Good for you :-)

"animaux" <animaux@iosuefhk.net> wrote in message
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> Daniel, I don't feel superior because of my vegan or vegetarian ideals.  I
> feel
> very much a part of the entirety.  It's a decision, a choice.  I can't do
> meat
> any more.  And I love a good prime rib, or a delicious jumbo lump crab
> cake.  I
> love my scrambled eggs and whole milk on shredded wheat with sugar.  I am
> going
> to miss pudding made of milk and salmon and all the other meat products I
> love.
>
> I don't feel superior to anyone.  Life is not a contest at all.  It's a
> series
> of decisions and choices.  I decided to be vegan.  I never said it was
> easy, or
> that it makes anyone a better person.  I mean, of course there are the
> elitists
> in each group of whatever the representation, but the older I get, the
> more
> precious every minute becomes.  In maturity I have started to experience
> sacrifice, but without the chip on  my shoulder.  I don't tell people I'm
> vegan
> or vegetarian, I just am.
>
> I am no  more morally superior than anyone.  I'm my own moral compass.  I
> compare my behavior with my behavior of my own past and that's how I
> measure MY
> growth.  I don't measure it based on you or your life's ideals.
>
> When  my sister in law became a yoga teacher, and when my mother in law
> found
> out she was also vegetarian, my mother in law freaked out and told my SIL
> all
> her problems were because she didn't eat meat.  Huh?  How does that work?
> Then
> again, many of us are recovering Catholics.
>
> Being vegan or lacto ovo vegetarian is a decision, based on a choice.
> Nobody
> said you  had to do it.  If you feel inferior, address that.
>
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:19:57 +0800, "Daniel"
> <sitting.quietly@msa.hinet.net>
> opined:
> 
>

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