The First Day

After watching the video's on goveg.com yesterday, I have officially made the choice to become a vegan. I really couldn't watch the way animals are slaughtered and justify eating meat any more. In fact, even egg laying hens and milk giving cows are generally treated bad. Some of the images and sounds won't ever leave my memory. For that, I both hate and love goveg.com. I don't know if I wanted my eyes opened or not, but now that they are, a choice is required. A choice on whether or not to continue on as normal, or stop supporting that industry.

I of course chose to stop supporting that industry. Whats better, I have high blood pressure and am overweight, so this really is a good health decision for me as well. The biggest things for me to give up will be milk, eggs, chicken, and fish. However, ham is going to be a toughy, and boloni. But the images fresh in my mind will keep me rolling in the right direction.

My family will not be joining me on this journey, so it looks like I will be going at it alone. Seems like a hard thing to do alone, but anything worth doing, is worth making the journey alone if needed. After all, this isn't for anything other than the way animals are treated. I would like to say I am some kind of activist, I believe in PETA or some other higher vegan ideal. But I don't. I don't really like PETA, I think they are extreme. I don't even really like animals, I barely like my cats. But I am human, and thus understand suffering when I see it. As well, I am moral, I am an atheist, but I have high moral standards. Treating animals in such a horrible way, a way that clearly causes prolonged suffering is unacceptable. Any moral being would look on this and mourn that humans could do such things. I will not be apart of that any more.