[QOTW] What prompted you to choose becoming a vegetarian?

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QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

 

What type of vegetarian are you?

[lacto-ovo, vegan, ovo, lacto, pesca, semi, not-veg-yet, etc]

 

Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

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I am a full vegetarian and almost vegan but not quite, as I still eat cheese

from time to time although I don't buy it.

I became a vegetarian last August when I started reading about the horrible,

unsanitary living conditions all the animals were kept in on factory farms and

the incredibly cruel, inhumane way in which they are slaughtered. Also I read

about all the health benefits to not eating meat as well; for instance I didn't

know it was a cause of cancer and heart disease.

Then as I was learning more about my vegetarianism and how it was beneficial

to the environment and the water supply in the US, too then those reasons of

course fell into place as well and just confirmed my decision to become

meat-free.

 

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Time for a new batch of questions of the week.

These questions are just for fun and sharing.

Please join in if you have time.

 

QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

 

What type of vegetarian are you?

[lacto-ovo, vegan, ovo, lacto, pesca, semi, not-veg-yet, etc]

 

Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

 

What type of vegetarian are you? Lacto-ovo, using eggs, butter and cheese from

free range chicken and cow family members.

 

Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable what was the isolated

incident that prompted the change?

 

Two books started me thinking back in the 70's. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

and Francis Moore Lappe's Diet For A Small Planet. The clincher came one night

when we got KFC for dinner and the chicken leg I had was broken, with the bone

through the skin. Yes, if COULD have happened post-postmortem, but this one had

extensive bleeding into the flesh. This indicated that the chicken was alive

long enough for its body to bleed and for it to have pain.

 

I don't choose to exist on another's pain. Bless the farmers and those whose

efforts bring our nightly vegetables.

 

Jeanne in GA

 

 

 

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Oh how AWEFUL Jeanne. Yes KFC gets their chicken from Tyson farms, which is one

of the most inhumane poultry plants there are; even people who live near the

plant complain about the toxins constantly coming from it, and I've seen hidden

video of the way the chickens are treated at the plant, too and it just

HORRIBLE.

 

treazure noname <treazured wrote: QOTW for April 27th - May

3rd, 2008:

 

What type of vegetarian are you? Lacto-ovo, using eggs, butter and cheese from

free range chicken and cow family members.

 

Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable what was the isolated

incident that prompted the change?

 

Two books started me thinking back in the 70's. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

and Francis Moore Lappe's Diet For A Small Planet. The clincher came one night

when we got KFC for dinner and the chicken leg I had was broken, with the bone

through the skin. Yes, if COULD have happened post-postmortem, but this one had

extensive bleeding into the flesh. This indicated that the chicken was alive

long enough for its body to bleed and for it to have pain.

 

I don't choose to exist on another's pain. Bless the farmers and those whose

efforts bring our nightly vegetables.

 

Jeanne in GA

 

 

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I'm thinking it was the beginning of last June that I joined WW and stopped

eating horrible junky food. We were never big meat eaters, just eating 1-3oz

at dinner time, some time having salad or rice with an egg cooked in it instead.

I pretty much thought one had to eat a little meat to be healthy, and the show

really made me see you didn't. So, the big SPROINK! came when 3 things

happened in sequence:

1. I'd been watching the show for quite a while

2. my husband went on a long business trip

3. I was in the grocery ailse that has frozen diet dinners and BOINK! noticed

the Gardenburgers and MorningStar stuff on the end of the freezer section.

Bought some. When my husband got home, I realized I hadn't eaten any meat the

whole time he'd been gone! I made a few dishes with a little meat in them, but

when I put it in my mouth, it was like trying to chew a wart, I was so grossed

out I finally spit it out. I don't even think about it, nor miss it at all.

I haven't had any meat since some time toward the end of March, and I can't

believe how good I feel. I have Fibromyalgia, and for the first time in my

life, I feel a relaxation running thru my arms and legs, something I've never

felt before! I still feel very new to this all, and when I try to figure out

what kind of vegetarian I am, I'm not sure yet! It took me about a week to

get used to soy milk, but pouring half fat free and half soy milk together, then

just soymilk with a little almond milk, then just soy milk with a drop of

vanilla, then doh! just buy the Vanilla Soymilk!!! It has an impressive amount

of vitamins in it, espcially the B12. I am liking the Galaxy Veggie Slices and

also the Shreds, but they are not Vegan, because of casien, although no animal

rennet. I don't know how I feel about eggs yet.

 

I was like so many people who thought you HAD to eat meat to be healthy. I

never liked it, but my health was so touchy that I feared rocking the boat.

