Imagine sitting in a crowded room. Suddenly someone says
how great their love life has been with their spouse. They go on to say
that it keeps getting better and better. Do you think that others would
want to know what their secret is? What if the person went on to say
that ever since their spouse gave up eating meat (s)he has been looking
and feeling great. It is my belief that every person listening in that
room would start considering vegetarianism. Now imagine that the same
person is sitting in a room and starts talking about how people who eat
meat are a bunch of murderers. Do you think that anyone in that same
room would listen? Or would they just tune out the conversation?
It is my belief that people can't make the jump from
eating meat to believing it is murder in a moment's time. Personally I
started with becoming a vegetarian which led to my becoming a vegan. It
wasn't until I stopped wearing and using animals' skins and by-products
that the horror of it all hit me. The human mind is an amazing thing. I
believe it sometimes protects us from ourselves. It makes perfect sense
that you would come to the realization of meat equaling murder after you
have stopped eating it yourself. The trauma you would experience
otherwise could be crippling.
It is with these thoughts and knowledge that I started
my own company called vegi-wares. It can be found on the Internet @
www.vegi-wares.com. It is my hope that vegetarians will go a little
easier on the meat eating community. With love they will teach and
inspire. With anger they will shut out and alienate. The messages we
convey on our T-shirts are very simple. They are seeds that we are
planting in others' minds. Seeds of change that we believe will lead to
vegetarianism. Join us in our peaceful quest to inform the world of the
beauty of vegetarianism.
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