How has Fast Food Nation Changed my life Post #12

We are more than half way through the semester and reading Fast Food Nation has been a very interesting experience to say the least. I believe my appetite for red meat and poultry has changed gradually. Before reading the book I had viewed various videos on the subject and had experimented with eating almost no meat except for fish for over six months. It was a realization of what a big part meat plays in my life. For every five meals my mother made for dinner, four contained meet. I became excluded from a lot of family gatherings because of the rejection my family felt from not eating their food. I made an attempt to return to eating meet and it was far from pretty. Thanks giving came and the turkey was sitting on the table. My mother quickly gave me a strong gaze like, "You better eat some meat or else..." type of look. I cave and ate the sacrificed bird. I vomited throughout the whole week. I had lost the lipids that would digest meat so my body became very strange to consuming such food. I eventually recovered those lipids and was able to continue eating meat as a "social recreation." I became disappointed to having caved so easily into the meat temptation, but I also believe that according to the environment you live in will ultimately determine the success of becoming a vegetarian or a person with low consumtion of meet.