AND THEN, STEP BY STEP, I WENT VEGAN (AND HOW MORAL PRINCIPLES HAVE GUIDED ME)

[stefan11]

I keep discovering that my attitude to animals has never been an all or nothing proposition. That is, I never had one huge epiphany that totally shattered my world view and made me radically change my ways. Rather, I had several small epiphanies, each prompted by a very different event and each leading a step or two closer to where I am now -- a

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[snaky_poet]

OK, you've convinced me. (Been heading in that direction anyway.) What do I do about protein? Tofu, nuts .. anything else?

[stefan11]

"Protein" is a myth. If you have enough calories and most of them come with fresh vegetable (and you use beans, legumes, tofu, nuts, etc) you will automatically have enough proteins. I'm going to dig out some links to essays explaining how to do it.

Here is a good essay about it: http://www.tcolincampbell.org/courses-resources/article/muscling-out-the-meat-myth/

Also, google "The China Study" (the book by the same author) and read about what they have discovered (wiki has a great write up). Here is a wiki summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study

[snaky_poet]

Many thanks!

I do eat legumes too, and indeed am almost vegan. It's only a little step to go the whole way, and makes lots of sense to me.