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"My Transition to Vegan Wasn't Easy". Is an interview with someone called  P. K. Mohankumar, featured in last weekend's Business Standard
in India. The post below is in response to this article, in which the author professes to be a committed vegan, who has Sunday's off to consume fish carcasses.


"My Transition to Vegan Wasn't Easy"

This headline caught my eye earlier today: "My Transition to Vegan Wasn't Easy". It's an interview with someone called P. K. Mohankumar, featured in this weekend's Business Standardin India. I stifled a slight groan at the hint of "veganism-is-hard" I
detected with a slight sense of hope, triggered by the use of the word

"transition" with a past-tense verb. The first paragraph belies
anything positive as soon as Mohankumar states that he is sharing his
favourite fish-based recipe with the
Business Standard.
Mohankumar goes on to talk about his conversion to "veganism" from
having been a "hard core non-vegetarian" and lists off a wide variety
of healthy fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds and legumes he regularly
consumes. And then:

My transition to being a committed vegan took 90 grueling days. So, every Sunday is a ‘fun’ day for me and I indulge my palate with a typical
south Indian breakfast of steaming idlis, home dosas or puttu followed
by an appetising fish curry, masala grilled mackerels and sardines, with rice and tomato-garlic rasam.
He goes on to mention loving "probiotic ice-creams [and] flavoured
yogurt", and of course since I wander in the world of vegan
alternatives, I'm used to assuming that when people self-identify as
vegan that when they say "ice cream" or "yogurt" they mean the soy- or
coconut-based kinds. I can't say that I feel comfortable giving
Mohankumar the benefit of the doubt, however, since he goes on to
describe some of his favourite non-Indian dishes as follows:

I like Italian cuisine a lot. Penne arrabbiata, herb-crusted John Dory with grainy mustard sauce or tomato vinaigrette with olives and capers, is what I usually order when I eat Italian food. I also like
Mediterranean cuisine, especially olive oil-poached salmon and grilled cod with caper sauce.
So, rather than say that his transition to veganism "wasn't easy", I think
it's safer to say that Mohankumar's transition to veganism just plain
old "wasn't".


http://my-face-is-on-fire.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-transition-to-vegan-wasnt-easy.html

Original post in the Business Standard in India ~ http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/%5Cmy-transition-to-veg...

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I really dislike hearing people use excuses like 'I tried going vegan but it was too hard'

I think if you really want to go vegan - if your heart is in it - then its an easy choice - after watching a movie with tortured animals in it (Faces of Death) back in the early 1990's I discovered in myself that going vegetarian was easy - I just stopped eating animals, it wasn't long after that - maybe 9 months later I went vegan (cheese on Pizza being my only non-vegan food)- I had already stopped wearing animal parts and hairs - it was just one day someone said you are a vegetarian for the animals - but you still eat cheese - I forget who the person was - but I owe them a thanks because it was their pointing a hole in my philosophy (I was 14) that made me vegan that day - since then my own vegan evolution has been pretty easy - I just follow my heart. There was a long period of time where I discovered certain foods I was consuming had animal products in them. I remember stealing a Food Additives dictionary from my highschool library - that book changed my world and I became a hardcore label reader. My body pretty much became a temple and I carefully made sure of everything I put in it was animal free. From time to time I might eat something unknowingly that has something 'bad' in it - but I don't beat my self up over it when I figure it out- I acknowledge it and move on. Veganism IS an evolution NOT an end result- its the way you walk not where you end up, I guess, providing you keep walking.

Thats my rant - this guy P. K. 'Mohankumar' makes me mad. He's enforcing and making other people read his words and think 'Oh I might try that -but he said its hard, so maybe I wont now'

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Thats my rant - this guy P. K. 'Mohankumar' makes me mad. He's enforcing and making other people read his words and think 'Oh I might try that -but he said its hard, so maybe I wont now'

Worse is that he's telling people that veganism = eating animals--in this case, the many kinds of fish(es) he consumes.

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