I want to switch to Vegan??!
Answers: I am 14 and I really, really want to be a vegan.I have been a vegetarian for a while now and my grandmother (who i live with) says that I can not become vegan until I move out!She says I need eggs and milk!please help
I was a vegetarian and was researching on here and saw someone post a link to a website that I PROMISE YOU will convince your grandmother and anyone else who believes in the benefits (yeah right) of milk. It is http://notmilk.com
Tell your grandmother that there are trace amounts of blood and pus in milk from the poor female cows who are put into stalls for 2 years to be milked (because of course milk is not meant for baby cows, it is meant for us humans...) and their udders get damaged and infected from the constant milking. Meanwhile the newborn calf is removed from it's mother as soon as it is born and will be prepped for becoming someone's Veal Meal around the age of 4 months. Also at this site, you will find that milk is linked to all kinds of diseases and conditions including being directly related to breast cancer (from the hormones they give the cows to keep producing milk). The site is amazing and will definitely open some eyes. It did mine. I am now (thank God) completely vegan. Good luck to you.
If you do some good research and come up with a detailed meal plan of what you will eat to get protein and fat, she might reconsider that rule.
Go to compassionatecooks.com. She has ideas for how to convince wary parents/guardians that you are making a good decision. Also, read the book The Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian, if you haven't already. That should give you some sound arguments, too.
I am a vegetarian and am almost at veganism but find it hard to substitute cheese. Meat is NOT good for you at all. There are tons of better and more environmentaly sound ways to get the protein you need. Are you a baby cow? Or a baby period? No. Milk is made for BABY COWS, not adult humas. Any doctor will tell you that. Drink soy milk, it's perfectly fine for you! And it's loaded with vitamins. Eggs have protein...but so does a hundred other food products. Being a vegan is so healthy for you! Go to goveg.com and discover all the goodness out of being a vegan. :)
I sympathise with what your grandmother is doing - she is trying to keep you healthy and look out for what she sees as your best interests. But it's also clear that she is ill informed about diet, and what benefits a well planned vegan diet can bring.
It might be up to you to gently educate your grandmother, using good quality resources and arguments. It might take some time for her to come round, but if you're respectful, but persistent and firm in your beliefs, she will come round in time.
With the potential of a vegan diet, it is very possible that she might even change to vegan herself, given time. I've seen it happen! :)
Soy milk is fortified with more calcium than dairy milk.
I suggest that you explain to your grandmother why you want to do it, and how you feel because she won't let you. I think that it is your choice and you are old enough to look after your own body (your my age :) ). however, my doctors have told me that people our age need LOTS of calcium, because when you get to a certain age, you start losing calcium and its verryy hard to get back, so you have to build it up now, otherwise osteoperosis could be a big issue. BUT you can still be a vegan! just tell your grandmother that you'd like to be vegan but can stay healthy by taking calcium suppliments, that you can easily buy at the supermarket, take like two a day and you've got more than enough calcium! and theres nothing animal in them :) thats what I do.
hope this helps:)
I'd respect your grandmother's wishes until your of age. Eating a vegan diet is more complicated then a vegetarian diet is. Since you can't shop for yourself yet, you will have a harder time eating a ballanced vegan diet.
i dont recommend that.. you need meat..