Ask a vegan
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LiftingRiot wrote: »If I become Vegan, am I still technically a man?
Are you kidding me! If you are a vegan, girls (and guys, whatever you like) will flock to you. They will be like, "awww he loves animals! He cares about the planet! I bet he cooks better than [insert famous chef here]!" Oh, dude, you have no idea how manly vegan guys are. Again, vegans are a minority, so the percentage of fit, super sexy men is probably much higher than the average bacon-cheese-burger guys;) oh, and apparently vegan guys last longer in bed...but I wouldn't know... *sheds a single virgin tear*1 -
What if you had a pet cow who was super pampered and loved and didn't mind being milked. Could you eat the cheese with a clear conscience?1
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Motorsheen wrote: »That's cool.
I respect that fact that you're not compelled to push your point of view on others. There is great value in that.
Whenever PETA does something outrageous, I typically respond by buying dinner for my friends. ... and I order veal for everyone.
To be fair, PETA is well-hated even by animal-lovers. I'm very much against them and I feel strongly about the humane treatment of animals.
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How long have you been a vegan? How long were you a vegetarian? Do you take any supplements and which ones? With all the restrictions to your diet, how do you make sure you are healthy?
Do you expect your friends, family and acquaintances to accommodate your veganism? Do they? Is most of your social circle vegan?
Why are you a vegan? Just answered.
I was pescetarian for six months, then octo-vegetarian for four months, then I switched to a vegan lifestyle in the Spring of 2015.
I don't take any supplements. Before I went vegan, I was anemic, so I took iron supplements, but I stopped using them when I felt like they weren't working. I get almost, sometimes more than, 100% of my DV for iron now.
When you think about, veganism is not restrictive at all. People only say it is because so much processed foods have animal products in them. How much animal foods do you eat a day? I'm guessing dairy (cheese, milk, foods containing dairy, whey), meat (chicken, cow, turkey, pig, fish), honey, other animal products...now think about the foods that aren't derived from animals. There seems to be quite an abundance, yes? So, what I do is avoid most processed foods. The only processed foods I eat are molasses, agave, Grape Nuts occasionally, rarely bread, and milk alternatives. Oh, and once a month I'll have mango sorbet.
I'm leaving for college this year, so my family won't have to deal with me much longer, but they usually buy the cheap, bulk foods such as potatoes, beans, rice, bananas, and apples, and I deal with the other stuff. My friends are always curious about veganism and seem really proud when they have or make something vegan. I have a raw vegan friend, and three other "normal" vegan friends. I'm lucky:)0 -
Longtime vegetarian here. Hi!
What's your favorite replacement for eggs in baked goods? I haven't found anything better than ground flaxseed.
What's your favorite vegan chocolate brand? I like Theo.
Which vegan cheese do you prefer--cashew cheese, nutritional yeast cheese, something else?
Tempeh bacon is also magic: true, or definitely true?
Hello!
I have never tried flax seeds before. Usually the only thing that I make that needs egg replacements are waffles, but I make waffles only twice a year, and I just use bananas or apple sauce. I can't remember what it's called, but isn't there that leftover juice from a can of chickpeas that one can use?
I don't eat chocolate, because I can't have caffeine (psychological problem or whatever...caffeine messes with my mood to the extreme!)
The one vegan cheese I tried was Chaio Cheese (Is that how you spell it??) and it was AMAZING! I can't remember what it was made out of though...oh and i tried Daiya once, it was disgusting. Worst ever.
I don't eat tempeh anymore, it's part of my whole unprocessed foods thing, but when I did eat it (5-6 months ago), I would eat it straight out of the box without cooking it. I'm so weird...0 -
MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »What is your personal record for eating an entire package of Oreos?
Even before I chose veganism, I hated Oreos with a passion. You know those little bags of cookies that come in those huge boxes, and they would have Chips Ahoy!, Nutterbutters, Oreos, Vanilla Waffers, etc.
I avoided Oreas each time. So...I have yet to eat an Oreo since going vegan. I don't think I will, though.
I'm shocked!
Ok then how about yeast? Do you eat yeast? or is that not considered vegan?
I consider yeast vegan, but I don't personally eat it. I did in the beginning of veganism, though. My dad bought me a huge container and I put it on everything and nothing. Spoonfuls of it. Literally, I would take a spoon, pour it in a cup, and try eating it, but two bites in the roof of my mouth would be covered in it, so I would have to stop eating it. So glad that phase is over -.-0 -
peppermintpudgy wrote: »What if you had a pet cow who was super pampered and loved and didn't mind being milked. Could you eat the cheese with a clear conscience?
For a cow to have milk, it needs to have a calf first. The calf needs to be separated from the mother right away, otherwise the mother won't let itself be milked (it wants to save its milk for the calf). The calf is then fed powdered milk and is deprived of growing up with its mother.
(I am not a vegetarian, but the reality is what it is.)3 -
peppermintpudgy wrote: »What if you had a pet cow who was super pampered and loved and didn't mind being milked. Could you eat the cheese with a clear conscience?
