When I was married I ate a vegetarian diet for 10 years, but over the last 18 months I've started eating meat again (I saw it as an act of rebellion originally
).
However, I've slowly come to realise that I don't want to eat rubbish anymore. I can buy a chicken from Asda for £5 that will last me the best part of a week, but it'll be pumped full of chemicals and been forced reared. A free-range organic chicken would cost me about £10 or more, but would have been raised and killed far more ethically (whatever).
I'd rather do without than eat the kind of rubbish that is passed off as food nowadays and that includes McDs, KFC, or whatever. The same goes for cheap chickens, meat, or other goods. I'll eat less of it (less regular), but I'll eat better.