The reason I choose not to eat or drink free range is because I can never truly be sure about the conditions the animals are in. I don't care if the package says free range, I need to see it for myself. I'd rather raise my own. Of course that isn't going to be happening anytime soon, so vegan it is.
skinnymofo - I will definitely take vitamins! thanks!
Nosoup - what I've read from the peta2 website is that basically because there are people starving in this world, rather than using land to grow food for animals we eat, why not grow food for the 'starving people' It takes so much feed for all of the livestock. It's massive amounts of wasted food basically because it goes straight to the cattle. If we didn't consume so much meat, there would be less hungry people.
rsl12 - I feel great! It's getting easier already. I have discovered so many great foods I can eat. I went to Trader Joes yesterday and got some vegan butter! It rocks! As far as not eating meat, it's not a problem at all. I never really liked it in the first place.
I'm too worried about going against some type of commandment or anything. My mom feels so strongly about eating meat and that makes it a little hard. I went ahead and started up a conversation on this subject in front of my mom with a respected member of the church we go to. He totally shut my mom down on any ridiculous ideas she had about choosing not to eat meat and the consequences..................o o o o o o o o o h consequences.