Hello again Madi :)

I am really happy to see you are writing about those topics, I share your belief!

Please allow me to share a slightly different point of beginning that brought me to a similar conclusion that you shared here.

My Vegetarian and eventually Vegan diet started about 11 years ago, it was my first trip to india, I was about 22, and was a crazy carnivore in that time, I could eat almost anything and really didnt care how or how well you would cook it, and while backpacking in india on a low budget you often find your self in a quite awkward places to eat, and for the first 3 days i was brave enough to enjoy the culinary assortments of the streets of India, and although cows are sacred in most of the county, you can still find many questionable meet dishes everywhere...

So long story short, I ended up i a very very very hard stomach disorder (lets not dive into scene building here) and after about a week or so of being stuck with my face inside of a bucket, I stopped eating meat and the thing that i noticed right away is that after a week or so i felt i had much more energy after meals, i felt lighter, eating only vegetarian food made my digestive system work a whole lot better and even my toilet visits were much more friendlier :))

Trying to be conscious of what i consume, i later researched and tried to figure out ways to stay sustained and healthy while not eating meat, and as we live in modern days, and you can get any type of food from anywhere in the world (in most western places), it is really not that difficult.

So for me becoming a vegetarian really started as a mistake, I really have to be honest I didn't care about cows that much in that time, I cared about my health....I have been vegetarian ever since...only a few years later i have become vegan, after being exposed to the ugly industry behind it, and perhaps because i have lived close to a family of goats, and really had a connection with them, I could not see any difference between them and the dog I have today.

11 years and I am quite healthy, and have a great menu to enjoy!

So just to sum up, you can still be healthy , eat well, and do no harm to those other amazing creatures.

Great story Madi!