How long do future vegans feel they need to be "in-training"?!
I was in training for a bit over 4 years before my teacher "pushed" me out on my own. I almost slipped back into the comfortable medicocrity of vegetarianism because the first year was so hard.
How long do you think it is reasonable for you to be in training as a strict vegetarian before you become a true vegan?
Answers: as so called "strict" vegetarians before they make a commitment to be vegans? It seems like all there are on here are these really bitter wannabes always whining about "trolls" and trying to discredit those of us who are the true vegans that follow a spiritual path.
I was in training for a bit over 4 years before my teacher "pushed" me out on my own. I almost slipped back into the comfortable medicocrity of vegetarianism because the first year was so hard.
How long do you think it is reasonable for you to be in training as a strict vegetarian before you become a true vegan?
Well it is very hard, but I do beleive that vegan is btter than vegatarian.
I am 14 and for New Years I decided to become vegan.
And I will stick to it. I have been a vegatarian for 2 years and always considered veganism. and now I will be vegan.
So for me it was 2years
Oh Please! There is so much crap in and on our food who cares?
As a lacto-ovo vegetarian for the past 27yrs, I can tell you that vegetarianism or vegan diet is a matter of choice. Not all vegetarians are on a "path" to become vegans... either spiritually or otherwise. Some of us are vegetarians based on different values, health benefits, or spiritual beliefs.
Your journey is not the same as all others, keep that in mind before being so quick to assume that a strict vegetarian "wants" to be a vegan.
wax on, wax off.
I'm a flexitarian vegetarian but I thought I would make a statement based on observations I've made in my travels.
Most of the strict vegans I've found in other cultures are as such because of their spiritual or religious beliefs. So the "diet" part is only a small component of an entire lifestyle.
I've observed "western" vegans as seriously lacking in knowledge not only about their own nutritional needs, but having a narrow and childish view of what being vegan really means. Usually it is limited to feeling sorry for animals. I find most on this forum, petty, uninformed and with quite a shallow and knee-jerk undersanding as many of the answers and questions on this V&V forum demonstrate.