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What's becoming a Vegetarian like.

NovaSlashOct 14, 2019, 1:37:20 PM
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What's up with vegetarians and vegans?

I've recently become vegetarian, I've always wanted to, but never knew where to begin, a couple years ago i've tried for 4 months changed my diet too hard and it backfired, now I've met a friend who helped step by step and told me to be patient, that is, when you are changing your diet, is necessary to take it slow, be careful and not to be too hard on yourself, so you can really enjoy both of those short and longterm health benefits besides helping the environment at the same time, I now have been completely vegetarian for 3 Complete months.

I've become vegetarian, maybe someday vegan, for a "selfish reason", "I don't want shit to die because of me", I honestly & proufoundly enjoy the taste of meat, but I felt guilty eating it for a while, then I looked at the data, the number, the missuse of water when there is people that still dont have acces to it and that 100 grams of meat cost around 1650 Liters of water to produce, and most people eat more than 200 grams a day, I was amused but I'm not trying to change anybody but to share my experience.

I was one of those people that said "I could never leave meat, is too hard", or stuff along those lines, but in the end, I gave it a shot, it was surprisingly more easy than what I have expected it to be, the less meat I consumed the more the fruits and vegetables became tastier, the more i ordered the vegan or vegetarian option, the more I realized it was just as tasty if not sometimes even more, the more i searched for it, the more I found out it wasn't hard to find, most of the time finding out that there was no need to search to find, That I had been denying reality because of what i thought previously true, that it was super hard and that is a change that has to be done from morning to noon, this was nothing but missinforation.

I took my time, the day I decided I would change I instantly dropped red meat, tried a couple vegetarian/vegan restaurants and thats all it took to realize it. It was easier than what I had thought, food was honestly amazingly delicious, it felt guilt free. It took the next couple months to drop the last piece of meat, chicken, now I'm kind of halfway to dropping milk-related products and it feels easy and great, it's been also a great way to teach myself some selfcontrol.

Friends have been extremely helpful and respectful, specially when I told them that my change wasn't 'cause of some idealogy induced thing, but "my selfish desire to not let shit die(or be enslaved) because of me as long as I possibly could" I believe its okay to take the milk out of a "Happy Cow" or take an egg that didnt hatch from a "Happy Chicken", the term happy just means they live a free life, they are healthy and happy and treated with the respect their life deserves by their farmers, so not as the "money cow" or "money tree" way they are treated in todays society.

To wrap it up, I don't want to convince you of doing anything, but if sometimes you feel guilty eating meat, maybe give it a shot, trust me if I could, you can do it too, reasearch yourself!  investigate, next time you go out try out the meatless option, if you don't like it, at least you gave it a shot! Don't put barriers in front of you, don't tell yourself you couldn't do it, you are strong, you can do it if you want to! I believe in you, and if you don't want to change, it's fine too, just respect people that do. 

Nova out~ 
Good luck on your day Everyone.