Thread: Ask me about VEGANISM

Where do you get your portein supply?

I've heard vegans say that they feel much healthier and more clear-headed after becoming vegans. Do you find this to be true? Also, is there any science behind that, because going by our food recommendations, we should eat meat, it's supposed to be healthy for us, so I don't see how not eating meat can make one feel healthier.

^^ Dude it all depends on a person's individual dietary needs. We're not all the same.



As for a question.. Are you one of the annoying vegans who preach their veganism, proclaiming it's the right way to live for everyone?

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

^^ Dude it all depends on a person's individual dietary needs. We're not all the same.



As for a question.. Are you one of the annoying vegans who preach their veganism, proclaiming it's the right way to live for everyone?

If so:

This might lighten the mood:



HTML Embed tags don't work here... I've replaced it with the YouTube tag implemented a while ago. ~ Wavefunction

Where does the name Vegan come from anyway?

^^ Haha!! Couldn't have said it better myself.

Edit: Err, to Kushna's post. Damn you people are fast!

Dammit, that HTML surely didn't work out as intended.

Here's a link to the video I was trying to post!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puGYYhTs4Fo

Ha, funny you posted some Immortal Technique cuz I'm going to see him here next month, July 29th I think it is...

PS Damn, someone posts something about veganism and - what's up with the hostility?

PSS Yea, I probably was one of those annoying vegans like 10 years ago, but now I'm old, chilled out, hate arguing and just like to have some rational talk about health & food choices and how our decisions make an impact on the world.

Protein is easy....


soybeans/tofu
and about everything else I eat?

Seriously, it's not hard to get enough protein on a vegetarian or vegan diet. I dont even think about it. (For what it's worth, when my blood was tested years ago, it had adequate protein supplies.)

The idea that it's hard to get enough protein on a vegan diet is a very persistent myth... for more proof check out the bodybuilding folks at veganbodybuilding.com



Protein is NOT hard to get on a vegan diet. If anything, items of concern would be B12 and iron.

How do you get B12 and iron?

B12 comes from my multivitamin. It's also added to a some vegan friendly products like Silk soymilk..

Iron -I get this from leafy green vegetables, which I should probably eat more of - and from my multivitamin.

If you didn't take the vitamin would you still be able to find an adequate amount of B12 and iron in vegan food products?

Good question.

For iron- yea, defintiely.

For B12 - yes, you could, but here's why it's complicated:

- a healthy body makes B12 but it's not so certain if the B12 the body makes is used in the same way that external sources of B12 are used for bodily needs (strange, I know)
- B12 is naturally producted on plants but washing the plant thoroughly for sanitary reasons will remove the B12 - so while, if you were looking at this from a purely "natural" standpoint, wherein perhaps a primitive human wouldn't wash the hell out of all his or her produce, they would get B12. But in our modern society, everything is cleaned x2, so... this removes the B12

So did you become a vegan for animal rights reasons or health reasons or a little of both or something else?

My mom worked with a vegan. She (the vegan) also made her children vegans, and they were living fine. Eventually they got sick and so did she partially. Apparently they weren't getting sufficient vitamines or proteines (or whatever), and they ended up getting sick. She's fine, since she became a vegan "late" in here life, but the youngest of the kids now have unrecoverable braindamage (not extreme stuff like downs like stuff, but it still disables her to some extents), and the older one is going through some tough recovery stuff. Now they're all meat eaters.

What do you think of that?

There was an article in the paper yesterday about a 9 year old girl who had died from malnutrition, and she was a vegan. Her parents were both vegans. Just thought I'd mention it. Not being hostile or anything.

what exactly is a vegan?
dictionary definition

To my knowledge, a vegan is a person who doesn't eat any animals, or any of whatever they may happen to produce, ie. milk and honney.

Or, to quote Wikipedia;

"Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose."

Do you eat Gluten stuff? Also, what about black molasses with soy milk? When I was vegan, I got to like those.

Originally Posted by Marvo

"Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose."

that is not possible

Originally Posted by Ynot

that is not possible

Originally Posted by Marvo

"Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose [with varying success]."

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Originally Posted by Ynot

that is not possible

Vegans are just people who don't know how the ecosystems works. There's virtually no reason for us to use animals, but on the contrary, there's no reason not to either.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Vegans are just people who don't know how the ecosystems works. There's virtually no reason for us to use animals

Well, except for survival, health, science and quality of life... but those are negligible. We wouldn't even have copper without cows.