Introducing myself

[Guest guest]

Hi, I'm Tonia and I live in a town in rural Texas which is a hard

place to be a vegan. I'm vegetarian trying to be vegan. I'm

female, 50 years old and very committed to my husband (just so you

know from the get-go that I'm not looking for " romance " ). As I said

in the post to Darcy, I was vegetarian in the '80s and returned to

vegetarianism this past January. It's so much easier to be a

vegetarian now than it was then. Then even though I lived in Austin

at the time, there weren't a lot of resources for vegetarians. Now

with the internet, there are many groups similar to this one. (I

chose this one because of the connection with Tolkien.) My husband

is still semi-omnivore, he eats animal products when we eat out and

cheese at home but otherwise, he eats vegetarian and cooks the

dishes I pick out for him to cook. He'll cook bean, grain and

vegetable-based dishes and leaves the tofu, tempeh and seitan based

ones for me to fix. It works out great most of the time.

 

We have five companion cats and one bunny. My DH is a math/science

teacher at the junior high/high school level and I work as a

secretary at a local minor university. It's a branch off another

university that's not in the UT, A & M or TTU systems, so it's not a

top tier university. We're also Christian but flexible in our

belief that God forgives and that He should be the judge of our

fellow humans not us. I think people are born " gay " or straight and

have to work that out for themselves. That abortion is a terrible

choice to have to make but it should be the women's choice. That

the government should keep their " hands " off our bodies is just as

valid today as it was in the early '70s!!! I just wish they would

be a lot more hand-on when it comes to protect the food supply from

all the nasty factory farms that spew filth all over our veggies!

 

That's all I can think of, right now. It's probably too much but I

tend to get wordy. I hope that's all right.