When I watched this show, found the products and was free to experiment when my

husband was gone on a trip, it all came together into a wonderful light bulb

moment. The general public has a stereo type of a mal-nourished skinny person

who lives on deprivation as the way it is to be a vegetarian... it's so NOT

true! I feel so blessed to know I don't have to eat animals ever again - it is

so liberating! WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!

This is where I am today, in my journey

 

 

 

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GREAT story, cozyhomelife. Thanks for sharing! Also if you have a Whole Foods

near you they have the Vegan Gourmet vegan cheese that also melts! I've put it

on my sandwiches before, too and it is pretty good.

 

cozyhomelife <cozyhomelife wrote: I'm thinking it was the

beginning of last June that I joined WW and stopped eating horrible junky food.

We were never big meat eaters, just eating 1-3oz at dinner time, some time

having salad or rice with an egg cooked in it instead. I pretty much thought one

had to eat a little meat to be healthy, and the show really made me see you

didn't. So, the big SPROINK! came when 3 things happened in sequence:

1. I'd been watching the show for quite a while

2. my husband went on a long business trip

3. I was in the grocery ailse that has frozen diet dinners and BOINK! noticed

the Gardenburgers and MorningStar stuff on the end of the freezer section.

Bought some. When my husband got home, I realized I hadn't eaten any meat the

whole time he'd been gone! I made a few dishes with a little meat in them, but

when I put it in my mouth, it was like trying to chew a wart, I was so grossed

out I finally spit it out. I don't even think about it, nor miss it at all. I

haven't had any meat since some time toward the end of March, and I can't

believe how good I feel. I have Fibromyalgia, and for the first time in my life,

I feel a relaxation running thru my arms and legs, something I've never felt

before! I still feel very new to this all, and when I try to figure out what

kind of vegetarian I am, I'm not sure yet! It took me about a week to get used

to soy milk, but pouring half fat free and half soy milk together, then just

soymilk with a little almond milk, then just soy milk

with a drop of vanilla, then doh! just buy the Vanilla Soymilk!!! It has an

impressive amount of vitamins in it, espcially the B12. I am liking the Galaxy

Veggie Slices and also the Shreds, but they are not Vegan, because of casien,

although no animal rennet. I don't know how I feel about eggs yet.

 

I was like so many people who thought you HAD to eat meat to be healthy. I never

liked it, but my health was so touchy that I feared rocking the boat. When I

watched this show, found the products and was free to experiment when my husband

was gone on a trip, it all came together into a wonderful light bulb moment. The

general public has a stereo type of a mal-nourished skinny person who lives on

deprivation as the way it is to be a vegetarian... it's so NOT true! I feel so

blessed to know I don't have to eat animals ever again - it is so liberating!

WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!

This is where I am today, in my journey

 

 

[Guest guest]

We have a Whole Foods and a Trader Joes, which both will have different types of

wonderful choices, but I can't drive far on my own, so have to wait for husband

to be up for a 'field trip day'! I just realized that my last post mentions

'the show' several times, but I failed to name the show! You Are What You Eat

on the BBC channel.

 

 

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I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for 2 years and I recently became a near

vegan. My own way of being near vegan is to not buy any dairy or eggs

myself, but to eat them when I am a guest or at the many potlucks I go

to at my church. My reason for being vegetarian is primarily out of

compassion for animals, and I don't wish to support the dairy or egg

industries financially by buying their products. However, I am a picky

eater who doesn't like most vegetables and many other things, so it's

hard for me to eat what other people prepare if I don't allow some eggs

and dairy. There was not a single incident that led to me becoming a

vegetarian, but just the accumulated knowledge about how much farm

animals suffer, and how bad animal flesh is for health, and also how

much animal agriculture harms the environment and contributes to world

hunger.

 

Karen in Pennsylvania

 

 

 

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Lacto-ovo-pesco vegetarian (I guess that makes me a semi vegetarian!). I

simply tell anyone who presses the issue that " I don't eat anything with

lungs " .

 

It was two things, essentially simultaneously, that caused my dietary

change. I found out how gelatin was made (which made me ask myself how I

could eat some parts and products but not others), and learning how

basically inefficient animal production is regarding natural resources.

 

Most people, when told I'm a vegetarian, actually accuse me of lying to

them! I guess I don't exactly fit the popular image.

 

Mike

 

 

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I eat no animals, and not much dairy. I do buy some cheese, and a bit of ice

cream, and will eat dairy products when cooked into things. I stopped buying

milk when I became vegetarian, I drink soy/almond/rice milk only. I recently

started eating eggs because I found a wonderful organic farm close by, with real

free range chickens, who will sell me their eggs.

