A vegan.
/Vegan/, noun
1.: a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet
2.: also strict or pure vegetarianism
It all started off as just a harmless conversation with some friends. There were a bunch of us out to dinner and I just happened to be sitting next to a couple that are both vegans. I was curious as to why they chose that lifestyle. So I started asking questions. I had been a vegetarian for about ten years prior to have kids but had long since abandoned that lifestyle in favor of convenience.
However, at the time I was a vegetarian for political reasons as opposed to health reasons. And each time I got pregnant I would crave meat and “for the baby” I’d give in to the temptations. And then after each birth I’d add more meat products to my diet. So that finally I was a full-fledged carnivore.
But after talking to my vegan friends I decided to give “veganism” a shot. Not for political reasons and not for my kids or anything like that, just for me: just to see if I could do it and if I felt better.
Hence, the “vegan experiment” was born.
