For everyone! / was Welcome to Suzanne! ;=)

[Guest guest]

Sorry guys, but for some crazy reason my old email

addy crept into something or other and Suzanne

couldn't post this to me. Also, it was meant for the

whole group, and Suzanne says it's okay to post it so

here's her answer to my welcome to her. I was asking

about her vegetarianism ;=) and I think many of you

would be very interested in her responses.

 

thanks, Suzanne! Shall answer you later. Meanwhile,

let's let everyone read your nice post!!

 

Best,

Pat ;=)

 

> Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:34:22 -0700

> Suzanne <boodlehund

> santbrown <santbrown

> Re: Welcome to Suzanne! ;=)

>

>

> >Funny about that, isn't it? Sometimes it's just a

> sudden distaste for anything

> >me*ty or with a face.

> >

> Hi! Did you mean to send this to just me (and the

> not the list)? I

> wasn't sure. You can post this to the list if you

> want. Sorry I didn't

> get right back to you - normally I do. However,

> yesterday morning, I

> spent 3 hours sitting in Planned Parenthood and

> found out that I am

> pregnant! This is the first for us (and planned) so

> I'm pretty excited

> about the whole thing. Anyway...I'm curious as to

> why you always type

> " me*t " . Is there some story to that?

>

> >One sure-fire cure for carnivores, however, is

> _Fast Food Natiion_ - it's not the

> >only one, but it is probably the best known.

> >

> >

> I can't remember if I read that. I do remember

> reading " Diet for a small

> planet " (or maybe it was the other one he wrote). I

> was somewhat

> impressed by all the statistics, but it didn't

> change the way I ate. The

> book which has had the most impact on me was

> " Slaugherhouse " . Have you

> read it? Nasty stuff.

>

> >

> >

> >Small steps, small steps ;=) I'm not too fond of

> the taste of dairy any more, and

> >eggs are a definite problem.

> >

> Hmm. So you don't LIKE the taste of meat or dairy

> (and maybe eggs?).

> That certainly makes it a lot easier for you than

> someone (like me) who

> enjoys eating those things.

>

> >So, tell us (if you don't mind revealing all!):

> what made you take the sudden

> >plunge to vegetarianism? As you say, it's always

> interesting to compare notes!

> >

> >

> Well it started when I decided to take the plunge

> and go to a yoga

> class. I'm not even sure what was the final

> motivation to do so (yoga)

> because I had been talking about it for ages but

> never went. I even had

> a couple of books about yoga that I bought a while

> back and never read.

> After going to the class, I looked at the books a

> bit and read the

> " nonviolence " thing, which includes vegetarianism.

> That planted the seed.

>

> I grew up on a farm, and I assisted with chicken

> slaughterings a couple

> of times - once in the defeathering part (where I

> saw all the killing

> and smelled the boiled feathers - not pleasant) and

> once inside, bagging

> chicken parts. It was a little disturbing to me at

> the time, and I

> didn't eat chicken for a while afterwards, even

> though chicken was and

> still is my favorite meat. I think that it just took

> a while for the

> concept of " chicken " to return to some abstract

> packaged food that you

> buy at the store, rather than a living breathing

> thing that gets its

> head cut off. Once that was out of my mind, I had no

> trouble going back

> to chicken.

>

> Anyway...I'm getting off course here. That idea

> (nonviolence) stuck in

> my head for a few days. I remember sitting in the

> university library and

> looking out and wondering 'if I had to go out there,

> grab a chicken, and

> kill it, would I still eat it?'. I could...if I had

> to. I'm not grossed

> out by many things. But it was an unappealing idea.

> Then, shortly after

> that, I read/heard about The Meatrix.

> (www.themeatrix.com). I think

> maybe the link came in an email that I get about

> organic food - I'm not

> sure. That was disturbing to me, and I decided then

> that I would try

> going without meat for a while. I could have looked

> for meat from small

> farms...organic stuff...but I didn't really care

> enough to try. I

> started looking into vegetarianism more, and I read

> about

> " Slaugherhouse " online somewhere, so I got that from

> the library. Once I

> read that, there was no going back. It was just

> appalling. I also sent

> this link:

>

http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/usdapubcom0304.cfm

> to

> my family members, and my youngest sister seems to

> be going

> semi-vegetarian (I guess 'pollo vegetarian') as a

> result. My dad (the

> farmer) said it was absolutely right, and I should

> just stick to grains,

> fruits and vegetables.

>

> But I do like meat dishes (especially things with

> chicken, and

> hamburgers), so it is kind of hard sometimes. We

> went to my favorite

> restaurant last night - for the first time since my

> switch to veg - and

> I saw just how few things on the menu did not have

> meat. I suspect that

> I may be tempted to eat meat dishes sometimes just

> because I enjoy them.

> Most of the time, it is easy for me to avoid though

> - especially at home.

>

> I'm disgusted with how laying hens are treated, but

> I don't feel like I

> can give up eggs. I just like them too much. I also

> read the link that

> someone posted about how much pus there is in milk

> (which is really

> disgusting) and I'm unhappy with how milk cows are

> treated too - but I

> *really* enjoy milk products, so I don't see that

> changing much. At

> least there is milk available without added hormones

> and such. I tried

> soy milk for the first time recently...and I was not

> very impressed.

> It's edible but it isn't really a replacement for

> milk IMO. My fiance

> tried it and said that he thought it tasted like

> flour and water.

> That's not too inaccurate. LOL

>

> Suzanne

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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