VEGANISM

This is a written personal experience of how it was for me to go vegan, and how it has been since. Throughout and in the bottom of the post there’s listed various links with information. Thank you for checking this out!

I’ve been vegan for 5 years. Milton has been for about 7. Going back to eating meat seems impossible now. And in the beginning, being vegan seemed impossible as well.
I became vegan while living in Tropical North Queensland, Australia. My backyard could grow bananas, mangoes, coconuts and avocados, and local cheap markets where only a little bike ride away during the weekend. That helped a lot. I had been vegetarian for a long time before I even learnt of veganism, and I immediately thought living without cheese was ‘too extreme’. Cutting out the meat part was already on deck and it wasn’t hard either, I just stopped; the crave for meat eventually disappeared. Letting dairy go was the greatest challenge. In the years past I’ve learnt there is a chemical reason why cheese is so hard to let go of. It’s as addictive as crack, read about this here .

But I couldn’t help but wonder, why cut cheese though, how is animal B products hurting anyone?  I looked it up and learnt that in regards to animal welfare, consuming dairy is hurting animals more than meat - with slaughter the animals are intended to die immediately(although too often that is not the case..), with dairy and eggs, the factory farmed animals are like slave machines deprived of everything natural during the years of producing milk or eggs, and then finally slaughtered when they are too tired to produce.
This with the information of how consuming animals effect the environment, was what turned my tables. I couldn’t be ok with the idea that something that would stimulate my tastebuds for aprox. 15 -20 minutes 3 times a day, would cause such horror and destruction to everything around me, and even my own body, to just continue doing that everyday. 

It took me a whole year to stop eating dairy and finally becoming vegan. It was hardest when going to the grocery store. I’d pick up some cheese and milk based chocolate and place it in my cart, then go home and realise I had made a ‘mistake’, then eat it anyways as I already spent that money. Haters gon hate.
But going to get groceries became a test towards building my self discipline. I’d still go to the cheese counter, and pick that damn bag up. Oh my goodness the internal drama. It’s like you’re fighting this little battle in your head, and it’s obviously not a big deal as it’s just cheese but it is a big deal cause you just want a grilled cheese sandwich. But eventually, I got strong enough to say no. I was on a mission, and I was too curious to see what veganism would do to me. I wanted to clean my body, let time remove everything and then wait and see. Things did happen. Everything you’ve heard of health benefits that occur when cutting out animals, is true. I’m not even trying to exaggerate this.
Here is a list of what I experienced over the first months, till the first year of going VEGETARIAN and then VEGAN.
Keep in mind that there was never anything ‘wrong’ with me in terms of skin problems or over weight. I was perfectly ok, I used to be really allergic to anything with fur, my pollen allergies were way stronger, and I used to have eczema under my arms, on my thighs and sometimes in my face and hands.

VEGITARIAN: (ate eggs and dairy, no chicken, sea food, lamb, kangaroo (lol you aussie freaks) or cow meat/ no meat what so ever): 

1 month: 

  • Immediately started feeling lighter and less bloated. 
  • Falling asleep was also easier. 
  • Eczema decreased. 

 6 months: 

  • No more throat burns. 
  • Pollen and fur reactions had decreased some. 

1 year: 

  • Lost a small amount of weight. 

VEGAN: (No eggs, dairy, meat, sea food, no animal products what so ever) 

1 month: 

  • Skin got soft and glowing 
  • I felt even ‘lighter’
  • Increased feeling of having energy to do shit like working out 
  • No more headaches even when stressed, also started feeling less stressed 
  • Feeling amazing

6 months: 

  • ‘Slimy’ feeling in my back throat entirely disappeared 
  • Skin stayed clear and fresh(and has ever since) 
  • Started waking up naturally at 5 - 6 am(bedtime latest at 11-12pm) 
  • Feeling energetic(would then go for up to 1 hour runs)
  • Cravings for sweet stuff after dinner/savoury meals had entirely removed itself. I only have tea (no sweetening) or a little bit of dairy free dark chocolate after dinner these days.

1 year: 

  • Lost aprox. 8 kg, weight has stayed stable since.  
  • Nails and hair started growing faster and stronger 
  • Teeth got stronger as well
  • Bad breath after meals and in general, stopped occurring (I don’t use chewing gum anymore) 

It has gone 5 years now, and the qualities of my diet are the same. I only started getting headaches again after moving back to NYC but they happen very rarely. Other than that my weight has stayed the same(48kg all year, 51kg around Christmas/holidays mmm all the cake please). Stress is also easier to handle, however I think that is because I started doing yoga at the same time as going vegan, I feel like they go hand in hand and boost each other.  

