Without vegan ism or even being a vegetarian, I have to admit, my life would be DULL. I wouldn't have that feeling of being "re-energized" after talking to an intelligent vegan. I wouldn't have the feeling of being free, free from the torture and murder of innocent animals just for me to eat. If I wasn't vegan, my daily life would include the following: Wake up, enjoy cooking some scrambled chicken periods, or what they call "eggs", dead pig, or "bacon", and maybe some toast, preferably that junky white bread. I would slab some cow rape goo, or "butter" on there also, delicious..NOT.
Now, for the non-vegan readers I have, this post is really not meant to upset you, it's meant to inform you. What does it take? Meaning, what does it take for you to become vegan? I sound very desperate, but I listed all of these breakfast items as the truth. Are you thinking about these animals when you're eating away their lives? What's the magic potion for people to become vegan?
When I look back at it, I made the decision to become vegan because of encouragement from family and a photo of a scared cow going to slaughter (the one above), and I felt, even being a vegetarian, I was supporting that.
Most people aren't just going to become vegan because they want to, most everyone has an important reason, usually ethical. Without these reasons, we wouldn't know that we were actually doing the right things. There are also health excuses that people come up with..." Where do you get you're protein and calcium?" By no means is that an annoying question, I mean if you're raised in America looking at all of these Got Milk? adds and California Happy Cows of course no one's going to question these campaigns unless you research the backrounds of these "happy" cows. There defintely aren't ads for greens, like kale, saying I'm a great source of calcium AND protein! That's what gets me irritated, that there are so many things besides animal derived crap that have all the nutrients you need.
Every vegan has some non vegan friends who they'll educate when asked about veganism. Some will tell them the horrid facts (me, for example) and then they'll nod and not say anything and then just have an animal carcass meal (not all,but most). In my opinion,I think you need to see the truthful photos, and the big meat/dairy consumers need to see the videos. Yes, giving a friend a passionate speech will help, but not as much. For all you know, this person could just be nodding and thinking about a completely different topic. Most Americans don't see the graphics of what their eating, you know, ignorance is bliss. I don't think its very blissful to be eating the one thing an animal had, its life. You just can't hide that.
If you truly love animals, its simple, don't eat them. You may not have killed them, but you're supporting the heartless people and corporations who did. The number one excuse not to become a vegetarian, let alone vegan is that it's "too hard". Think about it,just so you can enjoy your sour cream a dairy cow is impregnated on a rape rack just to have her baby dragged away from her right after birth. (The baby will probably become somebody's veal meal.) Just so you can eat your meat, innocent animals are slaughtered by the minute. When you're biting into your egg period omelette, is it nice knowing that that chicken who was supposedly "free range". Last time I checked, free range wasn't being crowded into a 1 window shed, or being in a tiny cage with 10 other hens. Oh and "vegetarian eggs"...are they really vegetarian? Male chicks are thrown into a grinder alive, or just thrown in a trash bag and left to suffocate(because they can't produce eggs). I hope you can answer my question now: WHAT DOES IT TAKE? Get over yourself, you'll feel much better.
