So a million people of asked why I became vegan.
Well, It all started when my daughter was about 1 month old. I breastfed her. I was having issues because my husbands family was completely unsupportive at first. So I started going to a breastfeeding support group at the hospital. Wednesday (my daughter) was getting red rashes on her abdomen. The nurses were always mentioning out babies were sometimes sensitive to dairy consumption from the mother. So I started paying attention to what I was eating when she would break out. Well I noticed that every time I ate anything with dairy as an ingredient, Wednesdays abdomen would brake out with redness and bumps. So out went the dairy.
My husband is an information freak. If there's anything he doesn't know everything about, he looks it up on the web. He looks at all the pro's and con's and then we talk about it. Since the main alternative to dairy is soy, all of our research started with that. When you research soy, you tend to see a lot of anti-meat research. Since Mitch was doing most of the research, he stopped eating chicken first, then gave up meat all together. The more he talked about it, I slowly (and I mean slowly) started giving up things. I just had a baby, so I was very sensitive to everything. So when he starts talking about slaughter houses and factory farming, I was like, ewww. Eventually, I started doing research on my own. I did not watch any videos, he did, and his descriptions where enough for me to handle. Instead, I read books. I started with 'Skinny Bitch'. Great book. But I still didn't want many details, so I skipped the animal chapters. But that book did get me to go completely vegan.
After about a year, and a lot of people asking questions, I was ready for some real research. I read books on serving sizes, fast food chains, vegan cook books..... then I read a book called, 'The Face on Your Plate'. Wow. That book gave me all I needed to know. It talked about each animal that is used as food, clothing and other products. How each animal lives in the wild, how they care for their young, their living habits, life spans, natural environment, everything, like it was talking about a human family. Then it explains how they live in the farms, it gave the differences between organic farms and factory farms, what they are fed, what is done to them, and then how they are killed. Very graphic. And that was it. Vegan for life.
It's funny how something as simple as information can change your life. It can change your view of the world. This subject is very important to me, and I do not take it lightly. When strangers ask me about it, I do not go into details. Most will try to combat me with their views, but when they have no facts to back it up, it only pisses me off. I can understand people who hunt, and kill their own food. I have no problem with that. I believe some people have a killing nature in them, and they see no problem with it. And if you are going to eat meat, then I would much rather you kill it from the wild, more power to you. But if you insist on arguing with me over a hamburger from McDonalds... Please, Don't. Because that place makes me so sick.
Something about this subject gets me so worked up. Enraged. Saddened. So I'm going to leave it at that. Maybe another day.
