(Retro) Hello Again

[Guest guest]

Here is (was) my introduction... I joined this group

last summer...

 

 

 

 

I am vegetarinan.  Since 1969, but feeling it before I

was able to do it! 

My family was not supportive. When I was a teenager,

or younger, food choices were what my mother put on

the table, or the lady in the hair-net at lunch

laddled onto the tray or put into a bun. 

 

I told my mother I wanted to be vegetarian.  She

insisted vegetarians eat chicken and fish.  Once, she

bought me a can of fake meat... and served it to me in

front of her friends.  It was disgusting!  But it was

her " party, " so I had to eat it.

 

People STILL don't " get " that being vegetarian means

eating other than flesh, not flesh substitutes!

 

I remember in a restaurant, as a child, ordering spare

ribs, thinking that the animal hadn't needed them...

they were " spare. "    

 

Then, in the spring of 1969, at restaurant called

Ratso's, in a trendy area in Chicago, I was impressed

with their salad selections.  I said, out-loud, but

really to and for myself, " I could live on these, " and

became vegetarian!

 

Anyone else out there remember a movie, circa 1968,

called Sweet November?  A supporting character was

vegetarian.  To include him in their Thanksgiving

dinner, the hostess made him a turkey-mold jello.  I

was inspired by the sentiment, even though there was

so much we didn't know...  ground animal hoofs, and

all.

 

I am a fan of nature, enjoying camping, pic-nicing,

and photographing out in it. 

 

I love my furry, feathered and scaled family!  I love

animals around my

table, not on it! 

 

 

 

Jiraph

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36 years....

 

 

" The cat did not respond. She did not believe in paraphrasing anybody. If

people pursued this same feline wisdom, there'd be a lot fewer

misunderstandings. "

From Kinky Friedman's

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

 

 

 

 

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