Having been a vegetarian for25 years, Travis Barker has started eating meat after doctors advised him a protein based diet would help with the healing process of his wounds.  The Blink 182 drummer is receiving treatment at a Los Angeles Hospital and tells US Weekly:

“I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet. I would do anything I possibly could if they said like, ‘There’s a possibility you might heal faster if you do eat meat or just change your eating habits’. So I did. I don’t regret it at all, I feel so much better.”

I’ve tried giving up meat on several occassions and I never could.  Have you given up meat?  What was your reasoning behing it?