Attention Vegans and Vegetarians !!!!!!!?

Question

I have a couple questions. I am being serious. I am not trying to ridicule anyones life style. I just want to know a couple things.

1) Do you eat/use products made with gelatin?
2) Where you raised in this environment or was this a choice based on education later in life?
3) Other than food, animal tested products, and of course leather what are other thing you don't purchase or use?
4) Is your cause for all animals or just the ones people eat?

Answer 1

1. no
2. A rather new choice comming from a meat and potato home which, until recently, carried into my adult life.
3. So far, I just don't eat meat or anything with meat in it.
4. Animals are tetering me toward veganism... but for now i'm still getting used to the vegetarian menu.

Answer 2

1. I personally do not eat gelatin. However it is almost impossible to find some medication that is not in a gel cap, so when needed, I take meds in gel caps.
2. I was not raised in a vegetarian environment. I did always have a natural aversion to meat, and chose to be a vegetarian as an adult.
3. My vegatarianism was originally based on health. Therefore the fact animals (which I love) do not have to die for me to live is a bonus. I have a Native American background so I grew up around natural hides, and I do still have some leather things, but I do not normally buy leather products. Even though they used animal hides and meat, Native Americans have a great respect for animals and the land. I also respect other people rights to choose how they live, but I think a lot of people may be misinformed about the things they are eating.
4. I love animals For some vegetarianism is based on animal rights. After becoming a vegetarian, I learned what slaughterhouses are like. Not exactly a warm fuzzy moment in my life. This is going back again to respect. The slaughterhouse industry is about making money. Keeping hundreds of live animals in unnatural conditions then unsanitarily processing the meat to feed to uneducated consumers is where I have a problem. This is different from people who actually work hard to live naturally off the land. I beleive that all living beings deserve respect.. It just happens that the majority of the animals being disrespected are the ones use for mass feeding of the population. Which by the way is not in the best interest of the people who are eating these slaughterhouse meals anymore than it is in the best interest of the animals.

Answer 3

1) No
2) My choice - as I became more aware of what things were made of the less I liked meat, fish & dairy. It started by going off hamburgers, then any processed meat, then red meat, then any meat, then fish, then milk, cheese etc etc!
3) Eat only ingredients I recognize and eat organic when possible - also, always go for products made with recycled material whenever possible.
4) I'm not on some big mission - I simply live the way I feel comfortable with and don't get influenced by the mainstream. I believe that people have the power and if we all do our little bit then the world could be a better place. But if I had to name a cause it would be for all animals not just the ones we eat!

Answer 4

1. No gelatin unless unavoidable in necessary medications where no alternative is available. On occasion I have non-gelatin fruit gels & Vegan Sweets brand marshmallows.
2. Although I always loved animals & was horrified when I realized we were eating them, I was raised in a very meatcentric environment. My mom insisted that *everybody* in the world needs to eat meat or they'll "get sick & die" & my dad seemed to think that having chunks of animal flesh @ every meal was a source of pride. When I learned, much later, that being meat-free was not only possible, but fairly easy & much healthier, I made the transition.
3. Poisons, pesticides, bleach, petroleum-based cleaners etc. I try to use as few chemicals as possible when I buy cleaning products. I avoid cat toys if they have feathers or other animal parts on them.
4. All life is sacred. My 'cause' is for all creatures, including us humans. Many of our companion animals are rescues. I've known ppl who have eaten animals that various cultures would not think of as 'food' animals so I suppose any creature could be potentially included under the umbrella term 'food animal.'

Answer 5

1.) I don't really eat anything made with gelatin, mainly b/c I've never liked the taste.
2) I'm the ONLY vegetarian in my family, but I decided to stop eating meat at the age of 7. I'm 15 now, and still a vegetarian. My reasoning has changed, of course. Now, I'm a vegetarian for health and animal cruelty reasons. At 7, I didn't eat meat b/c i thought it was "yucky".
3) Fur coats, leather shoes, etc..
4) All.

