Animal lover and total hypocrite?!

Animal lover and total hypocrite?

i cried for joy today when i watched what could've been the death of a cute duckling due to pollution, he saved himself and waddled away with his mother and duckling sib. i often find myself wondering what kind of a life the animals on the side of the road led and squirrels seem so wonderful and happy all of the time. oh, and i had chicken for dinner.

i receive emails from peta on a daily basis and have even sent away for the vegetarian starter kit (which is just a magazine by the way) i thoroughly enjoy soy milk and love to eat my vegetables. growing up in a "meat and potatoes" kind of lifestyle makes the conversion to veganism (is that the word?) seemingly impossible. i would love to start small with vegetarianism but every time i start i resort back to my animal eating ways. i love animals SO very much but have ZERO self control.

any tricks of the trade i should know about? i am disgusted with myself and need to make a change NOW!

Have you watched the video at meat.org? I had never even considered vegetarianism, but the first time I watched that, I became veg the next day, eventually now vegan. I am not even what you would call an animal lover, of course I LIKE animals, but I just can't deal with eating something that was treated SO inhumanely. I watched it every day for about a week just to remind myself; after that, I was fine. You have to want to do it in your heart ... try reducing your meat intake if you want to ... but there's nothing one can do or say to make you vegan.