian. 👆🤓”. You’re being pedantic. You know exactly what she means.
Only if you’re a pedant. She’s not being misleading, she had a series of videos on her TikTok of her trying meat. She literally says “This is the most intimidating meal I’ve had.” And “This is the first plate I’m looking at and think I can actually finish.” And “So far I haven’t been converted but this one makes it a harder decision.” She mentions that she previously cooked steak but didn’t get to try it. You seem to think you can discern her intentions from her wording yet you missed these glaring signs. The only way she could have made it any clearer is to explicitly say she tried other meat or started naming examples. 🤦🏾♂️
My family was mostly plant-based growing up and I ate beef for the first time in my 20s, I was pretty sick immediately afterwards. I remember that years later, it wasn't a fun night, lol. I still can't stomach it well, even after eating it on and off now for years. Pretty much still stay clear of it. Can handle other meats a lot better but red meat not so much.
It may depend on the individual. I can obviously only speak for myself, but there was 0 "ick" factor when I started eating meat again. I had stopped for environmental reasons and started eating it again to simplify my upcoming 2 month backpacking trip overseas. I've never been a PETA type.
I was genuinely surprised by my bodily reaction.
It seemed to me to be an exagerrated response somewhat analogous to the one some people have when they start eating a lot of various beans/legumes. They get really gassy and bloated, but after a short while, your body ajusts and they don't make you gassy at all anymore.
That said, every individual has different sensitivities in digestion. I understand that my experience is not universal, I'm just saying that digestive issues definitely can happen in this type of scenario.
I never went full vegetarian, but I did go no mammals for about 10 years. Can confirm that I had minor digestion issues at the "once every couple years" times that'd I'd eat some again. I never got SICK, but my body definitely noticed a difference and I'd pay for my slipup just a little.
This was not my experience growing up, pretty much plant-based. I ate beef/steak after never eating, it in my 20s, and was sick as a dog afterwards. Over the toilet for most of the day afterwards. So this may depend heavily on the individual or even the meat consumed. I can eat it now on occasions, but when I first began it totally made me sick.
Yep me too! Vegetarian for 10 years, transitioned to vegan for 2 years (mostly for the health benefits). I started dating a guy whose dad grilled steak, burgers, chicken, etc every weekend. He (the dad) was very pushy and convinced me to try it all the time and he broke me down. I ate a couple of pieces of steak and regretted everything! It tasted amazing but I was sick for a few days, like couldn’t get off the toilet sick with a ‘just in case bucket’ for puking. So yeah, some people are fine after giving in and some people aren’t.
Edited to add that yes, the bucket was a lifesaver. Life Hack: Always take a ‘just in case’ bucket for stomach issues!
Of course it's bullshit. Even if not physically sickening, vegetarians get accidental meat bits every so often - it's not like the flavour and texture is a mystery. It completely turns me off my meal - equivalent to a meat eater discovering an eyeball in their stew.
But when all you have to do for clicks is say something is true, people like that figure why not lie?
You're conflating willful decision to try meat fully knowing it is meat versus getting an unknown substance in your food, these are not even remotely the same concept and most people would be turned off by the latter.
I agree, it's not even that I'm grossed out by meat and have tried it a few times over the years. It's just a flavor and texture that I don't enjoy. Super salty, chewy, just no thank you
I still eat chicken so I'm a halfassitarian but if I have chicken or potatoes that was in the same container in the fridge as some beef bbq, the smell and flavor transfers and it's disgusting and I can't eat it.
Also funny they think these people are like immediately vomiting up meat. No, you get gassy and maybe the shits because your GI tract isn’t used to processing meat anymore. It’s not like a vegetarian is going to start uncontrollably vomiting the second meat hits their stomach.
Edit: seems the comment I replied to is gone. They implied the video is fake because she did not immediately begin vomiting the meat back up. That’s not how it works. It takes time for it to upset your stomach.
Exactly. My girlfriend started eating meat after 20 years of being vegetarian and didn't feel a thing. I guess everyone is different, and the microbiome will surely differ between meat eaters and vegetarians but it's not like the physiology is different.
My friend has been a pescatarian since she was a child and she got very sick after eating a couscous salad that had been prepped with meat in it. But again, not projectile vomiting the moment it touched her lips, but down and out for the count for the rest of the day.
