Why Did You Go Vegan?

Wendy

Firstly I must say that I am so happy to have found vegfamily and am enjoying reading everyones stories. You are all very lucky in America (I am in Australia) that you have a lot more variety of vegan products available.

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I became a vegetarian when I was 14 years old, which was 19 years ago. All my life i have loved animals and when one of my friends asked me why I ate them, I didnt have and answer. But it got me thinking and shortly after I quit eating meat. I was very lucky to have parents that didnt object or give me a hard time. I admit that I didnt do much research about nutrition or animal farming practices, I just knew that it was wrong to eat animals and so I didnt. My younger sister soon saw the light and became a veggo as well.

Over the years if anyone asked I would say, in my ignorance, that I would never become vegan. Then one day my sister said she was going vegan and as we were living together I said I would too. I was 19 at this time. It was now that I began to read more and realised the true horror of what we humans do to our fellow creatures. I have never looked back.

Now I have a partner, who I have been with for 13 years and who was a meat eater when we met, but now is a vegetarian (he cant bring himself to give up cheese). And we have 3 beautiful vegan children. Unfortunately my sister who helped me on my vegan path, now is a full blown Christian meateater, who thinks God put all creatures on earth for mankind to do what they will. But we have a mutual understanding...I wont preach to her about eating meat and she wont preach to me about Christianity. We both know the other wont change. And over the years I have come to realise this with a lot of people. Some people just dont want to know and dont want to change. That's depressing. But reading all your wonderful stories I realise I'm not alone. I just havent met any of you lovely vegan people yet (even after being a vegan for 14 years).

I am looking forward to reading more of your stories.

Love, peace and rainbows to all !!!!!!

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