Hello and welcome to Effortless English.

Today is another spontaneous podcast, spontaneous English.

And of course spontaneous means without a plan.

And it's the most natural kind of speaking.

It's speaking without reading, without planning what you're going to say.

And it's the way we speak when we have normal conversations, of course.

So today I was trying to think about, you know, what should I talk about?

I need a general topic at least.

And I was reading our effortless English forums and

noticed they had some Skype discussions about being a vegetarian. Sri, one of our really fantastic members,

she's got so much energy and enthusiasm and motivation,

she started a Skype discussion on the topic of vegetarianism and I thought hey why don't I talk about that it's a good podcast topic because

You know some members know that I'm a vegetarian and I sometimes get comments or emails asking me about

when did I become a vegetarian why, so I'll quickly talk about that. How and why did I become a

vegetarian? Well, I became a vegetarian about 15 years ago and it actually was not easy for me because

before I became a vegetarian I used to eat lots and lots of meat. I was a carnivore. In fact my favorite restaurant was McDonald's and I would go to McDonald's all the time, many times every week.

In fact the McDonald's employees knew my order. I would walk in and they already knew what I was going to order. They would just start typing it.

But then, you know, something changed. A few things changed.

The first thing that changed was I got a job as a security guard. This was after I graduated from university with my first degree, my first of three degrees, my undergraduate degree, which is in journalism.

And I graduated and could not find any good job so I had a lot of bad jobs and one of those

bad jobs was security guard at a chicken plant, this big chicken processing plant and what that means in fact is it's a place where they

kill the chickens.

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