I wasn't a little over a year ago. I knew the horrors of animal agriculture for years - seeing images of pig lagoons was a big part of my radicalizing as a teenager and I was a vegetarian for a bit in my 20s before I decided it was too hard while living with my parents. I knew it was bad but it wasn't a big priority for me knowing I would need to relearn how to shop and cook and eat. Seemed hard when all of society catered to omnivores.
The various vegan struggle sessions here made me realize I was being a big whiny baby doing something that I knew was wrong out of convenience, and also taught me more about "vegetarian" products like milk and eggs (they're bad, people!). So I decided to make the switch. I learned some new recipes and started reading labels while shopping. The fact that I also developed horrible lactose intolerance in the last few years didn't hurt.
Anyways, shit was easy. I eat hella good food now and lots of tasty snacks and junk food and don't miss meat at all, but if I did I could just get some plant-based proteins cause those are pretty good now (I don't like impossible meat because it's too real).
Partner isn't vegan. We almost split up over it. He's like where I was two years ago and will freely bring up how veganism is morally correct in any relevant conversation, but also has other shit he's working on right now. He's still eating way less animals now though, since we eat dinner together and cooking two meals is inconvenient. I'm willing to wait and see what happens.
Hexbear bullied me into being vegan.
I wasn't a little over a year ago. I knew the horrors of animal agriculture for years - seeing images of pig lagoons was a big part of my radicalizing as a teenager and I was a vegetarian for a bit in my 20s before I decided it was too hard while living with my parents. I knew it was bad but it wasn't a big priority for me knowing I would need to relearn how to shop and cook and eat. Seemed hard when all of society catered to omnivores.
The various vegan struggle sessions here made me realize I was being a big whiny baby doing something that I knew was wrong out of convenience, and also taught me more about "vegetarian" products like milk and eggs (they're bad, people!). So I decided to make the switch. I learned some new recipes and started reading labels while shopping. The fact that I also developed horrible lactose intolerance in the last few years didn't hurt.
Anyways, shit was easy. I eat hella good food now and lots of tasty snacks and junk food and don't miss meat at all, but if I did I could just get some plant-based proteins cause those are pretty good now (I don't like impossible meat because it's too real).
Partner isn't vegan. We almost split up over it. He's like where I was two years ago and will freely bring up how veganism is morally correct in any relevant conversation, but also has other shit he's working on right now. He's still eating way less animals now though, since we eat dinner together and cooking two meals is inconvenient. I'm willing to wait and see what happens.
Pro-tip: Chinese food.
This was my experience as well and I find it really interesting how most people I talk to seem to proclaim the opposite.
Are there a lot of vegan Chinese dishes? (I'm aware Buddhist cuisine exists, but that probably wasn't the point...)
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