Ms. Pacman
07-30-2003, 09:05 AM
Hello All!
Glad to have found these boards. I've been a veggie since July 4 1999. I was lifeguarding at a sparsely-visited lake at the time so I had a lot of time to just sit and think. Before that, I had eaten meat, dairy, etc. my whole life. I always had a problem with the inconsistency of loving some animals while eating others. In college, I started to hate how my dining hall turkey sandwhches tasted like what they were...dead birds. I had a hard time eating meat without being disturbed by what I was eating. I recognized that there is something wrong with not wanting to think about what I was actually eating. People do this all the time! So that day at the lake, I decided to just go for it. I had just left college, I had a kitchen (shared w/ roomies), and I decided to go a fourth of july barbecue armed with vegetarian fare.
I loved being a vegetarian. But I treated cheese as my new meat. What a weakness for cheese! I couldn't imagine not having dairy in my life. I was in Portland, OR for a while last year. Bf and I were both unemployed for a while, so we had plenty of time to browse the internet. We came upon notmilk.com and began to make the connection among the meat, dairy, and egg industries. Now, a little over a year later, I am very happy with eating a plant-based diet. I love it and feel that I thrive on it. I am constantly being given unsolicited advice by my family, saying that they are concerned about my health, and think I should at least eat yogurt (for calcium uggggh).
Anyway, glad to be here. A veghead can get to feeling lonely in the real world and it's nice to see such an active online vegan community.
Peace.
Glad to have found these boards. I've been a veggie since July 4 1999. I was lifeguarding at a sparsely-visited lake at the time so I had a lot of time to just sit and think. Before that, I had eaten meat, dairy, etc. my whole life. I always had a problem with the inconsistency of loving some animals while eating others. In college, I started to hate how my dining hall turkey sandwhches tasted like what they were...dead birds. I had a hard time eating meat without being disturbed by what I was eating. I recognized that there is something wrong with not wanting to think about what I was actually eating. People do this all the time! So that day at the lake, I decided to just go for it. I had just left college, I had a kitchen (shared w/ roomies), and I decided to go a fourth of july barbecue armed with vegetarian fare.
I loved being a vegetarian. But I treated cheese as my new meat. What a weakness for cheese! I couldn't imagine not having dairy in my life. I was in Portland, OR for a while last year. Bf and I were both unemployed for a while, so we had plenty of time to browse the internet. We came upon notmilk.com and began to make the connection among the meat, dairy, and egg industries. Now, a little over a year later, I am very happy with eating a plant-based diet. I love it and feel that I thrive on it. I am constantly being given unsolicited advice by my family, saying that they are concerned about my health, and think I should at least eat yogurt (for calcium uggggh).
Anyway, glad to be here. A veghead can get to feeling lonely in the real world and it's nice to see such an active online vegan community.
Peace.