I became a vegetarian the morning after I forced myself, through hysterical

tears, to watch Earthlings. That was it for me. Since then, I have researched

enough to keep me motivated for life not to contribute to the meat industry.

 

 

 

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> [QOTW] What prompted you to choose becoming a

vegetarian?

>

> Received: Sunday, April 27, 2008, 11:11 AM

> Time for a new batch of questions of the week.

> These questions are just for fun and sharing.

> Please join in if you have time.

>

> QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

>

> What type of vegetarian are you?

> [lacto-ovo, vegan, ovo, lacto, pesca, semi, not-veg-yet,

> etc]

>

> Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

> what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

>

 

 

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That sounds like me, too. I don't buy dairy at the store, but if I'm eating out

somewhere I'll let them put the cheese in or on whatever I order, if it's

something that normally comes on it.

Eggs I was never really all that heavily into, so it's pretty easy for me not

to eat those.

Plus if I really want an omelette there is a way to make a vegan one using

silken tofu, although I haven't actually tried the recipe I have for it yet.

If I ever do though and like it I'll post it on here.

 

Karen <serendipitous_starshine wrote:

I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for 2 years and I recently became a near

vegan. My own way of being near vegan is to not buy any dairy or eggs

myself, but to eat them when I am a guest or at the many potlucks I go

to at my church. My reason for being vegetarian is primarily out of

compassion for animals, and I don't wish to support the dairy or egg

industries financially by buying their products. However, I am a picky

eater who doesn't like most vegetables and many other things, so it's

hard for me to eat what other people prepare if I don't allow some eggs

and dairy. There was not a single incident that led to me becoming a

vegetarian, but just the accumulated knowledge about how much farm

animals suffer, and how bad animal flesh is for health, and also how

much animal agriculture harms the environment and contributes to world

hunger.

 

Karen in Pennsylvania

 

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Hi All,

Here's my answer to the Question of the Week:

1. I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian and have been

consistently since 1994. Though I don't drink cow's

milk (I'm hooked on Very Vanilla soymilk) and rarely

eat eggs, I call myself a lacto-ovo because I still

consume things that may contain small amounts of these

ingredients. I do not eat meat at all, though.

 

2. I can't recall an isolated incident that triggered

my decision to become a vegetarian. If anything, it

was probably a lot of little ones! I believe that

what motivated me most initially,though, was health

because I always had such a hard time digesting dairy

and meat. I noticed that my health improved

significantly, however, once I stopped eating meat and

sharply reduced my dairy intake.

 

 

--April

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What type of vegetarian are you?

 

I am about 99% vegan.

 

Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

 

My sister, who is 10 years older than me, made a deal with me when I

was 13, that if she quit smoking, I would become vegetarian. She

quit, and I did, but it took me a couple years to kick the meat habit!

[Guest guest]

QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

 

 

What type of vegetarian are you?

 

lacto-ovo

 

Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

 

Animal Rights. Actually I feel that I should become vegan but

since my wife is still an omnivore and is not always 100% happy

with me being even lacto-ovo, this is as far as I feel comfortable going at the

moment.

However I only buy eggs specified to be from cage free hens, not fed

various and growth hormones and all those other things many places

add to their feed. I actually don't drink milk, just soy milk but I do use

milk for some baking and cooking.

 

No isolated incident started me off.

 

It will be ten years at the end of this year, 2008.

 

Gary

[Guest guest]

> QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

>

> What type of vegetarian are you?

> [lacto-ovo, vegan, ovo, lacto, pesca, semi, not-veg-yet, etc]

 

 

100% vegan-- no eggs, dairy, honey, wool, silk, leather...

 

> Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

> what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

 

I've always kind of been on that road. I've been a huge animal lover my whole

life. When I

was 5, I realized that the lobsters in the tank were the ones coming out on the

plates, and

stopped eating lobster. I saw an old-fashioned slaughterhouse on an 8th grade

field trip

and gave up red meat and pork. I quit chicken when I realized I hadn't eaten it

in a few

months without even trying. I gave up everything else when I did some research

on why

someone would even become vegan (I didn't get how eating eggs and milk would

harm an

animal), and quit everything else cold turkey (so to speak ) right there.

