Why are you vegan?

A massive topic, I feel very passionate about and I get asked it quite often. When new people come into my life soon enough food is either offered or I get asked if I have tried the new restaurant or food product promoted. It is just as common as being asked if you saw the programme on television last night which naturally leads to people asking why we don't have a television!

My reason for being a vegan is simple, I love animals. I admit that I truly struggle to understand how anyone can eat the dead body of another being. There you go plain and simple nothing fancy about it, if the meal offered has ever had a beating heart I cannot bring myself to eat it. I do not see a lovely steak with buttery mushrooms I see a part of a dead body on a plate which I do not want to eat.

I cannot understand how people can cuddle up to their cats of an evening on the sofa showing love and affection whilst they have had chicken casserole for tea. I see no difference between the life of a cat and the life of a chicken.

When social media goes mad as a zoo or hunter has killed a gorilla, lion or zebra for example I get annoyed knowing three quarters of my friends who are out raged by this one death eat the flesh of hundreds of animals each and every year without any thought of the animals right to life. I cannot see the sense in this and oh my the people who call themselves 'animals lovers' well how can this be?

Now the next part always goes along the lines of, 'Well an animal isn't killed for milk?', no there isn't flesh of an animal in milk and milk products but lets put it this way - How would people react if I bottled my breast milk and fed it to my dog? If I kept having babies but instead of feeding my babies fed my dog? Would that be seen as 'normal' because like it or not that is what we are doing, drinking another animals breast milk. That's without looking into the fact calves are taken from their mothers for us to have that milk, that the cows are impregnated over and over again each time after the physical stress they then grieve for their child taken from them on a constant loop until it is seen they are too old to produce so they are killed for their flesh. All so we can have some milk, cream and cheese when there are plenty of other ways of making such products.

Just think about that for a moment. Truly see what is on your plate, is taste worth more than a life?