Why are you a vegan?

Question

I have heard alot more people are becoming vegans. I am curious as to why they are. Is it for health reasons or animal rights? I am curious more about their position on animal rights. I grew up in a gun carrying, deer killing, country hick town, so the whole vegan thing is new to me.

I guess I am really saying that I dont understand the whole arguement behind animal rights when it comes to eating them. Testing for cosmetics , yes, but not eating them, no.

Answer 1

Well I'm a vegetarian, and I chose because of alot of different reasons. There are so many benefits to becoming one. I feel so much more healthier and feel as if I can make it through the day now. I do care about animals alot also.

Here's 101 reasons to become one and hope you achieve your goal.

Answer 2

Why am I vegan? well besides the added health values and environmental values I'll answer about the animal values.

I'll start with some questions:

1. would you eat any animal? dogs, cats, spiders? If you live in America I assume the answer is no. it's not in our consciousness to eat animals that are close to us.

2. Why do we eat cows? most people smart off and say "they're tasty", and that's mostly true - they are tasty is you cook them right, but that's not the reason. Humans eat cows because a long time ago cows were a convenient easy way to get high in nutrient food. you keep some cows, you take care of them and then you eat them when you need to. they can also travel with you in case you needed to move (unlike crops).

We no longer live in a world where if we don't eat meat we will suffer for it. the myth that meat is good for you was true 300 years ago. Nowadays is been proved time and time again that a balanced vegan diet is the healthiest. so if we don't need it why eat meat?

3. Do you abuse animals? Well I hope you don't. You say you can understand why animal experimentation in cruel and pointless, well so is the abuse in the meat industry (and surprisingly even more so in the milk & egg industry).

There is total disregard for animal suffering in the industrialised world. In the egg industry hens die from broken legs and exaustion (all the calcium gets drained from their bones to creat egg shells).

In the factories when the new eggs hatch the "lucky" females get to go on and suffer their whole lives whereas the male chick get tossed into the bin, doomed to die of suffocation or starvation (they're not the kind you eat so it's not financially worthwhile to keep them alive).

In the milk industry cows are sick. their bodies just can't handle carrying 50 Liters of milk around, where just 50 years ago an average cow gave only 12 a day. muscle tissue tears, the utters get dragged on the floor and get infected, they're constantly pregnant for the continous creation of milk (and meat from the calfs) until one day they just collaps. their too sick for human consumption so their bodies get thrown away or sold to become dog food.


That is just the tip of the iceberg. I've seen these things. they happen everywhere. every industrialised country treats it's animals in an appaling way, and that is only maintained by people not knowing about it, and people subsidizingit by continouing to buy animal products.

That is why i'm vegan. I don't want to hurt animals. I don't want to pay anybody to abuse them for me. I don't need to - in fact I've never felt better. I've been vegan for 5 years and vegetarian for 3 before that. I don't think i'm perfect. I know I harm animals in bycarious ways - but I try.

Answer 3

Well, I'm not a vegan, not even a vegetarian, but one argument for being a vegan is that eating animal products puts huge demands on the environment. Eating dairy products and eggs requires far more of the Earth's resources than sticking to plant foods. If you google ecological footprint, you should be able to find a website that allows you to calculate how many planet Earths it would take to support us all if we all had your lifestyle. I was surprised to find that in my case it would take 4.8 Earths. In other words, my lifestyle is unsustainable. And we're quite poor by NZ standards. The biggest demands our household makes are that we've got a car and a computer, and we eat meat. Even though we recycle a lot of waste and grow some of our own food, there's no way the Earth could support 6 billion people who live the way we do. One day, synthetic meat, cheese, eggs and seafood will be made from chemicals by nanotechnology. But in the meantime a vegan diet is the most environmentally friendly choice.

Answer 4

I'm not quite a vegan but I'm almost a vegan. I only eat animals that eat at least some vegetables. I mean, cows eat vegetables, and you are what you eat, so if you eat a prime rib, you're really just eating vegetables when it comes down to it, right?

And besides, people talk all the time about animal rights, but what about vegetable rights? Do you see any protesters carrying signs that say "Salad is murder"? People are so damned hypocritical it is ridiculous.

Answer 5

I am a vegan because I don't want to eat a creature that is born and killed for my consumption. I refrain from drinking milk and eating cheese, because I don't like to think about how an animal how to go through a lot of suffering just so I can have my milk mustache.

Answer 6

I am a vegan for both reasons, my health and the animal rights. I used to love cows but after going to the slaughterhouses, I am officially disgusted. It is disgusted. Well, but I already started to give up meat after I read the Total Health Makeover by Marilu Henner.

Answer 7

My main reasons are ecological reasons. We feed cows sixteen pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef. That means we need sixteen times the farmland, plus room for the cows. We bulldoze forests for this, something we can't afford to do with global warming so out-of-control. The cows we feed produce methane, which is much more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. With regards to fish, overfishing is screwing up our oceans, and that's something we can't exactly fish.

My secondary reasons (though still pretty high up there) are for health.

Sadly enough, I don't care about the animals. I really wish I did.

Answer 8

cause meat is animals ans so are we. do we see animals killing humans?

Answer 9

no vegan here...i love meat

Answer 10

I am a vegetarian and here is why
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