Diane-QOTW - Where are you from and what, when and why made you decide to consider

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Hi Diane,

 

I'm rushing, so I hope I can say this well enough, but this is so

moving and beautifully put that I had thank you for sharing it. It

really just couldn't be any clearer than what you've described. Thank

you so much.

 

Peace,

Mo

 

 

 

strayfeather1 wrote:

>> What helped you consider being a vegetarian?

>>

>

> My G'ma usually asks me this during dinner but the story isn't

> dinner-friendly so it doesn't get told often. 20 years ago I was in

> Sri Lanka in the Peace Corps. At that time, there were about 2 1/2

> mini-wars going on. If one went out at certain times of day one would

> see unfortunate things. One morning on my way to my school I saw a

> burned body beside the road. My first up close one. Later that day I

> went to my favorite curry place for lunch. Usually one just orders

> " rice & curry " and they bring whatever curries they have that day.

> Well, they brought a meat curry and as soon as I looked at it I saw

> that body and something happened way deep inside my soul. I knew an

> understanding that we are all connected. I understood that that meat

> was like the body and like me and like my cat back home and I could no

> more eat that than I could lean over and take a living bite of the

> person sitting next to me at the curry place.

>

> After I got back to the States I learned more about our terrible cruel

> agri-business practices and learned more and more reasons to not eat

> or buy meat.