I ate an animal product and I feel bad?!

Yes, you can go back to being a vegan. You slipped up and made a mistake. It happens. Think of all the meals you ate that didn't contain meat. It made a difference. I think it is sweet that you prayed to those cows. I'm not religious, but who decided that only god or people hear prayers?

I'm upset by some of the things people have written to you, but maybe it is a good opportunity to learn what you can say in response to those who attack your beliefs. Vegans and vegetarians are not illogical. We think about the choice we made and should not be criticized for holding a different set of opinions. For example:
1) "If you don't eat it, then someone else will." You can say, "I'm not going to support something I don't believe in. It is a process that takes time, but the number of vegans and vegetarians in this world is growing rapidly, and we are making an impact. If we all gave up just because someone else is eating the product, then change could never happen."
2) "Plants are alive, too." Your response, "Humans need vegetables to survive, but we don't need animals to survive. Also, plants don't have a central nervous system or consciousness. But, for the record, I don't support the needless destruction of plant-life."
3) "Did you know plants scream when they are ripped." You say, "Actually, that noise heard is just the sound of gasses being released. Plants don't have mouths or vocal chords from which to scream, nor do they have nerves sending a signal to a brain telling them they are being hurt."
4) "God put animals on this earth to be eaten." Depending on your religious belief you can say,
- "Maybe, but s/he didn't say they should be raised in factory farms and tortured when killed. The bible does not say anything about supporting cruelty toward animals or even eating them out of more than necessity. In biblical times, people had less options. Today, we have options." OR
- "The bible says a lot of things that would not be considered appropriate by today's standards. God also said that slavery was acceptable and that women had only monetary value." OR
- "Eating animals has actually done so much damage to the earth and our bodies. God tells us to preserve human life. Heart disease, obesity, cancer (yes there is statistical evidence that there is a correlation), diabetes, rheumatic diseases, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and environmental degradation do not preserve human life." OR
- "I don't believe in the bible."
5) Don't be afraid to just say, "I made this choice for a reason. It is my body, please respect that."

Experience. University degree in relevant material (won't go into specifics because I like to keep yahoo answers as anonymous as possible).

Soooooooo??? Yay nutella! Try it with graham crackers! OMG! Amazing!!!

Everything has animal byproducts. Don't you know? Cow feces and chicken feces are fertilizer to all farm fields that grow produce. Just an fyi if you didn't know.

Margaret Cho was right. Never mess with vegans....because they are HUNGRY! Hahahaha.

If this is the worst thing that can happen to you then congratulations. At least you have a choice of what you want to eat, other people aren't so lucky and sometimes have to go days without food.

yes you can go back to vegan? theres no rule saying that if you eat an animal product that all of a sudden you cant go back to eating veggies and stuff.

Well, the rennet in Nutella is supposedly from a vegetable source (see link below), so I wouldn't get too worked up about it.

http://www.eathalalonly.com/2010/03/nute…

You haven't done anything to feel bad over.
Stop worrying- there's no need to be so fragile.

Eric- come up with your own lines, instead of copying mine.

I am sorry but can I ask you a question...If you were stranded on an Island and your only options were to eat a cow, or eat yourself, what would you pick?

Get over yourself. No one is perfect at anything. The product was already made and if you didn't buy it someone else would have. Relax and quit being such a perfectionist. It's really ok!

Nutella doesn't have rennet. Where the hell did you hear that? Rennet is only in CHEESE.

first of all, I just looked at the ingredients in nutella, and found skim milk, but no rennet. Secondly, if you are vegan, then how do you even have an animal product in your kitchen? Lastly, cows can't hear prayers because they are not God.

If you are not eating animal products because you don't want to kill anything, or don't want to eat a byproduct of a living thing,, then you are not achieving your goal by becoming vegan. Plants are just as alive as animals. They are just as deserving of living a full and complete life as animals, maybe more so. All animals must consume other lives to survive. Only plants do not destroy another life for its own survival. So if you really want to be fair, then eat only animal and animal by products, and leave the innocent plants to live their peaceful life in full.

You're not going to die. I respect that you want to be a vegan, but I personally think it's uneccessary. It doesn't matter how many vegans are in this world, there are always going to be a lot more that eat meat. Facts of life my dear. You didn't slaughter the cow, and you aren't going to stop anyone else from doing it either. Sorry..

Definitely agree with Eric, God put animals on this earth for a reason.