Catalysts
Posted by Anna1111 on Dec 02, 2010 · Member since Dec 2006 · 517 posts
Just wondering, a lot of people ask "Why are you veg*n?" but my question is a little different. What was the catalyst that motivated you to make the switch. A book, a movie, a conversation, a certain meal?
For me, it was reading "The China Study"
What was your experience?
284 mg/dL cholesterol
colitis
Dairy making me feel sick
Interesting that a lot of your tipping points are health-related. I read the Why Vegan pamphlet and decided to start the switch the next day.
i wanted to see if i could do it.
The idea was brought to the forefront of my head by feeling sick. I was already vegetarian (brought up that way, so my inital catalyst was my parents). I had thought it over before and had "vegan weeks" without real commitment. Feeling ill was the thing that made me think seriously, do some research, and realise it was for me.
you were raised vegetarian?! luckyyy
I remember talking to my best friend when I was about 14 and we both agreed that veganism was the ultimate goal for us (we'd both been vegetarian from ~11yrs old). We both found it really strange that one of our other veggie friends had no intention of becoming vegan....it just seemed so logical.
I tried going vegan once before I finally did and I'm not sure why I failed. I think the final trigger for me was kind of related to eating problems and a way of restricting my eating, but the true desire was there to begin with anyway.
It was mostly animal rights reasons when I first became vegan, but it's so much more now.
What I learned at university about factory farming made me think about my choices and how I could make better ones, so i did. :)