This deduction was pretty tough for 12 year old me at the time. I’ve been vegetarian my whole life, 19 and still going strong. Anyways, I have done scouting for most of my childhood years and as we all know Scouting includes a lot of camping. Anyway, I had moved to a new troop and the leaders didn’t bother looking at the health forms before camp and didn’t bring me any vegetarian food for lunch or dinners. I explained to a leader that I couldn’t eat any of the food offered as I was vegetarian, she just said ‘eat it or starve’. The lunches were fine as I just picked out the meat but the dinner on the first night was beef in gravy (with a small portion of vegetables). I didn’t know what to do, I had never eaten meat before and it didn’t feel right to but I was very hungry. I decided to eat the meat. That night I threw up 6 times and decided to go hungry at the following 3 dinners eating only a small amount of steamed veggies because the leaders refused to get me proper vegetarian food stating I should’ve let them now beforehand (well if you had paid attention to the health forms) Never eaten meat again.