Being a lacto-ovo vegetarian...I feel I'm doing nothing!?!
Being a lacto-ovo vegetarian...I feel I'm doing nothing!?
take a look at this http://www.goveg.com/organic_eggs.asp...
I eat eggs and cheese everyday...so what's the difference? animals are still hurting, they're not dying to give me their eggs and cheese but they're being tortured which is even worse!
anyone else feels that way? how can I go vegan if 90% of what I eat is eggs and dairy?
Answers:
If your reason for becoming a vegetarian is to help stop cruelty to animals, you might want to consider becoming a vegan. Vegans eat no meat, fish, poultry, eggs, or dairy products (some also avoid wearing leather). It takes a bit of planning and getting used to, but it can be done. There are lots of wonderful foods that you haven't tried yet which will provide you with 99.9% of the nutrients your body needs. Be sure to take a vitamin B12 supplement of some type if you go vegan. Protein abounds in tofu, beans, and many other foods. The website you quoted has lots of great information. Go for it!
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personal experience
That's not very healthy to mostly eggs and cheese. And actually cows are in fact suffering because you are stealing the milk out of the mouths of their children.
Lemme tell you how milk is produced. No mammal of any kind can lactate unless they have been pregnant. Cows are forcefully(usually artificiall) inseminated..basically raped. They give birth to a calf which is then used for veal and never gets to suck on his mothers utter for milk. The calf is fed a whole nasty mixture of formula to get them to grow but its not mother's milk. Basically imagine being pregnant every year with no real break in between. Imagine that once that baby is born it is taken from you and then killed but you still have to pump out milk everyday for someone elses baby. It's like that.
So anyway. Even if you decide not to go vegan, consuming that much milk and eggs is not healthy. 90% of your diet should never be animal products, it will make you sick
You reduced the suffering. Try to go organic on the milk product. Make sure its a legitimate organic farmer, since some of the organic milk are also factory farmed. SOme of them pasteur their cows after their days has past. You'll be helathier if you don't turn vegan. Its difficult to balance your nutrients with out meat products. As for some eggs, try to find someone who keeps chicken or ducks. Or grow them yourself. Also you might do some research on goats milk. I think goats demands more humane treatment.
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You'll be a lot healthier as a vegan too. Vegans have lower rates of many types of cancers (breast, colon, prostate etc..), diabetes, gall stones, heart disease, kidney stones, osteoporosis, arthritis. The list goes on.............
And it's ofcourse better for the environment too,
Global Warming:
A vegan diet contributes less to global warming.
The latest UN report "Livestocks long shadow" found that:
Livestock is the biggest single source of pollutants like hormones, chemicals and animal waste. Likewise, its contribution to climate change is large: of all greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, livestock accounts for 9 per cent of carbon dioxide (more than cars), 65 per cent of nitrous oxide, 64 per cent of ammonia and 37 per cent of methane.
Eighty per cent of the growth in livestock numbers is coming from intensive industrial farming practices, particularly for pigs and chickens. And the UN is forecasting a doubling by 2050 of global meat production to 456 million tonnes a year and milk production to 1.04 billion tonnes a year."
Geophysicists Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin, from the University of Chicago, concluded that changing one's eating habits from the Standard American Diet (SAD) to a vegetarian or, better yet, vegan diet does more to fight global warming than switching from a gas-guzzling SUV to a fuel-efficient hybrid car. It has been said "that where the environment is concerned, eating meat is like driving a huge SUV.... Eating a vegetarian diet is like driving a mid-sized car [or a "reasonable sedan," according to Eshel], and eating a vegan diet is like riding a bicycle or walking.
Water:
It takes 500 litres of water to produce 1kg of potatoes, 900 litres per kg of wheat, 3,500 litres per kg of digestible chicken flesh and a massive 100,000 litres for 1kg of beef
(one kilogram of beef uses as much water as:
40 baths
300 toilet flushes
100 times the clean water needed by an individual according to UNESCO)
Less land:
A vegan diet requires just 1/8th the amount of land to produce a meat diet, and about 1/3 for a vegetarian diet. 70% of former forests in the amazon have been converted to grazing land.
Egg and dairy are sources of protein, folate and calcium. but not to worry, because there are substitutes for such nutrients.
Protein: tofu, soy, beans etc
Folate: asparagus, strawberries, oranges, broccoli etc
Calcium: dark green leaves like spinach
so it is possible to go 100% vegan.
hi biscuit.
they are only being hurt because of where you choose to buy your eggs from. Its your choice.
If you buy eggs from a local farm where the hens are free to roam all around the courtyard and fields then they are not being hurt or tortured.
I'm a veggie and our hens are free to do what they please. most of the village buy from us because they can see the animals and trust they are well looked after.
and if you drink milk, you might as well eat meat as 50% of calves are killed with your milk money.
You don't have to go vegan. You could just buy organic eggs and dairy. It's more expensive, but the chickens are free range and the like, so it's guilt-free.
Try raw milk from a local dairy that has well cared for cows. You can also get free range eggs from a local source. Cabot brand has a nice line of cheese made from vegetarian rennet. I make homemade cheese with it too. Check to see if you have a food co op in your area. I lived in my tiny town for over 20 years before I found out there was one not far from my house Co ops usually have good, organic foods from local farms, raw milk, free range egg, and a variety of other foods. That way, you can continue with the foods you enjoy, and still not be contributing to the animal cruelty. Good luck, hope this helps
You are doing a lot in helping animals simply by being a vegetarian. Generally organic eggs and dairy come from better treated animals. Try to look for eggs that say "cage-free chickens."