Vegblog.org
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The Veg Blog: A weblog about veganism and vegetarianism
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About the Veg Blog
Eating meat always bothered me a little bit. Even when I was downing two Big Macs for dinner when I was in high school, something in the back of my mind was saying, "You like animals. Why are you eating them?" I didn't even know that vegetarianism existed until I was 15, when I got to know someone who became vegetarian for ethical reasons.
But even after finding out about vegetarianism, this great idea that seemed to gibe so well with my personal beliefs, I spent too many years asking how my sister, who was vegetarian for four years beginning when she was 13, was going to get enough protein. I didn't know what I was talking about, I was just repeating the only question I ever heard anyone else ask a vegetarian.
It wasn't until a number of years later that I really considered giving up meat. When I was 22, I went to Vietnam with my to-be wife and her mother. One of my main interests in Vietnam was experiencing CaoDaiism firsthand, a virtually unknown religion (to westerners) that I studied in college. When we made a trip to Tay Ninh, the heart of the Cao Dai religion, we visited the family of Dr. Hum Duc Bui, a Cao Daiist friend of mine in the United States. They fed us an amazing three-course feast of vegetarian food. At the time, I was still a hardcore meat eater, but in my journal I wrote: "We arrived [at the house] and Truong's family (they are all CaoDaiists) treated us to a wonderful three-course vegetarian dinner—all 16 of us!" The memory of how good the vegetarian food was, to the point of me not caring that there wasn't any meat in it, stuck with me.
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