Re:spouse conversion, soymilk maker

[Guest guest]

Something similar here, Chessie. I'd been veggie for

about 15 years when I met my spouse, but I'd never

much gotten along with the veggie women I knew, they

were generally much too militant and political for me,

and I'd never made a big scene about being veggie

anyway because I had no interest in discussing it--I

don't consider my reasons and motivations open for

debate, they are what they are, and I don't want to

hear about it or preach to others about it. Anyway

about six months after we met she simply decided to

quit eating any meat but fish once in awhile, and quit

smoking, and has lived that way now for 23 years. Our

children have been veggie since birth, and she's

firmly committed to keeping them that way. When

they're old enough to decide on their own, I suppose

they will (they're 6 and 2) and I'm not going to try

to bend anyone to my will should they decide to live

differently, though I don't think they would.

I bought a good soymilk maker through vegweb; it cost

right at $100 and makes soymilk or any other nut milk,

rice milk, etc.; a quart or so at a time in around 20

minutes. We've had it for about a year and have been

very happy with it.

 

~DJ

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>Hi all, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for

posting all the

delicious muffin recipes!! I haven't had a chance to

try any of them

yet but

I plan to do so ASAP. Yummy!

 

Since I joined this group, I have noticed several of

you comment about

wishing that your spouse would " convert. " I just

wanted to share my

experience. I became vegetarian ten years ago, the

only person in my

entire

family to do so. It has never been something that I

pushed on anyone

else,

and long ago I even cooked meat dishes for my husband

or extended

family on

occasion (this was before we had kids). My husband

supported my choice

and

would always make sure veg food was available for me

wherever we went.

He

continued to eat meat and I continued to be

veg...until about four

years

ago. One day he just said, " I don't think I can eat

meat anymore. It

grosses me out. " His argument in support of

vegetarianism has always

been

hugely different from mine. He simply says that he

feels eating meat

is

unnecessary, that a person can get all the nutrients

they need without

consuming meat. I have noticed, over the past few

years, that his

logic is

evolving and now it includes elements of " why do we

have the right to

take

another being's life just because we want to eat it? "

He is also very

committed to raising our children as vegetarians. He

has a medical

background, so I think his knowledge of what he was

eating had a lot to

do

with being repulsed by it, but if he made the change,

there is hope for

everyone!

 

Chessie

 

~DJ

 

 

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