I started eating more plant based diet for completely different reasons than most.

The industry has completelyl screwed up meat. Chicken is mealy, literally turns to mush in my mouth. Or it's dry and stringy. Then there is the "25 percent water solution added" on virtually all chicken. WTF is that about?

Beef has become so dry and tasteless that a roast I saw, plain ol' roast, had "natural flavors added" on the label.

Pork is just awful. It doesn't have the juiciness or flavor it use to have.

So, I still eat some meats if I can buy them straight from a reputable butcher that supplies meat the way it is meant to be. It's not often. I will occasionally eat fish if it has not been farmed into skinny tastelessness.

Then there is hearing about the restaraunts that take beef leftovers or trim, add a substance (can't remember the name) and reform it into "steaks" that are apparently indistinguishable. Screw that. I'm not paying $25 for "leftovers" squished with some bizarro ingredient.

Next up is gonna be the lab grown garbage.

So, it's not health or politics. It's that they've made it so nasty. I really feel for the people who've never tasted what real meat tastes like.