Shadowing-Übung: How I ended up Vegetarian. - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube
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As someone who's been telling stories and experiences from my life for way too long,
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I feel like you've gotten the general gist of the type of person I am.
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There's very few things I haven't talked about that express new information about myself,
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but there's a chance you didn't know about this one.
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It's not that I'm embarrassed or ashamed or even keeping it secret,
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I've just felt like it can rub some people the wrong way,
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and I simply haven't really felt like opening that can of worms yet.
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But it is something I'm relatively passionate about
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and hope I can navigate the topic in a casual way that's more talking about my thoughts on it, non-preachy style.
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I'm vegetarian.
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Based on that buildup, I'm sure some of you thought that was going to be much more abhorrent.
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But look, I'm just trying to establish the tone here.
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You can never be too careful.
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It's been almost 10 years since I've eaten meat,
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and I think the craziest part is that it wasn't really even on purpose.
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Back when I went to college for a single year,
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I was living on my own for the first time.
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To make a long and complicated story short,
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I didn't know how to feed myself,
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developed a really unhealthy relationship with food,
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and it ultimately became this whole thing.
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It happens to the best of us.
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But the best of us also know that it's not good for your well-being,
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and despite how scary and difficult it is,
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you need to make a change.
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After a lot of trying and failing to get back into a healthy mindset with eating,
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I decided to sit down at a computer
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and study nutrition to feel more confident in my choices with food
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and use knowledge to make it all a bit less intimidating.
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I spent a long time doing my own research,
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looking into all types of articles and studies on food when I stumbled onto veganism.
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Despite it being a bit more limited with what a lot of people are used to eating,
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for me, it sure was a hell of a lot better than what I was feeding myself at the time,
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which was almost nothing at all.
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So we take those little steps.
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I was interested and decided in that moment that I would attempt going vegan to simply see what happens.
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Yeah, I ended up changing the entire trajectory of my lifestyle with a single,
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ah, hell, why not?
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I would say I did it kind of wrong at the beginning.
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Like, I would buy a prepackaged salad from the campus food court that had meat in it and pick it off,
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which I know just did heavy damage to vegans,
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vegetarians, and non-food wasters out there.
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I'm sorry, I didn't know at the time.
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It's common for people transitioning from eating meat to not eating it to struggle
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because it feels like you're removing a huge part of how you normally structure your meals.
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But since I was eating next to nothing every single day,
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I really never had that problem.
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I was adding food into my repertoire instead of taking it away.
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So basically, the complete opposite situation,
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which worked out really well.
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Over time, I started trusting what I was eating again,
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being a lot more healthy with my relationship with food,
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and along the way, learned about the other positive reasons to go meatless.
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I don't really want to be the one to get into the nitty gritty of it all,
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but if you're curious, there's a lot of environmental benefit,
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and as everyone knows, it's kinder to the cute little animals.
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They do some messed up things to those poor baby chicks.
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But again, if you're curious,
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you can go down that rabbit hole yourself.
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Sorry, I'm not touching that one here.
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Even though I was doing well and not having a hard time eating within the lifestyle,
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it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows.
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There were still bad habits in my head,
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and unfortunately there's a lot of people that use the community to spread their own unhealthy obsessive brain worms around food,
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which in my opinion can set a lot of people back in their progress and close people's minds to the concept entirely.
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Everyone knows eating clean and healthy is a good thing to do,
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no one's arguing that, But it's definitely not achievable for the majority of people,
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100% of the time with zero exceptions.
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I would encounter people in the community bashing others for the way they ate their meatless diet,
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which I believe is overall bad for the greater good of the cause.
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The way you eat your vegan or vegetarian diet is fine.
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There's no specific requirement for the healthiness.
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Eat your junk foods, processed meals.
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You're not gonna wither and die on the spot because you ate a little bit of something fun.
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As someone who's tried a lot of vegan foods,
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I can confidently say there's a lot out there that do not taste good.
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I'm sorry, people might not like hearing that one, but it's my truth.
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Might as well do what you want to enjoy it.
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You're not supposed to suffer.
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Put it this way, it's way more realistic to eat non-animal product foods
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that you actually like than force yourself to eat the gross bland ones
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that are gonna make you hate everything and give it up entirely.
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In a similar vein, the vegan community used to be extremely confrontational and judgmental,
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which has tarnished the perception of the lifestyle for a lot of people.
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And I've always felt like that stuff has set back the movement way more than
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if they were more welcoming and understandable and not mean.
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There's a bit of irony in the idea of veganism is supposed to be positive
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and kind to all animals when they've been very cannibalistic to people around them.
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That's my hot take!
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I'm sorry!
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the past the loud minority of the community has used really rude
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and obnoxious ways to try and guilt people into converting into this very beneficial and productive lifestyle.
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It's always rubbed me the wrong way and
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because of all the stigma I used to be very embarrassed
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to tell people I was vegan from fear of the assumption I was
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that kind of vegan and justifiably so because people have been rude to me for it.
