Around nine years ago, I was vegan, living in a caboose and working around 30 hours a week. I made most of my meals, due to Fairfax allowing me access to plenty of farms and organic vegetables. I didn’t even eat sugar, (since most of it is sifted through animal bones) and I stayed away from bread (because it has yeast). I could tell when it was a full moon - the little bit of land the caboose inhabited didn’t have any street lamps or cars driving by (there was a long private driveway). It was similar to camping, except all the time, there was a wood-burning stove for heat and lockless doors. I had 3 cats and 3 dogs, my own binki-bunch. I cut up all my leather products and swore only to wear non-animal garments. These days my eating habits are much different - healthier for me, I’m not a vegan anymore, but my respect and love for animals has not changed.
Now I’m on a quest as a flexitarian (”a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat”) to find the most cruelty-free farms in the bay area. I have some like-minded friends who are helping me find the right places to look and I’d like to share their knowledge as well as my own. Here is an informative blog from Emily, she has been on a similar search for over a year. I’ve found some very useful info here and I plan on keeping her close for answers.
I’m overwhelmed by how much is accessible on the web, leaving me with plenty to write about and learn. I’m very excited to hear from anyone with thoughts and ideas about how we can decrease our ignorance and live a well-balanced life. To quote one of my favorite genuises in history, Buckminster Fuller, “I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we’re really qualified to take on the responsibility we’re designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?”
Photo of caboose window, taken by Linda Snyder an old friend of mine