For a cow to have milk, it needs to have a calf first. The calf needs to be separated from the mother right away, otherwise the mother won't let itself be milked (it wants to save its milk for the calf). The calf is then fed powdered milk and is deprived of growing up with its mother.
(I am not a vegetarian, but the reality is what it is.)
Yes. What they said^1 -
MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »omakase619 wrote: »Favorite vegan dish?
Ooh that's a tough one. I'd have to go by meals for this:
Breakfast: Peppermint Banana Waffles with maple syrup
Snack: dried figs
Lunch: Lentil soup with sourdough bread and pico de gallo
Dinner: Huge burrito with blackbeans, chickpeas, avocado, rice, and more pico de gallo
Dessert: Oatmeal raison walnut cookie topped with a spoonful of molasses
Would you ever give me a raisin cookie and tell me that it's chocolate chip?
No, I would give you a cookie raisin and tell you it's a raisin cookie. Mwahaha!1 -
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MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »Do you mount the toilet paper roll over or under?
I use the old lettuce in my fridge, and I place it on top of my pile of Gardening magazines.3 -
Amanda92TX wrote: »@MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »Do you start eating a muffin before removing the little muffin sleeve or after removing the little muffin sleeve?
I just eat the tops and leave the stumps
Aw the poor stumps! I'll eat your stumps.0 -
Do you compost?0
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peppermintpudgy wrote: »Do you compost?
We have a compost, yes, but we feed it to our chickens.0 -
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UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »peppermintpudgy wrote: »Do you compost?
We have a compost, yes, but we feed it to our chickens.
Are your chickens just pets, or does someone eat the eggs?0 -
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MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »omakase619 wrote: »Favorite vegan dish?
Ooh that's a tough one. I'd have to go by meals for this:
Breakfast: Peppermint Banana Waffles with maple syrup
Snack: dried figs
Lunch: Lentil soup with sourdough bread and pico de gallo
Dinner: Huge burrito with blackbeans, chickpeas, avocado, rice, and more pico de gallo
Dessert: Oatmeal raison walnut cookie topped with a spoonful of molasses
Would you ever give me a raisin cookie and tell me that it's chocolate chip?
No, I would give you a cookie raisin and tell you it's a raisin cookie. Mwahaha!
Pure evilUltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »Do you mount the toilet paper roll over or under?
I use the old lettuce in my fridge, and I place it on top of my pile of Gardening magazines.
Yet pure genius
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peppermintpudgy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »peppermintpudgy wrote: »Do you compost?
We have a compost, yes, but we feed it to our chickens.
Are your chickens just pets, or does someone eat the eggs?MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »peppermintpudgy wrote: »Do you compost?
We have a compost, yes, but we feed it to our chickens.
So are the chickens just like house pets or do you sell the eggs? Do they roam free? Do they have names?
My family eats the eggs, and sometimes we give them away. Chickens don't really have a choice for laying eggs, and we don't have a rooster, and as weird as it is for me to imagine eating eggs, I don't feel bad giving them away. The chickens do have names, although I only know a couple of them because they all look the same. They also roam free in the perimeter of our yard, which is biggish, and they tend to get out somehow, but we don't chase them back. They go over to our neighbors house and eat the bird seed and cat food left outside. Well...at least the three that always get out (one of them with a healed broken leg that gives it a strange hobble).1 -
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Oh, I thought chickens laid eggs to produce offspring, not to feed humans. No rooster=no moral quandary. Cool! Thanks for the info!
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MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »peppermintpudgy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »peppermintpudgy wrote: »Do you compost?
We have a compost, yes, but we feed it to our chickens.
Are your chickens just pets, or does someone eat the eggs?MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »UltraVegRunnerBabe wrote: »peppermintpudgy wrote: »Do you compost?
We have a compost, yes, but we feed it to our chickens.
So are the chickens just like house pets or do you sell the eggs? Do they roam free? Do they have names?
My family eats the eggs, and sometimes we give them away. Chickens don't really have a choice for laying eggs, and we don't have a rooster, and as weird as it is for me to imagine eating eggs, I don't feel bad giving them away. The chickens do have names, although I only know a couple of them because they all look the same. They also roam free in the perimeter of our yard, which is biggish, and they tend to get out somehow, but we don't chase them back. They go over to our neighbors house and eat the bird seed and cat food left outside. Well...at least the three that always get out (one of them with a healed broken leg that gives it a strange hobble).
Awesome! What is the hobbly one's name and how is she? Like cool or kinda smug?
She follows me everywhere. She even got in my car with me once. Her name is Lucky, although I would have preferred something more suitable...like Gimpy. Or Little Clucker.1 -
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peppermintpudgy wrote: »Oh, I thought chickens laid eggs to produce offspring, not to feed humans. No rooster=no moral quandary. Cool! Thanks for the info!
They don't produce eggs to feed humans, but they have been genetically chosen over time to lay more eggs than what they naturally would. What normal chicken would lay an egg a day? That would be 365 chicks. That's definitely not natural.0
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