EXCERSISE  Yoga welcomes everyone, no matter how small or big you are, or how much time you can dedicate to it, what’s funny is that as soon you learn what it does for you, you dedicate more time:) Yoga is an incredible old practice of slow stretching, accompanied with slow deep breathing. It wakes your body up and allows it to open the muscles. The more you do it the more flexible you become. Veganism gave me more energy and strength to move more. I am stronger and faster than I’ve ever been in my life although we don’t really exercise ‘that much’. I do yoga every single day at home or at Yoga to The People in NYC, either morning, afternoon or evening. I try to keep my sessions up to 1 hour, but sometimes 20 minutes will have to do and that works fine.  I go on 40min - 1 hour runs every 2nd or 3rd day, on bad weather days I do 100-200 jumps with a jumping rope, Milton skateboards as much as possible. 

I believe that which ever way you eat, you have to include exercise in your life. And not everything is for everyone. Me personally, I dont work with gyms, while others love it and find the time to make the travel there. Yoga is perfect for me because it’s slow and calm and I can do it at home, at a studio, in the park, on a rooftop.. You only really need space to lay your mat down and you’re set. The more you do it, you feel strength come to your arms and core. My balancing is so stable, my legs are so stable and so are my arms. It feels often like I can lift anything. I feel listening to your body goes in hand with yoga and meditation. You slow down entirely and let your mind float. It’s difficult, sometimes you’re just simply not feeling it. Especially if you’re going through stressful times where you worry a lot, but that’s when you need it more. There are always solutions to almost every single problem, and sometimes slowing down, and opening your eyes, will let the answer come to you. You just have to try.  

ALCOHOL, SUGAR & ‘JUNK FOOD’ Milton and I aren’t the healthiest vegans you know - we eat whatever we want/I veganise what ever we ‘can’t’ have, and then we have it anyways, that sometimes include meat substitutes. Some talk about how it makes no sense to go vegan and then eat things that taste like meat, and I guess it sounds backwards, but going vegan can take time for some, and if eating meat substitutes makes it easier for you to stay away from meat and dairy and to transition into a fully plant based diet, then of course, enjoy! We’re still transitioning, so we eat some meat substitutes when we want something simple and crave an ‘unhealthy’ meal. We deliberately try to avoid sugar, but if my cakes need sugar, they will have sugar. We prefer to use agave or maple syrup, sometimes coconut sugar or pure raw cane sugar, and often brown suger. We NEVER eat anything that’s ‘low fat’ ‘no sugar’ ‘artificial sweetening’ type of shit, we do everything full fat. We drink wine, beer, cocktails, tequila, anything our hearts desire, because I think that’s what veganism showed me very early; its not a diet, its a lifestyle, and it made me love food and my body more, because it made me feel so good. It made me happier. We get hangovers just like everyone else, feel like we’re dying, and then we crave pizza all day.
Going vegan stopped me feeling ‘worried’ about what I ate or drank, I don’t count calories or even think about how much fat something contains, it made me feel free. Peanut butter is my power animal. We drink alcohol around once a week, often not even that frequently. But we never deny ourselves a drink. We don’t smoke cigarettes, Milton drinks coffee but not daily. We both do not drink commercial sodas except natural sodas from independent brands like Bruce Cost Ginger Ale, Spin Drift and similar. 

Junk food is also a term that sort of disappears when becoming vegan, of course you can eat fries and meat substitutes all the time. There’s also soda, potato chips, ice cream and cookies like oreos, cakes and other candies that are vegan, and aren’t good for you in large amounts, which we have when ever we feel like, but that isn’t often. We have ‘junk food’ like vegan burgers often, with fresh veggies, and often I just make them from scratch with grains and beans so now that’s suddenly very healthy. We have pizza with a rich tomato sauce and veggies like mushrooms, tomatoes, artichokes, bell pepper, spinach, olives, and red onion with or without vegan cheese. This is suddenly really healthy as well. It goes for most ‘junk’ food.

