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Vegetarianism.

Today I ate a delicious fried meat, and remembered the time when I was trying to become a vegetarian.

In fact, I really love animals, and I would like for our world to have a more merciful food chain, without eating living creatures. I even have some thoughts on this. But I'll leave it for another post :)

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Since my childhood I have used to eating meat without thinking about animals' suffering. Empathy and compassion appeared later.

When I was 17-18 years old, my compassion for animals was so strong that I decided to become a vegetarian. I stopped to eating meat.

In the beginning it was easy. I easily switched to a vegetarian diet. But it took 2-3 weeks, and I began to have dreams, in which fried chicken, slices of bacon and other meat dishes was flying around me... I woke up on a pillow wet from drooling))

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Here I must also mention one important detail.
By formation, I'm a teacher of French, but when I graduated from university, it was a difficult time in the history of my country. It was so hard to find a job. With help of my cousine I got a job. I was working as saleswoman, in a store selling meat products)) Every day, kilograms of delicious meat products passed by me))

But I still continued to eat vegetarian food.

and often changed the pillows, lol )

And one day a book of Carlos Castaneda came into my life)). This was one of the important stages for me. This book has had a deep impact on my entire life, and in particular, it has helped me to realize at a very deep level many aspects in life. One of these aspects is my attitude to food.

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I realized that life pulses not only in animals. But also in a thin sprout stretching towards the sun. And the roots that grow into the earth. Flowing water, a flying butterfly, stones. All this is life.
And for me, vegetarianism has ceased to be an act of compassion for living creatures. It's just one of the diets, which is probably very useful. Actually I really respect vegetarians. I read many articles about improving health with this diet. However, the placebo effect is also not excluded.

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My meat-eater philosophy

That day I was at work. It was an hour when there was almost no visitors. And I was reading Castaneda's book.

I looked at the smoked quails lying on the counter. They always made me feel sorry and compassionate. So small frail bird! At the same time they were relatively expensive. And since in my country there were dark times, they were bought very rarely.

I looked at these little birds, and realized that if they were not bought and not eaten, their death would be in vain. Nothing will return them, they have already died. And it will be even more horrible if their death was in vain and their meat was useless. And I decided to return to eating meat, starting with quail)

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I want to emphasize that now I do not kill even insects, I have my own agreement with them. And this is a topic for another post)

But I eat meat with pleasure, and I'm grateful for any food I eat.

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Thanks for reading my post! I'd like to know which of this topics you would like to read soon in my blog?

1. my agreement with insects
2. my version of alternative food chain for alternative planet Earth
3. motivating life stories
4. child-free

Please write in comments.

P.S.: sorry for my poor English :)