i am a vegetarian.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarianism may be adopted for various reasons. Many people object to eating meat out of respect for sentient life. Such ethical motivations have been codified under various religious beliefs, as well as animal rights advocacy. Other motivations for vegetarianism are health-related, political, environmental, cultural, aesthetic, economic, or personal preference. There are variations of the diet as well: an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs. A vegan diet excludes all animal products, including eggs and dairy. Some vegans also avoid other animal products such as beeswax, leather or silk clothing, and goose-fat shoe polish. Packaged and processed foods, such as cakes, cookies, candies, chocolate, yogurt, and marshmallows, often contain unfamiliar animal ingredients, so may be a special concern for vegetarians due to the likelihood of such additions.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'd like to go vegetarian, but it seems hard on a tiny budget."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I can understand. Going vegetarian means you'll have to cut out a lot of those inexpensive packaged/processed foods. Definitely want to budget tightly."}, {"role": "user", "content": "yep and I don't cook at home often especially after many incidents where I let food go bad!!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are lots of potential reasons to go vegetarian anyway, if you think about it, despite the difficulty. There are moral and ethical concerns, too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh I hear you and I'd like to go vegan even. I keep my meat intake to a minimum already but I don't think I can give up dairy for ever. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I respect that. The only thing I'd caution you about is to really watch your food ingredients. A surprising number of things contain animal ingredients."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ideally I'd have my own dairy cow and maybe some chickens for eggs!! I don't eat many processed foods and keep a lookout already for that kinda thing."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You can't do any of that if you're a vegan though. Vegans reject that animal should even be commodities at all."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm against commercial farming but I can't really take that plunge. What do you think about lab grown meat though?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Although it hasn't been commercialized yet because it's still so new, I think there's a lot of potential there. No animals were harmed, after all."}]