Vegan Forum

It's great you became vegetarian Rayman, welcome to the vegan talk forum.

I became vegan because I really started thinking about what I was eating and what the animal went through in order to feed me. I decided that if I was really the animal lover I claimed to be, I should love all animals, not just the cute furry ones. So I became vegetarian and a few months later became vegan. I've been vegan for 12 years now and I would never go back:)

It's great to see so many different reasons to become vegan! And to see how many people started so young! Most impressive!

I became vegan after my mom turned vegetarian. The reasons that mostly persuaded me were the fact that meat came from living beings. No sentient being should have to feel pain or least of all die for me.

I do believe we are the intellectually superior species, our dominance on earth is quite evident. Given this gift, we should use the ability to feel empathy, compassion, concern and extend it to all beings. Each day we are given choices, it is our responsibility to make, what we feel, are the right ones. Our lifestyles should reflect this as well.

We have been given the gift of life and consciousness and should use it to the best of our ability. Let's leave this world and its inhabitants in a better state than how we received it!

Thanks for giving this valuable information Selecting ..Its really a serious concern

I'd been vegetarian for a bajillion years. Suffice it to say, i'd been vegetarian almost twice as many years than I was a flesh eater. Had flirted with vegan diet on and off for years. Anyway, I became vegetarian at age 16, then started eating flesh again a year later because I'd gone on one of those high protein/ high fat diets weight. I wasn't overweight, btw. Then at age 20, I became vegetarian for good because, guess what, I was on yet another high protein, but low fat, no carb diet to once again, lose weight. I was only midly overweight. The one week I ate that way, I felt poorly. Kind of queezy and hungry at the same time. So, on new years day, as a resolution,( the only one I have ever made, and did, indeed, keep), I had become vegetarian...

i think these low carb diets are full of balogna( no pun intended). Very unhealthy. I am a carbohydrate maven and never was successful with their reduction in my diet.

While uppermost in mind, factory farmed animals are not the only reasons I prefer to eat vegan most days, but also to avoid carcinogens. A lot of hormones go into the cows which produce milk. (You can see how girls develop way too young these days.. Scary.)

Here is my story: I have been a vegetarian most of my life, however, after reading Eating Animals; I reviewed this book on my site;

http://www.nyaproductreviewer.com/2010/ ... -foer.html

I realize that I need to make a change and completely obliterate all animals products from my diet and life. There is no way I am supporting the shady barbaric factory farming industry in an way, shape or form.

I got turned onto it by the Skinny Bitch series, Alicia Silverstone, animal rights, and Kaeng Raeng detox

I feel like a fledgling veg here. I became vegetarian actually a year ago to this date. It all started with someone I'm willing to bet a lot of you are familiar with...



Earthlings.
The pure shock value of this movie turned me off meat instantly, and I haven't eaten it since. For a few days after it was purely the inability to stomach meat, but within a few weeks I read all I could possibly find about vegetarian diets and animal cruelty etc etc. I still learn every single day and I really like sharing my knowledge with people in a way that I feel like they can relate to a little bit, without being really pushy.

Even further, I'm definitely a new vegan! It's probably be just about three weeks, but I can't imagine ever going back. I feel even better than I did from the switch from meat->vegetarian. I do struggle occasionally with cravings, but MOSTLY the frustrating thing is the unavailability of vegan food on campus. It's very frustrating to have to go all the way back home and make something, because often it's just not possible to make enough food for a twelve hour day.

But I've rambled...

It seemed that Earthling is a good tool of converting people to vegan

meign wrote:It seemed that Earthling is a good tool of converting people to vegan

It is nicknamed the vegan maker for a reason!

Originally I just didn't like meat so I tried to avoid it when ever I could. Later I started studying nutrition and realized how meat has no fiber and was filled with saturated fat, cholestoral, hormones and other things, then also reading about dairy and it being like liquid meat where the animal protein leaches calcium out of your bones. Learning about that I tried to avoid them even more. My dad noticed this and tried to make me eat them anyway getting real upset if I didn't. Later I watched PETA's video "Meat your meet" and started crying(I had always liked animals before, but this really strengthened my feelings). That was when I officially became vegetarian. My concerns for animals were growing after that and slowly I was eliminating dairy and eggs too even though my parents were against it. When I officially became vegan my parents gradually learned to accept it and are now supportive of it. Now they take me to vegan restaurants and such. It took a while but I'm glad I made it through even with the conflict.

