How long have you been one? I am wondering what feelings, realities, or religiuos influences, might bring someone to become a vegan? I am really interest in this. Please only serious answers. Thanks.
2007-03-29 12:46:55 · 12 answers · asked by having too much fun 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
I am quite different than most vegans, and refer to myself as a vegetarian out of respect-but I live a vegan lifestyle with two exceptions. I consume milk, butter and cheese from my pampered, well cared for cow, Abigail. I give my veggie 12 year old daughter eggs from well cared for chickens-in all other regards, we avoid animal products. For me, it started when I developed allergies to wheat, soy, eggs, dairy, meat, poultry, and other things. I didn't make the meat connection right away. I had been diagnosed with lupus and arthritis and became crippled very quickly. As a single mom, with a small child to raise, being crippled wasn't an option-in desperation I decided to radically change my diet. I began to heal almost immediately, and had flare ups when I ate certain foods, especially meat. I started researching it, and what I discovered about meat was enough to make me quit eating it. First, the animal cruelty is SHOCKING! Second, meat is full of nasty stuff and is highly unsanitary-that alone was enough to put me off. The idea of pus, urine, fecal matter, antibiotics, growth hormones, steroids etc. is just too much to comprehend. There is no way you are getting the "healthy" protein, iron, and vitamins in meat, without getting all the other crap too, including whatever diseases the animal had. It also has parasites and bacteria which have to be killed by cooking meat to a certain temperature. After learning all of this, meat just didn't make sense any more. I am repulsed by it. If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would be a content vegetarian, I would have laughed at them. Long journey, but well worth it. I know far more about food than the average consumer-until this, I lived in blissful ignorance, as do most. I am now healthy, active, and thriving. Its well worth it-the docs had given up on me-and I am fine. If you are considering this route, it is quite and education and worth the research
2007-03-30 01:50:29 · answer #1 · answered by beebs 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I've been a vegan for over 3 years. I think it's appaling that animals are mass produced for their meat and by-products, and forced to live in torturous conditions until they are horrendously slaughtered. It's also very disturbing that animals are so overly mass produced that things like the "dollar menu" at McDonalds (and countless other establishments) have reduced the life of an animal to one dollar. How sad. What is the difference between an animals blood and muscles on a plate and a humans blood and muscles? The only difference is the social importance we place on ourselves as humans over the animals!!!
IF SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAD GLASS WALLS, EVERYONE WOULD BE VEGAN!
(By the way, being vegan and currently pregnant, I am healthier than ever, and I seem to have a lot more energy and less fatigue. My doctor even said that they want to use me as an example to others!)
2007-03-29 20:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by Luckyprincess 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I became vegetarian because I did yoga and I had read that it helped with flexibility.
After that I started looking into how animals are slaughtered for food and became an ethical vegetarian. I became vegetarian in 1996. At that time I had a friend who was vegan, but I thought it was too extreme. I thought, hey I'm not killing animals, that's good enough.
In 2000, I happed to read Eric Marcus's book Vegan- The New Ethics of Eating and read about what happens to baby male chicks and male cows.
In breeding egg laying chickens, only a few roosters are needed for hundreds of females (hens.) However many more males are born than are needed. What happens to them? They're disposed. Often baby male chicks are simply ground up live into fertilizer. I found this horrifying, and resolved not to eat eggs anymore.
Onto dairy:
Similar situation, female cows produce milk. The male cows are also disposed. How are male dairy calves disposed? They become veal! VEAL! I was again horrified, as veal is just awful, so I resolved not to eat dairy anymore.
I've been vegan since.
2007-03-30 19:06:38 · answer #3 · answered by Vegan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have been one for 13 years and I wont give you some little save the world reason why I did it either. I love my pets (hamster and dogs) and I would do anything for them. When they get sick or are sad I play with them all the time. They are great little guys and I really just love my pets. Now I thought one day, I am sure a sheep or cow or anything else is just as great of an animal so why would I ever want to have a mother cow killed for me to eat and make her children suffer. If my puppies lost their mom they would be heart broken I know that is true because when they arent around their mom they start to pout and cry. I can survive just fine off my veggies and soy and prevent those animals which DO feel pain, from feeling that pain so that is why I did it.
2007-03-29 20:42:19 · answer #4 · answered by silverice2388 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1 year, feels great, today i was driving and a possum was in the middle of the road, i swarve out of the way to avoid killing it, i dodge the possom and i'm very happy.
party religious, i'm kinda buddist, kinda hindi, i will decide for sure after visiting the temples in china and india.
i mostly become a vegan beccause i'm a vegetarian already and i don't eat eggs and don't drink milk anyways, so i figure why not, i don't use any animal by producd anyways
except my dog, i use my dog as a hand dryer
2007-03-29 22:59:35 · answer #5 · answered by mikedrazenhero 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
health reasons mostly. I mean have you seen how they produce animal products? It's disgusting and unnatural. I'd be less opposed to carnivorus habits if the peopl actually hunted for the food in the wild instead of cooping them up. It reminds me of the human fields in the Matrix. Why would you want to eat somthing like that? Why would you eat anything that comes from somthing that was abused? There is no way it's healthy if it wasn't healthy when it was alive.
2007-03-29 22:43:09 · answer #6 · answered by naztakuan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To help end animal cruelty!! I saw how harsh animals were treated, so I decided to become a vegan. I started about a month or two ago. I seem healthier too! If you want some site, here they are:
http://www.viva.org.uk/
http://www.veganoutreach.org/
http://goveg.com/
Help end animal cruelty!!
2007-03-29 20:28:21 · answer #7 · answered by Curly Q 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the human digestive system can't handle milk or animal fats, the meats rot before they reach the end of your intestines so you make the bathroom smell awful, also it's been proven that vegan's smell better than meat eaters.
2007-03-29 23:15:38 · answer #8 · answered by L o 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To loose weight. Lost 60 pounds, you end up having the most amazing energy and you just feel alive and you sleep so much better
2007-03-29 20:11:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Im not a vegan, but my sister is, and what made her one was she learned that beef is digested in your stomach for 3 months and pork 18 months. so it grossed her out. lmao
2007-03-29 20:41:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