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That makes me feel better. I had cut out poultry completely but it is logistically difficult. So I make one poultry meal per week; I try to buy free range or more natural because perhaps their lives were better even though their deaths are no different (and the money makes a message). I eat one or two seafood meals per week. I make one meatless meal for us together and the other days I eat meatless and hub may have some form of meat on his food. We have reduced meat on the whole by quite a bit. Hub likes veggie burgers now but they give him gas.

I tried being closer to vegan for about one year. The problem is combining it with IBS safe foods. I can handle black beans and edamame and soy ok but can't handle lentils, certain other beans and certain grains. Hub, without IBS, can't handle much of any of that.
I buy him regular milk products but I only occasionally have a sprinkle of parmesan and no other dairy. We get eggs from a workmate and they are pets so I am cool with that. But I don't buy things with eggs in them if I can help it. I noticed one large mayo company says they use cage free eggs now which is nice. I can't remember if it is Kraft or Hellmann's.
I still have some leather, silk and wool items and haven't moved into that territory. As for honey, I buy Burt's bees products some but don't eat much honey. I prefer agave.
I wish I could move to 100% vegan for us both. I find a bigger challenge with digesting that diet than with buying/cooking for it.
As for other stuff, I am also trying not to buy palm oil products unless greenly harvested and I have upped my certified organic foods by a lot recently. I grow much of my own produce but after reading about GMOs I am buying organic things much more.
I don't think I will ever give up the soy cheese with casein for the vegan kind- yuck.
I am interested in learning more about which seafood is sustainable. I don't want to spend more on everything but when you do it gradually it helps. I don't buy farmed seafood. The frozen wild stuff is better than fresh farmed anyway.

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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!

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