Lilly
04-17-2007, 12:59 AM
My progression to vegan from lacto-ovo veg was 100% due to reading PETA's literature.
I was a vegetarian for 5 years, because I fell in absolute love with an animal we had adopted. She had opened my eyes to the hypocricy of loving one's companion animals, and yet killing and eating other animals. It hit me like a pie in the face, it made NO SENSE!
But, I still was in the dark for 5 years about how eggs, milk, cheese, dairy, etc. were "produced". I think PETA had sent me their magazine after contributing to their worthy cause, that had opened my eyes to becoming vegan.
The details now are fuzzy because it's been almost 3 years since I've been a vegan, but I forever will thank PETA for their truthful information, I read tonight there is someone who works for them (CAN'T THEY EXPAND OUTSIDE OF VIRGINIA? WE NEED THEM IN OHIO!!), and I am jealous, because I so want to work for this organization who completely changed my life and is doing so much for getting the message out there.
My family understands my being vegan, in their own meat-habit ways, and I just broke up with a man I had been seeing for 6 years, who did not understand, and wanted someone who "wasn't a vegan or vegetarian" (someone "normal" lol!), not that this was the main reason we broke up, but I think was a big part of it.
anyways, hi!
I was a vegetarian for 5 years, because I fell in absolute love with an animal we had adopted. She had opened my eyes to the hypocricy of loving one's companion animals, and yet killing and eating other animals. It hit me like a pie in the face, it made NO SENSE!
But, I still was in the dark for 5 years about how eggs, milk, cheese, dairy, etc. were "produced". I think PETA had sent me their magazine after contributing to their worthy cause, that had opened my eyes to becoming vegan.
The details now are fuzzy because it's been almost 3 years since I've been a vegan, but I forever will thank PETA for their truthful information, I read tonight there is someone who works for them (CAN'T THEY EXPAND OUTSIDE OF VIRGINIA? WE NEED THEM IN OHIO!!), and I am jealous, because I so want to work for this organization who completely changed my life and is doing so much for getting the message out there.
My family understands my being vegan, in their own meat-habit ways, and I just broke up with a man I had been seeing for 6 years, who did not understand, and wanted someone who "wasn't a vegan or vegetarian" (someone "normal" lol!), not that this was the main reason we broke up, but I think was a big part of it.
anyways, hi!