Plant based for the environment, my health and the animals

Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would go plant based but here I am today, almost five years in!

I always looked down on vegans and vegetarians, making silly jokes about them and then I watched a film called What the health (watch the trailer here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m8WwSUcUPE

To be honest, the film has some flaws and they are well documented (A good article to read from Time: http://time.com/4897133/vegan-netflix-what-the-health/ but oh boy, did it change the way I look at things!

I felt deceived; I have been lied to all my life! Now was the time for action, so I stopped eating meat, poultry and fish. I didn't do it out of love for the animals but purely for health reasons. Slowly but surely over the last year my eyes started opening to the suffering of sentient beings. Some of my friends turned vegan in the last year and have flooded my social media news-feeds with videos and clips of animal suffering, just so that we can stuff our faces, get fat, get sick and die. And then came the realisation that we as humans are actually destroying our world, our only world, with what we eat! How stupid are we?

After giving up eating animals I started looking at animal derived products in my diet. Then I realised that the diary industry is the biggest culprit. I started trying out all the different varieties of milk: almond, cashew, coconut, rice etc. I finally settled on soy milk. I must say it took some time to get used to but now I cannot imagine having my coffee without it. Eggs were very easy to let go, I have always been grossed out by them and scared that I will find a chicken embryo in my breakfast. 

Cheese has by far been the hardest to give up and I literally cringe when I see righteous vegans dissing vegetarians about their cheese habits. They will come around. I just realised that I do not want to support the diary industry anymore - and so I have stopped. Now I order pizza without cheese because I don't particularly like vegan cheese, and honestly it tastes just as good. Don't knock it till you try it!

Going plant based has made me think of what I put in my body and I have never felt better physically and emotionally.