This may be the reason why I am a vegan...what do you think?

Question

When I was a little kid like 5-6yrs old my mom bought me 3 little chicks and I would love them as my pets. One day my mom was cooking eggs and I saw my little chicks and I asked my mom..does chicks come from eggs?..and she didn't know what to say..I found out that they did and I hated eggs since that day even thou i was forced to eat them. Another thing..my parents loved to buy "barbacoa" which is a combination of cow meat from different parts of its body and one day I saw a vein in my plate and I was so disgusted I threw up. I've always eaten chicken before and I liked it but I never ate the part where the veins are..that disgusted me a lot...the other day I was cooking chicken and blood came out and I've stopped eating chicken since that day..I've never liked milk..how gross to drink milk from a cow's nipples..eww. Did that influence my new diet? How did u became a vegan?

Answer 1

People become vegetarian or vegan for a number of reasons, and making the connection between the food on your plate and the animals from which it came is and always has been one of them. Frankly, I think that it's a great reason. Sometimes, all of the moral/intellectual/philosophical/environmental reasons for making this change just don't get through to people, but making the visual (and visceral) connection does.

Just make certain that you are doing this in a healthy manner. There are at least two books that are great at explaining the nutritional facts and requirements, and how to fill them. Look for "Becoming Vegetarian" and "Becoming Vegan". Both should be available through your public library, and are probably still in print. You might have to order them if you want to buy them, but any bookstore will take orders.

I am a vegan, and have been for 5 1/2 years now. Systemically, I've never felt better. (I have to put it that way, because I have multiple types of arthritis, and between them, they affect just about every part of my body. But being a vegan puts much less dietary stress on my body, and every little bit helps.)

It started when I asked my doctor to refer me to a registered dietician for weight control. She recommended a diet that included a much greater amount of legumes and whole grains, as well as veggies, and cutting back on meat. So, I made these changes gradually.

By the time my neice was born, (she'll be twelve next month), I had eliminated meat and poultry, and cut down on the amount of cheese that I ate. I never really liked eggs, so cutting them out was no problem. When she was about 6 or seven months old, a co-worker asked me if I was a vegetarian, and I responded by saying no, I still eat fish. But that made me think about why I still ate fish, and I started to cut back on that as well.

When my neice was about 13 months old, we were all at my parent's place for dinner. My mother had asked me ahead of time if I still ate fish. I said not really, which she took to be yes, and took out of the freezer for me a tuna steak, large enough to feed 4 or 5 people. Well, I'm single, and I live alone, and did then as well. I took the tuna steak out the paper and put in into a baking dish, but I left the wrapping paper on the table for a moment while I seasoned the fish. When a turned around, my neice was sitting on the floor, playing with the wrapping paper. I took it from her gently, and threw it in the garbage, then I scooped her off the floor and carried her down the hall to the washroom. I sat her on the vanity, and washed her hands and face with warm, soapy water. Well, she started screaming and screaming, and my sister (her mother) came racing down the hall to find out what was going on. I told her the story and started apologizing. She simply said that I was doing what I had to do, and her daughter was screaming simply because she didn't like having her hands and face washed in that manner. My sister forgave me immediately, but I had a hard time forgiving myself for not throwing out the wrapping paper immediately. Suffice it to say that that was the last time that I ate fish. My neice knows the story, and I think she's actually proud to be a part of it.

Two years later, I had a very stubborn sinus infection, and when I was back at my doctor's office for it for the third time in as many months, he not only wrote yet another prescription for antibiotics, but also referred me to an allergist and an ENT.

The allergist felt that my history pointed to an allergy to milk. This is not lactose intolerance, which is a problem related to the inability to break down the sugars in milk (lactose), but an allergy to milk protein, casein. He put me on a two-week elimination diet, as a test. Well, the test didn't work, probably because my only source of probiotics was yoghurt, and because I couldn't and still can't drink soymilk that isn't organic.

