@ewomack At one of my checkups, my doctor told me that "quite a few people would give their right arm" to have a cholesterol level like mine; I had mentioned my vegetarian diet as part of my health information. I didn't respond, except to say that I was glad to be healthy; cardiovascular disease runs in my family, as it does in many others. (I probably should have mentioned- politely!- that they wouldn't have to do anything so drastic as amputation- all they had to do was at least cut down on all that saturated fat.)
I haven't given up hoping that more people will become veg. But sometimes when I observe the things they do that harm themselves- e.g., overeating; not getting enough exercise (this is a big problem for many people I know); alcohol use; tobacco use (this last has decreased greatly, but people still do it- and a few even start using it these days)- it's hard for me to believe they would ever worry about harming animals. One co-worker of mine once remarked that, after eating out with vegetarians and seeing what they ate, it didn't seem so strange to him: we vegetarians were eating a lot of the same things everyone else eats. Then again, vegetarianism and veganism are much more common than they used to be.
I haven't given up hoping that more people will become veg. But sometimes when I observe the things they do that harm themselves- e.g., overeating; not getting enough exercise (this is a big problem for many people I know); alcohol use; tobacco use (this last has decreased greatly, but people still do it- and a few even start using it these days)- it's hard for me to believe they would ever worry about harming animals. One co-worker of mine once remarked that, after eating out with vegetarians and seeing what they ate, it didn't seem so strange to him: we vegetarians were eating a lot of the same things everyone else eats. Then again, vegetarianism and veganism are much more common than they used to be.
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