why do people become vegans?

Question

i dont understand this at all, i mean our bodies are versitile and CAN survive on the crap these people eat but not without supplementing AA's and vitamins/minerals

why would someone go against how we evolved or were created(if you believe in that sort of thing)

it seems like the 'trendy' thing to do to me

B.V. of protein sources

Whole Egg: 93.7
Cow’s Milk: 91
Egg Whites: 83
Fish: 83
Casein: 80
Beef: 80
Chicken: 79
Soy: 74
Wheat Gluten: 54
Kidney Beans: 49

thats gotta mean something, the fact that some types of proteins are processed better by our bodies...ill stick to a healthy diet

Answer 1

It IS trendy. It's advanced "Earth-Muffinism". It's unhealthy and unnatural. To have a conscience related to eating "anything with a face" is really idiotic because "vegans" have a conscience about eating only certain SIZES of life, since we murder creatures by the billions every time we shower, use deodorant, shampoo our hair, wash our hands, clean the kitchen sink, do the laundry, take anti-biotics, spray the house for bugs, drive, or even walk. Every breath we take sucks into our lungs and to their deaths thousands of helpless, tiny lifeforms. Such silliness. And, where the heck do they think those vitamin b and other supplements COME from, anyway? I love telling vegans eating their politically correct jello salad that jello, by the way, and most "supplements", are made from grounded up horses' hooves. Too funny. What a person does or does not chose to eat is his own business. But, a pure vegan diet during pregnancy or fed to children should be a serious crime. RN.

Later: Not to confuse Earth-Muffins, but few people have a problem with vegetarianism, which makes perfect and economic trophic energy sense. The weirdo-ism comes into play with VEGANS and their mysticism related to the spiritual "purity" of absolute elimination of animal protein from the human diet. Subjective, magical-thinking breeds feebleminded "trends" such as this. It comes and go throughout history, usually about the time Christians and other fanatics start burning down libraries of science.

Answer 2

We no longer live in a prehistoric society where our survival depends on how fast we can catch something. Actually, we are so far removed from our own survival that if the "civilized" aspect of our societ.. technology etc., would crumble, most everyone, meat eaters included would die.

We live in an advanced age when all our needs can easily be met, and by someone else. We have all of our dietary needs met in grocery stores without ever having to kill or torture. So why bother? Vegans simply want to go through their lives without destroying, killing or causing suffering throughout their days. No one is perfect of course, but they do what they can to "be the change they wish to see in the world."

I personally decided that I do not need dead animals to survive or be healthy, and therefore meat and animal products were a luxury. I ate them because I thought they tasted good. But no one/thing should have to suffer so I can have a luxury.

It is not so much a matter of why-bother-being-a-vegan, but a matter of why should I bother choosing non-vegan things.

If I need deodorant, why by by the stuff made of beaver testicles and animal parts and was tested by torturing bunnies, cats or dogs when I can select the one that was never used to hurt anyone. Why chose, the flesh of an animal who lived in disgusting, painful and unsanitary conditions, when I can chose a plant-based version.

Why cause suffering when I don't need to? Also, why cause suffering to the environment. This is the only planet we have, and it isn't doing so well. Cutting out the meat industry would be a great way to save it before it is too late.

That is why I think many people are vegans.


....Of course, I am working under the assumption that you are actually interested in learning about other people's lifestyles and reasoning. You may just want to complain about people who are different than you and pretend to listen to their answers so you can reiterate your beliefs of putting others down. You know, whatever makes you happy. But if you do want an actual answer, this is mine.

Answer 3

Trendy? Try being vegan for a day, and see how trendy it is. Most feel isolated and alone in their veganism, for whatever their reasons. Hostility is what you will find. Even being a homosexual is more trendy than being vegan!

Also, I think it is wonderful that we live in a world where you can be vegan and actually live. You still have to follow the advice of eating whole live food, and not dead processed food to have health. I love how you say CRAP these people eat. Yes, eating fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and tofu and sprouts, and all that CRAP. I will tell you that most do not supplement their diets. All the vitamins and minerals are in the food that they eat! And the Vitamin B-12 supplement is something they do supplement with, but guess what? They are finding out that even people who are not vegan need Vitamin B-12. Without supplementing Vitamin B-12, brain degenerative diseases (senility, AlZiehmer's disease, Parkenson's, etc.) settle in. They are finding out that alcohol abuse and eating high hydrogenated fat processed products (acid reflux disease) are causing Vitamin B-12 to not be absorbed by the body. Thus, we are all in the same boat on that one.

Yes, to live in a world where no body bothers to understand anything.
Or they let advertisers of companies tell them what is best for their bodies. (Dairy and Meat does the body good).
Wonderful isn't it?

Answer 4

1. i dont think veganism is 'trendy' at all. i am the only vegan i know personally, other than the vegans here in this section.
2. what is wrong with a lifestyle that does not involve causing pain to any living creatures? i think it would be a great thing if veganism did become a majority.
3. you do not need supplements. b12 you can get from kidney beans, and calcium and protein comes from many many other foods besides milk and meat.

Answer 5

I agree.

@ Matt H

"Well, since we can survive just fine without supplementation I would be willing to argue that we have evolved to eat this way. Our closest ancestors, primates, eat this way for the most part."
We cannot naturally get all the nutrients we need without animal products naturally. Vitamin B12 cannot be got, even now, without animal products or supplements, and a lack of it can cause anaemia and impending death. 60% of vegans even now have some level of B12 deficiency, as opposed to no meat eaters, which says something about how well adapted we are to a vegan diet.
Even the vegan society says vegans need supplements for B12

http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nutrition/b12/

All other nutrients can be got natually. That owes to that vegtables can now be sold all year round, even out of season, and can be flown into the country from all over the world. In bygone times people could only eat the relatively small range of plants that grew in their ecosytem, and only when they were in season. Thus many more nutrients would have been unavailable and still more unavaillable for most of he year. Until very recently it would have been impossible for a vegan human to live naturally without dying very quickly. Evolution doesn't take that in the future it might be possible to get all the nessasary nutrients from other sources. If enough nutrients cannot be got to support veganism in the wild, it isn't natural.

