Bringing Vegetarianism to the People (That`s You!)

I have been a vegetarian for 30 years now! To celebrate this event, I`m starting this blog to help anyone make the transition to vegetarianism. I`m not one of these preachy vegetarians...at least I don`t think I am! 

However, people ask me all the time how they can integrate vegetarian food into their life. To me, it`s so normal to eat this way since I have never really cooked meat.

My Mom tells me that in the shopping cart as she was pushing me along at the grocery store I used to question everything she put in the basket, especially if it looked like dead animal parts. I asked: Mom, is that a dead pig? She would say: Don`t worry Sophie, it`s just Pork, you like pork.

Well, that worked on and off until the age of 10 although she says she had to do some quick thinking on numerous occasions to change my focus off the dead cow my Dad would cook up on the BBQ as steak and the chicken`s wings we ate on Friday nights. But there is no way she could get me to cook up the flesh foods. I preferred baking at that age.

At the age of 10, we went on a family vacation that would be a turning point in my life and change my way of eating forever..and my sister`s too. One night while we were in Prince Edward Island in the maritime provinces of Canada, my parents bought lobster to cook up at our campground site. When my Dad threw  the live lobster in the boiling water to prepare supper, the lobster of course began his mournful wail. At that moment, it hit me! We were eating a live being that had donated his life to feed us. From that moment on, my sister and I refused to eat animals, ever again.

There are SO Many things to eat besides dead animals! The plant world is filled with hundreds of thousands of possible meal ideas and I intend to share my favorites with you through this blog. I want to show you that it`s not that hard to eat vegetarian. As a matter of fact, you probably already eat some vegetarian meals every day without even realizing it!

Let me make something clear before we get started... You don`t have to become vegetarian all at once if you think that is too much for you. You can become a flexitarian at first if that appeals to you. So eat vegetarian once or twice a week for one or two whole days and progress from there... The less meat you eat, the more animals you will save.

Did you know that by quitting the meat habit, you can save 95 animals a year. That`s right! You heard me... 95 animals will be allowed to live a peaceful life because of your change in diet.
I don`t know about you, but that gives me shivers!

And so, my goal is to help 10,527 people become vegetarian and save 1,000,000 animals. Call it my New Year`s Resolution for 2012.
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