My Vegan Beginning

Mason Sabre
Aug 31, 2018 · Unlisted

It feels weird to call this a journey with veganism, because I am only at the start of my trip, but I can assure you, I have bought a one-way ticket.

Veganism is something that has been on my mind for a few years, for both the ethical issues and my own health. I never really took the leap because I believed it to be something hard, something weird and something expensive. I guess I just wasn’t ready for it, because I knew deep down my own excuses we bogus. One of my later excuses was that it’s too hard in my house with other meat-eaters and I’ll have to cook several meals.

However, gradually over the last few weeks, I have cut out things, no cheese, no butter … I already drank almond milk, so that didn’t matter, and then meat. I don’t know what happened to me, it was like a shift in my heads I didn’t realise had happened.

Last week, I was standing in McDonalds (not buying anything) and waiting for my other half to use the bathroom, and all around me were families, children, parents, stuffing their faces with chicken nuggets, burgers, fries. I suddenly felt like Neo in the film the matrix.

You know the scene where he suddenly gets it? Where he sees the world for the controlled engine it is and that all people are just drones? That was what it felt like for me. All these people, shovelling shit into their mouths. Parents feeding their children garbage. Not just because it is fast-food, but the meat. I had read some of the processes that make meat, and also what it does to the body, and it felt to me like I was standing in a room and all of these people were eating poison. Maybe that sounds extreme, but not to me.

If you want a real eye-opener, watch, What the Health. It is on Netflix, and Forks over Knives. And no, it isn’t some vegan show you the slaughter housething. It is about health and what we don’t realise, and how all of these companies and big industries get us to eat stuff that makes us sick. And how our very illnesses fund pharmacies.

I swear, since going vegan, so many things in my body feel 100% better. And taste is changing too. Maybe that sounds weird, but today, I was working and sitting in my car to take a break. I had chopped some strawberries and thrown some blueberries into a tub, and they tasted amazing. Like something had changed. It has to be the food change. Sort of like quitting smoking.

I used to smoke 30 a day. I think it was 2011 that I quit. And people always say when you quit, a sense of smell increases, things taste better, and it is true. But what if some foods we believe are good, do the same? That could be why everything just tastes so great lately.

It feels good, though, both ethically and physically, and that is what matters. To me anyway.

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Mason Sabre

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Mason is an author and a teacher. he loves to write and read and will always be a life-long learner. https://www.patreon.com/masonsabre

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