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Permalink Reply by Martha Diaz on April 3, 2008 at 11:14am

When I was 19 years old I decided to stop eating meat. Little did I realize how difficult that decision was for me. It was like I had an argument with two voices in my head.. . . ."I am going to stop eating meat) (animals)
"you can't we've always eatten meat". . . and on and on, and finally the animal voice won!!

Another difficult part was for everyone around me (family and friends) understanding my reasons and respecting them. Mind you this was before I ever knew about the "plights" of the animal kingdom to any detail. One more issue of difficulity was then there were no food alternatives at stores or restaurants. To top it off, on a flight I would always forget to mention to the flight attendents and would sometimes have to wait until the end of the serving of the meal to get left over salads or they would give theirs up for me. Ha, yah "THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND I THOUGHT WOULD NEVER END."

I am happy to say all of that is in the past and I am happy and healthy 61 year old with a great life with my family (Dad 95 and Mom 88) friends.

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Permalink Reply by Tina Volpe on April 9, 2008 at 8:22am

Hi Martha,

Thanks for your story, it's great, however, if you could elaborate a little, and perhaps go into the changes you experienced, in health, spiritual and compassion levels, that would be awesome!

Thanks again. You could email me at: books at fastfoodcraze dot com, if you would - I'll let you know when your story, in my new book, is published, ok!

Tina Volpe

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Permalink Reply by pradtf on April 3, 2008 at 4:31pm

tina,

another place you might consider asking is the forum at http://veganpeace.org
i'm sure wanda who runs the place and others there will be happy to participate.

in friendship,
prad

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