Why do so many people become VEGANS os VEGETARIANS?!
Great news for the poor animals living in concentration camps.
Answers: Each year millions and millions of people, around the world, become Vegans or Vegetarians and I predict that in 20 or 30 years time Vegans and Vegetarians will be more of half of the world population.
Great news for the poor animals living in concentration camps.
Mrfoo, if it's so gross why do you still directly participate in it? I don't support PETA but you're showing some cognitive dissonance.
No. 8 is acctually true. It is quite possible to live as a vegan for under $50 a week.
I think if people go vegan just to look cool or for their partner, they're going vegan for the WRONG REASONS and those types of "vegans" never stay vegan for longer than a month.
Veganism is at it's core about ethics, even the guy who coined the term (Donald Watson) said so. Veganism is not a diet, it's a lifestyle - that means we don't consume anything that came from an animal whether it be animal food products or animal skins for clothing. We also avoid zoos and circuses that use animals. If you only eat a vegan diet but still wear or use animals in other forms, you're not a vegan but a strict vegetarian. That's a difference, veganism is a political and ethical statement - it is applying the theory of abolitionism to one's daily life.
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Sadly I think it will take A LOT more than 30 years
Well, nobody win in that argument though. in my opinion some "meat eater" could say to a vegetarian or vegan " why dont you eat meat? the animals are going to be killed anyway for other people to eat" and the Vegans would have a great argument in saying that " Yeah, but i will live happy knowing that those factories arent killing those animals for me, considering the fact that i dont eat meat. Or in other words, i would know for a fact that i didint harm an animal for my food" Either way noones right.
Moral beliefs on animal cruelty
Dietary reasons, perhaps to avoid animal fats , perhaps their bodys cant break it down properly or what ever
they just dont like the taste of meat or the texture
Here is my reasoning based on working on a state university campus, managing several restaurants and cafes on campus, and talking to college students:
1. They think they will lose weight faster.
2. Their friends are doing it.
3. They don't want to hurt the animals anymore by eating them, but their Dolce and Gabbana leather bag, leather bottom Jansport backpack, and their leather topped Sketchers don't affect the animals.
4. They actually conducted some research via google and blogs and realized there are some health benefits, but ultimately some celebrity of the moment prefers to date vegetarian women.
5. PeTa brain washed them with scary literature and gross stories.
6. Some guy/girl they like is a vegan/vegetarian.
7. They actually foster the beliefs and find better living through their vegetarian nature.
8. Eating vegetarian is alot cheaper than meats on a student budget.
9. Their parents raised them vegetarian.
10. Everyone else is doing it.
My daughter has been a vegetarian for at least 12 years. She once saw her pet duck get killed by a dog, and she just didn't want to eat meat anymore. She also feels like meat is bad for your health because of fats, additives, and contamination. There are a lot of food items such as veggie patties and vegetarian foods that she eats. With mad cow disease and a lot going on in the meat industry, you are probably correct in your assumption that vegans will be over 50 percent. I understand her views, but personally I love a big, fat, juicy burger or steak.
On what do you base your statistics? I think you are wrong. What is growing are flexitarian vegetarians ... growing faster than any strict vegetarian or vegan. That means they are primarily vegetarians but moderate in consuming meat. So they have a balanced diet and are very healthy.
There is one reason, and only one reason for people to become vegan or vegetarian. Some people have a horrid hate for plants and want them all to die. Every single one. It is because of this reason that people become vegans or vegetarians.
To be serious, there are 3 main reasons that people become vegans/vegetarians. The most common is when people think that they are helping the environment by eating plants. The second most common is when people will become a vegan/vegetarian for health reasons. The third most common is when people become vegans/vegetarians for religious reasons.
The reason they become vegers is because they want to. Isn't that why anybody does anything?
Sorry but there's no such thing as a "flexitarian vegetarian". There is no such thing as a animal flesh eating vegetarian. That makes no sense.
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/definitions.h...
