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I am slowly getting there. After watching the film cowspiracy my wife and I decided to slowly transition, mainly environmental reasons but also because of the way animals are treated. We eat meat maybe once/twice a week coming down from twice daily, and when we do eat meat we try and source the best from small farmers. Transitioning away from meat has been relatively easy, where I personally fall short is dairy. Ther…
Yes. Went from omnivore to vegan overnight, stayed that way for two years, and then went vegetarian three years ago. No meat since Jan. 3rd 2012. When my wife and I took the plunge I had been eating lots of meat at lunches...mostly in sandwich form and we had been unintentionally transitioning from all meat to chicken and fish to mostly just fish at home for dinners...wife's preference for fish over other meat drove…
When we order delivery or eat out at restaurants that aren't specifically vegan restaurants, I'll eat the occasional meat dish. The real hard one for me to give up has been cheese. Vegan food companies can make pretty decent faux meat, but vegan cheese is downright awful.
I have been a vegetarian since 28th october 2012. I was 16 then. I cut out the meat intake immediately. I happened to one day take a stroll in a part of the town where butcher shops were in plenty and I stood and observed the butchering process out of curiosity. Whatever I saw left me pale and horrified. I came back home and cried a lot. The shrieks and cries of the hen didn't leave my mind. And I decided from that d…
It was lucky you lived somewhere where you even had an opportunity to see the butchering process and thus make your own informed choices about it. In the USA, it is not difficult to go your whole life eating meat and never seeing where it comes from, other than "from the supermarket refrigerated aisle." Many if not most supermarkets don't butcher on site (eg, in college I once briefly worked at a Walmart meat departm…
Vegetarian - just stopped eating meat one day to see if I could keep it up. (The reason being that I had already been thinking for a while how gross it actually was to eat animal corpses, and that I'd also rather be alive than dead, so others shouldn't suffer that fate just because I had to satisfy my taste buds) That was the easiest part - the social aspect of it is a lot more complicated than that, mostly because I…
>and that I'd also rather be alive than dead, so others shouldn't suffer that fate just because I had to satisfy my taste buds) If everyone did this, then raising of animals for food would stop. That wouldn't keep any animals from being killed for food; instead, it would mean those animals never existed in the first place , and never got to have any life at all. Now, I don't know whether that's better or worse: is it…
I am not vegan. But the life of an animal bred for human consumption is not "somewhat unhappy". It's closer to "absolutely depressing" or "shockingly inhumane".
Change the word animal to human in your question: Is it better for a human to never exist or for it to be born and then at the age of 6 we murder it?
The obvious answer to that is that it's much better that that human never exist.
Again, I'm not vegan, and I occasionally eat meat. But your logic here is terrible.
I am slowly getting there. After watching the film cowspiracy my wife and I decided to slowly transition, mainly environmental reasons but also because of the way animals are treated. We eat meat maybe once/twice a week coming down from twice daily, and when we do eat meat we try and source the best from small farmers. Transitioning away from meat has been relatively easy, where I personally fall short is dairy. Ther…
I find soy milk to be so thick it feels like drinking yogurt. Almond milk tastes like dirt to me, but cashew milk is so close to milk that I haven't found any reason to buy actual cow's milk in years.
Agree with you on cheese though. There just isn't good vegan cheese.
Now, I just try to eat healthy. I tried the book Vegan before 6, which I thought was a nice way to move into that lifestyle.
I also am working on a side project to help me find vegetarian / vegan dishes at restaurants in a location. I still want that healthy option when I am eating out.