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I am a little sad when I read all of these posts. I'm

not sure if I have the strength or the resolve to

become a vegan, but the things I read give me a little

hope that it's possible. I am the only vegetarian I

know, and if I mention I'm trying to be vegan people

think I'm nuts. I and my whole family and carnivores,

you know, the eggs, bacon and glass of milk for

breakfast type. I'd like to tell my story just

because it will be nice to tell people who aren't

going to scoff... The people I do know give me that

good for you pat on the back with the roll of the

eyes. When trying to explain my decisions to my

sisters they said, " I don't want to hear it, I like

eating meat and I don't want to change. " My mother

when at a curious moment asked me why, but could not

believe the damage that is done to the earth by

cattling and well I'm sure you've all heard 'it's only

a chicken.' When I told my dad he said I should try

this new diet he's on where you only eat meat. He

didn't seem to understand that although I am

overweight, I am not on a diet.

I realize I'm going on and on but this will probably

be the only time I brave this and write what I feel.

It's easy to eat those packages of cut up chunks of

flesh and forget it's raw hunks of cow or pig or

whatever. Once upon a time when I was young my father

had a cow slaughtered and it was all neatly packaged

into unrecognizable bits of meat that easily lost the

face of the cow, but I made something for dinner and

to this day I swear it was a knee. So much for my

easy life of unrecognized meat. When you're a kid

,though, and everyone eats meat and the only veggies

in the house are potatoes and corn you learn to pass

up your ideas. Well until last year... I have just

finished breastfeeding my daughter, I did it for two

years and I just happened to catch an artice or

something on the internet, it doesn't matter where,

the message mattered. Cows milk is breast milk for

calves. I guess I was just sensitive to this message

at the time but it will never leave me now. So

Christmas dinner of 1999 was the last time I ever ate

meat and two days later I stopped drinking milk or

eating cheese, or honey. I have been reading what I

can read and learning what I can learn but I am

feeling isolated and finding the ingredients on

packages to be completely confusing. I should give

myself a break, I had not done any research on what to

and not to eat and things have been a bit

overwhelming. I am not vegan but I am getting there.

I have a strong headed husband who has completely

refused to eat any of my vegan dishes and he doesn't

want our daughter to be vegetarian at all, so I still

cook the meat dishes at home too. I have slowly been

making his portion of salad larger, or adding some

legumes to his dinners and once I even managed to

distract him at a weak moment when he came home work

starving and he had no choice but to eat my " How it

all Vegan " shepphard's pie (he loved it). When I told

him that one of this days I won't be able to cook this

food anymore, he understood and didn't mind. So on a

good note, there's hope for me and even better, hope

for him.

 

 

 

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