Anyway, I was on one of the veg*n groups I've joined and this bulletin caught my eye. I'm a sucker for surveys. I'm one of those people who will always respond to a survey if I find the questions interesting enough. This one was certainly different. A teen was asking that fellow vegans fill it out and message her back with the answers. A wee bit personal but it seems like nothing's sacred on the internet anymore.
1. How old are you?
33
2. What motivated you to become vegan?
To be one less person unnecessarily eating animals. I find it unethical to support the wholesale slaughter of animals for food, clothing, and testing. Especially, in this new millenium, when there are countless vegan options. As someone who lives with 4 dogs, this bumper sticker hit home: "If you love animals called pets, why do eat animals called dinner". Seemed rather hypocritical to be omnivorous while claiming to be compassionate towards animals.
3. Did you explore any websites to research more upon the subject? If not, where?
Of course I explored many websites to research the vegan lifestyle.
4. What store do you usually shop at?
For groceries: Whole Foods
For clothing: no particular favorite store
5. How has being vegan affected your "work" lifestyle?"
Usually receiving a lot of ignorant questions and/or disbelief that I can subsist on an animal by-product free diet.
6. How was being vegan affected your "social" lifestyle?
I don't eat out as much and am less likely to want to be around "meat-eaters". Also known as the public-at-large.
7. Have you felt different since you've become vegan? If so, How?
Completely different. I'm more compassionate yet hyper-sensitive to cruelty. I do not like hypocrisy and I have become extremely picky about the products I purchase.
8. Do you look at life differently, because of this experience?
My life has completely changed since I became vegan. It's one of the best decisions I have ever made.
9. When you first started to cut meat out of your diet, then dairy products, eggs.. etc. Did you feel tempted to go back to eating meat, eggs, dairy products...?
I won't lie. I was tempted throughout the first 6 months and I did backslide a few times.
10. If you did have these temptations, what was a constant motivation to keep going?
I just picture the animals that had to suffer just so that I could satisfy my tastebuds. It's not worth it, especially when I have discovered tasty vegan alternatives.
11. How long have you been vegan? And do you continue to do it for the rest of your life?
I decided to become vegan in April 2005. However, since I did backslide within those first few months, it doesn't seem fair to count back that far. So, technically, I haven't knowingly consumed any animal by-products since January 2006. I will remain vegan 'til the day I die. I couldn't ever, in good conscience, go back to an omnivorous diet.
To end this post, one of my fave comics:
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