c'est moi [for sassy suz]

[Guest guest]

>I'm a thirty something ethical vegan, been vegan since I was 18.

 

Another guy who went vegan young!! Wow!! What were your reasons??

 

>Born in Gloucester, studied Physics in Brum,

 

Wow, a brainy vegan!!

 

>now live in East London

 

Yay!! :)Another person for my get-together, let me know if you're

interested and any ideas of where to meet!!

 

 

>work as a freelance computer programmer, currently for a cr@ppy

>massive non-ethical global transnational (can you guess I hate them!

 

Are u allowed to say which company??

 

>trying to do more worthwhile things with my >long weekends.

 

How about taking up a sport??

 

> Oh, and before you get too excited (I've read your other posts!),

>I'm in a LTR with a girl who lives in Glasgow

 

Gee, thanks, it's nice to know that's what everyone thinks of me!!

 

>I'm also a big fat vegan!

 

Aren't we all darling!!

 

> Anything else you want to know?

 

Interests, pets?? Ask my anything u want by the way!!

 

laters

Sas

[Guest guest]

[i started replying in between your message, but it looked too messy!]

 

Reasons: purely ethical, animal rights etc, though I use

the " environmental/solving all the world's problems " arguments when

people ask me about it - otherwise, at least as a guy, you get all

the " poor ickle animals " sarcastic brigade or the " you think more of

animals than you do people " brigade on your back (actually, I believe

we should all be treated with equal compassion - no matter our

colour, nationality, sex, sexual preference or species. Otherwise

you're just following abitrary discriminations).

 

I had been veggie for about a year or two before (my mum wouldn't let

me go vegan though while I lived at home, so had to wait until I left

for uni), and believe it or not it was a load of meat eater's taunts

about the cruelty in egg and milk production that made me think about

vegetarianism a bit deeper. So the only logical step was veganism. I

became veggie after learning about vivesection (so really it was the

BUAV who started it all for me!). I was 14 at the time, going out

with an older girl of 15! We learnt about the horrors of vivsection

together, replying to a BUAV poster campaign, then became veggie

together and then both become vegan together, by which time we were

sharing a flat in Brum at uni. Kind of made it quite easy, having the

other person there as support. We split up at uni, though! Lost touch

now, but hope she's still vegan.

 

Brainy: not really - anyway you start to lose it from lack of use and

age!

 

Get together: Yeah - I like meeting vegans. What sort of thing are

you planning? I thought you were in Newport? Not enough vegan men

there obviously! (Sorry - couldn't resist!)

 

Company: " Am I allowed to say " ! Hey - I don't really care what I say.

I get into loads of trouble over this, but I (generally) believe what

I say, so am prepared to defend myself. Anyway, its Credit Suisse

First Boston - the " global investment bank " (boo hiss). I'm only

contract, so I'm not employed by them. I justify it to myself because

I do more damage to their systems than good. And they'd probably

agree with this!

 

Sport: Hmm. I'm not interested in sport at all. I'm not into

competitiveness generally. Maybe something more on the spiritual side

(tai-chi, yoga etc, but I'm too lazy/busy to get started). I meant

something more along the lines of promoting veganism/socio-ethics,

maybe using my IT skills to help vegan/environmental charities etc.

So far I'm trying to set up a kind of showcase for what can be done

with some of the newer web technologies: http://www.veganomics.com.

Its still under contstruction though, and needs a designer to give it

a face lift!

 

Interests: Really sad geeky ones! But I've started thinking more

about politics (not party politics maybe I mean policies?) over the

last few years - probably as I've got more into the environmental

side of things, and tieing veganism in with political thought. I'm

also into culture jamming, contemporary design, and psy-trance music.

Went to see an experimental ambient gig last week - an experience!

 

Pets: I've got ethical concerns about pets (ok flame on!). I don't

want to turn this into an essay though. I've got a few spiders around

the flat (house spiders, not imported exotic types!). I have to put

them outside when my girlfriend comes to stay, but she hasn't

noticed " Fred " under the toilet yet, so he's always there!

 

Sorry this is so long!

But Suz, don't worry about the impression you give with your search

for a vegan man - it shows you can laugh at yourself which I think is

a sign of intelligence, and I also couldn't believe your age! You

sound so wise (and lively)!

 

Anyway, hope the fast is going OK (my excuse for such a long message

is to distract you!).

vegan-network, " Sue Grayson " <suzy.grayson@n...> wrote:

> >I'm a thirty something ethical vegan, been vegan since I was 18.

>

> Another guy who went vegan young!! Wow!! What were your reasons??

>

> >Born in Gloucester, studied Physics in Brum,

>

> Wow, a brainy vegan!!

>

> >now live in East London

>

> Yay!! :)Another person for my get-together, let me know if you're

> interested and any ideas of where to meet!!

>

>

> >work as a freelance computer programmer, currently for a cr@ppy

> >massive non-ethical global transnational (can you guess I hate

them!

>

> Are u allowed to say which company??

>

> >trying to do more worthwhile things with my >long weekends.

>

> How about taking up a sport??

>

> > Oh, and before you get too excited (I've read your other posts!),

> >I'm in a LTR with a girl who lives in Glasgow

>

> Gee, thanks, it's nice to know that's what everyone thinks of

me!!

>

> >I'm also a big fat vegan!

>

> Aren't we all darling!!

>

> > Anything else you want to know?

>

> Interests, pets?? Ask my anything u want by the way!!

>

> laters

> Sas