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RE: Let’s connect with the animals

in #vegan7 years ago

Hi, i've been following you, i like your thought provoking activism, i'm vegan (fruitarianism is not for me but im all for your cause) I haven't always been vegan and took a while to get here. tbh i never had pets when growing up and never formed that much of emotional attachment to animals, until i started the journey into veganism i became more empathic. When i was a part time vegtarian (1/2 a week i would eat meat) I went on holiday to Sicily and brought some meat I didn't know what it was but i cooked these steak things, then one tasted really odd, it was so strong flavored, i translated the word and it was horse. I was so of horrified by that (i dont have a strong connection with horses but it sorta was a turning point for me, if i cant eat this why am i eating any of it. I'll never forget the time when i was a kid and at a restaurant my parents tried to feed me deer meat and told me it was 'bambi' to make me eat it, I cried when they told me that!!!! We need to listen to the childs heart, its just not right! (eating meat is social conditioning not a necessity) the english language deliberately changes the words for meat products like pig is pork and cow is beef but in german for instance schwein is schweinfleish literally pig meat. Anyway just some thoughts