Had this idea for a long time, mainly because of all the bastards in the dairy, meat and poultry industries but always stepped back for the lack of food options and too much love for meat. My heart shook again today after I watched a few more animal cruelty documentaries and now it feels like it doesn't make sense at all for animals, who live just like us, to be tortured all their life and killed in the end just so that we can enjoy their products. I'm thinking of going vegan and I'm feeling really determined now. Fellow vegans, what's your story and how do you stay on that path?
@atinlay2 I’m surprised you’re still here after all the rant about you.
First 2 weeks are brutal. Eventually just embraced hunger but had to reintroduce fish because mahi tacos are too good
Also good to remember that being vegan helps the environment- the beginning can be tough but eventually your taste buds change and meat will gross you out
I live off of Huel (did Soylent through v1.5), it's like going from being a human animal that consumes flesh and vegetation to being a machine that runs on an energy dense fuel. For context, I love food and love eating; I was raised by a chef. But the largest source of household waste is the kitchen, and when you consider the total cost of food - preparation time as opportunity cost, cleaning up, time it takes to eat, water and electricity that heats the water to clean the dishes, soap, transportation cost of shipping food from producer to manufacturer to wholesaler to distributor to retailer ... Not only is it better for you, directly, in a bunch of ways, it VASTLY decreases your carbon footprint. It takes me a year to fill up a normal trashbag. I don't have to go grocery shopping or do dishes EVER, which (wouldn't you know it) frees up like hours of your day. No more counting calories, no more energy spikes or low blood sugar. No more dealing with lines in grocery stores or restaurants. My food bill is tiny, and it's not based on the cost of living of an area - I pay the same for food if I live in rural West Virginia or downtown San Francisco. No need for a multivitamin. About a zillion other small things you just don't think about (oh hey, I can unplug the refrigerator and save electric $$$. Wait, can I just convert the kitchen into extra space? ...Yes) So, this is unquestionably an extreme and minority opinion, but I'd say that for me, leaving traditional food behind entirely has been pretty great.
Whatever nonsense you have to tell yourself.
I mean it's whatever man, I just got into it cuz I was lazy, and then started realizing how many fringe benefits you get when one of the 3 things humans need is suddenly taken care of.
People don’t care about death or killing or suffering as long as they don’t have to see it. Keep going!
I am vegetarian and I don’t have any deficiencies
If documentaries are deciding your opinions, boy, you need to go out and experience real life
I’m currently transitioning to Veganism and here’s my take: we’re too many people. Eating meat is fine in and of itself but it’s Impossible to feed this much meat to so many people without it being manufactured in factory conditions that are extremely cruel to animals. This made me realize I should at least try to reduce my meat consumption which I have drastically. Secondly, it’s DISGUSTING. The way our meat and dairy products are manufactured to feed us all is DISGUSTING, and this is out of necessity because mass producing animals and their products on the scale we do is impossible to do in a clean/healthy/humane way. For some reason I was really more affected by how disgusting milk is, and it managed to flip that switch In me, so now I don’t consume dairy products anymore out of pure disgust. It’s been much harder for me to do that with meat, especially seafood but in getting there slowly.
Cool story. 🙄
Nice, thanks man - do you feel the same way? 😃
I also keep hearing local farmers treat their animals dearly and fairly. How true is this? If yes, I'll be a customer forever with them. Any insights?
IMO an animal born into and living its entire life in captivity isn’t being treated fairly.
Good point, this is only unless the animal enjoys the company. Think of pets, especially dogs. Cattle and livestock are to a certain degree in symbiosis with humans. But this in no way means man can treat them however the fuck he wants.