...how long they've been veg*n? I never really understood it. People ask me all the time how long I've been a vegetarian and I have absolutely no idea. Is it like a rebirth or something and people keep the date handy? O_O I just never saw the use for it.
Excuse me, whoever new york state of mind is:
veg*n is an abbreviation that stands for both vegan and vegetarian. They both begin with "veg" and end with "n", okay? Educate yourself next time.
Vegan_Mom
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January 7, 2006 I smoked my last cigarette. (Many former smokers could tell you when they smoked their last cigarette.) A couple of months later, I ceased eating meat. I remember the last time I ate steak (and I think meat altogether) because my husband and I went to his favorite steak restaurant for his birthday, on his birthday. (I could barely eat it it as I felt guilty and disgusted.) Later that summer, I became vegan. I don't know when, just that it was still warm. I quit smoking and eating meat and getting more active because I was becoming educated and aware of what I was and was not doing to my body and what meat eating did and did not do to the earth I believe that God gave to us to care for. (I was raised being "green" before it was even a pop culture adjective. Becoming vegetarian, and eventually vegan, just went with that for me.)
As for the "veg*n" spelling, that is the word that covers both "vegetarian" and "vegan".
VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps!
I can only speak for myself, and I compare it to an alcoholic giving up booze or a smoker giving up cigarettes. When I went veg, I kicked a lifelong (socially acceptable) addiction. Perhaps some of us do it the same way people on the wagon talk about how long they've been "clean".
I remember the date I went vegetarian--January 4, 2002. I just wish I could remember the date I went vegan; I only remember it was a few months later.
Little boy~Go veg!
I have no idea of the date I went vegan and it was recent. People ALWAYS ask "how long have you been vegan?" I just went back to look at the question for advice I asked when I first started and it says about 10 months ago. So I go by that lol. I think it was around March 2010. But I was too focused on the animals and learning, I forgot to keep track of that I guess.
Emily
Most questions simply ask "how long have you been...". I remember simply because I was ten years old when I switched over to vegan eating, and that leaves very easy math for me to say "about 14 years". Do I remember what day/month it was? No. That's why I don't say (and I haven't heard anyone say) "14 years, six months and four days". This is not AA. We simply give estimations when people ask how long we've been vegetarian/vegan, because some do indeed wonder whether it is something that is maintainable for the long-term, or whether there are "road blocks" to deal with within certain time-frames of transitioning their diet.
J
I don't really "keep track" of it, I just know I went Vegetarian on November 1st, 2004 because it was on a bet to go one month without any meat--My grandma didn't think I could go one week without chicken and tempers escalated, so we made the bet, lol. I know I went Vegan in the Fall/Winter of 2009/10 'cause it was so recent. But I don't have an exact date for that as it wasn't an overnight thing.