thanks for letting me join!

[admirari]

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

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[teatrays]

Yay! Congratulations & welcome to Veganism, I'm sure you won't regret your decision. You seem amazingly prepared; Veganomicon is always an excellent choice! :)

[admirari]

thanks for the assurance!!

[scarlet_noir]

My husband was an omnivore when we met. I do not purchase, handle or cook animal products. I cook excellent vegan fare & he happily eats it. The key is that he respected my beliefs. He is now vegetarian and I'm very proud of him. It took him 5 years to decide to stop eating meat.
Talk to your husband about your beliefs...without being pushy. Tell him you aren't cooking meat anymore because it pains you to do so. If he wants it he will buy & cook it himself.
Also: in my opinion, killing can never be cruelty free. It's not necessary to eat animal products.

[admirari]

can you recommend any other vegan cookbooks? i also joined the vegan recipe comm.

[fetishangel]

-Vegan with a Vengeance
-Soy not Oi!
-Hot Damn and Hell Yeah
-Don't Feed the Bears

[admirari]

thanks!

[sifrid]

The way that cooking is handled in my 2 omnivore + vegan home, is that all dishes are cooked vegan, and then afterwards if animal flesh is desired to be added, the omnivores add it in and I get the vegan pre-makes. :3!

[admirari]

haha that is an excellent idea thanks

[vgnwtch]

Good for you! That's a lot of changes all at once, so kudos to you, and to your partner for being so open to all this change

[admirari]

thanks for your comment. that is crazy about britain - i read that land there was getting so scarce so that people couldn't have their own gravesites and were buried with others. Frankly, I think that is a good idea, anyway and I would like to share a grave with my husband now :)

speaking of 'overly managed' there is a place out here in Ohio where you pay an exorbitant fee to hunt on the grounds and are guaranteed a 'monsterbuck.' that's what I mean by asshole hunters!

thanks again and so far this comm has shown yourselves to be really friendly and helpful!!

[vgnwtch]

The graves situation is quite specific: you're talking about church yards and cemetaries that may be centuries old, with clearly defined boundaries, and clearly no-one a century or more ago knew there'd be 63 million Britons at this point. It's about finding sites in areas that are practical on various levels, including being reachable from urban centres.

Personally, I plan on leaving my body to science.

I noticed your question about cookbooks. When you go through the tags and memories for this community and the tags and Recipe Index & FAQ for vegancooking, you'll find many posts recommending cookbooks and cooking sites.

[admirari]

yes, i have joined that comm. thanks!

[orphe_]

what about eating that [locally hunted] 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'?there is certainly a big difference between allowing an animal to have an actual life, and forcing that animal into a caged existence, removed from any chance at normal relationships, environment, etc. however, as a vegan, i, and hopefully everyone else in this community, have a fundamental problem with "allowing" animals to do anything. we don't have the right to dictate what they do, ever, period. if one makes the choice to do so via eating only hunted meat, then one is abstaining from the revolting modern farming system, and that's great. however, it's not cruelty free (the part where the animals are dead is a big clue), it's certainly not vegan, and in my opinion it's an unethical choice. carnivorous animals hunt because without that specific form of nutrition, they

[admirari]

thank you for your thoughts (and not shredding me!) you have excellent points!