i cant decide if i should be vegan or vegitarian. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Personal choice.

If you are going to be vegan, then you must give up all animal products, including leather shoes, honey, eggs, cheese, dairy, yogurt, ice cream, etc. There all vegan alternatives to all of these, however.

There is also a great cosmetics company called Lush, and I believe over 80% of their products are vegan and I think 95% are vegetarian. You can check it out on Lush.com, and there will be a little symbol by the products that are vegan. I use their shampoo, conditioner, face care products... it's great even if you're not a vegetarian.

If you want to be a vegetarian, you have a little more leway in what you can eat. You can eat eggs (ovo-vegetarian) dairy (lacto-vegetarian) both (lacto-ovo-vegetarian) or fish (pesco-vegetarian).

Again... the choice between vegetarian and vegan is all personal choice. Going vegan straight off from eating meat can be a pretty hard thing to do, since your body will still crave meat.

Maybe you could try being a vegetarian first, get yourself used to not eating meat, and then make the change to vegan?

And finally... don't let anyone stop you. It's your life, eat what you want!

I hope this helped you! Good luck with your choice.

Answer 2

Start as a lacto ovo vegetarian (meaning you can have eggs and dairy, but no animal flesh or animal based products like chicken stock, and gelatin) then slowly drop the eggs and dairy to become a full vegan, if you choose. That is the easiest way to go from a meat eater to a vegan, in my opinion.

Answer 3

depends on your reasons for wanting to go either... health? Enviromental? Animal rights? An algamation? Do some reading too... I personly recomend "the ethics of what we eat"

forget the labels, (vegan, veggie) it's about informing yourself about what you eat, and making choices based on that knowledge. If you can justify eating something then eat it...

Some one much smarter than me told me "don't let anyone tell you they're a better vegan or veggie than you" and i'll go with that...

Even if you do something small, like swapping your cow milk for rice milk... or swapping your pork sausages for quorn sausages, it'll make a difference and you should be given full praise for taking it upon your self to make those steps, no matter how big or small...

Just do what you can, reguardless of what other people think or say.

Answer 4

Well, when I was diagnosed with IBS, I had to convert to pesca vegetarianism. It turns out that women's bodies aren't equipped to process the type of protein found in land roving animals. I get to eat fish, dairy, and eggs...along with all the veggies I can handle :-). I love it. I have switched to cage free eggs, and organic milk (btw- organic milk tastes SO MUCH BETTER than regular milk). It all depends on why you're giving up meat. You can always start out small and work your way up as you get used to it. Do hear this: Under no circumstances should you let anybody bully you and tell you that you're not a "real vegetarian" unless you give up everything. It's your body, and you are allowed to decide what you do or do not want to give up.

Answer 5

A lot of your decisions should be based on how committed you are to not eating (or wearing even) anything that come from animals--including pastries made with eggs and/or milk, wearing leather shoes and purses and belts, etc. And if you are going vegan to eat as healthily as possible, you probably want to make sure you aren't consuming additive chemicals to make the vegetable matter emulate meat (soy hotdogs or meatless burgers, etc.--most of these things are loaded with chemicals). Can you give up all these things? Non-vegan vegetarians usually are a little less strict, will sometimes eat eggs and dairy (ice cream) but just don't do animal meats.

Also you should consider how active you are and what age you are. My niece went vegetarian as a teenager; she was (sitll is) real active and was on the swim team, the advanced coed volleyball teams and basketball teams, took violin lessons, college level language study, some other things (I couldn't keep up with her schedule) so burned a lot of energy even though she was ingesting extra soy (eating veggie protein bars, etc.) and began to suffer from not getting enough protein (and other things that are easily gotten from eating meat), her menstrual period even went haywire, she suffered from excessive dry skin, had some other problems. After about 3 years, with a lot of doctor visits and discussions with her parents (her dad has been a vegetarian for 30 years) she decided she would at least eat fish and sometimes poultry. She's even more active now that she has also taken on a job, no longer has the health problems that she did, doesn't get as thoroughly wiped out as before. I think if she goes veg after she stops growing (when her body needs extra stuff to complete her body), she'd be okay. If you do either, vegan or vegetarian, read up on it and make sure you eat what you need to eat to get all the vitamins, protein and minerals your body needs to stay healthy--vegetarian/vegans easily become deficit because humans are designed to be omnivores, to get a wide spectrum of sustaining stuff from a wide variety of foods, and meats provide not only protein but vitamins and minerals that are harder to get from just vegetable matter. As a young female, you have to think about what your body needs too since a female body needs certain things to keep going. If you get pregnant, you will also need to let your doc know about your vegetarianism because then you and the baby will have needs (and if you aren't providing it in your food, either you or the baby will suffer--I know a woman who almost died because she didn't like eating legumes or most other things that provide vegs with protein (note, she just didn't like the taste so she didn't eat them) so the fetus sucked away whatever protein she did consume, etc. depleting the mother). Baby came out ok but the mother had to be hospitalized for a few weeks after birth because she was so malnutritioned).

Answer 6

I'm pretty sure being Vegan is actually unhealthy. A balanced diet including meat is much healthier than either, but I understand your problem. I don't like red meat, and I'm not all that crazy about poultry either, but I eat poultry, dairy, and fish. I'm pleased to say that I'm healthier than almost everyone else I know, and I do it on a semi-vegetarian diet and lots of exercise.

It's very difficult to get critical nutrients as a Vegan, and our bodies aren't made to run on only plants and plant based foods, but, as far as I know, a short stint of vegan eating IS good for you, because you necessarily eat many more of the extremely healthy greens and veggies that are more limited in a normal diet.

Americans in general eat WAY too much meat tho. Red meats especially have a large amount of saturated fat. An excess of meat can lead to many diseases, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.


Speaking long term, from everything I hear and from personal experience, a mostly vegetarian with red meat, poultry and seafood eaten sparingly and mostly in winter is the ideal.

Answer 7

Hey,
ummm well im vegrtarian but im not vegan but u can be both but im not vegan because it would be to hard to eat im mean like u couldnt eat cake ,eggs or milk or anything with eggs in it!no dairy products!so thats y im not vegan but u can be both!but i by all my dairy products like eggs and milk and stuff from a dairy farm that are hormone free milk and the eggs they r free rome so they arent locked in cages!so im vegertarian but im not vegan so u can be both but i would not recomend being vegan cause it can be un healthy!hope i helped!

Answer 8

I would love to be vegan.

But seeing as I am already real thin and I live with my family it is not a reasonable thing for me to try to do.

Try vegetarianism first, Vegans are like the Marines.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

it kind of depends on your health. i cant be a vegan because i wouldnt get enough protein, so im a vegetarian.