I distinctly remember the day I turned vegan.
Through a series of serendipitous events, (I won’t call them coincidences), I found my way to reading books that led me to the plight of factory farmed meat.
I couldn’t even call the tortured creatures that lived on factory and other farms “animals” anymore, just meat, because they were being treated as simply a means to an end. A disturbingly inhumane end.
I had been raised on meat, dairy and eggs. I liked those things. I ate a traditional Polish diet. My adoptive parents had gone through the Second World War and food, all food, was regarded as nothing less than holy, which one can only understand if one has been hungry. I had been hungry.
read the full story @ http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/03/why-an-environmental-animal-rights-activist-walked-away-from-veganism/
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It is sad, reading some of the comments on elephant that others don’t realize plants, too, are sentient beings. It has been proven by science that they feel and communicate. They talk to me, too, Monika!
Love that Sarah!