A couple of months later, my chiropractor suggested that I should have a different type of test for food intolerances, and I agreed. It's a non-invasive test, and it showed that among other things, I should be consuming almost no dairy products. So, I cut out liquid milk and almost all cheeses, but I was still eating yoghurt. At one point, we again had a family meal, and my mother had prepared a quiche for me, using yoghurt instead of milk. But I had it for lunch as well as for dinner, and dinner included other cheeses as well. By this point, that was a couple of weeks worth of dairy products in one day. The next day, I felt like crap. And there was only reason for feeling the way that I did.

I have never since consumed dairy products, and since I rarely ate eggs, giving them up as well was no problem. By that point, I figured that I may as well give up honey, too.

Answer 2

yes, these are most likely the influences in your diet.

i never really really liked meat, i was the sibling that was forced to finish all the chicken on my plate because i always ate the side dishes and not the meat. whenever i saw anything red in the meat i would gross out and ask my mom is that blood? she would hust say:its fine eat it. but i really wanted to become a vegetarian ever since i was about ten. my mom took me to a butcher (ick) to buy steak. the smell sickened me and there was fur on a table like a table cloth. on the way home i asked my mom if i could become a vegetarian. she told me that i was still growing so i couldn't. two years later, my little brother was talking to me about how he saw how they make chichken nuggets in a movie. i whent and told my mom i want to be a vegetarian. she said ok, but i needed to research it. the first time i tried being a vegetarian only lasted about three days because i didnt want to eat any fake meat. i thought itd be nasty. a few months later i re-became veggie and im still going strong.

Answer 3

It does sound like your disgust of meat and milk are the reason you went vegan, sure. Make sure you eat a balanced vegan diet, and you'll be just fine.

In response to the answer that urged you to have dairy products for calcium, you should know that you can get calcium from MANY vegan foods. Soy milk is one readily available source, as are other soy products, various beans and grains, oranges, broccoli, nuts, etc... It's really not terribly difficult to get calcium without consuming dairy foods. Same goes for protein; many healthy sources of protein are not animal-derived.

Just do what you feel is right for you, and take care with your own health. There's a lot of good nutritional information available for free on the internet and at your local library to help you follow your chosen diet, whatever that may be, in a healthy manner. Don't let other people push their diets on you, and of course don't push yours on them.

Good luck.

Answer 4

I think it is all in what you make up your mind to think. I know alot of people who won't try something because they don't like the way it looks. You never know until you try it.

If you choose to not eat meat it is your choice.

You have probably eaten or drinken things that are far worse for you without even knowing it. You had to have drinken milk as a baby and it either came from your mom's nipple or some other animals nipple. If you had not of, you would have been dead now.
I really think that what you thought influenced your new diet not what you saw.

Answer 5

It probably did influence your new diet.

I'm not vegan, I'm, vegetarian, but the reason I became one is that I saw this charred pig (whole--you could still see the expression on its poor little face) at this fair and I couldn't believe that people were going to EAT it! Yuck. The first time I ever really thought about meat being animal carcasses. So now I CAN'T eat meat because I get too grossed out; every time I see meat I think of that poor pig.

Answer 6

i went vegan when I decided to stop eating meat.i went straight from being omnivore to being vegan.you're right,milk is gross,who's idea was it to drink something that came out of a cow?that is like breastfeeding from a cow.I just stopped eating meat because i don't like the idea of eating a dead animal,it's weird to me because it was a living,breathing thing with feelings.

Answer 7

I'm not really sure the point of your question.

"Did that influence my new diet?"

-Most likly, but how whould we know?

"How did u became a vegan?"

- I became a vegatarian first for health reasons, became intrested in AR and PooF! Vegan.

Answer 8

I am not a vegan but that is a great reason to become one

Answer 9

I became a citizen of the republic of Veg many years ago.

Answer 10

that probably did influence your new diet ...................
I am a vegetarian. I just think meat is disgusting