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Early in my vegan journey a group of my friends wanted to go go to Hooters.
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Personally, not my first choice, but hey.
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Now, I was able to accommodate myself when it was just me eating,
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but going out to restaurants was a bit tricky.
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I checked the Hooters website to see if they had anything I could eat,
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and at the time, it said they had a veggie burger at certain locations.
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Awesome.
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Now I have to make a single phone call, which I hate.
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Hi, thank you for calling Hooters.
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How can I help you?
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Hi, um, I was wondering if you guys, had the veggie burger?
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Uh, no. Oh, thank you.
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Sorry.
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That was the first time I ever called to ask about a dietary restriction.
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And not gonna lie, I wanted to kill myself after it.
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I felt so bad asking at the time.
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But looking back, I don't know what that lady's problem was.
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I know you've had to deal with worse phone calls.
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It's not like I was calling about your hooters.
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Yet here you are getting mad at the veggie burger girl.
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Luckily though, 99% of people have been fine with it.
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And I do think the overall view on vegan and vegetarian diets have steadily been going up.
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When people learn I don't eat meat,
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I can tell they start mentally scoping out to see where I fall on the meatless personality spectrum.
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But then I say my favorite food is french fries and the guard is dropped immediately.
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Another normal part of the vegan experience is the occasional accidents that slip through.
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One late night, I was too locked in,
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and by the time my body registered,
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I was starving and needed to eat that instant.
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I realized I didn't have any food in my house,
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and most of the restaurants nearby were closed.
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In a moment of desperation,
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I ordered the fastest option available, vegan burger from Denny's.
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But of course, DoorDash complications always strike when survival is at stake,
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So I watched helplessly as the delivery time got delayed by 15 minutes,
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30 minutes, 45 minutes.
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It got there an hour and a half late.
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The moment the bag touched my withering hands,
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I was ripping it open and scarfing that burger down like a dying vegan hyena.
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As the food was hitting my stomach and vision was coming back,
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I noticed they got my order wrong.
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I had just scarfed down three-fourths of a normal hamburger.
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The only way I can describe that feeling is a simple...
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Welp.
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And yes, my stomach was cramping all night.
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I learned a valuable lesson that day.
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Never lock in that hard.
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Once Jacob and I were in Texas sitting down at a Mexican restaurant,
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I was prepared to struggle with options because,
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you know, Texas, but saw they actually had veggie tacos on the menu.
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Wow.
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Maybe the world has progressed with providing meatless options more than I thought.
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Even Texas is...
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Alright, so turns out veggie tacos in Texas can translate to the only thing on the menu that has vegetables.
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I partially blame myself for that one.
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Texas was the one that tricked me,
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but I did have the context clues.
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Another time I was at a karaoke party with a big group of friends
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and there was a various assortment of food platters.
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The lights were low and flashing different colors,
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so it was hard to see which foods were what.
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A friend and I hovered over one of the platters and I pointed to one section asking if it was fried pickles.
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They grabbed one, went, yeah I think so,
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and popped it in their mouth.
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As a pickle lover, I was like,
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hell yeah, and also popped one into my mouth.
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And as soon as it hit my taste buds,
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I instantly registered it was a chicken nugget.
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The friend, knowing I don't eat meat,
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stood there like a deer in headlights,
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digesting the fact they failed to warn me their initial assumption was incorrect,
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led me astray, and kind of indirectly fed me chicken.
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Everyone in my life has been very understanding and chill with knowing I don't eat meat,
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but there's still strangers that look from the outside and assume the worst because of it.
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In James's seven-day vegan challenge solves all your problems video,
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he nominated me to do the challenge too,
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but at the very end revealed the joke was I'm already vegan.
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So to anyone who didn't catch that,
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uh, welcome in on the joke almost a decade later.
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Anyway, that was the first time the internet learned I was vegan,
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so obviously there were gonna be some obnoxious reactions to it,
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even though I was the same person I was before they knew that fact.
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I still remember this one comment from what I assume was a child that said,
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I just learned Jaden is vegan and I've lost all respect for her.
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Literally, how does that fact even affect you, child?
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I wasn't even the one who said it.
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I cannot believe he got under my skin with that one.
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Not because it's mean?
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It just doesn't make any sense.
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Just so confidently stupid.
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This was like nine years ago,
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so I assume he's an adult with more sensible worldviews now,
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but I still hope he's doing bad.
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Grudges aside, I kept being vegan for many, many years.
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The lifestyle was really easy when I was eating on my own.
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The hardest part was honestly how it affected my social life.
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Whenever I wanted to go to a restaurant,
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I'd have to check the website ahead of time to see if I could eat anything.
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My friends were always having to accommodate me.
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No one ever said they minded,
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but it still didn't feel great on my end,
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even being a little bit of a burden.
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You don't really realize how big food is in culture
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and socializing until your diet doesn't line up with the world around you.
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On the flip side, I never thought meeting someone
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that has the same food lifestyle as you could be such a huge bonding experience.
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Whenever I meet a fellow non-meat eater,
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I instantly feel more connected to them just based on that.
