It starts...

So, the thought of a vegetarian/vegan blog has been brewing in me - lots of thoughts and no place to put them...so here goes!

Let's get some of the boring intro stuff about of the way: Growing up, I was raised pretty much vegetarian-at-home (twice a summer or so we'd have fish sticks and that was it for anything). When I was going to later elementary school I started eating what was there in a lunchroom - chicken mostly, and very occasionally beef. In high school, I went vegetarian again for a few years, then back to chicken, then back to veg, and so on all through college (a few years on, a year-ish off). It's not that I changed my opinion that it was wrong to eat animals (an idea explained to me by my dad from a young age) - it's just that...well, I'm short...and I had heard that there were tons of hormones in meat and that's why so many American girls were so tall and I wanted to be tall like that. I know, I know - probably one of the worst reasons to eat meat! Still, I tried hard to convince myself that I wasn't really eating dead animals; I'd pick meals that had unrecognizable chunks in it (no bones, and nugget or cube shaped) and fantasized that animals hadn't been killed for food in years, that one day there'd be a huge expose' detailing how the meat industry was really just repackaging tofu. I was in denial, in a bad way.

Now, I am fairly certain I could never waffle back and pretend that I just don't know - I've done a lot more reading up and I just know too much and care too much to eat an animal. Additionally, I'm in my mid-twenties and I've been vegan for about 6 months. It's my second go at veganism - the first time only lasted a month and failed for many reasons - it wasn't the right time in my life, and I didn't have the right situation in place.

Well, enough about me :)  Next post will hopefully be more interesting :D