WATER & GREEN TEA One thing we do consume a lot of is all types of teas, especially green tea and tons of water. I cannot stress drinking more water enough. I used to not drink so much. I’d be so annoyed with having to pee at random times that I didn’t really drink that much at all and it had me doing 17 hour flights across the globe without visiting the lavatory ONCE. That’s a horrible sign. I had to train myself to need water more often, I did that by drinking all the time. I always bring a little bottle with me and I’d have a sip even if I wasn’t thirsty. The result; I’m thirsty all the time, and yes I have to pee all the time, especially if I drink a lot of green tea, but I feel better, its like a daily detox, washing all my peanut butter sins away. Green tea is amazing and totally underestimated. Its holds health benefits such as anti ageing, it boosts the immune system, tones muscles and skin, reduce the risk of cancer, it reduces cholesterol, prevents thickening of blood, boosts metabolism and therefore help with weight loss, and the list just goes on. Green tea has a rather bitter taste if you’re not used to it, but for me, that became addictive, and now I have between 2-7 cups of tea every day. There’s different types of green tea, with different flavouring if you’re not so into the bitterness. Tea companies like T2 which can found in both Australia and the US have a great selection of various green teas, herbal teas and other white and black teas. Green tea in general can be bought pretty much anywhere.   I also absolutely love having hot water with lemon and ginger in the morning. It’s the simplest detox which boosts your immune system tremendously. I’m never sick. You make it by booking water, rinsing/scrubbing a lemon then cutting it into slices, peeling and cubing about 2 cm of ginger and adding both of them into hot water. If I can’t finish it for whatever reason I like to add a little agave then place it in the fridge. Later I come home, add more water hot or cold and have a new round. In the morning I always drink it without any sweetening. 

WHEN FOOD IS THY MEDICINE & DOCTOR VISITS I solemnly believe that food is thy medicine. I don’t get sick anymore unless you sneeze me right in my face, so maybe once a year. I haven’t visited my standard doctor in over 2 years now and I kinda hope to never see her again. A professional check up is necessary in most people’s opinion, but I only go to ease my mothers heart, and every time they’re telling me how excellent my results are. I was appointed to a new doctor last March and I waited till after he’d seen my results to tell him I was vegan. He told me I was incredibly healthy. I was slim and strong and all my values such as Iron and blood levels were ‘perfect’. He immediately got skeptic when I told him I haven’t been eating anything from any animals in quite some time - these old fashioned doctors huh huh. Milton and I don’t take any medication of any sorts. We don’t take any dietary supplements, no vitamins, no protein powder shakes, nothing. Partly because we - specifically here in the US, don’t want to consume any medication pills of any sorts and because anything we need, we get from our food. The only thing we ever experience not eating enough of, is actually fat hah. So you know I love showering in peanut butter and oh so much guac. Plants are naturally low in fat, especially in comparison to meat, so you might experience that you get rather thin in the beginning. Again avocados and peanut butter are your go to. We eat carbs freely. Most dinners have either some sort of potatoes, brown rice, whole grain or plant based pasta, cous cous, or noodles of various sorts. Most meals have a large amount of cooked or preferably fresh veggies, and we eat as much various fresh fruit as we can. We eat soy in the shape of tofu and meat substitutes as well as ice cream but we don’t drink it(soy milk) and try to not have too much of it. By doing this all our nutritional needs are covered. However some might be worried about not getting enough protein or other nutritions when going vegan, which is of course totally fine, let me however now clarify once and for all, that no one ever is protein deficient, vegans the least. All proteins come from plants and if you’re interested about building strong muscles, plants is where you’ll find the purest protein without all the feces, hormones, and other chemicals that comes along when you eat dead animals. Keep in mind all bodies are different and just because we’re fine without supplements doesn’t mean you’ll be. Try different things out, and pay attention to how you feel day by day.
When I first did go vegan I was using supplements such as B12, Zinc and Calcium which can all be bought at most pharmacies and health shops. Read more about supplements for vegans here and here

SKIN & BODY CARE
I’m not too fancy with skin products. At all, but I’d like to learn more about how to treat my skin as amazing as possible. As mentioned earlier my skin became great after ditching dairy so I use normal moisturising creams and body products and I haven’t given this much focus at all. For about 6 months two winters ago, all I used for skin care was raw organic coconut oil.. It was great but very oily immediately applied obviously. I also use it for moisturising my hair before washing it, and we’ve just recently started oil pulling. Coconut oil has so many uses for the body, and it’s cheap and sold most places. I have attached an amazing detailed article my friend Jenn Miller wrote which you can read here. I recommend trying it out. I mostly use Lush and often go there but the expand of cruelty free and vegan natural products are growing so fast so its definitely something I want to explore more. If you try anything and like it, or don’t, please share you’re experience. 

Some products I know are vegan: 

Sukin - I used their skin care while living in Australia, and I loved it. Very refreshing and great as a moisturiser. I dont know if it’s sold in the US but I know it’s available on Amazon

Free Skin Care - Refreshing vegan and argan based skin care specifically designed for women who work out. I really enjoy them and I’m looking forward to explore more of their products in the future.

Pacifica - I absolutely love this brand. I have the mascara ‘Stellar Gaze’ which is mineral based. It’s probably the best mascara I’ve owned as it actually give my lashes amazing length, it dries quickly(I always apply a second coat for the length) and doesn’t leak off when in contact with a little bit of water.  

Lani - Another product I haven’t tried yet so if you have, I’d love to know. 

Red Flower - They’re vegan and their products smell oh so amazing. 

Acure - I absolutely love this brand. They focus on being sustainable, cruelty free and obviously being good for your body. I’m currently using their ‘Coconut + Argan Oil’ facial cleansing towelettes and their ‘Damage Control - Coconut + Kreatin 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner’. Both amazing and products I’ll buy again in the future. 

Jasön - I live for their body washes. The Aloe Vera body wash leaves my skin feeling amazing. 

Other places to online shop vegan products are ThriveMarket, Vegan, Urban Vegan and iHerb. Organic Beauty Talk aren’t necessarily always vegan but they feature natural organic beauty products.

AWARENESS
As mentioned earlier I spent a year cutting down on dairy, simultaneously as I did this massive self encouraged study on climate change, animal welfare and of course nutrition. I wish I remembered/had all my sources saved so I could list everything I learnt here, I found them by questioning everything. Learning about my body, the difference between what it needs and what it wants, and most importantly to listen to my body has given me so much. I spent so much time learning about what foods provide various nutritions and started eating more of the various plants in regards to how I felt - this is what I mean by listening. If I was tired I’d eat more of foods that energies me such as oranges, bananas, nuts etc. If I was stressed I eat more foods that calmed me down like dark chocolate. We only eat when we’re hungry, rather than eating after the clock. We try not to eat too late though.  

SOCIAL/EATING WITH OTHERS
This can be hard in the beginning. If going out to eat together I’ve found the best way dealing with it, is to suggest a restaurant that is also vegan friendly. In the US most restaurants will be able to veganise something. Sometimes the results are going to be incredibly disappointing, and sometimes it’s going to be surprisingly delicious, and yes you are going to be sceptical re if your meal was cooked right next to a piece of meat.. And your non-vegan friends are most likely not going to understand why that’s not ok. When going to a dinner at a friends/ family place, try to never show up ‘starving’. Family members - often older ones, might not quite understand that vegan food actually mean no animals, and you end up having nothing to eat other than some dry bread. Here too, you should contact the friend or family member and explain in a friendly way. 

And when people don’t understand how you function without meat, the classical questions always make a return: How do you get your protein?
Tell them, ‘..from the food your food eats to get those juicy thick strong thighs’.   For indeed, plants are protein rich, they are in fact more protein rich than any meat. Meat and plants hold different types of protein.  

Other funny things you start doing when going vegan is intense examination of the ingredients of products you shop at grocery shops. Some state they are vegan, so that’s fine, but other products are non intentionally made vegan.

EMOTIONALLY  going vegan was at first, a roller coaster.
I was happy and motivated that I managed to thrive towards this change, but it got me incredibly depressed and rather aggressive when I dealt with food around others, this sounds super dramatic. I was focusing so much on the environmental aspects of eating animals, and how much destruction that created, as well as the cruelty towards animals, that it made me feel devastated and down and rather than just talking about it, I’d take the negativity I felt form that and I would yell at family and friends telling them they HAD to go vegan. I couldn’t understand how anyone could be so ok with ‘carelessly’ causing so much harm to themselves and everything around them. After a year of this nonsense I learnt that I was only pushing my friends and family away from me, and especially their interest in veganism. Why on earth would anyone try or even gain interest in something that I apparently was so angry about? You’re not going to want to try anything which is forced on you with negative energy. Ever since I started focusing on veganism for myself, I became happier, and friends got more curious and impressed with how delicious it could be. And here I am today, writing this massive text because so many friends have come to me. I’m so grateful they have, and I would like anyone who’s reading this, to know that they can ask me as well. 

I recently found this video on youtube that quite accurately describes how it can feel to become vegan when those around might not understand. I strongly encourage you to watch this. However I don’t agree with everything it says. It states ‘’[after finding your own peace with veganism]…you realised there are good people out there’’. I don’t agree with that statement as I don’t believe eating meat makes you a bad person. Like the video states in the beginning, eating animals is something most of us grow up doing, it’s incredibly ‘normalised’ by society, health departments, schools and our parents - it’s what we’ve been used to forever. Since being a toddler it’s something where most parents would commonly make justifications for being ok. Climate change has been happening for a while and after I became peaceful with my own veganism, I would just say that I’m perfectly ok with everyone eating whatever they wanted, that food was something very personal and that one should be able to eat whatever one wants as long as one knows where it comes from. But I don’t think that anymore. Climate change has in no way improved since I became vegan, and I don’t believe humanity can have the luxury of eating animals on a daily basis anymore. I used to think that if you like to eat meat, you should enjoy that, but I think we’ve pushed it so far that I don’t even believe eating meat once a week is good enough.. I dont think it should be consumed by anyone at all what so ever. To be brutally honest. 

CLOTHING
We don’t do fur. We are not ok with fur. We think it’s entirely unnecessary extreme cruelty, and that is all I shall say about that. Faux fur thooo. I think faux fur is an excellent way of showing you can have a piece of clothing that looks ‘furry’ without coming from an animal. If you absolutely have to have real fur, please consider buying it second hand.
We do own and use leather products, but they are always second hand. Either as old gifts, inherited or collected at thrift shops. Some vegans are not ok with leather, wool and obviously fur, what so ever. We wouldn’t buy new leather products; we’re ok with second hand because the harm has already been done if it’s already created, and if you love it, you should use it cause it gives you joy. Also the more the animal is created into makes it’s death less of a ‘waste.’

SUSTAINABLE LIVING Veganism isn’t just about the food you eat. The more you get into it, you learn it’s a lifestyle that in fact impacts most aspects of your life as a consumer. You wish to consume less products, or products that have less of an impact on the environment. That’s how I feel these days, and some things I’m trying to get more into goes as following: 

Waste and Product Packaging  - Plastic packaging gives me anxiety. A personal aim we thrive towards is to grocery shop loose fruits, seeds, grains and vegetables, meaning we’ll bring our own cotton bags or other types of bags when we collect our ingredients, then at home store these ingredients in glass jars or similar. By doing this, no plastic was involved, and therefore does not have to get thrown out. Unfortunately not all grocery shops offer products loose weight, so then we at least bring our own bags instead of them giving us new plastic bags to drag home. In regards to mail, we try to inform our electricity and gas provider, wifi and phone provider here in the US that we wish to receive our bills by email rather than in paper form. We also notify advertisement that we don’t wish to receive anything. Less waste in, less waste out - it makes us save the time we had to spend recycling everything. 

Compost - Now this is something I’ve been wanting to do forever, and I know that the day we have our own house, I’ll dedicate a lovely corner of our backyard to worms, natural bacteria and fungi to party with the fruit and vegetable remains we leave behind. There’s also indoor options, but most renters like ourselves might have a landlord who’d develop certain feels towards this. If you live in NYC and can actually have a compost indoor or outdoor but don’t know what you’re doing you should hit up Bedstuy Garden Guy aka my homie Clement and he’ll do the magic for you. 

BUT WHAT DO WE EAT Prior to going vegan, and still being sceptic towards it, I made the decision that I wouldn’t continue if I couldn’t successfully create incredibly delicious meals - THAT good I wouldn’t miss cheese and eggs. Our meals are the most amazing. I absolutely love the food we eat and wake up everyday excited to eat. They’re so rich in flavour, and they leave me feeling full and energised. We eat all types of dishes from around the world. Our current favourite is anything Indian and Thai. We love and often eat Vietnamese, Italian, Mexican and hispanic, as well as Mediterranean such as Spanish, Greek, Turkish and Portuguese. We’ve had various Lebanese and Ethiopian dishes and lately I really want to get into Caribbean food. During holidays such as Christmas, we have veganised Norwegian food. Let s just say I haven’t missed cheese. ANYTHING can be veganised, and once one gets used to it, cooking becomes easier as well, cheaper and quicker. You become more creative since you learn so much more about different ways to prepare the same dishes you used to eat with animals, and your food becomes so much more enjoyable as you actually feel great after every meal.
We do indeed eat whatever we want, and we always make it from scratch, AND it has to be quick. Living in NYC I quickly learnt that my days of passionate ballades while cooking dinner are over. We cook a lot of food at once so that we have a second meal/lunch the following day. We also dig not too expensive food and Trader Joe’s here in the US has made that possible even with organic food, as we definitely strive to eat at as organic as possible. I recently found an IG account called @TraderJoesVegan where vegan products at Trades Joes are listed, the best.  