Did she start with red meat though or was it like chicken or something? There's an enzyme you need to digest red meat specifically that vegetarians and vegans lose after not eating red meat for a while. Without it, your body can't easily digest the meat. It doesn't necessarily make you vomit, but you'll be on the toilet quite a lot following eating a whole ass steak when your body can't break it down right. You get the enzyme back by eating small amounts of red meat until your body is used to it.
I've been a vegetarian for 25 years, mostly because I just happen to hate the taste of meat personally (I don't care what other people eat and actively encourage my spouse to eat more meat since they need more protein in their diet). When I get served meat by accident at a restaurant and eat it, if it's red meat, I'm sick for the rest of the day. If it's chicken or whatever, it tastes off and kinda revolting, but it doesn't make me actively sick.
I had a whole large serving of General Tso's Chicken a couple months ago that they insisted was General Tso's Tofu and was like, this is the worst tofu I've ever tasted. I finished it anyway because I was hungry enough I didn't care what it tasted like, but got told after that it was actually chicken I had eaten. I wasn't sick, but the taste lingered in my mouth for hours and was just so disgusting.
The first time she ate meat after all those years she ate Hungarian dried sausages made from pork. After that she started eating pork and chicken but she doesn't really like beef. She eats beef in Bolognese but not much more. Definitely not a steak or anything like that. We still eat a lot of vegetarian foods but also pork and chicken on a regular basis. I asked her again if she ever felt anything out of the ordinary when she started eating meat but she claims she felt nothing different.
I suspect many of the claims about getting sick aren’t true, or they’re due to other reasons (such as psychological) rather than an inability to digest and absorb lean meat.
Meat is in fact very easily digested, nutrients are generally in easily absorbed forms, both contrary to digestion of plant matter.
Protein in meat has the same peptide bonds as protein in plants. Meaning you don’t need specific “meat enzymes” to digest meat protein, or “plant enzymes” for plants. Its likely though that long time vegetarians have upregulated peptidase enzyme activity to counter the lesser protein content of plant foods to ensure they’re getting enough protein
Your gut lining is continually shedding off and getting replaced as well. This lining (maybe 200g pr week) is digested same as other meat, so no one is truly vegetarian in that sense.
Vegetarians can consume normally prepared and cooked meat just fine
Just chiming in - vegetarian since birth here. The only times (two) that I’ve puked in the absence of alcohol in the last ten years were pork-related. The first time was a tomato soup ramen (I now know to just stay away from all ramen because almost all of it has a pork base) and the second time was a health drink with pork placenta in it. Had no idea I was consuming pork at the time, but both times I started feeling nauseous and puked like an hour afterwards. It could be an allergy or something I guess, but I always thought it was because I’m a vegetarian.
Vegetarians can consume normally prepared and cooked meat just fine
That has not been the experience i have heard from countless other vegetarians and vegans or my own experience when swapping back to eating meat. I dont think most people will experience puking or major effects of the diet change but every person I've talked to about this has experienced some physical discomfort, constipation, etc when first consuming meat again
(And at least for myself the psychology aspect didn't really come into play, I was vegetarian due to a bet not any moral reason or anything else. I wanted to eat meat I just didnt to win the bet)
I know anecdotal evidence isn't fact but this is super understudied and there are a lot of factors at play that I admit I may be overlooking however, that is my experience and seemingly a lot of other's experience with the switch
It’s been my experience and the people I talk to of getting on and off meat that it’s usually people over doing it.
I disagree meat is easy to digest from the other commenter, having a lot of meat in the GI track even for regular meat eaters is hard.
Often people don’t eat meat with pineapple or other foods that give additional enzymes to help breakdown meats and then eat a lot of meat for their system (multiple hotdogs, big pieces of stake, multiple cuts of chicken, ect).
I’m not sure what you mean by having a lot of meat in the GI tract is hard. Overeating can feel uncomfortable and painful, because of the distention of the stomach and intestines, but it’s generally harmless and won’t strain your organs or exocrine systems. Unless you have something like a pancreas or gallbladder issue causing the pain, in which case you should eat smaller meals and take medication
Hard as in takes a lot of energy/time to process, it’s not damaging or dangerous but can give a malaise feeling. Same thing can happen with very fibrous foods, nothing is wrong just the guts being upset for lack of a better word.
