"Konrad Lorenz, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on animals, understood the plight of farmed chickens. He wrote that 'the worst torture to which a battery hen is exposed is the inability to retire somewhere for the laying act. For the person who knows something about animals it is truly heart-rending to watch how a chicken tried again and again to crawl beneath her fellow cage mates to search there in vain for cover.' " - Excerpt from "The Face on Your Plate" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
After reading that passage and bawling like a baby, I realized that I needed to take the plunge and become vegan. I have been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for the past 10 years, and have been completely ignorant to the cruelty chickens and dairy cows endure. I became a vegetarian for animal rights reasons and it would be hypocritical of me to turn a blind eye to this and continue to eat eggs, cheese, and other dairy products.
It all started with reading an article from Compassion Over Killing (http://www.cok.net/) and realizing "Free Range" did not mean what you would THINK it meant! I started feeling guilty about buying and eating eggs. After reading "The Face on Your Plate" it was over. Veganism here I come!
So I decided to start this blog, because as a vegan virgin, everything is new and sometimes you just don't know what to do or where to start!
I am going to rate all the vegan foods I am going to gobble up, what's good and what's not so good, as well as vegan restaurants and recipes. This is also where I am going to post all the vegan cakes I will be testing out because I have decided to phase Sweet Catastrophe to be completely vegan by 2010!
I know many people think being vegan is unhealthy or tastes like ca-ca and I want to prove them wrong :) Hopefully it may open the eyes of some meat eaters and help vegans be deliciously satisfied!
October 1st is the big day!
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