Lusitania---your prediction for the vegers future is quite humorous. Vegers stand at 2% of the population right now.
wishful thinking in your part but your statistics are wrong. The estimated number of vegetarians in the US (including those who eat fish and seafood but call themselves vegetarian) is only about 5%. "Strict" vegetarians, including vegans is only about 1.2-2%. The UK has a slightly higher number, about 5-6%. Worldwide, the number is said to be at 15-20% (including those who eat plant foods due to economic circumstance but would eat meat when available). So "many" is a very inaccurate description fo the numbers of vegers.
Statistically, 50% is improbable within the forseeable future. And unless you forsee a fascist type of government that imposes bans and severe limits on peoples choices, a 100% number is an impossibility as well.
Reasons: I was told that they became vegetarians becuse:
1) religion (7th day adventists)
2) health /weightloss (3 were overweight and one is a diabetic)
3) latest cool thing/fad/peer pressure (mostly preteens/teens or young 20 somethings)
4) ethical and moral issues
5) career enhancement (boss was vegan. was because not anymoe)
6) image conformity (hey i am a rebel, also a vegetarian and i am an environmetalist so I should be vegetarian/vegan)
7) economics - vegetables are supposedly cheaper
8) taste - does't like meat period.
I'm vegan and sorry, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Great! I'm glad to know that there will be more out there. I don't know that many besides myself, but I would love to.
People make personal choices on what they will and will not eat is the honest answer to your question.
It is all about personal choices or medical reasons that direct people to make the choices that they do.
I personally wonder about your prediction.
With the drastic weather changes that are going on around the world - I have serious doubts about the ability to really continue to raise crops in the same way that has been done in our recent past to continue on if things do not change.
Such isn't great news for animal or mankind alike.
I was (key word WAS - no longer) to legally marry one of the top contributors on here and he was the one that really started me to get to watching the weather and comparing it to past conditions - and the trend isn't good. There are more than a few people that really do believe that there is a shift taking place with the weather and that there are negative effects to be seen within the weather - which in turn will have an effect upon growing food.
Just take a look at the problems that the slowing and stopping of the Gulf stream has done to the weather on the east coast and England for just one example.
Food production as a whole needs to be looked at - personal growing of ones own food is something to be considered and looked at as well if one really wants to be responsible.
Vegetarians and vegans make up a tiny percentage of the world's population, and are unlikely to become very much more significant numerically in the next 20 - 30 years.
Lol at FlexiVegan; he asks 'On what do you base your statistics?' Then goes on to say 'What is growing are flexitarian vegetarians ... growing faster than any strict vegetarian or vegan'
Leave aside the fact that he's claiming 'flexitarian vegetarians' are growing faster than strict veg*ns - taller? fatter? - he doesn't say. He ain't too bright, so his sentence construction can be excused. BUT... on what do you base your claim Flexi? Come on, give us that link. I'm sure you haven't just pulled that 'fact' out of thin air, have you?
Heaven is going to be right here on this earth!!!! Fools are waiting to leave this world for heaven which is not there at all, and hear is a person, who is going to create heaven right here in 20-30yrs. Go on, if alive I will join you as well. That world would be a free of violence world, because innocent, defenseless animal killing is also a sort of violence.
Why? It just makes sense, I guess. There's really no reason to consume meat or dairy etc., and... that's it.
Will it reach half the population of the world in 30 years?
Um... no, only in certain countries.
Look at China right now. They eat mostly vegetables, but as the economy gets better and better, and the lifestyles become more like the N. American standard of living, the more they want to eat like kings and queens, just as we do... pigging out on the foods that were formerly the most expensive stuff... meat, junk food, cakes, cookies, processed foods, maybe they'll even start consuming dairy and beef... They are basically at the stage N. America was at in the 1940s -- women getting more rights, people earning more money, standard of living going up... etc.
They'll go through the same stages we have gone through... it will take two or three generations of ill health, sickness, environmental degradation, paving everything over, etc. for the masses to come to terms about how crazy it has gotten.