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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (89726)	11/27/2004 11:54:24 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

It is very, very sweet of you to have considered becoming a vegan, Sidney. I agree that it takes time to cook most vegetarian and vegan food. I am not sure what part of the country you live in. The fairly big cities now have grocery stores that sell a lot of vegan and vegetarian products, even really good frozen dinners and entrees. Because of demand, there is a lot wider variety of already prepared food items available. If you have a Wild Oats or Whole Foods store near you, those stores have lots of good food. In my town there are lots of vegetarian and vegan friendly restaurants, bars and food carts, so it is really easy. It might be harder in other areas of the country, but I don't really know because I haven't ever been there. Not everyone is cut out to be a vegetarian or a vegan. What I see is lots of people eating less meat, and when they do eat meat, they buy organic meat that was raised in a humane environment, not on a factory farm. Any time you don't eat meat you're saving a life, though, and that is wonderful, I think. If you choose to buy organic cheese, eggs and milk, that is also sweet and wonderful because the cows and chickens have happier lives. These foods don't have as many nasty hormones and antibiotics in them, either, which is healthier for you. Most people don't know that white (table) sugar is often processed through bone char--the bones of cows--to refine it. That is why most vegans don't use white sugar. Trader Joe's has great organic sugar and also organic powdered sugar that are processed without bone char. Hain's, a natural food brand, also makes sugar, brown sugar and powdered sugar that are organic and not bone-char refined. vrg.org