Some guy called David wrote an article called 7 Reasons I Never Went Vegan a while ago. He still wanted to try it for a month, and wrote about it here: What I Discovered When I Went Vegan for 30 Days.
He was asked a couple of days ago what his current diet is, and responded that he was vegan now, 'for good'.
Here's one observation he shared after his 30 day experiment:
"One thing I am finding during this experiment (and I’ll write more about this when I’m done) is that I could never really be open to the ethical issues while I was still eating animal products. I mean, I’d watched the slaughterhouse videos and had an emotional reaction to them before. But while watching, I always had to harbor some rationale in my mind why it was still okay for me to consume animals, so I could never really be quite emotionally open to what I’m seeing. It was either change my lifestyle at that very moment, or subconsciously tone down my emotional involvement in the reality of what happens in the animal food industry. Does that make sense?"
It makes sense to me. The body controls the mind more than we like to admit, so if our taste buds and wellbeing/effort ratio is OK with eating a plant based diet, it's a lot easier to agree in vegan viewpoints afterwards. And in order to have any valid viewpoints about what it feels like to live on a vegan diet, one of course needs to try it first, at least for a few weeks. (Yes, this is a hint to our non-vegan visitors. )
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