Delirium76
02-19-2003, 11:40 AM
It all started with a simple conversation with my fiance.
Without knowing it, both of us were considering becoming vegetarian. I had been one briefly when I was a teenager (translation: when I thought fast food french fries and doritos were a healthy diet...I got sick...wonder why? and had to return to being an omnivore.) He had never been, but had been thinking about it.
Well, after a discussion where we had both brought up the subject at about the same time, we both made the decision to go vegetarian.
That lasted about 2 hours for me...I started surfing the net looking for information and started coming across vegan sites. After viewing the conditions that battery chickens were forced to live in, watching newborn calfs being stuck in wooden boxes and their mothers raped at continue producing milk, after watching a million attrocities that produced more than a few tears...I decided that being a vegetarian...would not do enough to end the suffering that animals are subjected to everday. (I hope no one takes offense to that, I encourage everyone who takes even the smallest step towards ending animal cruelty, this was a personal desicion)
The next few weeks were filled with learning what was in what, which I must say was disgusting because I was realizing exactly what I had been putting in and on my body for my whole life.
Also, I am re-learning how to cook..I make the BEST vegan banana bread. :)
My biggest obstacle has been the reaction from friends and co-workers. Some think I'm some crazy extremist, some think I'm just blowing thigs out of proportion. But, after the sensationalism of my switch to veganism subsided, more and more of my co-workers are becoming truly interested in what I am doing and why I am doing it.
It may help that a few people asked me to bring in my animal ingredients list and found out that they put urine in most beauty products. :D Also, I bring in vegan treats like banana bread, chocolate chip cookies and things that they say I just can't have anymore because I'm vegan. I think the biggest misconception I've come across is that cruelty free items just can't be as good as the "normal" stuff. I'm trying to break that, at least in people I know by showing them just how good vegan items can be.
So, anyway..I'm droning on and on. :)
Thanks for having a place that I can come to find others like me. Kind of a rare thing in Indiana.:)
Without knowing it, both of us were considering becoming vegetarian. I had been one briefly when I was a teenager (translation: when I thought fast food french fries and doritos were a healthy diet...I got sick...wonder why? and had to return to being an omnivore.) He had never been, but had been thinking about it.
Well, after a discussion where we had both brought up the subject at about the same time, we both made the decision to go vegetarian.
That lasted about 2 hours for me...I started surfing the net looking for information and started coming across vegan sites. After viewing the conditions that battery chickens were forced to live in, watching newborn calfs being stuck in wooden boxes and their mothers raped at continue producing milk, after watching a million attrocities that produced more than a few tears...I decided that being a vegetarian...would not do enough to end the suffering that animals are subjected to everday. (I hope no one takes offense to that, I encourage everyone who takes even the smallest step towards ending animal cruelty, this was a personal desicion)
The next few weeks were filled with learning what was in what, which I must say was disgusting because I was realizing exactly what I had been putting in and on my body for my whole life.
Also, I am re-learning how to cook..I make the BEST vegan banana bread. :)
My biggest obstacle has been the reaction from friends and co-workers. Some think I'm some crazy extremist, some think I'm just blowing thigs out of proportion. But, after the sensationalism of my switch to veganism subsided, more and more of my co-workers are becoming truly interested in what I am doing and why I am doing it.
It may help that a few people asked me to bring in my animal ingredients list and found out that they put urine in most beauty products. :D Also, I bring in vegan treats like banana bread, chocolate chip cookies and things that they say I just can't have anymore because I'm vegan. I think the biggest misconception I've come across is that cruelty free items just can't be as good as the "normal" stuff. I'm trying to break that, at least in people I know by showing them just how good vegan items can be.
So, anyway..I'm droning on and on. :)
Thanks for having a place that I can come to find others like me. Kind of a rare thing in Indiana.:)