"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."
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It is cheaper. You’re looking down the wrong isle. But fair play to you 🙏
Hell no. Humans are omnivores, we can consume meat, vegetables, and fruit and some nuts if not allergic. There's a reason why all the nutrients/vitamins are split up among the all types of foods and it's to help us have balanced diet. The problem is a lot of people don't know what to do or how to eat properly.
There's always peoplr going from one extreme to another, you have people who go over board with meat and then you have the vegans who are extreme that they can't see themselves wasting away. Even saw lady who tried to make her dang cat a vegan. I'm seeing fake vegan eggs and cheeses and I just have to ask, why are you making foods to mimc foods that you don't want to eat or claim that's unhealthy? It's quite clear their bodies and brains are screaming for protein but they keep denying their natural urges. I just find it strange.
I think it's great if you want to detox your body and get it in balanced state again, but I don't recommend it as a life long diet. I've seen the before and after videos of people on the vegan diet and a lot th look ghastly. A lot of them look like pale, sickly ghosts being drained from the inside out. Some of them look like Crack addicts or holocaust victims. It's sad and breaks my heart to see babies and children be forced on that diet.
Rest assured I’ll never let myself feel like a crack addict or a holocaust victim. And I’ll never force veganism onto me children or pets. I’m raising a question and I value your answer. Thank you 🙏
Been vegan for many years and I wish I was as skinny as a crack addict. We def aren't all that skinny 😩 Also my kids are vegan and very healthy. When I go out people always freak out over how big and chubby my babies are
I think there's a darker reason for why veganism was pushed out to the masses and became so popular. Look how they are trying to get us comfortable with eating soy products and wanting farmers to give up their crops or destroy them. Basically it's a way to get people to volunteer in slowly starving themselves. You know what happens to a man who eats to much dang soy? Complete testosterone killer. There was this channel that went by the name SV3RIGE on YouTube and he was waking a lot people up. Ironically, YouTube killed his channel and took all his videos down cause it was to evident that veganism slowly kills people.
Soy doesn't change hormones that's a myth. I personally am soy free for the most part since it's in lots of trash food so I stay away from it. And nobody ever pushed being vegan/vegetarian on me. I just never wanted to eat meat as a kid so my parents didn't force me so I've never eaten it
While I respect people's choice in what they eat and put into their bodies, I personally wouldn't be able to sustain myself on a plant based diet considering many health issues I currently have.
It's commendable of people who are able to do it though, I have no objections about people living the way they choose, this includes what they eat or don't eat.
I think I'm effectively most of the way there. I used a lot of plant based meal replacement shakes.
My main issue is I have an allergy to essentially all raw fruits and veggies, and it has made my esophagus dangerously small. The shake is mostly hypoallergenic so that helps. (OWYN meal replacement shakes and protein shake).
I dont think I would ever go 100% with no exceptions. But my current diet is enough of the way there to help the slightest bit in disincentivizing animal cruelty.
But hopefully lab-grown meat takes off. That would be the best of all worlds. I've always said the most important thing in getting change to stick is to appeal outside your movement.
That is, Make EVs for gearheads, truckies, and daily drivers, rather than hippies. Make solar and wind the cheaper and more portable option for power, not just some niche thing for off-gridders and doomsday-preppers.
So making 90% of people 60% vegan would make a WAY bigger difference than making 10% of people 100% vegan. And it'll stuck much better, too.
The left is often more focused on 1% of people having 100% ideological purity. You don't need a few devotees to create influence. You need a whole bunch of commoners to be slightly more than apathetic.
I eat like a Vegan however I don't believe labels are beneficial for me. A label such as vegan is a pre-decision and it is wonderful at the start but after a while I don't need any labels. Labels become a box after some time. I think for myself and use what I'm okay with using. Plus the connotations that come with the word vegan is a lot.
I do think most people should consider being vegan dietarily for a few years though. Most uneducated people believe you give up everything but the truth is you gain so much more than you ever give up (most people). And I'm talking about food.
