Vegetarianism

In 2021 concluded one year that I have stopped eating meat. It has been a very interesting experience, bringing along nice reflections.

At my family, meat was always really significative and present. To most people, having meat at the table is directly attached to the idea of having food, “having something to eat”. This idea is introjected unto our lives way before we born, and specially living at the South of Brazil, is expected that the act of eating meat as something daily ¹. Actually, I didn’t actually see much of point in not eating meat. When that idea started to enter my mind, and I slowly started to get more familiar with the idea of vegetarianism, I started with the more simple act possible, I join the “Meatless Monday” movement, which I failed miserably. Still couldn’t drop the idea of eating meat, couldn’t barely think about other meals which didn’t have meat, or at least I always had this feeling that it “wasn’t the same thing”.