 

 

Melody

 

 

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I have to credit my daughter; at 14 she announced she wanted to become

vegetarian and I told her I would support the effort, but I wanted her

to read some responsible info on it so she would be healthy and

informed. I decided to start the research because, let's face it, let

loose on the internet it's easy to be mis-informed. I also didn't want

her at that age to see something a little too shocking that would

frighten her. Anyway, I found Diet for a New America and read it first

to approve and then passed it to her. Long story short, by the time I

finished researching on her behalf I was completely convinced that it's

the right thing to do for a variety of reasons. I started as a

pescatarian, dropped the seafood after a few years, dropped milk next

and I'm currently trying to quit cheese but I'm struggling right now.

[Guest guest]

Kimberly I found some soy cheeses that are vegetarian at Walmart in the produce

section where they have tofu and such. I got GALAXY Veggie Slices in cheddar

and swiss flavors and also in Shreds. Even my omni hubby gave them the thumbs

up. They also had Melissa's Mozzerilli Shredded. These are NOT VEGAN, because

of small traces of casein, but they are vegetarian and taste great. I also

found Galaxy Vegan Parmesan at another store,and it taste just like the real

thing to me.

 

 

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I'm a wildlife rehabber (currently have 19 baby raccoons), and all around animal

lover. To be eating meat was just to much to handle anymore, I felt

overwhelming guilt to choose which animal I save and which I inadvertently allow

to be horribly slaughtered to feed my carnivore side. Then my daughter(9 year

old) followed suit. Hubby is still big meat eater but cuts back due to the fact

that I won't cook it or buy it for him, lol. Now my cholesterol is down right

low, and I feel great! I hate tofu, so I just eat a lot of veggies...but like

the morning star bugers and the veggie burger at Burger King.

 

I do eat limited seafood and some cheese. I also buy cage free eggs.

 

Frannie

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Also when you can get to a Whole Foods market I recommend the Vegan Gourmet as

it melts and tastes ALOT like the real thing. When you do get a chance to get

some let me know what you think, ok?

 

cozyhomelife <cozyhomelife wrote: Kimberly I found some soy

cheeses that are vegetarian at Walmart in the produce section where they have

tofu and such. I got GALAXY Veggie Slices in cheddar and swiss flavors and also

in Shreds. Even my omni hubby gave them the thumbs up. They also had Melissa's

Mozzerilli Shredded. These are NOT VEGAN, because of small traces of casein, but

they are vegetarian and taste great. I also found Galaxy Vegan Parmesan at

another store,and it taste just like the real thing to me.

 

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>Vegan Gourmet 'cheese'

-I will sure try it, although it will be awhile until hubby is free to take me

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I became a vegetarian about a month ago. I had wanted to become a

vegetarian for quite some time, both for moral and health reasons,

but never could quite made the transition. I too also saw the

movie " Earthlings. " I came upon the movie just by chance and it

changed my life profoundly. I stopped eating meat right then and

there. I believe that ALL animals are born free and deserve the

right to remain so. I have not only become vegetarian but I now have

become a much more conscious shopper and now try to by cruelty free

whenever possible.

 

Cristina

" Live simply so that othersmay simply live " -Gandhi

 

 

, Vanessa <hollyivy1969

wrote:

>

> I eat no animals, and not much dairy. I do buy some cheese, and a

bit of ice cream, and will eat dairy products when cooked into

things. I stopped buying milk when I became vegetarian, I drink

soy/almond/rice milk only. I recently started eating eggs because I

found a wonderful organic farm close by, with real free range

chickens, who will sell me their eggs.

> I became a vegetarian the morning after I forced myself, through

hysterical tears, to watch Earthlings. That was it for me. Since

then, I have researched enough to keep me motivated for life not to

contribute to the meat industry.

>

>

>

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> > [QOTW] What prompted you to choose

becoming a vegetarian?

> >

> > Received: Sunday, April 27, 2008, 11:11 AM

> > Time for a new batch of questions of the week.

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> > Please join in if you have time.

> >

> > QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

> >

> > What type of vegetarian are you?

> > [lacto-ovo, vegan, ovo, lacto, pesca, semi, not-veg-yet,

> > etc]

> >

> > Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

> > what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

> >

>

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I have a long family history of heart disease and high blood pressure. When I

entered my thirties (I'm 34 now), it was beginning to affect me. I never loved

meat, except for shrimp and Back Yard Burgers, but I eliminated meat entirely

when my cholesterol and blood pressure got higher and reduced my consumption of

other animal products. Then I learned that I am allergic to chicken, eggs,

down, etc. When my cholesterol lowered, I began to allow the occasional bit of

shrimp (the hardest thing for me to give up!) back into my life.

