Why Did You Go Vegan?

Felisha

I first became a vegetarian in the year of 1997 after my Uncle Steve passed. He told my family & myself that meat, chicken, fish and all other animal derived products were bad for us and that we all shouldn't eat it. After a long conversation, we agreed with him and immediately gave it up. Article continues below

I reneged on the vegetarian lifestyle in the year of 1998 because I did not have the patience nor did I bother properly educate myself as to reason behind a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. I ate a lot of junk food, which was the same as not being a vegetarian.

After doing contrary to what my Uncle Steve had told me about, something horrific happened for the first time to me a few years later. On May 28, 2001, Memorial Day, I was invited to my fiancés family bar-be-que where all the food in the world was--well it seemed like that at the time. I ate A LOT of meat and dairy products and after that day I felt fine, but the next day was another story. I went to work the next day and felt ill but I ignored it, thinking that it was just indigestion. However, later that day I was lightheaded and very nauseous. I thought that I was going to faint so I went home immediately to get some medicine, which did not work. I will not go through the gruesome details of what I went through for those awful days. What I can say is that I was bedridden for four days and it took me two weeks to get back on solid foods again.

After this horrifying incident, I later realized that it was the food I ate at the family get-together that made me sick and knowing this I went on the Internet and read about some of the causes of food poisoning. The number one fact was from eating animal derived products of any type of meat! I read about animal cruelty and the hormones that they were forced to take and the animals infested living conditions. I realized that if the stock herd animal had a sickness and were then slaughtered, the disease would be passed on to whomever ate it. I was intrigued by learning all of this new information, some of the research that I found made me shed tears and some of it made me happy to have discovered it so early in my life.

After weeks and weeks of research from the Internet, library, etc., I later came to the conclusion to give up meat entirely. And in the year 2002 I plan on becoming vegan and remaining that way for the rest of my life.

I could go on and on about most of the research that I have found over the months, that's why I have put together a vegan research book which has different information to show everyone that a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle is definitely a more profound way of living than one derived from animal carcasses.

I guess that you could say that before my Uncle Steve passed away, he let me know that a vegan lifestyle is the most profound path in life that I could ever take, and come to find out he was definitely right.

Thanks to my Uncle Steve I know have a better life without meat. Thanks for everything!

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