In my twenties I had years of trouble with adult acne. It killed my self-esteem, hurt my pocketbook and took a huge amount of my time. I hated acne and tried almost everything to rid myself of it but nothing worked, though I never tried Acutain, so I can’t say if that would have helped me.
After Stefan and I got married in 2000, I looked at the photos from that night and saw how the evening progressed and my makeup started coming off from hugging people and the general fun of the night – and there was my acne. I couldn’t believe that, at 32, I was still dealing with this. I thought of my grandmother, who told me once that she stopped drinking milk and her skin troubles went away, and I realized that instead of taking Acutain, I could do something even more drastic and crazy: I could quit eating dairy!
So I quit cold Tofurky – I stopped eating all the yogurt, milk, cheese I used to love. Man, Stefan and I used to have wine and cheese parties. Those days were over.
Two weeks later my acne went away. No more red spots, no more white heads, no more acne.
Then I started looking into the animal welfare side of the dairy industry and that led me into seeing the hell of meat production and I quit it all. My personal experience was that I couldn’t eat an animal after seeing all the countless examples of the horrors they go through. It was easy to not eat meat or dairy or eggs. People think it must be so difficult – it’s nothing compared to the pain animals experience.
Now, 8 years later, it’s just a normal part of my life and my family’s day-to-day routine. There’s plenty to eat. It’s funny how Westerners get so freaked out about nutrition and abundance (thinking that they won’t get either on a vegan diet), and then they lay into a charred piece of meat and overcooked vegetables. It’s just funny.