The main reasons I’ve seen from vegans for not eating meat seem to be all about the morality of eating a sentient animal, the practices of the modern meat industry, and the environmental impact of it. And don’t have anything to do with the taste of meat.
Since lab-grown meat doesn’t cause animal suffering, and assuming mass production is environmentally friendly, would you consider going back to eating meat if it were the lab-grown kind?
No way, it’s made by animal testing and I don’t trust anyone to actually use that instead of cheaper, subsidized cruelty that is normally served.
Also meat is really unhealthy and unnecessary. I’ve been vegan almost 10 years now and all my coworkers are suffering diseases from eating a shitty diet but people regularly think I’m 10 years younger than I am. My manager who is younger than me at 43 just had to get stents and had a heart attack. Long story short, I’m not looking to eat like you people ever again.
This is the same kind of magical thinking that leads some vegans to believe that they don’t produce any body odor, or that they can cure cancer through diet. I eat meat, I’m nearing 50, I’m physically healthy, and regularly mistaken for being in my 30s. The idea that vegan = healthy diet is, well, pretty obviously nonsense, since Oreos are vegan and still terrible for you.
A lot of aging is just genetics.
Keep telling yourself that, recipes run in families too. There is mountains of evidence showing that plant based diets are the healthiest and that saturated fat, where most of the calories in meat come from, is bad for you. The non vegans in my family look like everyone else, I seem to be a genetic marvel along with my wife. Everyone’s genetics must have suddenly changed in the past 30 years that somehow turned 50% of people in only rich countries obese and not their shitty diet of increased meat and fat consumption.
You seem a little defensive of your choices.