I used to do a Vegan February thing with my ex and it was one of the hardest "monthly challenges" ever. Vegan food is not only expensive AF, but NASTY AF, as well. I remember spending like $15 on a vegan wrap at 7-Eleven or Wawa once cause I was hungry and malnourished (and I almost NEVER get hungry due to a super-slow metabolism!) and I actually paid that insane amount of money for that gross nasty vegan sh*t.
I know firsthand why most vegans end up being upper middle class hippies. Normal working class people can't survive on that sh*t. Plus I was hungry all the time! I was eating supposedly "good vegan food" (none of it was "good") and still hungry, all the time. Even vegan mac and cheese tasted awful! I only did it like two February's in a row; 2017 and 2018.
As someone who has tried it before, I have had no desire to go vegan for a month again. So my final answer is "no."
This sh*t was like 10-15 dollars where I lived!It doesn't even look tasty.None of this sh*t was "good," despite what vegans claim.
Nope. I feel better with a bit of protein and animal fat. It's healthy for me. I like wide variety and tasty flavor. Plus, I resist fads.
Modern humans were able to colonize every part of the world because they were omnivores.
Every creature either eats prey or gets eaten by predators. That's nature. Humans are part of the natural world. Predators aren't immoral. They keep ecosystems in balance. Humans are immoral because they take more than they need and treat other creatures like mere commodities.
I have no problem with harvesting wild game for personal consumption. I don't even have a problem with harvesting animals that are raised humanely on small farms. Factory farms are horribly inhumane. I try to avoid them. But giant mono-crop farms are terrible for the environment, and the food they produce is unhealthful.
Small-scale, integrated farming practices like Permaculture are the only humane and sustainable forms of food production. Using animals to clear and plow fields and to remove weeds and insects builds healthy soil. Artificial fertilizers and chemicals are not used. It benefits the entire ecosystem.
If managed properly, cattle are healthy for the environment. They can be as beneficial as the giant herds of bison, deer, elk and antelope that no longer exist.
I don't eat a lot of meat. Maybe 3-6oz per day on average. I try to get it from local farms who practice healthy agriculture. And I LOVE seafood. I do eat at restaurants and sometimes eat packaged foods that I have no control over the meat's source. I'm not too uptight about it. I just try to be conscious and do the best I can.
Anyway, animal cruelty is not going to make me stop eating tasty, nutritious food. And environmentalism is a stupid reason to stop eating meat.
I think practically speaking its not realistic for most people living in colder climates or on lower incomes. At the very least eggs and dairy need to be included in those situations to avoid being malnourished.
There is also the issue that crop farms often take up far more land and resources than animal farms, and because of this, it cuts down wild habitats, killing off the wildlife to make room for more crops. It also results in lots of pesticides and herbicides getting sprayed and ending up in natural wate ways, poisoning wildlife and killing many species.
So when given the choice to sacrifice livestock vs wild animals, I'm choosing the livestock.
No- given its ecological inefficiency, the damage it would do to the biosphere that we've already reshaped for our use (think of the animals we've domesticated; how many of them do you think could survive in the wild?), and the energy costs of artificial replacements for EVERYTHING we use animal products for, it'd actually be WORSE for the environment. I'm not in the least opposed to trying to minimize human impact on the world around us, but you need to actually think things through, and not simply knee-jerk reject anything viewed as "cruelty"; you can't build paradise by changing the laws of the universe.
Is it better to exclusively kill plant life in order to accomplish the same goals as those of an omnivore?
There is more and more reputable research being done that indicates that plants are capable of feeling.
I've seen some people propose that all human food should be created strictly synthetically, completely devoid of animal or plant life. Maybe those synthetic components are capable of feeling in some way yet unknown to us.
How far are we able to stretch the concept of sentience or feeling?
Maybe we should just allow ourselves to starve to death.
I think that steak, lobster, potatoes and asparagus is on my menu tonight.
Nope. Vegans have a fundamental flaw in understanding how everything eats everything. You think Bactira is only vegan? You want to know what humans are made of? so you wanna know what you literally cannot do as living biomass?
