Guest guest Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 Hi all, Andrea, how nice to see your note! I'm glad to hear you're going to give veganism a try. Regarding resources about making the transition from veggie to vegan -- I'd suggest reading up on the health benefits of not eating dairy and eggs, and about the factory farming aspects in dairy and egg production.. not to mention the environmental impacts! I'm just thinking that having more information about " why " you would want to avoid eating eggs/dairy will be a helpful motivator. When I went vegan, I missed cheese more than I missed eating 'meat' or any other animal products. And perhaps I now know there really was a reason why! According to Dr. Neal Barnard's new book, Breaking the Food Seduction, certain foods may have brain effects that keep us wanting more. I haven't read the book yet, but here is a couple of sentences from a book review in PCRM's magazine 'Good Medicine': " Analyzing samples of cow's milk, they found traces of a chemical that looked very much like morphine. They put it to one chemical test after another. And, finally, they arrived at the conclusion that, in fact, it is morphine. There is not a lot of it, and not every sample had detectable levels. But there is indeed some morphine in both cow's milk and human milk. Morhpine, of curse, is an opiate and is highly addictive " And I guess we'd have to read the book to get the full story... As far as having foods that are " cheese like " , there is a vegan cookbook called The Uncheese Cookbook by Joanne Stepaniak. She's a wonderful cookbook author and perhaps there are some recipes in there that might provide some new tastes that you like. I'd just suggest that when you try any of these vegan foods, don't compare them to their animal-based counterpart. Judge them on their own merits. For myself, I found that foods that I tried when I first became awful were not at all palatable.. but when I tried them 6 months later, I actually liked them! We'll have a table at Doggone Fun Run next weekend in Golden Gate Park -- we'll have lots of information and we'd be happy to share any of it with ya.... Cheers, Tammy Bay Area Vegetarians.... Be-a-Veg with us! http://www.bayareaveg.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FREE vegan info kit: http://www.veganoutreach.org/starterpack/free-vsp.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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