the socially conditioned blandness and repetition that animal eaters so often
succumb to.
Even after 18+ years as a vegan, I’m still amazed at the endless variety of
new vegan dishes. There are always more ideas to try, way more than I
could sample in a human lifetime. I can’t see how anyone could feel bored
or deprived eating vegan, unless they’re seriously incompetent, living in a
cave without Internet access, or just really ignorant about food in general.
30-Day Trials
For a variety of reasons, I recommend a 30-day trial as an effective way
to transition to a plant-based diet.
The first significant 30-day trial I ever did was a test of eating a lacto-ovo
vegetarian diet for 30 days. I did that in the summer of 1993. After 30 days
without animal flesh, I never ate animals again. I wasn’t actually trying to
become a vegetarian though. I only wanted to try it for a month. But I liked
it so much that it was easy to keep going. After about six months, I realized
that I no longer thought of animals as food. Eating flesh became even less
appealing than eating cardboard or sawdust.
Then in January 1997, I used the same approach to go fully vegan. That
worked well too, and I dropped animal ingredients from my diet for good.
Looking back, I wish I went vegan sooner and didn’t spend so long in the