Baby Steps
One of the things I struggle with since choosing to be vegan is living in a house with four other people who are not. I have a difficult time understanding how, when I've shared what I've learned about factory farming, environmental damage, animal experiments etc., they can just continue on in the same manner without making any changes at all. It baffles me, and while I tell myself that everybody is entitled to make their own decisions, and I'm not the “vegan police”, it makes me angry and disappointed. Furthermore, the longer that I am vegan, the more difficult this becomes. I read some of the online vegan groups, and often there are people on those groups who will not date a non-vegan (omni) or even hang out with them. I, however, was with my partner before choosing to be a vegan. Do I have the right to insist he change his lifestyle? Do I nag my adult and near adult children (one of whom is a Celiac) to change? How about my elderly mother who has health i...