Four days down...

So, a few cups of black tea down (I tried adding soya milk but I just find it too sickly!) and vegan life is going well. Aside from the frustrations I found when doing this last year for a month (like when you are REALLY hungry and you’re out and about - trying to find a vegan snack which doesn’t require cooking or some form of preparation and isn’t bread, houmous or fruit is pretty hard!), I am actually quite enjoying it!

Apart from not eating all the non-vegan foods, it has made me think about the impacts of other areas of my life – not using the car when I don’t need to, and do I really need that bar of chocolate that I would usually convince myself was necessary? Probably not. A bit of self-constraint and taking the time to think things through is actually very enlightening.

Then the element of people asking you why is also interesting (though I really wish I knew more facts to back up my potentially ungrounded assumptions...) – I’ve just been grilled by my dad as to why veganism is any better than vegetarianism, and why fish is not acceptable, how importing specialist vegan foods would be ‘better’ than eating locally produced meat (or the example he used being ‘if we had chickens in our garden’) and so on and so on. I definitely need to find out more to be able to answer these questions well! So thanks Hayley for your latest post about the flights – very helpful. Any other such posts are more than welcome and I’ll try and add some myself!

The way I’ve defended it so far is that veganism is just one way to lead a more sustainable life, but obviously it doesn’t solve everything and, were I to make a permanent lifestyle change I would definitely want to look into other options to convince myself that I had chosen then most impactful option.