Which one are you: Vegan or Vegetarian?

Vegan

HardcorPunk, I totally agree with what you just put forward. I feel like veganism is touted as a 'cure-all' for so many of society's ills. I'm an ovo-vegetarian right now, because I'm still experimenting to see if veganism is right for my body. Veganism is attractive to me because it is a political statement, but I don't want to have too many misconceptions about the impact I am actually making.

The food industry is totally corrupt, you know? It's just not even workable. I might be buying my fruit and vegetables from farmers' markets where I can and not buying wool or leather or anymore etc, but I still buy my legumes from a lebanese cornershop or whatever it might be, and I know that the whole process is destroying the earth. I can't say with certainty to what extent veganism is helping to curb that destruction, but as a philosophy it sounds wonderful. The lesson is maybe that we're all making varying efforts to help out, and none of us live 'cruelty-free', unless we commune with nature and forage, or farm locally and in sustainable ways. My personal opinion is that veganism won't stop cruelty, but it might be a good starting point for raising mass awareness / revolutionising the food industry...

Peace,
medis

Vegetarian, but lately I'm thinking about becoming Vegan.

i just play with my penis like a scared little boy whenever i think about becoming vegan.

I usually eat veggy, but I think vegan food taste good!

I don’t eat meat, fish and poultry, so that makes me a vegetarian. Everything I do eat is mostly organic/biological.

vegan 4evr

Vegan,

as far as the aggression is concerned, I once heard Bill Bailey say that every vegan he had met was aggressive!!!

I was an aggressive child when I ate meat, i was an aggressive vegetarian for 19 years and have been an aggressive vegan for the past 5 years, i think i might just be aggressive...........

I don't respond well to meat eaters telling me that I look ill and that i should eat meat as they wave pieces of carcass under my nose and as such pretty much keep my mouth shut about veganism, it's not for me to tell anyone how to live but it certainly seems to be for meat eaters to tell the rest of us how to live.......... and die.

It's personal choice of course but I wouldn't like to be killed and eaten, I don't have the superiority complex you seem to need to consume flesh and i don't view life as a commodity there to be manipulated at our leisure. I thought long and hard about turning vegan and it dawned that milk was really quite weird, we're the only animal that consumes milk in adulthood and to compound that we find the concept of drinking our own species' milk in adulthood strange but getting it from another animal makes sense!!??? as for cheese, go figure.

It is very funny though, the last time I was in America I was eating out somewhere (which proved to be impossible) and it transpired that i was vegan, the 22 stone (don't know what that is in pounds but it's round!!) waitress in a mixture of horror, disbelief and mocking asked "what the f**k do you eat?" ha ha ha, seems my metabolism enjoys being vegan much more than hers enjoys all the eggs, cheese and cream.

the hardest thing about being vegan though is trying to find warm socks that aren't made of wool or some horrid man made fibre!!!!

enter bamboo, who'd have thought?

vegans or veggies big up yourselves, and veggies, don't let the evangelical vegans get you down, we're none of us the same and really shouldn't try to be. While I do think Equinoxvox is bang on the money it's a matter of educating yourself and choosing the difficult truth over the easy lie and thinking about what you consume, your choice though. Our metabolisms and physiology's are all quite different and while my weight and energy levels certainly benefit from a vegan diet (as does my conscience) it doesn't mean everyone's will, I just wish a few of the meat fascists would try the killing and butchering for themselves, perhaps then they'd change their tune?

Please though let's never forget that being vegan or vegetarian is a peculiarly western choice that you have the luxury of being able to make, if meat was the only food stuff available to you would you really rather starve to death?

Vegan for a couple of months now.

I am Vegan!!! i've been vegan for over 1 year.

Vegan.

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