Categories: ethics
Tags: Veggie
Date: 25 February 2008 20:14:54
As of yesterday I am a vegetarian. Its been something that I've been thinking about for a long time. I don't eat a huge amount of meat anyway, and I'd often thought that I should cut it out of my diet completely. I've been doing a fair amount of reading around climate change issues recently and the more I read, the more I felt I ought to being a vegetarian, mostly for environmental reasons, but also due to animal welfare. It was reading this book which I reviewed the other week, and attending the SCM conference which pushed me to finally decide definitely. On Sunday we had to make a promise to do an action which helped something, with / for someone else (tis hard to explain without the sheet). I promised to cut my carbon emissions by becoming vegetarian and it would help people that I don't know, by making my small difference to climate change.
Coming back last night and eating lunch out today, showed me how difficult it often is to find vegetarian food when out and about. It was almost natural to pick up the ham salad sandwich, and I had to stop myself. I am still going to eat fish. I know its cheating slightly, but I love fish too much, and it makes it easier when eating out and things. And I am going to finish the meat in my freezer. Wish me luck!