Vegans talk about their eating experiences

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● Li Xuemei

40 years old, vegetarian for 10 years, head of the vegetarian environmental protection group of Friends of Nature. The members of the environmental group include doctors, teachers, students, and white-collar workers, and they generally have a high level of education.

● Friends of Nature

Founded on March 31, 1994 and headquartered in Beijing, it is one of the earliest non-governmental environmental protection organizations registered in China. Founded in 2003, Friends of Nature Guangzhou is a non-profit public welfare organization.

The pet cat is a vegetarian cat, and its favorite food is not fat and fragrant fish, but crispy raw corn, and all because of its owner Li Xuemei.

Li Xuemei is a strict vegetarian who has not touched meat for 10 years, and she will feel a smell of wine and meat when she smells meat. Her vegetarian habits have also affected her family, friends, and even pets around her.

But she chose a vegetarian diet not because of religious beliefs or physical reasons, but because of the idea of living a low-carbon life.

Li Xuemei is not alone. More than a dozen members of the Friends of Nature Guangzhou Climate Change and Vegetarian Environmental Protection Group (hereinafter referred to as the Vegetarian Environmental Protection Group), a non-governmental environmental organization, have put into practice the concept of low-carbon and minimised the consumption of meat. In the past year or so, they have been promoting to the society through various ways such as lectures, vegetarian salons, and environmental exhibitions: switching to a vegetarian diet one day a week will reduce CO2 emissions by 4.1 kilograms and cool the earth.

Pay out of pocket to promote low carbon

March 20 is World Meatless Day, a day for environmentalists around the world to cut back on meat and try healthy eating with fruits and vegetables and whole grains, but for members of the vegan environmental group, Meatless Day has been around for more than a year.

At the beginning of 2009, a group of like-minded people formed a vegetarian environmental protection group, which paid out of their own pockets to print materials, do D V D, and went into communities and campuses through public welfare lectures, salons, experience activities, etc., hoping to raise public awareness of climate change and promote the concept of vegetarian low-carbon. And Li Xuemei is the leader of the group.

Li Xuemei has not been very cold to meat since she was a child, and she still vividly remembers that when she was seven or eight years old, the whole big family ate together on a long dining table during the Chinese New Year, and a huge pig's head was placed in the center of the dining table. The pig's eyes stared straight at her, her teeth pointed, and at that moment she felt that what was on the table was not a delicacy, but a corpse. After learning more about the ecological impact of meat during her graduate studies in plant ecology, she began experimenting with vegetarianism.

The more I learned about climate change, the more I realized that going vegan was the most effective and easiest way to slow down global warming. Li Xuemei said. According to a study published by the German Institute for Ecological Economics, meat eaters are responsible for the equivalent of driving 4,758 kilometers in a medium-sized car every year, while adopting a vegetarian diet can reduce carbon emissions by 50%. Before and after the Copenhagen climate conference, vegetarian carbon reduction has also become a hot topic in the international community's response to climate change. Compared with the predetermined targets of international emission reduction agreements, reducing livestock and reducing meat and dairy foods to reduce carbon emissions is also a relatively easy target to achieve.

In addition, animal protein significantly increases the risk of cancer, heart disease and other diseases. Li Xuemei emphasized.

Su mom and her Su family

Li Xuemei also adhered to a vegetarian diet during her pregnancy. The son was born weighing 8 pounds and was very healthy. It's a misconception that a vegetarian diet isn't nutritious enough. Fruits and vegetables contain all the elements that humans need, as well as antioxidants that meat does not have, and antioxidants are important factors in slowing down aging.

Under Li Xuemei's call and infection, her husband also joined the vegetarian camp, and also contracted a piece of wasteland of more than 100 square meters in the community to make a happy farm, growing organic vegetables for self-sufficiency. Now the field is full of fruit, and I can't eat it myself, so I give it away everywhere.

The 7-year-old son chose to become a vegetarian baby under the competition between the elders. But unlike his mother, he is not for the love of animals or for environmental protection, but because the meat is not tasty, smells bad, and stuffs his teeth.

Get through the first few difficult months

After eating vegetarian for a long time, do you miss the taste of meat? In the beginning, it was a bit of a pity at times. Dongpo elbow, Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Li Xuemei has to give up before she has eaten it, and her heart is itchy. But after persevering, she found that her taste buds had become sensitive, she was able to taste the rich flavors of vegetables, her sense of smell had developed, and her mood had become calmer.

In fact, the hardest part was only the first few months. Ms. Zhang, who is also a friend of nature, has a much more tortuous path to vegetarianism. Miss Zhang loves small animals very much, and others gave her 2 pairs of parrots, and after three or four years, they actually bred into more than 20. Later, due to the ravages of avian influenza, he had no choice but to send all the birds to Mingchun Valley in Baiyun Mountain. It is because of this love for animals that she and her husband from Inner Mongolia, who once had no meat and no joy, made a painful decision to go vegetarian many years ago.

But after a few weeks, the operation failed. It turned out that because they couldn't match food and became vegan all of a sudden, Miss Zhang and her husband always felt hungry, couldn't eat, and itched, so they had to quit in the end.

I can't eat enough because I don't have experience. Now, Ms. Zhang has started to be a vegetarian again, but she no longer feels hungry. Because she found that she couldn't just eat vegetables and fruits, but also protein-rich foods such as soy products, nuts, fungus, and mushrooms.

Speaking of vegetarian food, another vegetarian food that many people think of is equivalent to green vegetables and tofu, which has a single variety and a bland taste. Li Xuemei said that in fact, the current variety of vegetables and fruits in Guangzhou is very rich, only tofu has dried tofu, thousands of zhang, bean chicken, yuba and other varieties, vegetarian stores also have a variety of substitutes, such as vegetarian meat, vegetarian ice cream, vegetarian recipes on the Internet are also endless, not less than meat dishes. In the usual procurement, she will follow the rainbow procurement rule and the principle of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, and try to have as many colors and miscellaneous varieties as possible, so that there is no need to worry about nutrition.

Being vegetarian isn't just a personal thing

Last year, the vegan environmental group participated in more than 20 activities to promote the concept of low-carbon vegetarianism, and this year, many members gave up family reunions to perform a three-day free environmental drama at the Guangzhou Zoo to tell the public about how meat affects the climate.

Before, I thought that eating vegetarian food was just a very personal thing, and there was no need to spread it around, but now I am anxious and I feel that I have an obligation and responsibility to do something for the planet. Miss Cheng, a member of the panel, said.

In fact, there are many activities that the government and school associations have taken the initiative to cooperate with us, and the society is paying more and more attention to low-carbon life. Hong Xia, head of the Friends of Nature Guangzhou group, attended a hearing of the Municipal People's Congress on December 1 last year and submitted a written opinion on "Suggestions on Promoting Low-carbon and Healthy Eating Methods in Guangzhou".

Li Xuemei said that they are not asking people to stop eating meat at all, but that people can reduce their meat consumption and choose the degree of gradual vegetarianism according to their own situation. At present, their activities are mainly lectures, hoping to let more people know the truth behind meat, and we are now like planting seeds.

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