The start of my vegan journey.

I’d like to think this is going to be a different kind of blog to other ‘ vegan journey ‘ blogs. Lets face it, it probably won’t. But I feel going vegan is such a personally impactful thing. People just need to put their thoughts and feelings about it out there-and I am no different.

So here goes…

I became pescatarian three years ago. I woke up one morning and decided, I am either going to stop eating meat, or I am going to go to a slaughterhouse, get my hands dirty and own up to what I am eating. Obviously I didn’t want to do the latter so I gave up meat.

Now I ate meat every day. I never really thought about it. Even though my mother is pescatarian, my father, brother and sister all are avid meat eaters. It was just what the masses in my household did.

I have lived with, my now husband, for ten years and he is very much a die hard meat eater.

There was never a question about what I was eating and why.

After becoming pescatarian I was happy with my decision.I Felt better and thought i was doing enough-then, I had a fish dish at a local Indian restaurant. The fish came out whole. As i was literally picking bones and scales out of my teeth I wondered what I was doing. That was that, I didn’t eat fish again. That was 4 months ago. Again, I felt good with my decision and thought ‘vegetarian, that’s deffinatley enough’

Now, understand,that being surrounded by meat eaters. Vegan was a taboo word that we all scoffed at, and was spoken about as such extremism, it never entered my thought process as an option.

This brings me to two weeks ago, 11th September 2018.

On one of the vegetarian groups I have on Facebook, someone posted a very short video of Gary Yourofsky arguing with an Israeli television presenter about veganism. He spoke with such conviction, I was intrigued. I did a bit more research. Watched a couple of his lectures (which includes some very harsh videos if dairy farming) and I was done. Literally in that moment I couldn’t know what I now knew and see what I had now seen and continue eating dairy.

And albeit only a cpuple of weeks , I have not once regretted my decision or fallen down. It is currently new , and I am excited about the decision I have made. However, I have never been so sure about a decision I have made,apart from of course, marrying my husband.I have, however, never been so sure I am doing right by myself-my health, my environment and of course animals.

I love animals, a lot of the time more than I love people. I have 2 dogs, a budgie, a fish, a snake and a tortoise and I am always fascinated by them all and their uniqueness. I have never been able to understand why some animals are loved, cared for pets and some were dinner. But it was a decision I lived with for 26 years and now at 29 I feel I am doing right by being vegan.

So I plan on posting as often as possible and if anything comes up or I know of anything amazing that comes up to do with veganism

I live in the UK and a lot of podcasts that I’ve been listening to (and I’ve been listening to a lot) are based in America or Australia. So if there’s anything I think of that will be helpful I’ll post it. Probably along with annoying dinner posts.

But anyway this is just a little introduction about me. Even if no one reads it it feels good to get my thoughts and feelings out there.

😊✌