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The Fact I Am Vegan

April 27th, 2010

I am vegan.
I don’t do it out of contempt for you or your hamburger.
I do not desire to take your right to eat a hamburger away from you.
I do not threaten your livelihood.
I am doing this for the benefit of my health, any animal and the Earth.
If you feel you cannot be around me because of the fact I am vegan that is your issue, not mine.
Making jokes about tofu only makes you look idiotic.
No, I actually don’t have urges to eat meat occasionally.
Being vegan is not just about the food I eat.

Being Vegetarian or Vegan

December 1st, 2009

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Some decide to try a vegetarian diet only to give up in a short time because they miss a favorite food or maybe their family pressured them to come back to a meat diet.  Some people decide to try vegetarian on day a week and never go beyond.  I have heard of people who are vegan but decide to revert to their old ways during the holidays when family dinners consist of turkey or ham and hurting grandma’s feelings would cause irreparable damage to the family quilt.  Then there are those who have gone vegetarian and transitioned to a vegan  lifestyle or went vegan cold-turkey (no pun) and have stuck with it over the years.

People choose vegan or vegetarian for a variety of reasons.  Health, animal welfare are two of the most popular.  I often ask people their reasons for going vegan or vegetarian and many just forget why and say they just decided to try it and stuck with it.

So, I’m curious.  What was your reason for going vegan or vegetarian?  Did you want to improve your health?  Doing it for the animals or another reason?  Let me know!

Palin Going Rogue On Vegetarians

November 17th, 2009

Sarah Palin made no bones about her love of hunting during the 2008 campaign and her new book Going Rogue even devotes a bit to her lack of fondness for vegans and vegetarians.  In more than one point in the book she details her love of munching on animal carcasses.

“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore,” she wrote. “If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”

It seems Sarah forgot the little fact that humans are also made of meat as are dogs and cats.  Sarah Palin supports cannibalism!

She continues:

“I love meat, I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.”

Here she shows she’s not original and may want to check the mail for a plagiarism suit.  Sarah Palin is just pandering to a fringe base of people with the self-centered juvenile ideals like those of hunting-nutbag Ted Nugent.  Did she forget her speechwriter for the 2008 Presidential campaign was vegan?

Leave it to Sarah Palin to alienate any group of people and to make assumptions that vegetarianism is strictly a left-of-center idea.

A Simple Question

March 10th, 2008

Quick and simple:

Why is it that meat-eaters are so damned offended by the mere mention of a person being vegetarian or vegan?

Answers below…

Why Are You Vegan?

March 6th, 2008

This is one of the best responses to “Why are you vegan?” that I have heard. This woman has done her research and obviously has been asked the question before. A bit “fringe” of a response but you can take some good information from this.