or maybe a Blue Peter badge ?

"I've met several recently (vegans/vegies, not animals) and not one of them've been smelly, preaching, tree-hugging cretins, they've all been really nice"

ain't particularly healthy

Cows are also vegetarians.Learn from their mistakes

I like animals AND eat them.

There is gelatine in lots of sweets

but feel free to prove me wrong. I decided at Glasto to eat well and only eat veggie foods and got fucking sickness and diaherra from a feta chees eand mushroom square pie. I made a point of having a chickenburger the next day.

9/10 times I will eat a veggie dish. that 1 times always seems to be when I have to go to a McDonalds ie, only place on the road for miles!

i think, not stella and tennants but would you miss them?
why don't you start being a vegetarian with the goal of eventually vegan. it's so hard to eat in a restaurant when you don't eat any dairy products....good luck.

Good one!

elevated sense of self-satisfaction, sickly pallor/feebleness and the 6000% increase in flatulence.

but i'm trying to move to a less meat based diet. Ideally I'd cut out beef altogether (it just sits really heavily in my stomach and makes me feel a bit rubbish) and keep other red meats as a special occasiony thing.

My main problem is that i don't know enough veggie recipes. Various risottos and curry and that's it really.

It's very easy if you have a healthy diet already, basically just stop eating meat. If you don't make your own food it may be a bit trickier.
On the subject of sweets and beer, it's not just them but many things contain a sneaky animal products. It's down to you how seriously you want to take it. I tend to avoid things with gelatine if poss but I don't care too much if I accidentally eat some and I don't bother checking which beer is animal free etc.
Beans and tofu can be quite nice so don't rule them out but the sterotype that you MUST eat them everyday is retarded.

Anything else?

it's really not that tough. I was a big meat-eater and I went from eating meat every day to eating none overnight.

There's plenty of recipes and other helpful stuff online, for example:

www.vegsoc.org/

Lots of "gummy" sweets have gelatine in, which is a direct animal product.

Others have ingredients that are extracted using animal products, such as whey powder.

Be prepared to read a lot of ingredients labels initially, things like Worcestor Sauce have anchovies in, which I didn't realise previously... You learn pretty quick though.

Recipes can be really easy to adapt, espcially if you use a meat substitute such as Quorn mince as this stuff generally behaves in the same way as it's meat counterpart when cooked.

"oh i bet you feel really smug now wel done then ner ner ner"

Surely crushing cynics and dour faced cunts are worse than preachy veggies?

Anyway well done for making a choice. Be veggie first and see how it works out for you. You'll probably find out you've got more money in your pocket which you can use to buy more nice food, if you want.
Certain beer has some odd fish product in it but it's mostly only really crap beer so that's fine. Some cheeses have animal product in them (aside from milk, obviously) so they're not vegetarian.

I thin i'm gonna go vegan at a time more convinient for me but cutting out dairy as a veggie is almost as big a thing as cutting out meat as an omnivore.