Vegetarians: does the smell of cooking meat gross you out and if so, how do you deal with it?
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debsmooth
ANSWERS: 12
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Yes,I just cover my nose and leave the place.
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I'm not a vegetarian, but I knew a lady who was, and she owned a dog who she would cook meat for, and when she did she took all the carpet mats out of her wood floor home so they wouldn't stink too much of meat. She said it made her ill to do it (but she was a good dog parent and still made the effort for her dogs good health).
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It doesn't gross me out, but it doesn't exactly do anything for me either.
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I have a strong stomach (my first job was cleaning up in the butcher's shop when I was 10, honestly!), so for me it depends what kind of meat and how it is being cooked. Cheap meat (burgers, chicken and so on) really disgusts me. I will not eat with that smell in my nostrils, and will not willingly enter a space that smells like that. Barbecuing meat can be all right if it is a very faint smell; like somebody smoking a cigar at the other end of the restaurant, that is acceptable to me. If I am not eating it doesn't bother me at all.
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Since I don't allow cooking dead animals in my house,their is not an issue.If visiting someone who is cooking meat,I would make an excuse to go outside,or on the balcony to get away from the smell.When I drive by McDonalds or KFC I find the smell is sickening.
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yes it does. if i can i'll leave the room and not come back until it's cooked. however i am the only vegetarian in a family of five so it's rather hard to help sometimes.
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Yes, very much so. No meat is ever cooked in my house, so that isn't a problem. If I go to my parent's house for the holidays, my Mom (veggie) suffers through cooking the dead hunk of animal for my Dad, and others before I get there. Sometimes near restaurants, I just try to think of more pleasant things.
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I was a vegetarian for years, but I never could get over the cravings.
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the smell raw meat is disgusting to me!but some cooked meat dishes are tolerable not that ill ever eat them.
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The smell of raw meat bothers me, particularly in the grocery store, so we just avoid the meat counter area. The smell of cooking meat generally doesn't bother me because the seasonings seem to be responsible for much of the scent (imo) and it smells just like cooking, and i love the smell of most any kind of cooking.
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OH my word, yes!! Once my mother wanted me to brown some ground beef for her while she was out running errands and I nearly got sick! I don't know that even omni's find that scent appealing...I had to burn a candle, try not to breathe, and get outside as quickly as possible! I also told her I love her dearly, but wouldn't be doing that for her again. : )
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No. Never does it gross me out. There are many people on the planet that still eat meat and I am surrounded by it. I could live in a world without meat eating and be very happy, I wish it were that way, but brocolli boiling smells a lot worse than bar-b-que to me. So does a cigarette smoker. I don't judge other people, I try to use this as a test of patience, and non-judgmentalism. You win a lot more people over when you don't put your nose in the air and judge them. We are not better than them, just more aware of this issue.
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