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Originally Posted by BlackButterfly
Since I grew up on Southern cuisine ("soul food"), I learned to cook everything in meat (sounds funny, but I'm serious!)--using fat to fry, butter and gravy on EVERYTHING, and seasoning your veggies with the broth/drippings from the meat dish you cook (sounds yummy, don't it?). Tastes awesome, but you pay for it in the end (no pun intended).
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That's exactly how I grew up. My family is from Mississippi. (we moved to central new york because of how insanely "Progressive" Mississippi is HAH) So when I tried to become a vegetarian when I was 12, it didn't exactly go over well. I was a vegetarian for about a year but I wasn't doing it right. My parents did not think it was a healthy choice.
Crying Crimson Tears: Yes, that's same thing my parents did. And if you're a vegetarian, and you eat right, you won't need to take "supplements" You'll be perfectly healthy. And yes, you're right, your dad is just trying to look out for you. Meat is such a big part of a lot of cultures, and so some people believe that you actually have to have meat in order to be healthy. Eventually, and it may take a little while, he'll begin to understand. My parents did, and now they help me fix vegan food for holidays and stuff!
I finally went vegan I guess when I was 20. LOVE IT. Mostly for moral, economic, and environmental reasons. Crap, you name a reason to become vegan and that's me. I think someone posted up there that they were a straight edge vegan. Well so am I. But being straight edge and being vegan to me have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
I'm not the most "strict" vegan there ever is. For instance, I'm starting to on rare occasions cook pancakes that have free range vegetarian fed hen eggs. Simply because I think that if a hen happens to lay an unfertilized egg that someone could eat it and it would be morally acceptable. But it really depends on whether the hens are being kept purely for that reason, are they allowed to go around and have little families and act as they please. ugh, it's such a delicate situation. But cowsmilk will always be a big no no for me. So, yeah, I'm mostly vegan (: