JUNK FOOD VEGANS and FRENEMIES

There has been much debate over the blogsphere on what makes a vegan a vegan. Some yell out the love of animals, while others scream health, health, health!!!!
I am somewhere in between.

I love animals, I do not want to see an animal hurt or abused. I do not want to have to think about where my food comes from and has it been neglected or tortured. Therefore in my opinion I am a vegan. I came to veganism through my disease. I have been told I am not a true vegan because I did not become this way on my own merit. I say that is ridiculous.

In my opinion it really does not matter how we all got here, it just matters that we are here and that we stick together, because there are alot of big bad companies out there trying to undo the changes we are making.

Here is where I either make sense or piss people off....
You all know I pull no punches and that I say what comes from my heart, so I hope that no one takes this personally, as I am not attacking anyone of you, just stating facts.

VEGANISM is just as bad for you as meat eating if done wrong. The entire picture above me is vegan, it has as much saturated fat as a cheeseburger if eaten in the right quantities and can cause diabetes's and heart disease. Some people think that due to them not eating meat and being vegan they can load up on garbage and be healthy. THAT is so not true...

I know alot of obese vegans, hell I was one one of them. I know what can happen if you still eat the same things you ate before coming vegan.

It doesn't matter if you take away meat, you will find a substitute. Gravy can be made vegan. Hell, I made Chicken and dumplings vegan remember?

Having a family and transitioning into veganism is hard. It is a safe bet to make foods they will remember eating as a meat eater. Macaroni and cheese, pizza and Boca burgers come into play when you start out. But after being a vegan for years there has to be a point when you go.....I CAN DO BETTER!

People try to lure you away from, and some people try to drag you deeper into veganism. It really is your own decision whether or not if you want to save animals and be healthy. There should be no separation of the two. IMO, health should be on every ones mind. If you have children, there should be no way you would feed your child something that will kill them 30 years down the road.

If you do not know how to prepare healthy vegan, go buy a cookbook, if you cannot afford a cookbook, go to the library, there are hundreds of vegan cookbooks there.

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I am not going to spout that my way of eating is better, I am not going to say that I do not like junk food or home style cooking. I love gravy, and "meat loafs" I adore rice dream and cookies, and cakes and candy.

But, I have to be a role model for my children. Statistically America is more unhealthy now than ever before in history. That is crazy!
I can understand people in the 1950's not knowing about health, they were led around like cattle back then, but today with everything we know and everything we have seen over the past decade as far as disease is concerned, WE should be the healthiest people on the planet.

Next discussion....

FRENEMIES

People smile in your face when you say you are going vegan, then they are going to pat you on the back and say good job and we support you....

Until....they feel threatened by your choices.

We all have felt the sting of rejection from our friends and loved ones over the changes we made when going vegan. Should we still feel the sting within our own community?

Should we create a wall of indifference between what a true vegan and a false vegan should be?

Can we not meet in the middle and say hey, I like you, you are like me and we eat the same things!

I am a health vegan...I choose my path with the greatest of care. I stayed up late reading about veganism and what that would entail. I listened to other vegans talk about the cruelties inflicted on helpless animals and the atrocities that our own society commits in the name of food production.

I have watched and will continue to watch the video's of the crimes against animals as a reminder that I can make a difference.

But....I also know that experiments on animals save people. They cure people and they stop disease. I have a life threatening disease. My children have a 40% chance of carrying the same strain that I do and therefore could possibly contract my illness and it will end their lives prematurely too.

Can I sit here and tell you that I would not risk an animals life if it could save my own child.....NO, I cannot.

But I can tell you that when and if they legalize experiments on people that I would be the first on at the door to sign up. I would risk my self to save someone else.

If we, as human beings can stop the inhumane torture of any creature shouldn't we be willing to step up?

I support stem cell research on people, I also support abortion for children and women of rape and incest.

We are all different. We all make our own choices in this life. Let us not step away from each other and turn our backs on our own KIND. We are all in this together.

Healthy or fat, vegan or vegetarian, black, white, American, or Israeli.

Inside we all look the same.

I do not want to separate the classes of vegetarians. I also do not want to call myself something different so I can appease a set group of people.

I will do whatever is in my power to stop an uprising amongst our family. Because that is what we are. We are our own nuclear family set up in blogdom, visiting and sharing our recipes, talking to each other about our lives and dreams for our families. Very picturesque, don't you think?

I accept all of you.

EVERYONE SHOULD ACCEPT EACH OTHER.

There I have said my peace.

If I offended anyone It was not my intention. I have not spoken out directly about anyone in our community. It was not my intention to start any wars within the community either.