As I’ve realised it’s in no way practical for you or me to be listing literally everything we eat, cause honestly, we eat everything - I’ve made a large list of sites where you can find various recipes. I normally only use sites to get inspiration for what we’ll have, I always change things up with the recipe I find to make it tastier, easier or quicker to make, and it always turns out great. I’ve also startet posting recipes here on my site, so if you follow my IG you’ll be able to keep track with what I post, which can be anything from twice a week to only every second week. If you press the #vegan or #food link in the bottom of this post you’ll be able to see what recipes I’ve posted earlier.

My most trusted go to site, is FOODGAWKER which is a categorised recipe site. It’s not vegan, but it’s a category it offers, which I’ve naturally  bookmarked so I can easily access it. It’s great for when I have a specific ingredient I really wanna eat or use, of which I can just type it in in the search field and various dishes sweet and savoury turns up. If I crave a particular dish, I type it in, and various recipes occur. Its amazing for exploring new foods. An example: these days we have a randomly large amount of sweet potatoes lying around, but I really want pizza, so I typed in ‘Sweet potato pizza’ and look what came up. 

OTHER VEGAN RECIPIE SITES

FOOD INSTAGRAMS 

ODD VEGAN FOODS/ INGREDIENTS Here you can find a list of ‘odd’ products we include in our food either to add nutrition, flavour or sometimes imitate the texture and mass of meat. We use tofu and nutritional yeast frequently but we’re not that into imitating meat that much. 

Something to keep in mind re Tofu, Seitan and Tempeh is that they’re a great protein rich mass to fill in where you’d normally use meat, but they hav no taste. At all. You have to season them like you’d season meat, marinades works excellent but I like to just add seasoning as I’m cooking. I ALWAYS use veggie stock, or vegetable based bulliong/buljong. It gives a great base flavour. Only negative thing is that it consists of a lot of sodium/salt so please use as little as possible. I normally use 1/2 teaspoon per 250g tofu. 

We use tofu more than the other two and I love to make it taste like chicken. I do that by adding veggie stock, fresh garlic, smoked paprika, and pepper. You can add all the spices you like but that normally does it. I cook it ‘dry’ meaning till it gets crunchy on the outside and remain soft on the inside. Heaven.

YOGA IG’S & YOUTUBE 

OTHER INFORMATION - SITES, IG’S  

This is a great video for those who are becoming vegan, please watch! 


@futureworldhealing 

www.vegansociety.com/resources 

Upworthy Video - Less Trash 

INFORMATIVE VIDEOS

Cowspiracy - Available on Netflix

What the Health - Available on Netflix

Before the Flood

Thrive - What on Earth will it take

Forks Over Knives - Available on Netflix

Food Inc - Available on Netflix and Hulu

Simply Raw

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead - Available on Netflix

Vegucated - Available on Netflix

Live & Let Live - Available on Netflix

Food Matters - Available on Netflix

Meat the Truth


VIDEOS THAT WILL ‘MAKE YOU VEGAN’

The videos you’ve heard so many horrific things about, the worst being that they present the reality of factory farmed animals and animals used for entertainment. I’m not here to push them in your face, but I’m listing them here should you feel ready to watch them.

Earthlings

Blackfish

The Cove

The purpose of this text was to make a subjective description of what it can be like going vegan. There might have been things I’ve forgotten to mention or things you didn’t understand, and if so, you should ask me about it. There might also be things here you don’t agree with and that’s totally cool! There’s no rules to this, and your experience with veganism might be quite different from mine, I’m always curious to learn more so I’m happy if you’d like to share.
If only just one person learnt something, or in general got something out of this text, it was totally worth the time writing. There are definitely more informative references to all my claims, and I hope to re collect them to place here, hopefully I will in the future but for now I hope this helps and I hope you explore foods in a delicious and healthy way that works great for you. Happy 2017!

D x


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