[JD In Van]

I was a vegetarian for about 5 years... mostly cause I was really poor and discovered I could buy and cook a lot more food if I wasn't wasting 5-10 a day on meat. When I got pregnant though I needed meat. I had gestational diabetes and increasing fat and protien with out adding to sugars (which as we know most veg has a lot of) was easiest by eatting meat.

Ironically though my daughter was what I called a 'natural vegaterian'. She wouldn't eat meat for years... until she was three or four she wouldn't touch anything but eggs so we didn't force her and just worked around it. Though she did change her mind and decided she really liked chicken after a while.

We eat probably less meat then most people but we're not vegetarians by any stretch. Having grown up around farming I'm very sensitive to the ethical issues but also the level of hormones and antibiotics our meat is stuffed full of. So when we do eat meat a handful of times a week, we opt or free range & organic options where ever possible and all our eggs and milk are the same. (Though I could go into a whole nothing thread about how our organic meat isn't really organic)