thanks for letting me join!
hello. i'm a new vegan. ok well i was bored in class yesterday and someone in front of me had a peta (maybe?) handout about pigs/cows/chickens etc. It was so horrible - i became determined to become vegan.
cues from my past that i should have listened to:
- as a child, i did not like to eat porkchops. i thought of little piggies running around.
- when i was first married (to my ex-husband. i'm remarried), I felt sick cutting up a chicken with chopping block scissors
- preference for blocking reality from my mind and not paying attention to how animals are produced for our consumption. but there was always a gnawing in the back of my head.
it's not a sci-fi life - there are no replicators in the back of KFC; there are millions of people who demand chicken/pigs/cows for 3 meals a day.
So yes, I've been incorporating and embracing more progressive attitudes this past year, thanks to my classes at university that have opened my lil midwest american mind...
feminism, recycling, fair trade, working conditions... I am appreciating the reality of interconnectedness and a holistic approach to life and its issues.
So to begin my new vegan life, i ordered veganomicon and have a couple others in my wish list.
I have not yet told my husband about this - i've overwhelmed him with all my causes and he's been very sweet and open. He's a big carnivore omnivore and last night, I made chicken and did not explain why I was not eating. He's also a naturalist and open-minded, but I think this would just freak him out (especially with grill-out season upon us!!!)... so I'm going to stop by the store and get some imitation meat products and slowly incorporate them. Then I'm going to get some documentaries etc until HE is grossed out and heart-sick and then, surprise! you're halfway there!! haha I dunno that is my plan so far. We also own a lot of pets and he loves to take care of animals...when he hunts, he does not do it frivolously and respects the animal and its life that has become a source for ours; he is NOT one of those asshole hunters that may come to mind. If he had it his way, he and I would only eat game/what we hunted and fished on our own.
He's talked about how you can't trust meat from stores and suggested purchasing meat that is local - at the local meat shop where people drop off their deer and such. Now, tell me, I just remembered all this -- what about eating that meat? (please don't rip into me for this question) because I think there is a BIG difference between hunting/raising your own cattle versus the mass factory farm productions - I mean, isn't that what is meant by 'cruelty-free'?
Any other advice? It'd be no biggie if I were single. But what happens when you're married, you're also the cook and your husband likes meat for every meal? Should I investigate that local meat shop?
Again, please do not chastise me if I have offended anyone - I CERTAINLY don't mean to!
Thank you again!!
edit: wow this is the friendlist and most welcoming community!!! thank you for the lj-tags, too!!!!!!!
cues from my past that i should have listened to:
- as a child, i did not like to eat porkchops. i thought of little piggies running around.
- when i was first married (to my ex-husband. i'm remarried), I felt sick cutting up a chicken with chopping block scissors
- preference for blocking reality from my mind and not paying attention to how animals are produced for our consumption. but there was always a gnawing in the back of my head.
it's not a sci-fi life - there are no replicators in the back of KFC; there are millions of people who demand chicken/pigs/cows for 3 meals a day.
So yes, I've been incorporating and embracing more progressive attitudes this past year, thanks to my classes at university that have opened my lil midwest american mind...
feminism, recycling, fair trade, working conditions... I am appreciating the reality of interconnectedness and a holistic approach to life and its issues.
So to begin my new vegan life, i ordered veganomicon and have a couple others in my wish list.
I have not yet told my husband about this - i've overwhelmed him with all my causes and he's been very sweet and open. He's a big carnivore omnivore and last night, I made chicken and did not explain why I was not eating. He's also a naturalist and open-minded, but I think this would just freak him out (especially with grill-out season upon us!!!)... so I'm going to stop by the store and get some imitation meat products and slowly incorporate them. Then I'm going to get some documentaries etc until HE is grossed out and heart-sick and then, surprise! you're halfway there!! haha I dunno that is my plan so far. We also own a lot of pets and he loves to take care of animals...when he hunts, he does not do it frivolously and respects the animal and its life that has become a source for ours; he is NOT one of those asshole hunters that may come to mind. If he had it his way, he and I would only eat game/what we hunted and fished on our own.
He's talked about how you can't trust meat from stores and suggested purchasing meat that is local - at the local meat shop where people drop off their deer and such. Now, tell me, I just remembered all this -- what about eating that meat? (please don't rip into me for this question) because I think there is a BIG difference between hunting/raising your own cattle versus the mass factory farm productions - I mean, isn't that what is meant by 'cruelty-free'?
Any other advice? It'd be no biggie if I were single. But what happens when you're married, you're also the cook and your husband likes meat for every meal? Should I investigate that local meat shop?
Again, please do not chastise me if I have offended anyone - I CERTAINLY don't mean to!
Thank you again!!
edit: wow this is the friendlist and most welcoming community!!! thank you for the lj-tags, too!!!!!!!