I so loved the taste of chicken. I had raised chickens in the late 70s and at that time I could not eat chicken because I get so super attached to animals. I love critters. Eli May Clampet could have been my hero in life but I chose Mother Teresa instead. When I got away from the 200 or so animals I had I went back to chumping on the. In 1992 I was diagnosed with cancer. Being very poor with no income I was on food stamps for a limited time. The closest store to me was a health food store. It was there I learned from reading the literature in the racks about how meat aides cancer growth. I had my hysterectomy about three months or more after. My blood pressure kept falling to low for surgery. I went completely vegan at that time NOT even knowing what vegan was. I got through it all. I started on radiation treatments but stopped because I did not like how it felt. The lack of animal flesh rotting in my gut helped starve the cancer because cancer lives off toxins. After I was declared cancer free I very slowly went back to eating meat. I had a friend named Anita Tullos. She was such a sweet person and tiny. Her and I BOTH got diagnosed with cancer on the same day which was Nov 25 I think it was 1997. Not positive. I had skin cancer and her breast cancer. Both of us went vegan/vegetarian. I cooked meals for her. My ex boss Earl McKay the 2nd paid for the groceries. I told him what I was doing and he said heck he would pay for Nita and I both if it was coming out of the same batch of food. I gave him the lists. He bought every little thing I asked for as I asked for it. Both of us eventually was declared cancer free. After Hurricane Katrina things were hard and very different. Anita again came down with breast cancer but this time on the other side. She put up the fight but she wanted no special diets because she felt she would whoop this again. Besides it was very hard getting things for awhile here. I no longer worked for Earl so I had no one to help me with the food situation. I lost Anita. She passed on ... ... ... I still miss her till this day. I had went total vegetarian until Nov 1st 2012. I went vegan. In 2013 I backslid in and out of it for holidays & then got back on vegetarian into vegan. Holidays get me. This year I was not the perfect angel but I made it a goal it had to be after a heart incident in Nov. You see ALL meat and meat products carry cholesterol. I have joined myfitnesspal.com. I eat PERFECT vegan or as close as I can get to perfect and NO cholesterol. I know in my heart and in my brain my life for now on will be vegan. I picture the little faces of the critters and think about my heart ... no contest ... I choose the vegan life for both reasons now.
