Wonderful! Brilliant! Inspiring! That is the best blog entry I have ever read.

Erm, you can't tell who this comment is from, can you? Oh dear.

(It looks great, Amy, thanks!)

Cheers!

This is great! It gives me hope that maybe one day I can get my long time bf off meat. He is the exact same regarding meat - lots of it and very little of other things...BUT slowly I do notice a difference. He doesn't cook meat when I'm in the house(I can't stand the smell of cooking flesh - sorry!) so thsts a step in the right direction!
Whatever the case I'm going to try some of the tips about getting more veggie meals and less meat into my bf! Thanks!

Thanks, gives me hope that maybe catering for a vegan can be painless for a devout carnivore such as myself.

very nice post! keep it up!

very similar time line has happened with my meat-loving spouse and i... to my great surprise (just about fell over backwards), this past january, my husband decided to adhere to a vegetarian diet along with me. didn't think that would ever happen. but, wow. you just never know. like you, hoping veganism may be in the future for our family. but for now, most animal products we consume are from local (i.e. we can visit the farm) producers who take great pride in giving their animals a real quality of life. also, we've stopped buying leather and other cruelty-based products. it's not a perfect solution, but baby steps, right? omom.

this is basically how me and my bf are. i'm a vegetarian and he doesnt push meat on me. he's supportive and even eats some of the food i make. he likes buffalo "nuggets" and soy chicken parmigane. it's awesome. :]

I was a meateater for 54 years -- until last month I saw Ingrid Newkirk on Bill Mahr HBO -- and learned that farming animals to eat is responsible for as much global warming/climate change, as all the transportation (cars/trucks/planes/etc.) carbon dioxide production.
Check out www.nature.org -- they have a carbon calculator where you can input your own lifestyle and see what your family impact is on climate change. I am looking forward to my first Thanksgiving without eating turkeys. It is a big change to break the addiction to eating animals -- but with the knowledge of the damage it is doing to the planet, how can I do anything but break that habit. It is among the quickest thing everyone can do today, immediately, to help reduce the human impact on global warming.

brilliant! i laughed out loud at this! i am the vegan wife of a pure-bred carnivore, so i can totally relate! thankfully, after 8 years together, my husband is now a self proclaimed "flexitarian" on his way to vegetarianism!

Kudos! and Thank you so much for this story. I am always looking for this kind of support. As the vegan wife of a proud carnivore, our six years together have finally sparked his small interest in veg*n food. I made some TVP sloppy joes, but didn't push him to eat it; instead he said that smells good, can I try it? His response, can you make tacos like that soon?! The many stories of people just like me (I had NO idea) certainly support the positive proof that there is hope! Now, if only the discussion of veg vs non-veg children was easy... any ideas? support? for that conversation?

You are very wise. Little by little it will happen.
At first the kids and I used to tell my husband about how unhealthy it is to eat meat and it always seemed to start some kind of disagreement. So we decided not to pressure him too much. Then soon after my husband decided to make a deal with the kids......at the time our NHL hockey team was not doing very well and everyone seemed to think (except for my kids) that they would not even make it to the play offs, so my husband decided to make the deal that if the hockey team made it to the play offs (he figured they would not) he would be vegetarian for 6 months !! And if they won the Stanley Cup he would be vegetarian for 1 year !! Bless our hockey team, because right after he made that deal they started winning and did make it to the play offs !!! So here we are almost 7 months later and he not only stuck to the deal but has decided to not eat meat, he just has to totally give up the eggs and fish which he rarely does eat. By the way, I refuse to buy meat much less cook it ,that includes fish and eggs.So he is on his own when it comes to this.
My husband has really noticed how his health has extremely improved ( he actually has had quite a few comments, about him losing weight and that he looks younger and healthier) and now loves a lot of vegetarian dishes he would had not tried if he had not become vegetarian. His favorite restaurants are now vegetarian restaurants !! Now, we just have to work on him becoming vegan. I have faith as I know that prayers do work and he loves animals . I know he does not want to feel responsible for the suffering of an innocent beautiful animal. Last Christmas he asked us what we would like for Christmas and we asked him to be vegetarian for two months which he did do.
By the way, I am happy to say that we also have some friends that don't eat as much meat or no meat at all as we have shared some of Peta's information with them.
So there is hope for everyone if my husband can do it anyone can. He was a big meat eater but not anymore!

I have much the same story except that when I as a non-dairy veg met my husband he had already given up beef and ham in the interest of staving off prostate cancer -the nitrates, nitrites, etc.(his brother got it at about 40 yrs old and other members of his family have/had it). He had already begun to learn about what eating meat can do to you but at the time he ate cheese & meat that wasn't cow or pig. I had already been in a relationship when I became veg where I was more disapproving because the other person cared so little about his health and I think he felt I was too critical - he would take the one limp lettuce leaf and slice of tomato off his burger as if to prove something to me - that he didn't need real food? I dunno. But when I met my husband I did not want to make the same mistake or make him resent me for requiring him to change. Instead I was clear that I do not and will not cook any food with meat in it and that was the only stance I took. And since I enjoy cooking and do almost all of the cooking we ate veg at home - if he cooked it was going to be the same thing every day of the year. I read and shared what I was reading with him about healthy eating, veg recipes, prostate cancer, etc., etc. After 5 years together he has, of his own accord, decided to be veg and even vegan. It started out for health reasons but now he even extends that to animal cruelty and food safety reasons, and other reasons such as contributing to our part to reduce global warming. I think he has made amazing progress becuase I wasn't pushing him.
I have found that if you lead by good example, illustrate that veg food can be delish! that people will be more open to it. Also, in the past couple of years his niece went veg and since my husband went vegan for health reasons, his brother and sister-in-law have gone veg too! Now we are in the majority in his family and the meat eaters are the minority!! Who woulda thunkit??

You are wrong about meat eating causing global warming. Chicken actually takes the least amount of fuels to raise(especially pasture raised) Actually corn soy and wheat take the most fossil fuels to grow transport, etc.
I mean I'm a vegetarian too, but I don't try to take the facts of life and twist them to fit my point of view. Also almost all veggie foods are processed foods.HIGHLY processed actually.I'm considering not being vegetarian anymore,just so I don't have to be associated with control freaks like you! You can't tell people what to eat or drink. That is considered abusive behavior. I've been vegetarian for 14 years, and all you other veggies are a shame to me. Stop being control freaks and live your own life and let people live theirs.

In response to "A" saying that the meat industry is NOT causing global warming...actually slaughter houses certainly are causing global warming. All the animal 'waste' produces methane never-mind polluting our rivers, lakes, and oceans. Factory farms produce more than 100 million tons of methane each year and that numbers is unfortunately increasing as the demands for flesh are sadly rising. And if you "A" don't know what methane is, it's 21 times more powerful a greenhouse gas then CO2. So I suggest you retract your statment, because the animal flesh industry actually does play a huge role in the effects of global warming.

haha you're awesome. i too have already succeeded in taking my bf off meat and avoiding milk products :)

Wow. Thank you Peta! And I hate blogs! But this one has to do with me. It is very useful. And it gives me these great tips I can't get anywhere else. What a gem!