This is something that I have witnessed in my own home and family. Well I would not say actually that there was hatred but yes there was ample amount of criticism and sarcastic attitude.

Around 3 years back suddenly one fine day my Son who was 19 then decided to go Vegan. When he informed this to me, I was very much surprised and taken back because he was such a big foodie that he would do anything for food. Meat and Seafood is something his meal would not complete without it. So when he informed this to me I was in a state of shock and could not believe it. I thought it must be again one of those age related spur out which would fizz out soon. He gave me this heads up in the month of Dec and said I will start from the month of Jan. He sounded very serious and I have never discouraged him to do anything. He has always had my support in whatever he has wanted to do so I decided that I will support him in whatever way I can. In those days I was shuffling between India and Muscat very often so we decided we will get a good Tiffin service for him who will serve him a variety of Vegan food and healthy stuff. We did enough of search and luckily found a good Tiffin service for his Vegan diet. So his journey began. I was shocked looking at his will power, because for that young a age and so much fond of food this was a very big decision.

The challenges we started facing was when we were meeting up our family members. There were many sarcastic comments that were made like, Ohh now what is this new drama and all. My family members also used to tell me, take care of him he may get on to a wrong line, and I was like excuse me, what are you talking. There was a lot of criticism he had to face. Most of the time people use to make mockery about this shift of his. And then there were many friends who also supported him which was one good thing. But most of time if we would meet the same people second time they would pass comments like, Is the drama of Vegan still on or have you shifted back to your normal. Of course the only thing we would do is ignore and laugh it out.

I could relate with my Son when he made this decision. When I was very young one day I had gone with my father to a Beef Market and the scene over there left me so much disturbed and from that very day I stopped eating beef and pork and till date I do not and now not even my husband and son. I have not yet been able to give up on Chicken and occasionally Lamb meat. I am not trying very hard to do that but somewhere at the back of my mind I want to. I go vegetarian completely on some days of the week.

The only problem I see with the Vegan diet is that it creates a lot of vitamin deficiency, so when you start it you also need to start with some supplements that can keep your body healthy. In my son's case it was the same that happened he lost lot of weight and started getting weak so he decided to shift again back to some meat diet again. I feel when a body is used to a certain type of diet right from the time of birth and then if you make a shift it needs to be a very balanced one else it can create problems to your health.

In India because there are many who already follow Vegetarian diet, being Vegan is not a very big deal, it more than boils down to the level of your own family and social group which was the case in my Son. He followed the diet for a year exactly and then he again started eating some meat, which I was ok with, but here people too had a problem. So there were some sidey comments like, see we told you, all this is just age related drama and people used to make fun.

Thankfully in my family we are all non-dairy people. My husband has just a cup of tea in the morning, which we are now going in for Goat Milk and that's it, otherwise me and my son we are completely off dairy. I would eat a piece of Cheese once in a way.

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All these are lifestyle changes that we can make for a healthy life and yes for the sake of the animals who are not vocal and cannot say, please stop killing us. Though honestly my family has not been able to give up on meat completely but we have minimized the consumption, we are going in for Free range eggs and also look for meat without hormones, preferably grass fed and wild caught fish. Though I know I cannot still justify the consumption. Our mind and body is greatly influenced by the food we eat not only health wise but also in our thought process and behavior. The emotions that animals carry at the time of death do get passed onto in our body when we have that meat. We can see by ourselves how the number of diseases have increased in the last 20 years, Cancer, Autoimmune disorders, Hypothyroidism and so many have all become common. If not for the animals we can think for our own health and take conscious decisions as to what gets into our body.

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