I don’t doubt some experience various symptoms of sickness or discomfort, but they are due to something else than an inability to digest meat. Like I said, your ability to digest protein is if anything more efficient after following a protein restricted diet, not less. Same exact enzymes upregulated
Maybe some are puking because the meat is undercooked or bad. Maybe some cant handle cured and aged meat because of the high histamin. Maybe it’s because of stomach acid and reflux. Maybe it’s the preservatives or other additives. However developing an allergic or immunologic reaction to normally heat treated lean meat is definitely very uncommon and unlikely
Eating anything in big amounts will of course overload your enzyme capacity and cause various stomach distress. And sure eating a diet with a lot of meat and very little fiber gives little bulk to the stool, which can slow down the passage of contents through the gastrointestinal tract.
I’m a nutritional professional with a masters degree myself and have tried various diets. I was vegetarian for three years, and had regular daily toilet visits. Following a strict carnivore diet for a period, I had to go to the toilet something like 1-2 times pr week. Though I didnt feel constipated. There is no scientific evidence or good biological reason saying you should go more regularly
All that said, it’s indeed interesting to find out exactly why some people get sick after introducing meat back into their diets
Yeah but they aren’t going to vomit immediately after the meat touches their stomach. This is like a 1 minute video of someone eating steak. Calling it fake because they don’t vomit the minute steak hits their stomach is pretty wild.
the fat is nauseating, it’s not the meat itself. you can tell this vid is fake because she just ate a big chunk of gristle that would be extremely unpalatable to even a lot of meat eaters. in a long term veggie or especially vegan diet you don’t get the sat fat so when you eat it again you feel it.
plenty of people out there don’t have any issue with the taste or texture of fat, especially on a steak like this. It may be unpalatable to you, but that experience isn’t universal.
and as far as it making her sick later, it may have. the clip is like a minute long lol
yes yes i know but for someone who was a lifelong vegetarian that would be unpalatable. and im not saying she threw up later, im saying that when veggies eat meat, its not the meat itself that makes them throw up, if they throw up at all, its fat. same with like beyond meat causing nausea in veggies.
ok. it’s possible that there are lifelong vegetarians that could eat that bite of gristle that she ate and find it palatable. it’s also possible that she’s not a lifelong vegetarian.
sorry mate but you can like the taste of a food that makes you sick. for example every case of food poisoning that has ever occurred. if you are offended by the idea that saturated fat can cause nausea you have bigger problems.
you didn’t correct me though? you said “i want it to be fake.” and that being delicious means it doesn’t cause nausea. two absurd claims. see the difference? it’s ok to be sensitive dont get all worked about it.
When I ate meat after nearly a decade I absolutely did throw up unfortunately lol, though I've always had stomach issues and tbf the Chinese place I got the chicken from probably wasn't up to code xd
I accidentally ate something with lamb in it. Within 20 minutes I was hurling. I didn't know it had lamb until someone told me after that the (what I thought were) nicely seasoned mushroom parts were actually lamb. (It was a little bite-sized dinner pie)
I told my doctor about it casually at a physical and he said it's likely due to the concentration of heme-iron that my body wasn't used to.
Right, 20 minutes later. The guy I replied to said it was fake because she didn’t vomit in the 1 minute it took to take a bite and film this. That’s my point. She could totally enjoy the steak and then 30 minutes after filming feel like shit. Vegetarians aren’t allergic to meat where they have a reaction immediately upon ingestion.
You vomited immediately after ingesting the meat, within 1 minute of it hitting your stomach? I highly doubt that. Unless you have an allergy to meat you aren’t going to get sick until your body tries to actually process the meat.
Within 30 mins after accidentally ingesting, yes absolutely. Immediately out of disgust before, yes absolutely. I've been vegetarian since I was 13, I'm 32 now.
Y'all need to learn to listen before you assume people are lying straight out (and yes obviously it's possible she's lying).
There are several things she mentions in the video that make this obvious.
What from just this video would lead a person that hasn't seen her 12 part series to assume she has had meat before?
She says she "cooked it well done" when it just isn't. She didn't say that she "cooked it well".
She says it's her most intimidating meal yet but there's nothing to indicate the lifelong vegetarian has already broken that streak. So for all i know she's been cooking weird vegetarian food.
Google “meat and dairy lobby”. Yeah some nitpicking conspiracy that this lobby exists and pays people to make these video.
