Hi there my name Amiya, I made this blog to help those who wants to transition themselves to vegan diet, those who just want to be in a healthier diet, those who wants to actively help animals, those who have their realization intertwined with this practice, those who just wanna feel sexier, those who are easily bloated and the list goes on.. Transitioning to a New diet is not an easy thing to do, I saw people who tried to get into the diet because it gives them an appealing start to be more caring to our planet but even how hard they tried there are lot's of things pulling them out of the practice. I've been there, I was not born vegan and I'm a food enthusiast, I used to spread loads of animal fats around my lips and also had my nape aching after eating like a scavenger in a party when I was a kid and enjoyed all because of my psychological setting that everybody loves it why cant I?
I was born close to animals because my Dad loves dogs and we used to have many fighter roosters, and that made me question so many things including why I'm eating animals such as pig,fish,beef,chicken and some sea animals. I can even remember the first time I ever saw a live pig a big one at the farm, It stinks but I still find it cute that's why I gave him/her any leaf I can grab and it just chews on it, then the next day I saw a vehicle carrying it inside a cage. I asked my mom where are they taking the pig? my mom said of course they'll take it to the market it's life is meant to be our meat. I didn't answered back I am still questioning yet I know I felt sad, It was alive just like last night and I was feeding it and as a child I find it uneasy to just realize how somebody just alive and moving with blood and feelings just easily die all because of humans rationality.
I grew up with animals close to me, we always have a dog and I also remember how I had my affection towards chickens that's when I always pick a favorite rooster from my Dad's fighters, I always pick the yellow or white because they are less wilder, and I'll be in charge of feeding my fave and I also feel sad each time my rooster dies from a fight and again I kept on questioning that was like me as a nine year old kid, there are so many animal encounter stories I had from a wounded bird to a lost kitten from up to last year but I know I don't need to write it one by one, that's just me expressing how I felt like this is my calling to stop enjoying munching on animal flesh.
That was year 2004 when I met my friend Sid who is the first vegan and active member of PETA I've encountered, I ridiculed his diet just for fun not until he shared me some PETA Anti Animal cruelty videos and vegan rock bands Cd's, In the video we watched at our friends place I saw how the cows,pigs and chickens was murdered It made me feel mildly traumatized and stopped eating meat for some time, but I only knew few recipe it's usually congie and tofu that I eat which makes me feel sick so I shifted to a lesser cruelty (knowing that fish and chickens are not mammals having consciousness far from humans) It's really hard to be in the transition stage you just cant help not to crave for meat specially me who used to really love eating them and yes I knew I gotta seek for me to find, and I have to kill my mind set but to kill it slowly just like withdrawing oneself from vices, so I was eating less meat until there came a time that my used to be mindset died just like surviving from a cancer psych. my taste buds also changed, I never knew that our mind's system is connected with everything else and affects how we perceive things. Many life scenarios happened I met a lot of vegetarian friends, some are artists and some are from a Yoga Organization. I'm thankful for all God's grace in connecting me to all those people who truly inspired me with this. To even make sure that I'm fully committed and whole hearted with my chosen diet I even tried eating my used to be fave meat dish and VOILA it was totally YUCKY I can feel the animals fats,oils and I'm feeling so guilty with the taste of blood I was totally changed I was a new born! It was like something needs to die in me so that this new me will arise. It takes discipline, and the first approach is to KNOW not to FEAR... cause when we start getting pale, skinny and weak we instantly blame the vegan diet not knowing that it was not the diet but the transition stage that makes us feel sick, it was a challenge of knowing how to get by with the transition, how to balance one's diet, making efficient research of which veggies should come in combo to cope up with all the nutrients our body needs.
So.. Bottom line I would like to share and help those who wants to be a vegetarian, I know they all have personal reasons why they find it hard, try to list all the reason down, experiment on it check if there's an alternative with it. In this blog I'll start writing recipe's which are easy to do and are tasty specially for the beginners.
ALRIGHT! BRING IT ON!
LET'S GO VEGAN!!!!
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