Vegan Lifestyle - Here We Come!

So, Michael & I have been practicing vegetarians for over a month now.  To be specific, we are lacto vegetarians.  Our ultimate goal (or at least, my ultimate goal, & I'm just dragging him along) is to go full-time vegan.

What prompted this change from this once, current & future eating machine???  My love of dogs & a simple book called, "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals".  At work, we see many free books ranging from one end of the spectrum to the other.  I spotted this book & honestly thought that it was going to be about how to treat animals & I would learn new ways to coexist with my darling Oscar.  Instead, this book was about animal welfare, in terms of how they are raised and slain for food.  I was in too deep before I understood just what I was reading - not forgetting that Karen Dawn wrote a wonderfully captivating book.

By the time I was done, I was sold & a vegetarian was born.  God love Michael - he's embraced it as well.  He has his own mind (for sure) but this issue we agree 100% on.  So, on September 11, 2008, I last ate meat.

Ironically enough, Oscar's still a carnivore.  As most of you know, Oscar would just sniff tofu and repay me by throwing up everywhere.  Like mother, like doggy...