Reason for Vegan?

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  • momtokgo
    momtokgo Posts: 446 Member
    From what I've gathered, you can't really be "vegan" for dietary purposes only. You either are or you aren't, and if you ARE vegan then you're not buying/wearing leather/wool/etc either.

    I started doing the vegan challenge awhile back, but it wasn't for me. So.. I don't know what I am now, a pescatarian that doesn't eat dairy?


    I don't eat meat, dairy or eggs. All animal products have been cut out of my life for health reasons, and I really enjoy it. But my house is a ethical vegans nightmare. I won't go into details, lets just say we have 2 skulls and one furry rug in our living room.
  • alltacht
    alltacht Posts: 139 Member
    Hmm.. so I just read a topic on this forum called 'Eggs, The Truth' or something, and in that one the claim was eating eggs daily reduced the risk of cancer. Then this topic says eating eggs more than once a week increases the risk of cancer...
  • Exill
    Exill Posts: 155 Member
    I think you can call yourself whatever you want. I most often refer to myself as plant-powered, since I don't like the way some vegans get the holier-than-thou attitude described above. I started out being a vegetarian about 15 years ago for health reasons and I'm now doing it for ethical reasons as well. I seem to do best on a vegan diet, but I say to each his or her own. I think if you're making the effort to have a more plant-based diet I think it is commendable.

    Plant-powered, I like that! And I totally agree, btw. When I first switched to trying a vegan diet (no vegetarian in between, just full-out switch) I didn't understand what I was supposed to eat and had a lot trouble trying to think up meal ideas that weren't centered around a slab of meat. But now I'm a lot more creative and don't use meat as a cop-out for an easy meal. I get more variety. Dairy was easy to give up (though I did have some trouble ditching ice cream), and I don't miss steak or pork chops at all and even the thought of cooking with chicken now is a huge turn off for me. But I still love eggs--LOVE eggs, I eat them most days--and can't seem to give up bacon haha. Fish we eat once a week.
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