Vegan
Yup. I'm doing it. Diving into this thing headfirst.
As most of my readers know, I'm a vegetarian. I have been for about three years, and it's been amazing. But lately I've been thinking more about the dairy I consume and the eggs I eat, and through the interweb and great people on twitter (@LeafyV, @veganrunningdad, and @VeganInLA to name a few), I have decided to go vegan. There is so much cruelty to cows and chickens, almost more so than animals killed for their flesh since they're kept alive longer. Then there's the whole taking calves from their mothers andimmobilizingthem and impeding muscle development, then feeding them an iron deficient diet so that their flesh will be pale when they're ready to skin them, artificiallyinseminatingthe mother cows so they continue to produce milk thing, which I don't agree with, and when the cows can no longer give birth, they're auctioned off to the highest bidder for slaughter. And because I don't believe in those (and many other unthinkable things that are done to animals), I'm going vegan, and I encourage you to do the same.
Check these resources: http://bit.ly/7T8LO6, http://bit.ly/5Y96k7 and http://bit.ly/7ipGjn for more info, and of course follow the people I mentioned above!
Have a happy, healthy New Year,
SirCram
