I am a vegetarian as of this week. I can no longer stand the thought of eating the flesh of a once-living creature. I’m not 100% sure yet if I will cut fish out of my diet but as much as I am able to do so, I will choose to not consume any animal product. I am, however, still putting cream in my coffee and eating cheese. So the dairy might be more gradual of a removal from my diet. I’m not sure either if I will still eat eggs or not… I had vanilla almond milk with my cereal last night for the first time. It was actually pretty good. I came across 2 books on the weekend that both described in gory/graphic detail the slaying of animals by humans to provide us with the meat that we eat. I was traumatized by the sheer cruelty: cows being skinned alive and pigs being electrocuted while screeching in pain. It made me feel sick to my stomach. I got really emotional and then decided to do an internet search to find out where our meat comes from. The footage I found of how they kill the animals were so traumatizing I was worried about passing out (http://www.meat.org/). I couldn’t even watch because of the horrific violence. So this is day 4 and so far so good.
I love animals! I just don't love eating them anymore...
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I didn't know you had a blog too! I agree with you, meat is aweful! I read some of the comments people wrote on your post on facebook and I couldn't believe some, so many people are still ignorant as to what happens and the truth of it all. Yay, we can do this together! I find the hardest thing to cut is dairy (there's dairy even in kashi granola bars, there's dairy in some chips, some tomato sauces, soups etc... it's really hard!). I focus more on eating no meat, doing like you said and have rice milk or other kinds of milks with cereal and then when it is not possible (like when eating out etc...) then I'll eat dairy if I can't get something without. There are vegan restaurants in the city, we should try one out together!
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