Welcome to Small Bite Sound Bites, a midweek segment of food for thought podcast where I,

your host Colleen Patrick-Gudrow, share short, succinct, thoughtful responses to typical

questions, myths, and misconceptions related to plant-based eating, veganism, and animal

protection.

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A very common response I've heard from people is if they tried being vegetarian or vegan,

but they craved meat, and so they went back to eating animal products.

My answer is no, you didn't crave meat, and I'm not denying someone's experience.

What I am getting at is that we do not crave physiologically.

The flesh of other animals were not obligate carnivores.

If you want to know what it looks like to crave meat, just watch how a domestic cat, for

instance, behaves when they see a prey animal or just think about a lion on the plains

of the Serengeti.

When they see a gazelle run by, they get down really low, they hunt their prey, they start

thinking about lunch, they flicker their tail, they salivate a bit.

Is that how you get when you see a bird or a squirrel or deer or cattle outside your

window?

I'm guessing you don't, if you do, I don't want to know, but my guess is that you don't.

We don't crave the sinews and the tendons and the muscles and the blood of animals.

In fact, we don't want to know what we're actually eating.

We don't want to see blood.

I'm sure some people have already turned off this podcast.

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