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Such a warm feeling.
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Just two veggie eaters in this big meaty world.
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Anyway, yeah, after so many years,
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I'd be lying if I didn't say being vegan started weighing a bit too heavy for me.
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I started feeling the friction and restraints more than I preferred.
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So after a lot of difficult mental back and forths,
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I begrudgingly decided to get a little bit flexible.
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I say begrudgingly
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because it felt like I was turning my back on the morals I was living by for eight whole years,
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but I figured if I was slowly struggling more and more under the vegan lifestyle,
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it would ultimately be better to just modify it than grow to hate it and give up on the whole thing entirely.
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I decided to let some dairy
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and eggs back into my diet for the versatility of being able to have more options in restaurants
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and the few times I might want the flexibility at home.
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It took some adjusting because believe it or not,
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your body will not be used to the taste
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and texture of food you haven't eaten in a very extended amount of time,
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but it got easier and I instantly was so much happier with the heightened ceiling.
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Also, I very much expected to have turned lactose intolerant after not consuming dairy for so long.
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Super lucky to have gotten away with that one, no problem.
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Really counting my blessings there.
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A lot of people tell me that they wish they could be vegetarian or vegan,
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but they can't because they just like chicken too much
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or burgers or whatever specific single food they don't want to give up.
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And to that, I always say,
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you can just keep eating those things while avoiding the easier stuff.
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You really don't need to box yourself into the lifestyle all for the pure label.
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Any little changes make a bigger difference than you give it credit for.
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And if you can cut out even a single animal product in your life, that's huge.
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Or even just have it as a treat every once in a while.
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Again, I feel like the all
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or nothing mentality with going meatless is the main thing
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that makes people too intimidated to try
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because being able to make little tweaks to your diet is
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so much more sustainable for long-time commitment than assuming you're suddenly gonna morph into a completely different person overnight.
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It's not like you have to decide what you're not gonna eat from a single point
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and never change it until you die.
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You can add things back in or even go the other way
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and try cutting more things out if you feel good about the first adjustment.
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Some people even just go meatless for one day a week or month or year.
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I think if I were to humbly request you take anything from this video,
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it would be to try and be a bit more conscious about food.
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I don't want you to try and stop eating meat anymore if you don't want to.
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Maybe just try and be a bit more cognizant and appreciative of what it is and where it came from.
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I'll give you an example.
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Say you buy some chicken nuggets,
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change your mind, and decide you want to throw it away.
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It's kind of like you just paid to kill a chicken for no reason.
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It would go a long way to save it for later or give them to a friend.
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I don't want to say that in like an accusatory way,
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but that mentality has changed the way I look at food and my impact.
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Coming from me, it's okay to buy and eat meat.
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I just want people to value it more.
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I felt a lot of moral guilt when I started buying eggs again,
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but I've gone out of my way to make sure I always buy pasture-raised eggs
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that came from a farm that makes sure the chickens get to live normal and happy chicken lives.
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Cage-free or free-range don't really mean anything.
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It's the food industry lying about not being mean to chickens.
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So if you have a little bit more resources to transition to other kinder options like that,
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it's always very beneficial.
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They unfortunately tend to be more expensive though,
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so I know it's not a viable choice for everyone, which is understandable.
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I hope that doesn't come off as preachy.
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Oh god, who put this soapbox under my feet?
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I'm trying to find a middle ground of talking about this stuff in an open
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and non-pushy way while also making sure I can get my thoughts out there.
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There's just a lot of shady evil practices in the food and meat industry,
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so I want to do my best to inform people who do care,
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because at the end of the day,
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you do vote with your money.
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I'm happy and comfortable being vegetarian.
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But writing this video made me realize maybe I'm finding it a bit hard to be outwardly proud of it.
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I'm proud of the choices I'm making and the small yet important impacts that come from the lifestyle.
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But on the other hand,
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I've seen and experienced enough harsh opinions from both meat
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and non-meat eaters to understand the whole idea of consuming less animal products still has a ways to go.
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I stand by the idea that I do think the stigma has been becoming more positive
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and people have chilled out on both sides over the past few years,
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but I hope the mentality of it all can continue to be pushed in a more healthy
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and overall productive direction because at the end of the day,
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it really does benefit us,
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the planet, and animals very much.
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It might not seem like it when you reach for the dairy-less milk
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or the impossible meat in the grocery store or even choose the vegetarian option in a restaurant every once in a while.
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But it really does.
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Thank you for watching.
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I haven't been able to announce it in a video yet,
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but we released a new Pet Frenzy merch bundle.
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We've got a Tostada beanie,
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tofu plush jacket, similar to the Ari one,
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cute long-sleeve shirt of all the creatures.
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I know it's summer, I'm sorry.
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A fun sticker set and new bandanas to put on the Ari,
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tofu, and Tostada plushes or I guess whatever plush you would want it on.
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I hope you give it a look.
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I think it all came out super cute.
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And yeah, thank you again for watching.
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And this is bye bye for now.
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