MissKitty wrote:For those who are vegetarian/vegan, how do you get over the 'oh my god, body parts

' hump?
Hmm. I think compartmentalization, morality, ethics, concern for the environment help us a lot.
My wife and I are both vegetarians and we feed raw. Raw food is real food and since we ourselves don't ever go near fast food or convenience food and pretty much only eat actual food that is grown on actual small local farms; food you have to wash and prepare, we want the same, (or as close to the same as we can afford,) for our dogs. That desire to provide our dogs and ourselves with a highly varied, nutritious and un-artificial, no additive or preservative, zero HFCS, non-GMO lifestyle is enough to motivate us. We figure the amount of meat we don't eat offsets the amount of meat our dogs consume. Yes, we have to buy cheapo meat but that is still
real meat that looks like real animal parts just one step removed from the slaughtering floor, not ultra processed 20 steps and various corporations removed and gawd knows what else added. This is a huge and complicated topic.