I've been trying to come up with answers to both my own questions and other
people's, are you vegan or vegetarian?
And to which the obvious answer is vegetarian, but I am disappointed in this
answer. I've come to see it as a failing on my part; I was always happy with vegetarianism
and always expected vegans to be a "bit weird".
Vegans are far from weird; my brief experience has shown me they are intelligent,
funny, rational and extremely passionate.
I really envy them their passion, I sort of fell into veganism. I didn't
come to it through the moral high ground; I came to it from the food
perspective. Come for the food, stay for the saving of the animals!
Which brings me to that very infamous quote
from that even more infamous movie:
"Do or do not... there is no
try." - Yoda, Star Wars
I'd eat 90% vegan (everything I cook myself) and probably about still 10%
vegetarian (when I'm out). Cruelty free/environmentally friendly products have
always been a huge deal for me, ah you found me out, and I’m secretly a tree
hugger!
The big word here is TRY, I'm trying to live a more compassionate lifestyle.
Food has become a lot easier, but I will admit to being still quite a noob when
it comes to cruelty free non-food products.
Something that once again came home to me when I attended an info session
for the local roller derby league. I had reiterated what I'd already learned, a
leather boot is the best kind of skate boot. There are loads of synthetic
versions available, usually cheaper than the leather versions and there are
starting to come on the market 100% vegan skates.
When I first became interested in derby the whole leather v non-leather
skates wouldn't have been an issue, now, I couldn't comfortably buy leather
skates, no matter how much better they might be.
While there may be no try, I feel I may be doing in a fashion, I think I may
be "doing" for some time to come before I'm actually happy with the
result.
