Hi everyone,
I'm new to this.
My journey started roughly 60 days ago when I decided that eating KFC 5 times a week was "probably unhealthy". I decided to cut all fast food and soon, fell in love with nutrition. As a means to explore other foods, I decided to cut out meat, "restricting" my choices... Or so I thought. I searched for and consequently found TONNES of brilliant recipes and on the way bumped into facts and figures about the environment.
I was an ignorant, trolling, tool. Plain and simple. I facepalm at how I allegedly "knew where meat came from but would rather not be anemic and plus, we're on the top of the food chain, trollolololol"
I was certain that this would only be 30 days then I'd go back.
Soon, I found that like many people, I was lactose intolerant. I cut out dairy and began looking at vegan recipes and nutrition. I began seeing all of the lies and "left-out truth" of the industries. The suffering and the wastefulness was just appalling. Suddenly, it just made sense to live cruelty free. For myself, for the environment, for the animals.
I am still in somewhat of a "transition" period, using up all of my products that I did not know came from animal testing companies - The logic behind this is because ethically, to help the globe, tossing out a half used product, only to create a demand for a similar product - doesn't make sense to me. It's only hurting my wallet and the environment, the company already has my money. It's the same if I accidentally purchase something with animal product in it (I'm getting better at spotting "hidden" animal products in foods now) I do my research, learn from it and move on. Being human, I make mistakes. Some would as such, consider me not a vegan, that's fine. I'm not overly protective of my labels. I just don't want people feeding or giving me animal products - labeling myself 'vegan' stops this from happening. I don't see it as an exclusive club.
One thing you will know from this post, I LOVE writing and usually end up posting border-line rant-like posts. I don't mean to, there's just a lot of information to cover D:
Hmmm... I'm from Brisbane (South side), I'm 19, I'm nerdy. I work from home and next year start university/college. (I graduated at 16, took 3 gap years... But I think that's fair since I'm going back for another 9-12!) Studying medicine to hopefully one day end up as a medical examiner (coroner). I enjoy playing video games, going for walks and exploring in Brisbane, vegan cooking and as of late... Making vegan beauty products using the power of science!
Long post is long. Redundant statement is redundant. I think I'll hit submit now.
