jisnut
 M/33 vegetarian St. Louis United States
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About Me: I live and work St. Louis City. I am always looking for other fun city dwelling friends. I am polyamorous. I get along with just about everybody, but really dig other veggie/liberal/progressive folks. I love all animals. I have 2 dogs. I have a big house and I like to fill it with fun people for fun social events. I thrive on creativity, optimism and pragmatism.
NOTE: "jisnut" is merely a scrambling of the letters in my name: Justin. There are obviously too many Justin’s out there on the internet already but this handle is usually available so I’ve used it for everything even though everybody thinks I’m making some kind of obscene statement about my sexuality. Honestly, I’m not!
How I became a veggie: I was maybe 12 or 13 when I visited a farm some family members owned in Southern Illinois. I brought my video camera thinking I might make some groundbreaking documentary on the realities of farm life. I had never seen chickens being slaughtered before though, and I had no idea how gruesome the process really was. The first head came off and I watched the blood-soaked body flail about for several minutes. Then they dunked the bodies in a boiling broth of blood, feathers and excrement from the dozens of other birds slaughtered just before them. I swore I’d never eat meat again just then. The sights and sounds and the stench—my god the stench—of death all around didn’t seem to phase any of my other family members. They ate chicken salad for lunch. I didn’t eat anything for the rest of the day but just sat their nauseated. I didn’t touch meat for a month, but in a house full of meat eaters, the support for a vegetarian diet just wasn’t there. Nearly ten years later, my ex-wife and I started reading a succession of books to each other: Fast Food Nation, Diet for a New America, among others. We gradually phased meat out of our diets over a month or two. I’ve been vegetarian ever since.
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