| Topic: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 12/05/08 / Views : 11954 / Replies : 164 | |
|  | | Hi guys, I'm new to this site and a new vegetarian. My reasons for giving up meat are simply that I am an animal lover. I was brought up as a meat eater but it never seemed right for me to eat these things that I find so beautiful and/or cute. I hope I don't appear ignorant, I'm just interested to understand - why be vegan? |
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| Reply #1: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
 | | User | anon |
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| | | Why not!actually,I'm not 100% vegan myself but 99.99% almost.Why am I not 100% vegan? Pure laziness and pure not wanting to be 100% pure in anything.best wishes and look at me,almost 40 years a vegetarian and have survived and no regrets being a veggie at all. |
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| Reply #2: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | | Ok but I don't understand how eating honey for example can be a bad thing. Making honey is what they are born to do... please enlighten me! |
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| Reply #3: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | Honey is a tricky issue and not all vegans agree on the subject, but large scale honey production does involve killing a significant number of bees and depriving the surviving bees of food. (Small scale honey production tends to be a lot more humane so the remaining issue here is whether it is morally right to take the honey, particularly as honey is completely unnecessary for humans.)
The basic premise of veganism is "minimising unnecessary suffering". While the honey issue might be debatable, there can be no doubt that the dairy and egg industries cause at least as much suffering as the meat industry (not to mention damage to the environment, and all the other ethical issues which apply to vegetarianism).
So veganism is really the logical conclusion of the journey towards an ethical lifestyle of which vegetarianism is a convenient half-way house. All the same arguments apply to both, but vegetarianism only addresses some of the dietary issues and the lifestyle issues are optional, whereas veganism is more about living your whole life in an ethical way.
This probably sounds preachy so I should probably mention that it took me 20 years as a complacent vegetarian before it eventually dawned on me that I needed to complete the process and become vegan. |
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| Reply #4: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | | Well cows are born to give milk,though only to their calves and not for human consumption.same with bees,their honey is for them and not for you or I.In other words obtaining vast ammounts of cows-milk and bees hoey means exploitation to a degree where cows and bees are fed god knows what poisons in order to 'deliver'.And of course calves are taken from their mothers for lesser humans to eat.Ask away Orange. |
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| Reply #5: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | User | anon |
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| Reply #6: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | | Because the thought of drinking cows milk makes me sick, always has, except now I am strong enough not to drink it. |
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| Reply #7: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | | According to strict Judaism,there are two 'animal' foodstuffs that are permitted to be consumed but the 'animals' that produce these foodstuffs are not permitted to be eaten.One is human mothers-milk and the other is honey. |
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| Reply #8: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | | Another goodie is the cholestorol free diet! |
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| Reply #9: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | why vegan?
just because animals are not resources! |
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| Reply #10: Re: Why Vegan? |
| Posted : 20/10/05 | |
| | Cows used for milk production are treated very poorly. When chickens can't lay eggs anymore they are killed. The thought of drinking milk or eating an egg...yuck! Tell me an adult that drinks milk in adulthood. Milk should only be for the young animal/child from its mother.
Many veggies are almost Vegan but milk has many names and is in more products than people realize.
The Vegan Shopper book details how cruel honey making is.
It feels very good to be Vegan. Being Vegetarian is good, but being vegan is even better. As a Vegan my health is very good indeed. |
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