Re: Why are you Veg/Vegan?
I've been vegan for almost seven years, and it's made a huge difference in my life. I started eating raw vegan entirely for health reasons, and my cholesterol dropped over 100 points (it needed to; the good HDL stayed healthy and high). Once I stopped eating animals and their products, I took a clearer look at what I had been doing, and realized that for spiritual, human rights, and animal rights reasons, I just didn't want to be part of that system anymore. So now I consider myself an ethical vegan.
I feel great physically, and I believe it's deepened my faith in the sense that there aren't so many unexamined corners of my life anymore. In the past, I would've rationalized my behavior with some really illogical excuses, and now that I've stopped doing that in this area, it's harder to do it in others. I feel generally more compassionate. I have two healthy vegan children, and our family is so happy eating vegan. So it was a really great decision for us!
|