Our closest living relatives, Chimps, eat meat on a regular basis. True, many other primates are herbivores, but frankly that makes little difference. Most primates are very far detatched from us homonids, and we cannot effectively determine diet from them, as so much evolution has gone on since we left the trees.
Still, it is thought the common ancestor we had with aped ate meat, and austrolopithicines and other early hominids ate meat. In fact, pretty hominid which is our ancestor has been shown to, going way back before we could be considered human.

Answer 6

dont understand this at all, i mean our bodies are versitile and CAN survive on the crap these people eat but not without supplementing AA's and vitamins/minerals"

- Wrong, you should try getting your nutritional information from the latter half of the last century. And when did fruits and vegetables, natural foods become crap, and fried chicken and coke become health foods?

"why would someone go against how we evolved or were created(if you believe in that sort of thing)"

- Well, since we can survive just fine without supplementation I would be willing to argue that we have evolved to eat this way. Our closest ancestors, primates, eat this way for the most part.

"it seems like the 'trendy' thing to do to me"

- Their have been vegetarians for over 2000 years at least, and probably for a good wile before that. Hardly a trend.

Why? We don't agree with people treating animals as property, and people can survive just fine without using animals, so therefore we do not use animals to the extent possible wile still living in society.


Edit:

@ Andy B:

"We cannot naturally get all the nutrients we need without animal products naturally. Vitamin B12 cannot be got, even now, without animal products or supplements, and a lack of it can cause anaemia and impending death. 60% of vegans even now have some level of B12 deficiency, as opposed to no meat eaters, which says something about how well adapted we are to a vegan diet."

-This is blatantly untrue on many levels.
A study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society shows that older people have lower blood levels of a chemical called homotranscobalamin II that carries vitamin B12 into the cells (1), so they need higher blood levels to have normal tissue levels. Since low-normal blood level of vitamin B12 do not rule out B12 deficiency, the diagnosis of pernicious anemia is often made late in the course of the disease after people have suffered permanent nerve damage. According to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, two percent of Americans over 60 have low blood levels of vitamin B12 (2), but the incidence of vitamin B12 deficiency causing nerve damage in older people is much higher than that, sometimes as high a 50 percent (3,4). This means that many older people who are diagnosed with senility actually suffer from lack of vitamin B12 which can be cured by taking vitamin B supplements. Many cannot correct their B12 deficiency with diet changes, because the problem is caused by failure to absorb B12 in the intestines (5).

All of the Vitamin B12 in the world ultimately comes from bacteria.  Neither plants nor animals can synthesize it.  But plants can be contaminated with B12 when they come in contact with soil bacteria that produce it.  Animal foods are rich in B12 only because animals eat foods that are contaminated with it or because bacteria living in an animal's intestines make it.(6)

The animal products are not necessary, but luckily for us B12 is not an animal product.

"...That owes to that vegtables can now be sold all year round, even out of season, and can be flown into the country from all over the world. In bygone times people could only eat the relatively small range of plants that grew in their ecosytem, and only when they were in season. Thus many more nutrients would have been unavailable and still more unavaillable for most of he year."

- This is completely irrelevant. We don't live in bygone times, and they have no bearing on this discussion.

"Evolution doesn't take that in the future it might be possible to get all the nessasary nutrients from other sources. If enough nutrients cannot be got to support veganism in the wild, it isn't natural."

- I agree, eating a 100% Vegan diet is not "natural." Neither is eating animals pumped with antibiotics that were intensely farmed. or eating GMO crops, neither is farming crops for that matter. We do not live in the natural world, we have effectively removed ourselves from the natural world. What is natural does not apply to the great majority of human activates, what makes it apply here?

"Our closest living relatives, Chimps, eat meat on a regular basis. True, many other primates are herbivores, but frankly that makes little difference. Most primates are very far detatched from us homonids, and we cannot effectively determine diet from them, as so much evolution has gone on since we left the trees."

- That may be true, however if we are talking about what is natural that is as close as we have at the moment. A Vegetarian diet is closer to the diet of a Primate then the way the other 98% of America eats.

Answer 7

People become one because of animal rites and the health of it!
I have been a vegetarian for 3 years and i do it because of animal rites and im glad a came one cause i have lost 20kilos! =D

Answer 8

Some believe there are health benefits.

Others protest the mistreatment of cattle. T

Answer 9

They think that eating meat helped build brain size, because of protein, which led to our superior intelligence. If you think I'm lying then look it up. That's why animal rights people are so dumb.

Do animal rights people protest animals eating other animals? If the reason is because the other animal has to eat meat, then why not sacrifice yourself to save the rabbit. I won't give a damn. I'll eat the rabbit you save.

The more highly evolved the animal, the more complex is the brain structure. Human beings have the most complex brains of all animals. Evolutionary forces have also resulted in a progressive increase in the size of the brain. In vertebrates lower than mammals, the brain is small. In meat-eating animals, particularly primates, the brain increases dramatically in size.-from the source(encarta)

Answer 10

some think its healthier than having meat rotting in your system, others do it for religious reasons, and some for the reasons of not wanting to see animals suffer for our dinner. stop being judgmental and grow up, its none of your business what others do.