Posted in animal agriculture, cheese, connecting with animals, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, dairy cows, dog and cat advocate turned vegan, environmental concerns, freedom in being vegan, health benefits, hostile response from non-vegan friends, humane dairy, perception of vegans as extreme/freaks, return to meat-eating after being vegetarian, small farms, vegan, vegan doctor, vegetarian then vegan, tagged animals, chickens, dairy, dogs, factory farm, fitness, foodie, health, iTunes, medical, nutrition, omnivore, organic, ovo-lacto, peace, physical, podcast, spiritual, sustainable, transition, veganism, vegetarian, VegNews on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Your podcast has changed my life. I am so grateful that you dedicate so much of your time to this work. It is so very important. I love to hear you read the letters written by listeners whose lives you have helped transform. I hear myself in so many of them, and that is part [...]
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Posted in animal agriculture, becoming resensitized, cheese, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, dairy cows, desensitized children, freedom in being vegan, inspiring others, parent's response to vegetarianism, vegetarian then vegan, tagged st. louis, vegan, vegetarian, vegetarian husband on January 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always been someone who cared too much. I have a hard time ignoring things once they’re in front of my eyes, no matter who are what it may relate too.
When I was a kid I ate whatever my parents put in front of me and did not question it for the most part. I [...]
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Posted in animal agriculture, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, dairy cows, environmental concerns, excuses for eating meat, reduce meat - then eliminate, veg traveling, tagged budapest, environmental cost of eating meat, prague, reduce meat, vegan, vegetarian on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Thank you, thank you for your terrific podcast. I have been a vegetarian for about 6 weeks. It has been a slow, long process to get to this point. I’ve always been a picky meat eater, never eating veal or rabbit, more fish than chicken, but I did enjoy foie gras until [...]
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Posted in India, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, dairy cows, freedom in being vegan, inspiring others, raised vegetarian, speaking the truth, vegetarian then vegan, tagged animals, earth save, indian, lacto, vegan, vegan freak, vegetarian on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
It all started when I was a young boy, growing up in Miami. My parents did their best to try to find us events and programmes that would let us kids feel like we have a community to belong to. Having immigrated from India, finding such a community was difficult enough, but being (lacto) vegetarian [...]
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Posted in "humane" slaughter, connecting with animals, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, dog and cat advocate turned vegan, humane dairy, inspired by vegan partner, inspiring others, small farms, vegan, violence, tagged "humane" slaughter, alicia silverstone, animal rights, animals, compassionate cooks, peta, the matrix, the view, vegan, vegetarian on November 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Ari’s Story:
It was a completely uneventful start to my day. I had some toast, enjoyed my coffee and sat down at my couch to watch The View. It was actually the show where Elizabeth and Rosie would have their final throw-down, but I digress. After the vicious tongue fight, they welcomed [...]
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Posted in "humane" slaughter, animal agriculture, becoming resensitized, calf separation, cheese, children/animal connection, connecting with animals, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, dairy cows, desensitized children, freedom in being vegan, humane dairy, mindfulness, small farms, vegetarian then vegan, tagged cage free, dairy, free range eggs, free-range, organic cheese, organic milk, organic yogurt, veal, vegan, vegetarian on November 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was a vegetarian for about 10 years before finally taking the vegan plunge this summer, and have always been proud of my choice not to eat animals. The notion of veganism was a niggling presence in the back of my mind, but I told myself that I “couldn’t” do it for [...]
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Posted in "humane" slaughter, animals in laboratories, becoming resensitized, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, dairy cows, dog and cat advocate turned vegan, freedom in being vegan, parent's response to vegetarianism, perception of vegans as extreme/freaks, vegetarian then vegan on September 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have always considered myself an animal lover. We always had at least one cat while I was growing up, and sometimes we had a dog too. I thought of animal suffering in terms of dogs and cats — being run over and left in the street, or euthanized at the pound, or killed for [...]
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Posted in animal agriculture, buddhism, cheese, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, freedom in being vegan, mindfulness, religion and animals, vegetarian then vegan, violence on September 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I tried being vegetarian a number of times but it never stuck. I realize now that while intellectually I was drawn to it, my heart wasn’t really in it.
Then about 2.5 years ago I was going through a divorce (a nice kick in the butt causing me to reevaluate pretty much everything) and got connected with [...]
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I have always loved animals. “Kitty” was my first word. I used to gently move pillbugs and other insects off of walking paths so that my parents and friends would not step on them inadvertently. However, it took awhile for me to make the connection between the animals and the food I liked to eat. [...]
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Posted in "humane" slaughter, animal agriculture, becoming resensitized, cruelty in dairy industry, cruelty in egg industry, freedom in being vegan, humane dairy, small farms, vegan, vegan in colorado, vegetarian then vegan on July 6, 2007 | No Comments »
I have eaten (loose) vegetarian off and on for fifteen years. Last year, I stopped eating land animals for good, due to factory-farming practices. As I have heard you mention on your podcast, before going vegetarian, I sought out meat from locally raised, authentically grazing animals. This is not hard since I live in a [...]
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