I am Vegan

I have been vegan for eighteen years and I have heard it all. Some genuine interest, others argumentative as if my own choice of eating is somehow a reflection on them as a person. When I first started it hurt me, now I don't care. But I do care about what my food, where it comes from and what it will do to my body. So if you are thinking of becoming vegan, you are bound to hit a few icebergs if others, family or friends, don't agree or understand your reasons. So educate yourself before you undertake any kind of change. No one likes their choices questioned, no one wants to see animals suffer - and no one likes a vegan bore, so set the example. I have mastered the life-changing art of not giving a f**k, while secretly wishing people would just stop and think about how important it is to make the world a better place to improve not just the lives of the people around us, but the animals too. We owe it to ourselves and this beautiful, brilliant blue planet that is teeming with life. A paradise, fragile.