[ SECRET POST #2728 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2728 ⌋

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[ryttu3k]

Hey there! I've been vegan for coming up on two years - I was vegetarian for about a week as a transitional period.

I decided to stop eating meat (and animal products) partially due to a friend who is vegan as well - I like cooking, and would mention the stuff I made, and she asked me if I could just not tell her about meals involving meat. That's a perfectly reasonable request, so I did so. But, I still like sharing recipes and the stuff I made, so I found myself looking for more vegetarian and vegan recipes, felt good when I could tell her about a veg*n meal I made, and was actually starting to feel guilty when I was saying stuff like, "Well, I can't really tell you what I made for lunch..." because it had meat in it.

So I kind of... sat down, told myself, "Okay, if I'm feeling vaguely guilty, I should actually examine WHY", and started looking up reasons why people do go vegan. (For those interested, this page had a big hand in it.) I was absolutely horrified reading about the meat industry, examined how I was viewing animals (I was already interested in things like animal intelligence, so I was kind of already in that direction), and decided that afternoon that I would cut out meat (but not fish) and dairy.

Over the next few days, I did more research, decided that if I WAS going to do this for ethical reasons, I had to do it properly, and decided that I was going to go vegan, including ALL animal products (including honey), clothing/shoes/accessories (mostly leather I was getting rid of, I'm allergic to lanolin so I didn't have any wool to begin with), cosmetics and toiletries, household cleaning products (that one was actually pretty easy - the most available cruelty-free/vegan cleaning products in my country are also low-allergenic, and I have bad allergies to some chemical cleaners), entertainment (I wouldn't go to zoos, for instance, or other forms of entertainment involving animals), the whole thing. And I started reading about animal rights and the abolitionist approach, instead of just animal welfare.

So the short version is, I did research, I was horrified, I learned that I wanted to live in a way that caused as little harm to animals as possible, and now I cannot possibly imagine going back to the way I was living before. So it's primarily an animal rights thing for me (although climate change/the environment is also a pretty big factor, and that affects OTHER ways I look at food, like trying to reduce food miles by eating locally and seasonally whenever possible).