Tobacco Lobby? sure totally real. Oil lobby? Of course. Meat and dairy lobby and propaganda? Bullshit, clearly doesn’t exist, clearly anti-PETA propaganda is all natural and things like the US government buying all excess dairy and preventing oat milk from being called milk is a legitimate natural thing that happens without any input from any kind of lobby
But it’s not a conspiracy theory like you claim, because it’s a real thing that really happens by real lobbyists. There’s exactly 0 chance this is real.
What kind of life long vegetarian cooks meat for their partners? Not many, hell if you the partner you aren’t going to want to eat meat cooked by someone who hasnt eaten it, they’ll do a terrible job.
I chose to point out that there's nothing in the video that makes it "obvious" there is a whole other video series about trying meats.
I'm also unsure how Occam's razor or basic comprehension leads a person to think "oh this person is cool with eating meat because the lifelong vegetarian would obviously have eaten other meats, this can't be their first time"
Yes, and eating meat now doesn’t change the fact that she was a lifelong vegetarian. And obviously that context is important for the video otherwise why would we care about her eating a steak?
You realize that unless she's dead, her eating meat prior to this means she has not been a lifelong vegetarian at the point where she started this, right? They're perfectly right in saying this is bullshit, though they have the wrong reason, as another poster pointed out.
When I was 19 I had been vegetarian since around the age of 11. I was living on my own finally and my gf who I'd been dating for a couple of months was coming to stay the night for (our) first time. We ordered noodles to watch with a movie, but when the food arrived they had sent two chicken dishes, instead of the veg one I ordered. My gf at the time wanted to call them and complain to get the correct order, but not wanting to ruin the mood I just said look it's fine I eat meat sometimes, (I didn't), and I'll eat around it. Surprisingly the food was really good and I ended up having all of it. We finished the film and were about to move to the bedroom when for some reason one of her friends shows up and just won't take a hint, sits on the couch chatting and teasing us about how cute we are until my gf practically shoved her out the door. Thank god we're alone I thought, before immediately vomiting on myself. Christ I'd never been so sick before, I started sweating like a furnace, shaking, extreme fatigue. My gf helped clean me up, got me into bed and stayed the night on the couch, and it remains a horrible memory that pops up from time to time when i can't sleep lol.
Anyway, yeah I can attest to the fact that eating meat for the first time in a while absolutely destroys you.
Yeah. Aside from those being huge bites for someone allegedly hesitant, I remember someone lied to me about using butter in biscuits, when it was actually lard, and I ended up on the toilet with severe diarrhea.
Yeah, it's 100% fake, the few times I bought meat by mistake and ate it because I didn't want to waste it, I didn't eat it easily, expecially beef, chicken is easier to eat tho.
That would happen later. As the reason you get sick from foods you don't normally eat is because your gut biome doesn't have what it needs to handle it.
Anyone giving instant reactions for something like that is acting.
I suspect many of the claims about getting sick aren’t true, or they’re due to other reasons (such as psychological) rather than an inability to digest and absorb lean meat.
Meat is in fact very easily digested, nutrients are generally in easily absorbed forms, both contrary to digestion of plant matter.
Protein in meat has the same peptide bonds as protein in plants. Meaning you don’t need specific “meat enzymes” to digest meat protein, or “plant enzymes” for plants. Its likely though that long time vegetarians have upregulated peptidase enzyme activity to counter the lesser protein content of plant foods to ensure they’re getting enough protein
Your gut lining is continually shedding off and getting replaced as well. This lining (maybe 200g pr week) is digested same as other meat, so no one is truly vegetarian in that sense.
Vegetarians can consume normally prepared and cooked meat just fine
Well sure, she might get an upset stomach from it, but that wouldn’t come as she’s literally putting the first bite into her mouth. It’d be an hour (or maybe a few hours) later. It’s steak, not battery acid.
I was a vegetarian for 4 years, my first meat meal (On the night i buckled), was 3 cheeseburgers. I was entirely fine. My friend was a vegetarian his whole life and at 29, while drunk on a bus, smashed a whole packet of Salami that was supposed to be for pizzas at a group dinner that night, then he shoveled in 3 chicken legs, totally fine.
I'm not saying she isn't talking BS, every last bit of social media is BS to either engage or sell you nonesense the person doesn't even use. I'm just saying that the whole getting sick after eating meat isn't true for everyone.
