Reasons to go Vegan?!
I'm trying really hard to go vegan. I want to do it for my health, the animals and the earth.
Thanks in advance, I will read all of your answers, I am very curious to know! (Apologies if I have already asked this!!)
Loveage!!
scottie x
Answers: Hi guys!
I'm trying really hard to go vegan. I want to do it for my health, the animals and the earth.
Thanks in advance, I will read all of your answers, I am very curious to know! (Apologies if I have already asked this!!)
Loveage!!
scottie x
I became vegan while studying the environmental impact of agri-business. I realized how ecologically unsustainable a large scale omnivorous diet is to sustain globally. Producing meat places massive stresses on the earth's resources and the environment. I study environmental engineering and majoring in agricultural waste management. That along with ethical concerns about animal treatment are the main reasons I decided to become vegan. Also reading Peter Singer's - The Ethics of What We Eat & - Animal factories, really changed my perspective. One part that stuck in my mind was the section on dairy. I was reading it on the train on the way to work, & I had to try so hard not to cry infront of everyone. It's so sad what all those poor animals are subjected to.
I won't lie it has been a little difficult. But I'm sure if your passionate and you really believe in the cause you can do it scottie. I'm sorry you didn't recieve any encouraging words from the few silly answers above. They clearly have no idea.
Good luck, I'm sure you can do it. =)
If you are struggling to go vegan then why do it? I haven't found any reason to go vegan. Animals were put on this Earth for us to consume in order to live. Meat tastes so good. Many vegans end up looking really emaciated and anemic. Yeah, I know, all the vegetarians will bash this posting. So be it.
I am not sure because i dont really understand why people go vegan because meat is sooo tasty and mainly once your vegan you eat grass all day.
i would recomend not going vegan, but vegetarian. there are really no good reasons to go vegan.
I am a vegetarian. Linda McCartney food mmmmmm.
I began years ago simply limiting meats in my diet after reading books about the land-intensive movement. Actually, I began simply because meat was expensive. After searching for books with good recipes, I learned more good reasons to limit or go completely without meats or meat-products. For example, did you know that it takes about 7000 pounds of grain to produce ONE pound of red meat? This seemed outrageous to me so I checked the statics, and sure enough, that is acurate. Why should we strain our resources? Red meat also digests poorly and takes up to three days to leave the body. What would happen if you left meat on the kitchen table for three days? It would rot, right? Why would we eat food that will be rotting in our digestive system before it is finally processed (taking much toil on digestive organs) as much as possible up to three days later? There are also many products and herbs used to cleanse the colon of the vile waste products from rotting and unprocessed meats and by-products that have remained in the colon. The toxins left in the body cause a miriad of ill effects. Imagine whole companies thriving and supporting families solely by the service of helping people to remove those horrid toxins from their bodies! They exist and they do well. Then there are the issues of allergies. Why is it that so many people are allergic to milk and eggs? Bodies that are more sensitive to the diffuiculty of these foods, simply react violently in an effort to alarm the person eating them. Add to that the massive toxins in waters effecting fish and seafood. These foods are full of poisons. Fat naturally stores poisons. That is one of its jobs. What are people eating lots of when they eat pork or fried poultry? They are eating the very part of the animal that was designed to store those extra wastes that the animal's body could remove through natural means. What is natural about those toxins anyway? Hmmm, colon cleasing for pork? HA! I just don't see it. So why eat it, friends? Why eat what makes us sick and wastes our land?
Even if animals were always treated well before there were finally slaughtered, it still takes an incredible amount of land to produce a small amount of meat. The same amount of land can feed thousands of people. Those thousands of people would also live longer and healthier without the toxins that a meat-eating lifestyle provides the body.
It makes you think, huh?
You have feelings,
and "food" can too...
You have the choice,
they have no voice...
A vegan person does not just restrict their diet but all other products that are consumed or used.
The only reason to be vegan is out of horror in response to today's farming methods and the belief that animals are not property and he have no right controlling when they are born or killed and how they live.
Everything else is just an additional benefit of living and more conscious and considerate lifestyle.
If you want to go vegan, I STRONGLY recommend that you develop skills in the kitchen that are sufficient enough to keep you very satisfied throughout each meal of the day with at least seven great options for each meal so that you don't get bored.
You need to all of this before you make a commitment and start calling yourself vegan. Its not a race or competition so their is no need to rush. Just because you eat vegan food most of the time, that doesn't mean that you are vegan or need to refer to yourself as such. When I went vegetarian, my immediate goal was to become vegan and I waited a whole year before I was sure that I would never again be tempted by something sweet before I called myself vegan.
Health, environmentally sustainable lifestyle, and I don't have to eat animals.