The epiphany.

Tonight, as I was discussing how I think that vegetarians are kind of doing themselves a disservice by being a vegetarian, I had an epiphany.

Over the past couple of years, there are times that I am eating meat when I start to almost mentally gag. Sometimes it's the consistency, sometimes it's knowing how that food got on my plate (and inevitably in my mouth). I have often thought about becoming a vegetarian, but the idea of a whole diet change has always scared me away.

Tonight, however, the idea of becoming a vegetarian doesn't scare me. It makes me want to go to the grocery store, and purchase all the items that I'm definitely going to need to make this work. Because of the amount of veggies I already eat, the switch won't be too hard for me. I will need to switch milks and such, but nothing too scary.

I have decided, that for now, I will become a lacto-ovo vegetarian. Maybe sometime in the future I will switch to simply being a lacto vegetarian. I'm a big fan of dairy, so cutting that out of my diet would be pure torture. However, cutting out the meats won't be detrimental in the least. Replacing meats for legumes seems reasonable enough.

So, cheers to new things, and happy animals!