Starlene
05-25-2007, 01:58 PM
I went vegan about thirteen years ago as a teenager. I wasn't interested in my health, I did it for the animals. I saw what was happening at factory farms and to animals in general with the film The Animals and I literally got sick. I don't know how a theatre full of people could sit through that like it was entertainment. I had to get up and leave less than half-way through that film. Since then I have learned much more about the horrors that animals are forced to endure on a daily basis and have become completely misanthropic as a result. People make me sick. The least I can do is not eat/consume the products of human cruelty. It baffles me that anyone could be vegan at one point and then decide that it's too hard, etc. I once moved to a small town in Texas that had no health food stores, no tofu, not even vegetable broth in the grocery store....but rather than give up and start consuming animals, I went to the produce isle, got a bunch of vegetables and beans and learned how to cook. Now that my eyes are open I will never be able to close them again. There is no reason that eating animals would warrant the pain, suffering and death that is forced on them; not so I can get bigger biceps, not because it tastes good, not because it's convenient.