I Think This Book Is Making Me Want To Go Vegan

all the things you are saying ("I don't like touching raw meat(or even looking at it), won't eat it off the bone, and am kind of picky about what pieces I will eat....") are exactly how i was as a child. i have now been vegetarian for years and its easy to commit to if you dont have a strong attachment to meat. i do not crave meat in any way and im guessing that after a while you wouldn't either.
dairy is a whole other story for me, though. i did read that book and it changed my perception of dairy but i dont think I could be vegan at this point in my life.
as for your husband, mine is a carnivore . we just make it work. he respects what i eat and vice versa! you can email me or look at my food diary for more info.
good luck! :flowerforyou:
jennie

I applaud your desire to eat in a more healthy, sustainable, humane manner! For most people, it's very challenging to make the transition from meat-eating to vegan in one fell swoop. Vegan is pretty strict (no eggs, cheese, gelatin, etc...), and there are a lot of foods that have animal products that you wouldn't think of (baked goods, most prepackaged foods). You might consider starting with vegetarianism (dairy, eggs allowed), or even a flexitarian (sometimes vegan/vegetarian) or pescatarian (fish/seafood allowed, but no animal meats) lifestyle first. You'll find a lot more ready-made foods that fit into this category. I wouldn't try to force it on hubby, because that will make him even more resistant, but maybe start with a meatless day once a week, to let him see that the foods can actually be pretty good. Also, try shopping at Whole Foods or other grocery that caters to vegans/vegetarians - they will have a lot of easy to make or ready made foods. And you might get hubby to switch to products that are made in somewhat more humane ways (organic dairy products, cage-free eggs, grass-fed beef). And share what you've learned about how foods are made, or on the health benefits of a plant-based diet with him - over time it will sink in. Rent movies to watch together like King Corn or Food Inc which are pretty shocking exposes of our factory farming methods - they may motivate him to make some changes too.

Also if you stick with it for awhile, you do lose your taste for meat. Good luck!

I started being mostly vegan after reading Dr. Fuhrmans "Eat to Live". He is really extreme on most of it but it really had some great information. I have also found useful info. at peertrainer.com. Good luck.

Hey, first, if you're going to go veg do it on your own terms. I've been veg for 3 years, and grew up on a farm where we raised animals for slaughter. The two aren't related.

You need to know that Skinny ***** is a very one-sided story. First, they only talk about factory farms, not the majority of farmers. See, factory farms (KFC's farms, Purdue, Tyson, Hatfield, etc) can afford to treat livestock like crap. So, don't do business with them. If you like meat, then purchase it from food co-ops, local butcheries, etc. You're far better off and you can usually rest assured that the animal has been treated far better.

See, most small farms literally can't afford to treat animals badly. The farmers barely make ends meet as it is, so they have to squeeze every ounce of money they can out of the things that are in their care. This usually includes showing animals at local, county, state, and sometimes national fairs. A blue ribbon at some fairs can be thousands of dollars. Imagine if you can show a single animal at 20 fairs? That's a pretty hefty income, especially if you have numerous animals to show. Abused animals can't win prizes because it very quickly becomes obvious that an animal has been abused.

Further, things like "milking is cruel" are uneducated. Not milking a cow that needs to be milked leads to a fatal condition called mastitis which essentially causes the cow to rot from the inside out. Not pretty, but it shows why milking is important (no matter who is milking them, humans or a baby cow). A lot of people claim cows are kept in a constant state of pregnancy, which again is incorrect. Most are butchered around age 5, which allows time for one birth and the rest of the time is spent in a milking period, followed by a dry period. There's simply not enough time for the cow to be "in a constant state of pregnancy."

I guess what I'm trying to say is Skinny ***** is kind of like Michael Moore. It's all about shock value, and comes up short on delivering the whole story and all of its facts.

Now I'm not discouraging you from going veg (pescetarian, lacto ovo, vegan, or frutarian). Just know that Skinny ***** should not be the reason you do it. Its gotta be your choice.