Vegetarians Going All The Way
Becoming A Vegan Family
By Melanie Wilson
and the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine for information, or visit VegFamily for moral support in becoming a vegan family. Scour the cooking and nutrition section of the bookstore for titles that appeal to you. Search Ebay or Amazon.com auctions for the titles you want at a discount. Better yet, borrow a book from the library (some can get books shipped in from other libraries at no charge) or a friend to see if it's something you'll really use. Subscribe to a magazine if you can afford it. Surround yourself with reminders of why you are embarking on this journey for the times when your motivation falters.
All of these are important steps on the path to becoming vegan family. Above all, remember that it is a continual process, not a mission, a goal to be attained in a set period of time. As Joanne Stepaniak, author of many vegan cookbooks, points out, "Longtime vegans rarely view their practice as a final destination. Rather, it is seen as an endless path -- a stream of consciousness leading to deeper awareness." Making the move toward a vegan lifestyle as a family presents challenges that are different from the route of the single vegan convert, but the reward is having traveled together, grown and learned as a unit, and nurtured one other along the path as only a family can.
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