What is better - being a vegetarian or being a vegan?!
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That's sort of like the Yankees or Red Sox debate. I'm a Vegetarian, and I eat eggs and cheese. I feel my choice is healthier for me, and compassionate. (free range, organic, etc)
Health wise, it's better to be a vegan. Eggs and dairy are high in cholesterol and fat, so a vegan diet will help prevent high cholesterol and obesity even more than a vegetarian diet would.
Convenience wise, it's better to be a vegetarian. There are much more restaurants and grocery stores that have vegetarian options than there are stores with vegan options. You don't even have to know how to cook to be a vegetarian, because there are so many options available. If you're a vegan, you're doomed if you don't know how to cook, because most places won't accomodate you.
With that being said, both diets are healthy and both diets are easy to do, if you do your research.
Good luck.
Vegetarian
In the ideal world, being a vegan would be better. If you eat eggs and dairy, you are still eating products that come from farms that don't treat animals very well.
However, in the world we live in, being vegan is very difficult. Most restaurants don't have any dishes for vegans and if they do, they tend to not taste very good. Also, it's very hard to find good pre-made vegan food in stores, and if you do it tends to be very expensive. So, vegans end up having to eat mostly homemade meals. Learning the art of vegan cooking can take time and recipes can be hard to find. As a vegetarian (that has done lots of research on veganism and has some vegan friends), I find that being vegetarian is actually pretty easy and I can still eat out, and eat lots of good food. Personally, I recommend starting out by being a vegetarian and if after a while you feel like taking on the challenges of being vegan, you can.
Hope this helped!
Being vegan is probably better for your health, and definitely better for animal and environmental issues... although being a vegetarian is a lot easier both practically (specialty foods in stores and restaurants) and socially (uneducated people think vegans are just pointless radicals).
Vegan for the last three years, vegetarian for the last five.
I wish everyone would decide to become vegan, but even cutting down on meat consumption helps. Of course it doesn't help the animals who are still eaten, but imagine all of the animals and humans who would be saved if people knew what a serving size was.
It is a personal choice, that may be decided by you if you are able to.
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Being vegan is better for your health, the environment, and the animals.
But both are better than eating meat :)
Vegan...duh :)
Vegan.
It's kind of like rock, paper, scissors. Only carnivore trumps every time.
Meat.
vegan of course.
vegans prevent suffering and pain from all animals
vegan
Isn't that the same?
GO GO GO POWER RANGERS!
Whatever is right for you.
Well i'd say neither, ethical buying would be better for both meat & plant.
Whats the point in buying plant produce if its sprayed to bits with pesticides ruining the land, or meat if its from the likes of a factory farm?
vegetarian
don't impose my belief on others but will debate it if asked
Neither because they are both self righteous ideologies that are nutritionally detrimental
I was a vegeterian once... was the worst half day of my life. Best to stick with meat, soy protein makes you effeminate!
