Easier - and More Fun ;=)

[Guest guest]

I received an off-list post yesterday from a member of this group asking if I

would explain a couple of things: why I had lived in so many different

countries and why I became vegetarian.

 

Well to the first, if you like to travel and see different places it's easier in

a way

to actually go and live somewhere than to just keep visiting - and you can't

visit for very long anyway if you have jobs to hold down. So it's just easier,

as

well as fun, to move to where you want to be for a while and live there, then

perhaps move on. Ya see?

 

As for why I became a vegetarian, the answer is much the same. It's easier on

my conscience, easier on the animals, easier on the environment, easier on

world food shortages, easier on the health - and of course having made all

these things easier I find everything more fun, including the exciting food I

eat.

 

You see, I'm a lazy hedonist at heart ;=) Does that answer the question?

 

Best love,

 

Pat ;=)

[Guest guest]

Peace all....

 

I am new here - my name is Anne, I am a native of Denmark, a vegetarian of 20

years and a citizen of 3 countries! (Not really; but I have lived in London and

New York and presently in Copenhagen.) I would love to see the whole world

actually nothing like living in other countries and experiencing other cultures

to broaden your mind.....

 

And as for being a vegetarian - you are what you eat.....text reads: I'd rather

be a fruit than a pig!.....hehehehe.....

 

OneLove Anne

 

P.S. I love animations and graphics.... (no shyt!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pat <veggiehound wrote:

 

I received an off-list post yesterday from a member of this group asking if I

would explain a couple of things: why I had lived in so many different countries

and why I became vegetarian.

 

Well to the first, if you like to travel and see different places it's easier in

a way to actually go and live somewhere than to just keep visiting - and you

can't

visit for very long anyway if you have jobs to hold down. So it's just easier,

as well as fun, to move to where you want to be for a while and live there, then

perhaps move on. Ya see?

 

As for why I became a vegetarian, the answer is much the same. It's easier on my

conscience, easier on the animals, easier on the environment, easier on world

food shortages, easier on the health - and of course having made all these

things easier I find everything more fun, including the exciting food I eat.

 

You see, I'm a lazy hedonist at heart ;=) Does that answer the question?

 

Best love,

 

Pat ;=)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Cool! Can I be really nosy & ask if you have kids? Bethie, the perpetual PITA.

 

Pat <veggiehound wrote:

 

I received an off-list post yesterday from a member of this group asking if I

would explain a couple of things: why I had lived in so many different

countries and why I became vegetarian.

 

Well to the first, if you like to travel and see different places it's easier in

a way

to actually go and live somewhere than to just keep visiting - and you can't

visit for very long anyway if you have jobs to hold down. So it's just easier,

as

well as fun, to move to where you want to be for a while and live there, then

perhaps move on. Ya see?

 

As for why I became a vegetarian, the answer is much the same. It's easier on

my conscience, easier on the animals, easier on the environment, easier on

world food shortages, easier on the health - and of course having made all

these things easier I find everything more fun, including the exciting food I

eat.

 

You see, I'm a lazy hedonist at heart ;=) Does that answer the question?

 

Best love,

 

Pat ;=)

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Pat said, " As for why I became a vegetarian, the answer is much the

same. It's easier on

my conscience, easier on the animals, easier on the environment, easier

on

world food shortages, easier on the health - and of course having made

all

these things easier I find everything more fun, including the exciting

food I eat. "

 

That was well put and I like that you listed " easier on your conscience "

first. I haven't seen that reason listed first before, but I guess that

is true for me. If I do occaisionally eat something not completely

vegan my conscience bothers me and I try harder.

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Maida ;=)

 

But - not to quibble - I put 'conscience' (whatever that might be) first because

I

think one has to make a decision of what's 'right' before one can choose how

to act in accordance with that decision. The rest are of course in random

order.

 

I guess if one believes in ahimsa, then all else follows. I shun feelings of

guilt,

because I find them counter-productive. But I note the successes ;=) Nothing

like patting oneself on the back for not being an utter brute towards the world

and its creatures! Sheeeesh, we humans! :=(

 

I know what you mean about how you feel after eating something that your

'conscience' says you shouldn't, though. I have mentioned that I used to be a

sometime pescatarian. Long past, of course, but it was once a way for me to

work towards vegetarianism, a fall-back position, as it were ;=) Well, one day I

consumed some sealife - not much - but I did it, back when, and I guess I

suffered physically in the way you would expect after not eating animal

protein in some very considerable time :=( Okay, that was my bod, not my

conscience working. But that night I had the most horrendous dreams (okay,

indigestion etc will do that) but they were composed in part of these giant

seacreatures dancing around on a beach (I think in my dream I was in Tahiti,

where I have only been once, but I recognized it) - and I do mean dancing -

and then slowly circling closer and closer to me until one very very large . . .

..

 

And I STILL remember that horror whenever I even SEE sealife on a plate or

read about it. Talk about revenge! (My dh says there is an ad for an animated

film now that is a happy versiion of this, but I can't watch it LOL)

 

When the hens started complaining, I gave up eggs. Then the cows had their

say and guess what . . . But I still call myself lacto cuz I'm not always

scrupulous about dairy when I'm out. Yet.

 

The animals have their ways ;=)

 

Best, Pat ;=)

 

> That was well put and I like that you listed " easier on your conscience "

> first. I haven't seen that reason listed first before, but I guess that

> is true for me. If I do occaisionally eat something not completely

> vegan my conscience bothers me and I try harder.