The First Day... :P

So today I started the actual quest to end my contribution to animal cruelty. I realised just how much I am going to have to give up, and I was a little concerned, because I didn't realise that I'd have to give up not only of course milk and eggs (and products made using them ex. cheese) but also wool, my shampoo, my lip gloss, and ingrediants found in certain foods that might not seem unvegan, but are. So at first I freaked, 'cause I doubted if I'd ever actually remember every thing to avoid, but my fantastic friend helped me out tons and collected a bunch of helpful links. Enjoy!


http://shopcrueltyfree.peta2.com/index.aspx This link will lead you to a Peta2 page that will tell you a ton of companies that don't test on animals

http://www.veganessentials.com/ This link is supreme because it gives links everyday products that are vegan (ex. shampoo, clothes, vitamins ect...)

http://www.eyeslipsface.com/studio A link to cosmetic products NOTE: only studio brand stuff is vegan!)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/insanestar/VeganList.jpg a link to chemicals to avoid when you're a vegan)

http://streetteam.peta2.com/public/folder_view.cfm?pageid=341&option=view_thread&postid=322860&folderid=5140 a link to a forum post about a great cheap vegan grocery list

http://megantalks.wordpress.com this is megans blog, my "dear friend" and "fantastic friend" she gives me all these helpful links :PPP

www.peta2.com Peta is a great resource for ANYone interested in animal rights. defo go there for articles and information about animal rights, also, the forums have a lot of good information about animal rights issues, and are posted by fellow animal rights activists (aras as we call ourselves :P)

Silly Meat-Eaters...x]

As a vegetarian, ya hear a lot of great stuff. This is just a fun list of things said to me and friends of mine, and responces:

~Silly meat-eater: "Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?"
my responce: (... there really isn't any responce great enough for that question...)

~Silly meat-eater: "You'd never survive in a hunter-gatherer society."
my responce: ( haha.. well, that's true, but this is the Western hemisphere... in the 21 century... so I'm golden.. no hunting and gathering for me :P)

~Silly meat-eater: "Well... I don't eat [ a certian type of meat] or [ a different type]... does that count?"
my responce: (not as a vegetarian {because the person still ate certain types of meat}... but ya get points for not supporting those specific industries.)

~Silly meat-eater: "Do you eat eggs?"
my responce: (although it might be confusing, only vegans don't eat animal products, and I'm a vegetarian { at the time that was asked I wasn't vegan})

~Silly meat-eater: "That's insane! I could never do that!!"
my responce: (well... I haven't eaten meat in years.. sooo... yea ya can, you just don't want to ;] )

~Silly meat-eater: "What's the point? You don't make a difference."
my responce: (actually, vegetarians and vegans do cut down the amount of animals needed to be killed/ used. AAAAnd... I make a difference to every animal I don't eat. Here's a cute story a neighbor told me, made me feel accomplished. There was once a storm and many starfish were thrown from the sea onto the beach. A boy went along the beach and threw as many of the starfish back into the sea as possible. A man stopped him and ask, "Why are you doing that? You won't be able to save them all, so throwing a couple back doesn't make a difference."
The boy looked at the man and said as he threw another back to the ocean, "Well, it made a difference to that starfish." That's the general jist of the story as I remember it, no copy right intended... I just don't know where my neighbor got that story....)

Those were just a couple that I remember.. thanks for reading :]

The Quest Begins... :]

As long as there are people, there will be discrimination. As long as there are possessions, there will be greed. As long as there are animals, there will be cruelty. I wish I could say otherwise, but that'd be a lie. I went vegetarian somewhere around Thanksgiving of 7th grade (I'm now in the second semester of 9th grade) to simply be able to know that I didn't contribute as much to that cruelty. Today I decided to become a vegan (more about that a little later...) I guess I'm starting this blog to share my vegan views, and my quest to support as little animal cruelty as possible. A teacher of a dear friend of mine once said, " We're all going to die, so recite a poem." and she did (recite a poem, not die!) and I guess I'm going to instead write a blog, so here I go...