i kinda put the vegan diet on pause while dealing with school. i'm still "vegan" because i'm abstaining from animal products as far as possible and practicable, as the definition goes. but how much effort is required? how thoroughly do you have to check ingredients? at what point is it ok to say that it's too overwhelming? like, it's definitely better to make small changes that you can maintain than to decide the whole thing is too hard and give up up entirely. anyway, i don't buy leather etc, at least not knowingly. but there are probably supplies purchased for my classes that are not vegan so it may be impossible to say what i'm contributing. but then that's true for anyone who participates in society.
i was talking to a friend who is a christian and he was talking about people doing things that they know are wrong. i think this is a context for the religious term "convicted". i've mostly got my emotional issues regarding school under control, so it's time to direct some effort back to not torturing and murdering farmed animals. i haven't eaten their flesh in almost 8 years now, but i gave up on avoiding milk and eggs. actually the main thing is cheese. so i'm not going to worry about checking ingredients for now, because that amount of work would definitely detract from my school performance, but i'm going to refrain from eating things that have obvious cheese on them. now i'm making the goal of maintaining that till august, at which time i will consider possible next steps.
Brian is vegetarian and tries to go vegan every few years, until he tastes vegan pizza and gets his disgust and disappointment face.
ReplyDeleteI am looking into cruelty-free dairy products, so that we can feel somewhat better about being animal products users.