All my life, always thought it was strange and disgusting that humans drank cow's milk and ate eggs. Therefore, all my life, I had a limited intake of eggs and switched to soy milk, or no milk, early on.

I also went through several phases of not eating meat, chicken, or fish. Sometimes individually or all at once. I'd go through vegetarian phases. Moreso after getting into alternative health, finding curezone, juice fasting, MCing, all the good stuff.

So finally, after more political push from more info on the USDA and meat plants, etc I got fed up and decided-- no more animal products for me!
I don't want them...for health reasons, which have always been an issue with me, moral and ethical reasons, also of which have always been big to me. And finally political reasons just completely pushed me over the edge.

I don't label myself, or call myself Vegan, or Vegetarian. ONCE when I posted a message with the title, "I'm going Vegan"
I just tell people what I would prefer to eat or not eat, IF THE SUBJECT COMES UP
I don't freak out if I notice that my black bean burgers are Vegetarian and not Vegan.

My boyfriend told me that he told his co-worker "She thinks she's vegan now."
And just now, he's drunk on his birthday and called me to see if I wanted anything from a restaurant. I'm thinking..."what could I possibly want from there, bowl of fruit..no I have a banana right here"
So I say sure, I'll take a veggie burger. In responding that he's not sure if they have them or not, he tells his friend, in the car with him, "She's trying to be Vegan"

I'M NOT TRYING TO BE ANYTHING! I've ALWAYS had limited, if not NO intake of all those foods! GRRR!!! It makes me so angry. On top of my PMS this week I'm ready to just break up with him and throw 4 years down the drain because of him saying stupid things like that, not hearing me out about why it's good for me, or taking his own health into consideration. Ok 2 points for trying oil pulling for 2 minutes and doing a Liver Flush afterwhich he still wasted time and money going to the hospital for NOTHING anyway. I told him they would do anything for him but take xrays and write a rx for pain killers!
It's just irritating and embarassing and implies that I'm TRYING to conform to some group standard. I'm not. For the longest time, I was only eating fish and eggs...and rarely so why all of the sudden am I "trying" to be something? Because I threw up after taking a bite of his meat lovers pizza just to get him to shut up!!

I just don't want to die because I ate some animal that was raised in 2 inches of it's own feces and vomit, brutally tortured even raped with broomsticks and burned alive...dropped in drainage of urine and sewage only to be picked up and processed with rotten meat and marked USDA safe whatever..