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How You Can Stick To a Vegan Diet

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How You Can Stick To a Vegan Diet

Veganism has seen a surge in popularity over the past decade. Vegetarian Times reports that an estimated 1,000,000 people in the U.S. are currently vegan.

A new study commissioned by the journal Appetite found an interesting trend among people who self-identified, or once self-identified, as vegan: those who chose the diet for ethical reasons stayed with it longer than those who cited health reasons.

Read more here.

Personally, I have never had any trouble at all, sticking to a vegan diet. Of course, my main reason for going vegan was ‘ethical reasons’ – ie I loved animals and didn’t want them to get hurt because of me. Since then I have discovered many other great reasons, but that was the starting point.

Vegetable gardens

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Today, I read this article. It tells about how popular gardening is getting, particularly growing vegetables and other edible plants. The economic crisis is one factor, but I think people have been missing something natural in their lives.

I’d love to have a vegetable garden too, and I could have one, though circumstances aren’t favorable right now. Neighbor trouble. I’ll say no more about that, but while I’m waiting for better times, I’ll do what I have been doing for a few summers now, start a little pot garden right outside our front steps. If things go the way I hope, I’ll post pictures later. In the meantime, I can always read about other gardens and dream.