It all began with a book i read "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran. Ever since i was about 11 or 12 i decided i wasn't eating animals. When i was 15 i moved up to Montana and became familiar with hunting and thought that was just the greatest and most natural thing because I am against factory farming, After reading that book though i decided to go all out and not eat anything that came from animals that was factory farmed. I gave up cheese, eggs, milk and meat. Some people go as far as not eating honey because it comes from bees but i didn't go that extreme. After being introduced to hunting and farming life when i moved to Montana i decided to eat meat and eggs but buy them from local farmers. Being a vegan in Montana is highly criticized and most people don't want to hear a word that comes out of your mouth after you say that you don't eat meat. I unlike most vegans don't believe that eating animals is wrong i just believe that the treatment of putting animals in small cages and feeding them hormones is unnatural and unhealthy. So being a vegan has played a very huge part in my life and informed me about farming, hunting and eating animals in general that i knew nothing about. When i first decided not to eat meat it was all based on the thought that killing and eating animals was wrong but as i got older my belief started to change and i decided that i felt that eating animals is a natural thing i just don't like the system we have about going about. And decided that small farms and hunting is the way I am striving to support.
Great subject and let me just say good for you. The believes one person has should not be judged. This topic would be good to write on but the timeline and is really vague. Suggestion if you want to do this topic is really focus on a specific point maybe what changed your believes when you moved to MT over the many years of being a Vegan.
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