History Main / VegetarianForADay

If a character is forced into this by another they will often [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere feel constantly tempted]], perhaps with literal MeatOVision.

* Catholics, Anglicans, and Methodists are expected to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent as a commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion on that day. Prior to the 1960s, it was every Friday year-round.
** Very traditionalist Orthodox and Coptic Christians have so many rules regarding fasting (which, in the Christian tradition, is more about abstaining from luxuries rather than not eating at all), that many of them would be essentially eating vegan (or very close to it) for a whole third of the year.

* Catholics, Anglicans, and Methodists are expected to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent as a commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion on that day. Prior to the 1960s, it was every Friday.

** Very traditionalist Orthodox Christians have so many rules regarding fasting (which, in the Christian tradition, is more about abstaining from luxuries rather than not eating at all), that many of them would be essentially eating vegan (or very close to it) for a whole third of the year.

** Very traditiionalist Orthodox Christians have so many rules regarding fasting (which, in the Christian tradition, is more about abstaining from luxuries rather than not eating at all), that many of them would be essentially eating vegan (or very close to it) for a whole third of the year.

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* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. At one point Sokka gets stuck in a hole chasing a baby [[MixAndMatchCritters moose-lion cub]]. He pleads with the universe, promising to never eat meat or be sarcastic ever again if it will just let him out. Of course, once his friends rescue him, he immediately decides to do no such thing.

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* According to [[https://www.thecut.com/2014/12/84-percent-of-vegetarians-go-back-to-eating-meat.html this study ]] 84% of vegans and vegetarians eventually return to eating meat (at least on a semi-regular basis) making this trope TruthInTelevision more often than not.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The first time the team tries out their wolf morph, Cassie smells bacon on Rachel, who'd apparently mentioned going vegetarian earlier.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}''. In the fifth episode, "The Meat of the Matter," Sharon decides to become a vegetarian after seeing the unsavory conditions of her new job at a meatpacking-plant. Sharon ultimately stays a vegetarian for the rest of the series, but almost gave it up in the second-to-last episode, "Vegging Out," after she develops an iron-deficiency anemia and some of her friends suggest that Sharon should start eating meat again to boost her iron levels. However, vegetarianism is too important to Sharon for her to give it up, so she decides to stay a vegetarian while looking for ways to put more iron in her diet.

* Bobby from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' once temporarily became vegetarian in order to impress a girl, who was not interested in him in that way. He later runs into her at a steakhouse after they broke up and participated in a steak-eating contest (and won) just to spite her.