Why People Started Veganism & Then Eventually Went Carnivore

There's a common pattern I've noticed in people who used to be vegan and are now carnivore, and it's not really about food but about seeking identity.

Before veganism became the common fashion statement it is today, those who were vegan "back in the day" were those who never quite fit into the world around them. They noticed contradictions and questioned things. They sensed that society was "off", couldn't identify with it, and wanted to get to the bottom of it.

That started early in life when the child with all the questions inevitably experienced a challenging childhood. Thinking differently to the herd made them an outlier and a social outcast - at least among the normies - and forced a different way of living.

And then somehow they encountered veganism and suddenly things appeared to make at least some sense.

They rejected the standard diet and, because processed vegan food was hard to come by back then, they learnt to cook from scratch. They stopped eating the highly processed rubbish they were eating before. They started questioning the food industry. They became more conscious of their body, their environment and the world around them.

And they felt better. Of course they did! They removed a huge amount of processed food, industrial ingredients, and chemical rubbish from their diet. Their appetite changed. Their head cleared. They lost that last 10 pounds. Their body got a break from the constant assault of modern food.

And because their mind felt clearer, and they began connecting with others who had the ability to think outside the box, the spiritual side of their journey opened up simultaneously.

They began seeing the world very differently. They rejected the values they'd been handed and looked for deeper meaning. They started noticing things that other people seemed completely oblivious to.

This is where the rabbit hole began. And it felt exhiliarating. They started peeling off the layers of the onion as they dove into deeper parts of themself via new age spiritual self-development.

Until eventually they became mentally unwell in a way that was difficult to ignore - an anxiety or depression or inability to focus - they couldn't shake. They attributed it to "the state of the world" or their "difficult upbringing", "an abusive relationship", some modern "diagnosis"... and while those reasons could be entirely valid, the state remained running in the background throughout the shifting seasons of their life and in spite of all the personal development.

This happened for two reasons:

1. Because veganism doesn't actually provide the body with what it needs. It's possible to survive on plants, but surviving isn't the same as thriving and, eventually, the enormous carbohydrate load, inadequate fat, and constant exposure to plant defence chemicals began to take their inevitable toll.

2. Because new age spirituality is a bottomless cesspit of sin created by Satan to distract us from our relationship to God and to lie to us about our inherent nature as children of God.

And so one day, out of the blue, the body started asking for meat.

They ignored it, expecting it to go away. But it didn't.

It wasn't a craving as much as it was a knowing.

They somehow knew they had to eat meat. A lot of meat. And because they're open-minded and seeking the truth in all areas of life, it was peculiar to them, but not out of the question.

So eventually they did. They were hesitant for those first few bites but something inside of them came alive and it tasted FANTASTIC!

For the first time in a very long time, they became properly satiated. They ate and the hunger went away for hours. Vegetables in the fridge went off, got thrown out, and never replaced.

Their energy improved dramatically. They felt stronger and more grounded. The fog lifted. They became themself, maybe for the first time in their life.

Something psychological happened: they stopped fighting their own nature.

We spent years being told that we are somehow separate from the animal kingdom; that eating animals makes us cruel, primitive or morally inferior.

But we aren't separate from nature.

We are nature.

We are animals living inside an animal ecosystem, with an animal digestive system, animal instincts and biological requirements that don't disappear just because we constructed a philosophical argument against them.

And their physical and spiritual journeys converged. The vegan who became a seeker because something felt "off" with the world discovered that the answer wasn't to spend the rest of their life finding increasingly elaborate explanations to avoid it.

The answer was to come back to reality: to the body, and to nature. Back to the simple recognition that they are a creature of the world, created by God in His image; not an abstract consciousness floating above biology.

And once they started doing that, the endless seeking lost its grip, because they realised they didn't need another rabbit hole, another theory, another guru, another spiritual practice. They didn't need to spend the rest of their life trying to work out what's wrong with the world.

They needed to work out what they are, where they came from, why they're here, and who made them.

And this is where the whole thing finally came together.

They are an animal, part of nature, part of creation, created by God.

Once they really saw that, the seeking stopped, because there was nowhere else to go. They didn't need another rabbit hole. They'd reached the bottom.

God is the end of the search.

And once they realised that they're a creature of His creation; that their identity is "Child of God"; they could finally stop fighting what they are and start living like it.

Lisa@ketogentility.co.uk

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