About

My name is Jill Forrest and I am a 34 year old vegan. I was a meat eater until the age of 25 when living in the countryside raised my awareness of animal slaughter. After seeing newborn lambs springing around the opposite field I went to my mothers for Sunday lunch to be served lamb. I could not eat it. My reasoning them told me I must live as a vegetarian, actually a pesco vegetarian as I continued to eat fish. When I was pregnant with my first child in 2005 I gave up the fish after a discussion with someone regarding low fishing stocks. As I was nursing my second child in 2007, I listened to a podcast by Colleen Patrick-Godreau (Vegetarian Food for Thought) and from that moment gave up dairy, mainly due to linking myself as a nursing mother with the dairy cows producing milk for young that are routinely killed so humans can have it.

I lived in Northern Norway for 6 years where veganism is extremely unusual but it taught me how to cook - well, a little bit! Originally from England my husband and I moved there in 2004 and since then had had two amusing children, set up a small media business and opened my first yoga studio.

In Dec 2009, we moved back to the UK and now live in Derbyshire where the animals are beautiful to watch, always with a tinge of sadness. People I meet still think it’s strange I am a vegan. I often hear comments like ‘that’s not proper food’, or just plain ‘yuck’. All I will say to those people is please read the blog.

I believe veganism is the only way to live in peace.