New member!
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:30 pm
Hi
My name is Adrienne and am 52 years of age. I was prompted by my son, Jack, to join the forum as I am an atheist vegan! I've been vegan for nearly 20 years and atheist for over 30! I became vegetarian in 1985 prompted by a vegetarian friend at work and then decided to become vegan with my husband when we visited a vegetarian restaurant in Glasgow in 1994 and read a poster about veganism on their noticeboard. I live in Gourock in Scotland and don't meet many other vegans or atheists and so it is nice to think that I can be involved in a forum with like minded folk (and folk who are perhaps not so like minded!)
My reasons for not wanting to eat meat is that I think that I can survive very well without killing another sentient being and that there is plenty of plant food available on this planet to allow me to live healthily. I have plenty of friends who eat meat and I don't think that they are morally wrong for doing so. They have made a choice (informed presumably) which differs to the choice I have made and while I would challenge their choice, I don't think that their choice is wrong!
I have doubted the existence of God from an early age and while the question of where we come from is complicated, the fact that there is no evidence to suggest that we have been created by a god or a higher power, allows me to be happy in my uncertainty that that perhaps, human beings have not been created but have evolved over millions of years.
I look forward to being part of this forum!
My name is Adrienne and am 52 years of age. I was prompted by my son, Jack, to join the forum as I am an atheist vegan! I've been vegan for nearly 20 years and atheist for over 30! I became vegetarian in 1985 prompted by a vegetarian friend at work and then decided to become vegan with my husband when we visited a vegetarian restaurant in Glasgow in 1994 and read a poster about veganism on their noticeboard. I live in Gourock in Scotland and don't meet many other vegans or atheists and so it is nice to think that I can be involved in a forum with like minded folk (and folk who are perhaps not so like minded!)
My reasons for not wanting to eat meat is that I think that I can survive very well without killing another sentient being and that there is plenty of plant food available on this planet to allow me to live healthily. I have plenty of friends who eat meat and I don't think that they are morally wrong for doing so. They have made a choice (informed presumably) which differs to the choice I have made and while I would challenge their choice, I don't think that their choice is wrong!
I have doubted the existence of God from an early age and while the question of where we come from is complicated, the fact that there is no evidence to suggest that we have been created by a god or a higher power, allows me to be happy in my uncertainty that that perhaps, human beings have not been created but have evolved over millions of years.
I look forward to being part of this forum!