I think so circularmotion... Yes it is, as you read this topic, you prove that the nickname fits in.... lol

I first became a vegetarian when I was 15 (I'm 17 now) on March 1st. Primary reasons were I was influenced by PETA's campaigns (I no longer am a "member" of PETA), my love for animals, health reasons, and disinterest in meat. Before I had even discovered PETA, I was already interested in vegetarianism. I found it hypocritical to be an 'animal lover' if farm animals were not included. Then in order to put this vegetarianism into work, I researched why a meat-free diet was beneficial and how animals were treated inside factory farms. That was how I found PETA, so without hesitation I gave up meat.

Then I went toward a vegan diet a few months a later. I thought it was going to be hard, but it turned out there were many products that were dairy-free. (I thank Whole Foods). I was never a fan of milk or cheese because I was slightly lactose intolerant anyway. Also I have hated milk since I was a child, so soy milk was an excellent delicious substitute for me. I do occasionally miss eggs, but eek. Too much cholesterol.

I guess I've been a vegan for almost 3 years. I am currently still a vegan because
1) I despise the treatment of farm animals in factory farms (non-free range/non-organic methods)
2) Healthy reasons. I can eat A LOT and not worry about my weight.
3) I feel "cleaner" and physically stronger wooo!!!
5) No longer interested in meat.
6) Hate dairy foods.

I'm not against those on an omnivore diet. I believe in hunting for SURVIVAL reasons because it's natural. We see leopards (predators) VS deer (prey). However, I'm against hunting as a sport. What-a-waste-of-life. Life is not easy to give birth too. It even hurts for a pregnant deer like how pregnant humans give birth. Those prey should be saved FOR the "real predators" that are starving drastically. I mean seriously. Humans are not going to be endangered anytime. Anyway, I also believe if you can't watch the animal die, you don't deserve to eat meat. That's the end of my little philosophy.

By the way, I just watched that video. Totally love it and agree with it!

I'm vegan b/c i choose not to kill or cause needless suffering to animals.

Superior mental and physical health, long life, and a fantastic moodlift from ending the suffering of other beings are all reasons i'm a vegan.

AndyBa wrote:Jesus!!! i don't remember well.. I was 11 when i started.. to be more precise stopped eating meat.
Had to fight everybody around, to let me eat what I want! I was very lucky that my brother Sergio became veg 2 months after I did. together we could fight my parents easier..

So how did I do it. Well it was that period of my life
when people usually ask a lot of questions like what is the sense of life, what is good and what is bad etc. I went through Bible, then through some Buddhist books, then some Dao so I got different ideas and answers to these err.. question..
Also I was practicing martial arts.. it happened so that I was going to Kung-Fu classes with guys much older then I was.

Cool man i myself train Kung-Fu and Tai Chi and it is actually my Teacher who introduced me to becoming a vegetarian and eventually a vegan! Luckily i was 18 at the time and didn't have to fight anyone haha my parents were very accepting so was my family, i think it's b/c they were happy to see me living healthy after my deliquent youth where i studied a whole alphabet of drugs.

happy

I just can't remember how it happen, or what exactly the details. As I remembered I just tend loving foods of vegans..

Thins is very interesting, I love reading your stories.

Nice video..... I really like this video...

There are lots of veggies, fruits and grains that may prevent hunger... Actually grains make us full faster...

Becoming vegan kind of just landed in my lap. I had no intentions of becoming vegan. I became vegan in February of 2012, and prior to that I was a pescatarian. This was a progression for me through the years as I started to cut meat out of my diet in stages. I first started by removing pig from my diet, then beef, and then poultry. I always ate fish, but not shellfish. In February I was sent a video about an herbalist, Dr. Sebi, who claimed to cure diseases through a plant based diet. I started to research his methodology and it made sense to me. He has been practicing since the early 90's and his methodology is to alkalize the body through a plant based diet and to remove harmful mucus from the body. He uses these methods along with using alkalizing herbs to clean the body's organs on the intra and inter-cellular level. I started to apply this methodology to my life and the results have be inspiring! My energy level and endurance are incredible now! I am in web by trade and my experiences led me to share my experiences via a persona blog/website. I am also a researcher by nature, so I research the natural herbs and foods I eat, and I share that knowledge.

I'm going to teach you how to make vegan macaroni. So here we go we're starting with just boiling some water because we're making pasta and I find if I start my sauce the same time as I start my pasta that it's usually done at the same time. So, I'm going to put my two cups of almond milk it's one cup of nutritional yeast and vegan mayonnaise, this is Vegannaise, vegan mayonnaise, and vegan mayonnaise is made from grape seed oil and some other emulsified oils, this is a Scot-free product and it is delicious.

I was mainly concerned about my health...and animals', and everything else in the equation.

The way factory farm animals are treated upsets me more than anything else.

I can't justify a life dedicated to helping animals (in whatever sense that may be) while eating animal products.