Vegan? What? How? Why?

It all started with a book...

That's how most things in my life start...

By reading something...I blame my glorious parents and all their books strewn around my childhood home.

So I read a book and in this book ... now it's a very serious book ... it's pretty deep sometimes funny but mind bending for sure .... anyhoo ... in this glorious book somewhere while I was reading I decided:

Animals have souls just like I have a soul - we are made from the same cosmic stuff - we are no different.  I am no different than any animal on the planet soul - wise.

And in the next breath I thought this:

I cannot eat my animal friends if we are one .... cosmic soul-wise and stuff.

This my was mind bending, life changing, soul searching crazy cosmic stuff!  This wasn't about health or pants size or whatever was trendy - this few minutes changed my EVERYTHING

Within minutes I was standing in front of Husband passionately declaring that I would never again eat my animal friends!  He promptly nicknamed me "Moonbeam" and went back to his own blogging.

I have a confession .... I get passionate about a lot of things .... most of those things are temporary.  So this wasn't his first time nicknaming me "Moonbeam" .... he just resurrected the nickname out of the drawer of Kelly's crazy moods.

But THIS felt different .... it felt real and doable and I just couldn't look into those brown eyes of Luke Skywalker Park - the Yorkie who has allowed me to have him live in my home - I couldn't look into those brown eyes and way down deep into his soul and chew on a chicken friend's leg.

So I became a Vegan.

That was 4 weeks ago.

Being the researcher/voracious reader that I am - since that moment in time I have devoured books* and movies* and podcasts about health and animal welfare and environmental issues. 

I have changed my food.  I am in the process of changing my home cleaning supplies to something that doesn't poison the planet.  But most of all I opened my eyes and changed my heart.  We are all One.

So there is my story ... it's a short one so far ... my Vegan journey has just begun .... and I have a feeling that it's going to be an exciting one!

*Books:

• The Imperfect Environmentalist  by Sara Gilbert
• Diet for a New America by John Robbins
• Voices of the Food Revolution by John and Ocean Robbins
• Vegan's Daily Companion by Colleen Patrick Goudreau

*Movies: 

• Earthlings   - can be seen on the linked site itself
• Forks Over Knives - I rented this from Amazon Prime
• Food, Inc - I rented this from Amazon Prime
• The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear by Gary Yourofsky - can watch it from the link or found on You Tube

*Podcasts:

• Red Radio - Vegan Banter with a Bite
• Big Fat Vegan Radio
• Main Street Vegan
• All Things Vegan
• Food For Thought