Are you like me, on the transitioning path from being a meat eater to being a #vegan?
Or maybe you're already 100% there?
For me it was a slow process, over about a year. Since I moved to Panama, I had already naturally decreased my meat consumption, just because meat is expensive and the quality was lacking sometimes. Slowly, I went from eating meat almost every day to only once a week, and then every couple of weeks...then no more red meat, only chicken and fish. Then only fish...now only eggs (from happy chickens!) and fish every once in a while. I know I will give up fish too, and just stick with eggs.
I stopped eating pork meat thanks to "Pepe", the small piglet that grew up on the farm where I live. He grew up with my dog and they became best buddies (they were about the same age, see photo here):
Unfortunately Pepe didn't survive New Years, and it broke my heart.
It wasn't always easy giving up meat...I remember moments where I was craving chicken wings. But guess what...chickens too can be good pets and are really affectionate when you take time to build a relationship with them.
Once you start to awaken, or be #woke as some prefer to call it now, it is very hard to go back to eating meat. It's because once you've seen the horrors of the meat industry, you cannot un-see them. E.V.E.R. And once you know the reality, you cannot just stick your head in the sand and keep nibbling on your pork shops.
Today, I walk along the meat aisle in the supermarket, and all I can think of it "cadaver", a whole aisle full of dead body parts. It's gore. I can't even look anymore, I take the other aisle to get to where I need to go.
So my reason for making the dietary change is animal cruelty. I cannot live with myself knowing that I participate in it. I'm not a perfect vegan yet, but I'm sure that my change has made an impact of some sort. More of my friends are making the change now, so I'm not alone in this. Even though it's hard for my meat eater friends and parents to accept or understand this new lifestyle. I try explaining and always hope to convince more people too join me in the fight against #animalcruelty.
What was your reason for becoming a vegan or vegetarian?
Here's the video about my thoughts about veganism:
