I elected to participate in this project because I am interested in nutrition and animal rights activism. A recent book called "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran has gotten a lot of press on popular blogs such as the Huffington Post or Brooklyn Vegan.
While I have not myself read the book, my arch-liberal San Fran resident cousin has pestered me endlessly to read it, and it inspired Natalie Portman to become vegan after being a vegetarian for twenty years.
A vegetarian friend of mine is currently reading "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell, which outlines a connection with meat consumption and a variety of diseases, including many different forms of cancer.
I have never given up any type of food before, and this has led me to begin feeling trepidatious about my own health. I will not be able to forecast my own long term health in the next 10 days, but I hope to gain some insight into how different foods make me feel and what type of healthy choices are the easiest to make.
I started off with a breakfast of Raisin Bran with soy milk, and I honestly could not tell the difference from cow milk (which I almost called "normal" milk).
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