Answer 6

I've been vegetarian for 1 year, vegan for one year, and 100% raw vegan/fruitarian for a couple of months :) I became vegetarian first because of health reasons, animal rights and the environment.....started when i was 15 im 17 now about to be 18 :D

Answer 7

1) No, it's a byproduct of death and I don't eat dead animals.
2) No, after my parents divorced when I was 10 we ate a lot less meat at home with my mom (more of a money thing than anything else,) but I didn't become a vegetarian until I was 16.
3) I try to avoid gmo foods altogether. I still do dairy and eggs, but I try to only do the organic, cage free, no hormones/antibiotics thing.
4) My cause is for a lot of things. The reasons I became veg are varied: health, ecomonic, ecological, etc. I believe the fewer animals we're raising to feed people the better it is for the planet and its residents, including the animals that we're not eating. Factory farming contributes hugely to man-made climate change and if we don't do something about it, entire ecoystems are going to suffer, not just the animals we slaughter to feed ourselves.

Answer 8

1) Nope! :-D
2) I chose to go vegetarian as a 14 year old, about a year ago, because I saw a video of animals being slaughtered...and no longer wanted to support that! Which is why I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian!
3) I don't use products tested on animals, leather, fur, suede, etc...and I also don't purchase faux fur (it's not faux), and I don't eat Red 40 or lard.
4) ANIMAL RIGHTS! And, the environment!

Answer 9

Protect our only home! Go Veg!

1) artificial gelatin is OK, provided it comes from a vegetable or mineral source.
2) My choice, 6 years ago. I'm 25 now.
3) Genetically modified foods, pesticides, insecticides, etc; foods excessively packaged; highly (chemically) preserved foods; Foods containing high amounts of artificial or natural colours, flavours, sweeteners, or flavour enhancers. these are guidelines, not rules.
4) My cause is for far more than just animals. This is about saving my home, the only planet we have. The 5 main reasons for going vegan are interdependently linked and sequentaneously self supporting:
a) Animal rights: Every animal born has an inherent right to certain degrees of sustained comfort that are limited to the degree of pleasure and pain they would naturally experience in the wild. By hooking animals up to factory farming equipment that are incapable of sensing the degree of pain an organism is experiencing, it is deeply inhumane and unethical. I've personally seen the effect such experiences have on the conscience of factory farm employees.
b) Animal Welfare: This reason is like the legs of a spider, integrated with each of the other reasons. Wild carnivours are killed trying to hunt the farm animals, because they know no better, and some are highly threatened species. Some are now extinct for this reason. Factory farm animals are often left writhing on the ground or hanging from hooks because a machine has not been effective at slaughtering it, and are then chewed live aand conscious by the mincer.
c) The Environment: Millions of square miles of tropical rainforest are being cleared to make way for farming land to grow soy to feed the factory farming population EVERY YEAR. Effluent volume from factory farms is over 100 times that of the entire human population, and the hormones and antibiotics the animals are fed ends up in the manure, that then leaks into underground waterways and into your tap water.
d) Human Heath: Every reputable scientific study (not done by people supported or funded by the animal food industry) ever done, including those guaranteed as impartial and unbiased, have said that people should eat less animal based products and eat more vegetable based products. These organisations include the World Health Organisation, The American Dietic Association, The US Department of Health, The United Nations Task Force on Nutrition in the Third World, The American Association of Nutritionists, ... trust me it's a bloody long list.
Human Rights: In the US, the people who work in Factory Farms are sought out by the corporations because the conditions are so horrendous. They find people in poor international states and move them illegally using hollow promises, and once they arrive they are trapped in a legal cell of threats and intimidation and have no means to leave. They are used for about a year and discarded into the slums when they are physically incapable of working any more, searching for more new blood.

Answer 10

I've been vegetarian for 10 years, and vegan for three months.
1) No, i ALWAYS check for things like gelatin and casian.
2) I was actually the first on my family to "go" vegetarian/vegan.
3) I just boycott the things you mentioned above-leather, animal tested products, things of that nature.
4)All animals, of course-they ALL need our help.