The Food Revolution Summit - April 28 - May 6, 2012

04/10/2012

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Bestselling author John Robbins (who walked away from his Baskin-Robbins inheritance for moral reasons)  is personally interviewing 21 people who are leaders in movements for healthy, sustainable, humane and delicious food.  From April 28-May 6, there will be three interviews broadcast daily, and you can listen in – for free. You’ll get cutting edge disease-beating, health-activating, age-reversing information.  These tools can help you and your family to thrive and to make a difference in the world. 

Get more info on the summit speakers, and register today, at: www.foodrevolution.org. 
 
This summit offers up-to-date, highly useful information from an amazing array of inspiring voices and, including expert doctors and acclaimed researchers such as Dean Ornish, MD (Preventive Medicine Research Institute) and T. Colin Cambell, Ph.D (The China Study); NY Times best-selling authors Marianne
Williamson (Spiritual Principles for Weight Loss) and Kathy Freston (Quantum Wellness); Culture-changers and icons such as Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) and Rory Freedman (Skinny Bitch); Natural health pioneers such as Joseph Mercola (Mercola.com) and David Wolfe (Radiant Health Now); Food system innovators such as Vandana Shiva (How to Stop Big Ag) and Ronnie Cummins (Organic Consumers
Association), and many more inspiring visionaries. 
 
The Summit offers training, inspiration and practical know-how from modern day heroes of health and sustainability.  Participants are promised answers to burning questions, tools for dealing with family and
peers, and practically useful insights, ideas, motivation and tips, all from the comfort and convenience of your phone and computer. 
 
The summit will include focus on the latest thinking on preventing and reversing heart disease, cancer and diabetes; the truth about GMOs, soy, raw foods, and grass-fed beef; the social, ethical and environmental impact of what you eat; and how to inspire your family to join you in making healthy choices. 

Learn more and register for free at: www.foodrevolution.org

You can also purchase the interviews and get some other bonus material for $97 US if you cannot make the live airings, details online.
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How I Became Vegan

01/31/2012

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The questions I am most often asked since becoming a vegan include; "is it difficult to dine out?", "is it more expensive to be vegan?", "where do you buy groceries?" and so on.  Basically, people are asking me if it is hard.  Yes, it can be, especially at first, but I didn't decide to be vegan because I thought it would be easy. 

At first, making a huge dietary (or lifestyle, as I like to think of it) change is difficult.  It takes a lot of motivation which you yourself have to create.  Just like doing something as difficult as quitting smoking or running a marathon, in the end, you have to be the one believing in your cause.

For me, it started as a New Year's resolution (beginning of 2010).  I had been an on again off again vegetarian for awhile and over the holidays I had eaten too much of everything.  By the time New Year's eve rolled around, I felt like you could roll me around!  I vowed to myself that I would start the year off vegan and see how long I could stand it.

After two months, I was starting to miss my old pals; cheese and shrimp.  After six months, I started eating cheese again.  I sort of fell off the wagon for awhile.  That's when I decided that becoming vegan for health reasons alone wasn't enough for me.  That is when I read 'Animal Liberation' by Peter Singer and 'Skinny Bitch' by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin.  I won't get into the specifics of what I learned but I definitely felt armed with new information and loads more motivation.

It has since been seventeen months (completely vegan) and I feel really great!  My lifestyle has changed drastically and I finally feel like I am living in a way that is more in tune with my sensibilities.

The major difficulty I had in the beginning was trying to find vegan resources in Toronto.  My hope is that this website/blog will provide you with some of the information I had to struggle to find and be a forum for those wanting to know more about being vegan.  Also, I hope that it will inspire you to think positively about veganism while getting to know me!  Cheers!  
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