Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

undeterred

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19. I have tried to get across the idea that a vegetarian\vegan diet

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 08:01 PM

Feb 2014

doesn't involve being in some kind of morally strong state of mind all the time.

First you decide that this is what you want to do, for whatever reasons - for your health, for the environment, for the love of animals.

Then you find foods within those boundaries that you really really like a lot.

Then you eat them, however much trouble it is to buy and prepare them.

Its not about what you don't eat, its about what you do eat. And if its a big change its much easier when you have found foods within your new diet that you really really like a lot.

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I have tried to get across the idea that a vegetarian\vegan diet undeterred Feb 2014 #19