vegans are great until they blow those keytones in you face. Veggies and weight control may be great--as long as you know when your body is eating itself --first sign usually is the keytone breath.
Ever think of the people who move into the country for those smells --then demand the farmer shutdown operations because of the odor?
If your friends were not over weight--no one would buy them--anything.
Me either I gave up eating animal producst now I just go to Mc' D's for all my meals.
What towns in Connecticut would you consider country? We have basically no agriculture to speak of here, and almost all of the state is considered (sub)urban by U.S. census bureau standards.
This CT lady lives on about 200 acres adjacent to Bradley---got so much flack she put it in trust and keeps chugging and stinking up Suffield --and grins every day--has about 200 cows in pasture around town, many many pure bred dogs, cats, goats, pigs, you need boots to walk around . I enjoyed the place--she and hubby were teaches for 30 plus years each in the area. Got the land from daddy.
No?
I'm in my 20s. Connecticut is a suburb for NYC and Boston. The state is mostly full of professionals in the teaching, accounting, finance, legal, and medical fields. People hoping the '50s or '60s come back are going to be really really disappointed.
In regards to Food choices my father used said: "to each his own, just don't extoll or preach you choices as superior", which as in this case, stating how much better it is being a vegan, is leading to a divergence of opinion as for some reason both sides get defensive about their choice and denigrate the other to justify theirs.
Golly gee whiz Oscar---I caint cuz'n I've was ed y cated in Corneticut--I's a suron that I cud nt be one of those high fl ah lootin professyional's as spo kin about --ifn I hed stay in Nooo York --or Bossy town--I could be liv in high cotton or slupin up hog jowls.
In regards to Food choices my father used said: "to each his own, just don't extoll or preach you choices as superior", which as in this case, stating how much better it is being a vegan, is leading to a divergence of opinion as for some reason both sides get defensive about their choice and denigrate the other to justify theirs.
I am happy for you and sorry for grief you may have gotten from others but on this thread you started the comments on how great it is. Thanks but no thanks. Keep up the exercise and life a long life. Keep posting basketball on BY..
True story - A couple of years ago a couple moved from NYC to upstate rural Vermont. After they had been there a year or so they bitched in the local newspaper that the smell of manure in the spring (when farmers spread manure on their fields) was ruining their "life experience". They tried to start a movement to limit the amount of manure that farmers could spread. The response in the paper from the locals was priceless.
At least they didn't ask to put diapers on Cows and horses---One of my hundreds of Cousin --lives just 10 miles south of the border--on a huge lake been there 30 years---his family loves it--smells and all-- I spent a lot of time around and helping on cow farms--that smell does not bother me--but here the chickens do 100000 of chickens manure--when the wind is right --but I won't tell them they have to leave--they were here first.