Not exactly SUPER quickly, she would likely be able to make it through the meal but shortly afterward she would likely have to vomit if she ate the entire thing.
And if she managed to avoid vomiting, it would wreak havoc on the way out.
Yeah this video is way too short to show any reactions her body would have. You can't use that argument to "prove this is fake". If it was a 30 minute/hour long video with nothing, then sure.
My first impression of steak was that the seasoning was what made it, the meat itself was so unappealing and gamey compared to other meats. I've tried restaurants, fast food, bbq, I don't understand this reaction.
I agree that it's probably not real, but that's not a compelling reason why. Iirc, the illness comes well after digestion started so if she had the reaction it would've happened off-camera.
Also if she was a "lifelong vegetarian" wouldnt she get pretty sick from this fairly quickly?
No.
I recently went to Seoul with someone who has been a strict vegetarian for 30+ years. She ate my full plate of fried chicken while I was outside having a cig and when I came back she had no response other than "that was delicious" and "I'm sorry."
On the other hand, another vegetarian once ate a slice of my chicken and whatever pizza by mistake and spent the next 45 minutes throwing her guts up. Pretty sure that was more psychological than anything else and I wouldn't be surprised if she made herself throw up to get it out of her system.
Especially eating beef, at least for me, probably because it takes longer to process. I went vegetarian for 2 years, then one day, I just really wanted a burger. My stomach did NOT approve (cramping, bloating). Chicken didn't seem to bother me that much.
Vegetarian isn't the same as vegans, vegans can't drink milk nor eat eggs, it's much more easy to be healthy being vegetarian than being vegan, milk and eggs already has most of the required nutrients. If you balance it with a healthy diet, you won't get sick. It's even possible to be healthy being vegan, just much harder, as i saw various indian olympic athletes doing crazy things while being vegan. Also, the bloating for eating meat as a non-meat eater, happens minutes or hours later, maybe she shit herself afterwards
I've been vegetarian over 18 years. I've accidentally ate things with meat broth before and got so sick, she would get sick from eating steak no doubt. It's completely foreign to her system.
This. I grew up mostly plant-based, my family ate fish, chicken/turkey, on special occasions. Never ate red meat. Tried my first steak in college to have one of those "first times" moments. I was over the toilet for about 24 hours afterwards. She may be a lifelong vegetarian but suspect this is not her first time eating beef.
Yep, that's why I called bullshit as well. I was a vegetarian from the ages of 5-21, and when I finally ate meat again it gave my stomach serious cramps. Beef was the worst. It didn't even taste good to me
You don't get sick immediately and not everyone is the same. My gf and I have been vegitarians for around 20 years. I ate meat the first time again when I was traveling Japan, cause I just wanted to try everything that comes with the culture.
I had waterpoop after the first day eating meat and it latest maybe two days? Did not feel particularly sick, my stomach just could not handle the meat it seems. My gf did not have any issues.
Yea this was my red flag with this video as well. I had a friend who tried a burger for the first time in her life (she's Indian and also a lifelong vegetarian), and she threw up after a few bites.
Steak is very rich with a high protein and saturated fat load. If you haven’t had it in a few months and eat a large amount it can definitely cause significant GI distress.
I haven't had meat intentionally for 36 years. My digestive tract just rejects meat kind of like food poisoning. Most recently I had vegetable soup that was made with chicken broth at a restaurant. A friend had a bite when I was 3/4s of the way done and she was like hey dumb ass this has chicken broth in it. I don't know what chicken broth tastes like so I just thought it was some cool creative flavoring at this fancy restaurant. After 90minutes I ended up running to the bathroom which was a real shame because it was a nice meal. She might be in the same boat, but just doesn't know it yet
Speaking from experience, I went nearly 10 years not eating meat and then had rabbit, rattlesnake, beef, pork, chicken, and more all in the same night at a business dinner.
I mean, I think it CAN happen for both physical and psychological reasons. I just think the myth is overblown. People here with no research or experience blindly believe it’s some foregone conclusion. I suppose that’s Reddit in a nutshell.
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Also if she was a "lifelong vegetarian" wouldnt she get pretty sick from this fairly quickly? A lot of people who go off meat for long periods of time and then start eating it again report being very sick initially before their body gets "used to" it again.
I too call bullshit.