translated from Spanish: The butcher who became vegan in secret and assures that his life changed for the better

After more than 15 years working as a butcher, Brian Kavanagh began to hide a secret from his colleagues.
For much of his adult life he had dedicated without any problem to cut and shape products of animal origin.
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He began to do so when he was only 16 years old in a small family butcher shop in South Lanarkshire, in the South of Scotland.
But, as he says, he accepted the job only to satisfy his father.
Is it being vegan and is different to be vegetarian, but when your spouse Rebecca became vegan, he also thought of the possibility of giving up eating animal products.
It was the documentary Earthlings on the welfare of animals, which finally pushed him to change.
The film, directed by Shaun Monson and narrated by the actor Joaquin Phoenix, shows the conditions of animals in factory farms.
Meat vegan when Brian worked at a supermarket butcher counter, eating veal or chicken was something usual given carrying meat home every day.
“The kids and I had meals other than of my spouse,” she recalls.
Brian makes products as this vegan Bacon, Sgaia.A offer age 33, when he decided to become vegan, didn’t know how to say it to his colleagues.
“I kept it me for me”, he says. “No I told anyone because I was concerned that they teased”.
“Why I stopped being vegan'”before I saw the flesh like a piece of food, but now I see her like an animal,”explains.
“I was a little depressed, just didn’t feel well. So I had to leave (the supermarket) “, mind.”
Thus prepares a vegan meat: gluten, soy and spices. Brian, who is now 36 years old, resigned from the butcher counter, and finally was hired by Sgaia completo Vegan Meats (meat Sgaia vegan), a company founded by Hilary Masin and Alberto Casotto.
5 questions that maybe you’ve done about veganism (and their responses) “I worried that my labor background might not like and that they did not want someone who had been a butcher for 15 years”, says.
“But they were really excited and wanted that I work there as much as I.”
Now, Brian calls himself “butcher vegan”.
Square sausage by mixing soy, gluten and spices, Sgaia creates from a series of versions vegan Bacon and burgers to more specialized Delicatessen foods.
Sgaia square sausage is one of its most popular products. The firm provides to various restaurants and kitchens of Glasgow, in Scotland.
Shortly after joining Sgaia, Brianayudo to launch one of the most popular products of the company: square vegan sausage.
“Make sausage was important part of being a butcher. Once I saw how it was based (vegan), I thought it would be interesting to play with that and create a square sausage”, account.
How to take calcium and protein the vegans and other questions that people do on a lifestyle with increasingly more adept “all criticisms have been really good. We took it to a festival and some people returned to try it two or three times,”he says.
Happiness in recent years, have increased the small manufacturers that sell new forms of “meat” despite the resistance encountered in some parts of the world.
Last year, the United States cattlemen Association asked to establish an official definition of “meat” and “meat”.
Brian and his sons Jack and Lucy went from eating meat every day to a vegetable-based diet. At the end of March, as a result of this request, the Governor of the State of South Dakota signed a law requiring that “fake meat” products were tagged properly, since they “cheated” consumers.
France also banned from tag products vegan or vegetarian, as if they were “meat” to avoid confusion.
Vegans and sports stars: meet 7 famous athletes who opted for veganism regardless of labels, Brian says that the change in lifestyle has not brought him more than happiness.
“My skin was the first thing I noticed. I always had spots until age 30, my skin is much clearer now. Also feel the mind clear and focused,”says.
“It is rather psychological: you eat healthy, you feel good”.

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