Shouting about the disgrace of our society. We need to face upto the fact that killing animals is just unacceptable. Do something worthwhile today. Be vegan.
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 live in Northern Norway where veganism is extremely unusual. Originally from England my husband and I moved here in 2004 and since then have had two amusing children, set up a small media business and I have recently opened my first yoga studio.
I believe veganism is the only way to live in peace.
I used to eat meat, wear leather and basically had the same contempt for animals which I see on a daily basis everywhere I look. I became a vegetarian after seeing newborn lambs prancing around and not wanting to be responsible for them being murdered. I became a vegan when I was thinking of breastfeeding my son and finally understood what the dairy industry is all about. What I know now, I did not know then. No longer living in ignorance, I have no option but to write this blog.
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