 

Then I fell in love with a happy vegetarian family in 2005 I speak of Tai

Shan and his parents Mei Xiang and Tian Tian at the National Zoo, who I have had

to watch every day on the zoo's Panda Cam since Tai was born. I began going to

the zoos in the New York City area. I looked at their faces, their eyes. I

understood that if animals don't have souls, we don't, either. (I always knew

my cats had souls, of course, but I had to expand my vision.) They certainly

have emotions and lives of their own, and I had a harder and harder time even

justifying that bit of shrimp to myself. I still drink dairy, though I'm more

mindful about where I get it. Leather shoes tempt me sometimes, but I get to

where I remember that they were once an animal's skin by the time I get to the

register. I'd rather wear Converses and Crocs anyway, and I'm grateful there

are other, more stylish veggie-friendly choices when I need them.

 

Blessed be,

Jayelle

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I'm currently lacto-ovo but I hope to go vegan someday. My daughter

and I are big animal lovers and as we became aware of the cruelty

animals were suffering we decided to cut back on animal products and

have " vegetarian day " once a week. Once we saw how easy it was we

went to two days a week. We were going to go to three days a week,

although we had no intentions of ever completely giving up meat.

Then five weeks ago we read PETA's 'Meet Your Meat' article and we

were just so horrified we decided then and there to never eat meat

again. I'm starting to find the idea of meat to be disgusting to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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> QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

>

> What type of vegetarian are you?

> [lacto-ovo, vegan, ovo, lacto, pesca, semi, not-veg-yet, etc]

>

> Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

> what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

>

[Guest guest]

I am currently a lacto avo veg, but I rarely drink milk, as it is the breast

milk of another species, ick (and as my 13 year old son says, would you go milk

one of our ferrets and drink it? or even another human? then why a cow?) he has

a way with words. I was a vegetarian years ago, but my 3 sons and husband were

not, so I was a very lazy veg, so I would just eat what the meat eaters ate,

minus the meat, needless to say, I was not meeting my protein requirements and

after a surgery I was not healing well, and my doc insisted I eat meat

temporarily, I stayed, again, lazy. This go round' my 13 year old son decided to

go vegan, HE LOVES animals , we live in a small zoo, we are very active in the

animal rights arena (well, not VERY active) so I said I would do it with him.

However, I was tired, and sure enough, my b12 was low, his was fine..so I had to

add eggs and milk, ugh, I have issues! still I feel better than ever, and would

like to work my way vegan

again at some point.

 

blessings

Johnna

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>

> QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

>

> What type of vegetarian are you?

> [lacto-ovo, vegan, ovo, lacto, pesca, semi, not-veg-yet, etc]

>

> Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

> what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

>

 

 

 

 

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Hi Johnna:

 

If I may make a suggestion have you tried the Silk soymilks? They have 50% of

the RDA for B12 and some come fortified with calcium and they now even have a

new blend with Omega's.

You can also get B12 from green leafy vegetables, yogurt(preferably soy),

soybeans(edamame is good), sunflower seeds, kelp, bananas, and pollen.

As for doctors, is still gets me how little some of them know about nutrition,

and still stumps me that they get almost NO training in it when they are in med

school!

 

 

Johnna Duke <johnna_duke wrote:

 

 

I am currently a lacto avo veg, but I rarely drink milk, as it is the breast

milk of another species, ick (and as my 13 year old son says, would you go milk

one of our ferrets and drink it? or even another human? then why a cow?) he has

a way with words. I was a vegetarian years ago, but my 3 sons and husband were

not, so I was a very lazy veg, so I would just eat what the meat eaters ate,

minus the meat, needless to say, I was not meeting my protein requirements and

after a surgery I was not healing well, and my doc insisted I eat meat

temporarily, I stayed, again, lazy. This go round' my 13 year old son decided to

go vegan, HE LOVES animals , we live in a small zoo, we are very active in the

animal rights arena (well, not VERY active) so I said I would do it with him.

However, I was tired, and sure enough, my b12 was low, his was fine..so I had to

add eggs and milk, ugh, I have issues! still I feel better than ever, and would

like to work my way vegan

again at some point.

 

blessings

Johnna

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>

> Time for a new batch of questions of the week.

> These questions are just for fun and sharing.

> Please join in if you have time.

>

> QOTW for April 27th - May 3rd, 2008:

>

> What type of vegetarian are you?

> [lacto-ovo, vegan, ovo, lacto, pesca, semi, not-veg-yet, etc]

>

> Why did you choose a vegetarian diet and if applicable

> what was the isolated incident that prompted the change?

>

 

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