About

My name is Jill Phillips and I am a 37 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 I now live in Cheshire 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.