I’m in the process of giving up meat (red and white), but what I’ve done so far is told myself that I am shooting to keep meat down to once a week. It’s been about 3 weeks now and I’ve done pretty well.
The things I’d miss the most if I gave it up entirely are burgers and bacon. Rather than go “cold turkey” as it were, I’ve decided I can have them occasionally. I’m also not, at this point, going to make an issue of it if I’m a guest in someone’s house.
I do feel it’s o.k. to eat animals if they’ve been raised well, but the cruelty of factory farming and what it does to our earth have brought me to this decision. I am eating fish which is another set of issues but I can’t tackle all of that yet too.
That said, I love the burgers at Barnacle Bill’s in Rumson. Also, they are one of the few restaurants that still makes French fries worth eating. I can’t stand the chemical “seasoned” sticks they sell as fries these days. What’s up with that? I was in England and France last summer and absolutely o.d.‘d on chips and frites because they were made from potatoes!