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tblue

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1. 9 year Veg here. Slender and feeling great!
Fri May 18, 2012, 07:29 AM
May 2012

I started a year after my hubby did, and he went that route because Paul McCartney did.

There are so many ethnic (Indian, Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Middle Eastern) foods that are vegetarian and delicious, we don't miss meat at all. Just the thought of it and cooking it for my son now gives me shudders. My son is now perfectly happy to have vegetarian meals pretty frequently.

When I read about diseases like mad cow, the suffering of slaughter cows and chickens and pigs, and the huge impact on the environment and human health caused by a meat-based diet, I am SO HAPPY I gave up that crap!!!

Even the better sources of meat, which is what I buy for my son and I'm glad you value too, leave me feeling sorry for the animals who live a more decent and contented life, only to have it cut short because somebody wanted a hamburger for lunch. Cows do mourn when they are separated from their babies.

The brutality of the meat industry was the deal killer for me. I don't miss eating animal flesh in the least. And I really really love the foods I eat -- falafels, burritos, pasta, stir frys, and breads of all sorts. I weigh just about what I weighed in high school too. I wouldn't eat meat if you paid me.

Thank you for having the awareness to even take this on. Make your hubby some nice eggplant parmesan and see if that doesn't satisfy. Good luck!

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