Well, spending time with my family over the holidays has been fun. Now I live in another state from them, so they didn't know that I had gone veg until I came home soon after christmas. Most response from friends and family was, well, interesting to say the least. Most immediately got defensive about it. I think my mom has said about four times, "Don't expect me to give up meat". They some how think I will be on a crusade to "convert" them to vegetarians. That is wholly not my plan.
My uncle argued with me about it, not sure why. And one of my friends tried to tell me that I HAVE to eat chicken because they have proteins I must have or I will die. Of course, I would have thought I would have seen many more vegetarians dying from this instead of them living longer if that where the case. LOL
But all of them, with out exception, couldn't comprehend what I meant by "not eating meat". Some assumed that I would still eat fish, or that I was still eating chicken, or that I was just cutting out red meat. All of those assumptions are wrong and I had to continually go back to the definition of meat. No dad, I am not eating wild game, that is also meat. No friend, I am not eating Salmon, thats still meat as well.
Oh well, I guess its a change for everyone. As far as I know, I have never personally known a vegetarian. I have not had a friend or family member that I knew of that was a vegetarian. So I am a first. I hope I am the first among many in my family, but everyone has a personal choice, and I will only lead by my example. People only change by their own choice, not by force.
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