Also you know how evolution works right? No I am sure you don't. Otherwise you would understand why Carnivores and Herbivories co-exist and you would know what happens to the Herbivories in that system. So sure become one ;) and even then Herbivores eat animals if you don't believe me look up a cow eating a rabbit.
I might go carnivorous but never vegan. The human body needs vitamins, minerals and proteins from multiple sources. And there are people - myself included - whose body cannot assimilate enough protein from a plant based diet.
Milk is the only whole food available that contains all the vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, proteins etc a body needs. Cows turn plants we can't digest as a food source into a food source, either as milk or meat.
Honey - forbidden by vegans - is the only foodstuff that never spoils. Jars of honey were found in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt in perfect condition after over 4000 years.
Besides, throwing a steak on the grill is infinitely more satisfying than a bean burger
I want to go vegan eventually but i think there's a lot nutrition wise that I still have to learn before hand. I'm ok with not eating most meats anyways.
definitely, it's probably not that hard to get from vegan food for the most part but I don't want to always be hungry either. At least most things can be home grown.
People think when people go vegan it's about animal cruelty but some people do it to be healthy and those people have to call it plant basted diet instead because it offends vegans if you are not doing it for the animals.
Also people think going vegan is hard, there's so many verities of vegan stuff that taste close to meat and are very tasty, you don't have to go for all that burgers or sausages that have vegetables smushed in it.
Basically if you are thinking of going vegan for whatever reason, before going full on, try some taster tests like go to a super market and buy a packet of vegan burgers, if you tried and don't like it then cross it off and next time try another brand.
I think I could if I learned how to properly replace the vitamins and nutrients that I am losing in other foods, I suffer with iron issues so its very important for me to eat certain foods. When I stopped eating meat during pregnancy it made me sick. LOL
For everyone who goes vegan, I fully commit to eating a portion of meat in their honor every day. I will put on my leather belt, leather shoes, and sit in my leather seats. I will throw even more BBQs and grill more meat in their name. I promise to do everything I can to rebalance the consumption of meat - the more they save, the more I will use.
Nobody can be truly vegan. Eat what you want but don’t act like your choices make you superior to others in any way. I completely excluded animal products from the foods i ate for nearly a year once. There were definitely benefits, but there were problems too. I don’t think i’d ever attempt that again knowing what i do now. I still eat less meat and dairy than i did before trying a vegan diet.
As soon as we find a perfect alternative to get protein and the other stuff.. I'm in... I already stopped eating red meat for a long time now... I only eat chicken and I feel guilty for it... That little harmless living creature is brought up only to be slaughtered and become just a meal in the day of the life of another creature... Nature is cruel man...
As I was younger, I thought not, but now, I’m vegan, transitioning to fruitarian. Eating all those darn fake meats and fake cheeses ain’t that necessary. Veganism ain’t all about imitating meats. In fact, fake meats ain’t that healthy. Ironically, vegetables also ain’t necessary for veganism; fruits are feasible.
No, I can't leave milk and milk products. Also you kill the plant to eat it, it doesn't makes any sense to me. You're killing a living being either way. It's just that one can shout and other doesn't have a mouth.
There's plenty of cows in the world plus nowdays people prefer milk powder for their babies so it would be such a waste of milk if adults all over the world consider drinking milk a children's thing
Good question, and no idea! Not only cows we have other animals we get drinkable milk from to not waste too And finally I gave up Nestle because I'm pissed at their company's shady ways
I ain't drinking my mother's milk, I drink cow milk and it's my choice if I like that or not. If you think I'm odd for that then well I respect your opinion so respect mine too.
Nope, humans are omnivores which means we are supposed to eat meat as well as plants. In fact the added choloric density found in meat is the reason humans have an advanced neo cortex. Eating meat was literally the difference between us living in a tree out wholeives like a gorilla and landing on the moon like the bad ass apex lifeforms that we are.
I have in the past for dietary reasons. I never felt healthier. I must admit that I love meat (especially fish). I also like to cook and vegan cooking gets boring after a couple years. Give me fish and you can keep the pigs.
Nope. Veganism is the pig headed notion that animals give a shit about all the "sacrifices" you are making for them. When in fact you are actually stealing their food and making them look bad.
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