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I am Vegan

Why Vegan?

By: sgtcandid
Written on August 21st, 2007
By: sgtcandid
Age: 56-60 , Male
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  • ReinventingMyselfAgain

    I have been a pesco-vegetarian for years. I would eat fish in restaurants, but not at home. I reduced my dairy by 90% but it kept creeping back. So sneaky, that dairy. I also was eating way too much wheat, in almost any form. PBJs, heck yeah.
    Enough is enough.
    The result is all of the above is an overweight, unhealthy me. I know from previous efforts, that going vegan and avoiding bread, pretty much solves every problem I have.
    So, health and weight are my concerns.
    But, the entire animal agribusiness thing makes me sick, too.

    Nov 14, 2012
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  • LukeyLuke

    Cheers my friend. I love hearing people's reasons for going vegan. Yes there are definitely cardiovascular and cancer reduction benefits.



    For me, I guess I always figured that you can find a happy medium eating any type of foods as far as health goes as long as you balance your diet properly. Personally, I went vegan right around 9/11... totally unrelated to the event. During the 6 months prior I had been reading up on factory farming, and growing my sensitivity towards the fates of so many animals... in the US alone billions of animals die each year who have been front row to some of the most malicious treatment.



    It's not that we just kill them. From the minute they're born they're yanked from their mothers, and then immediately the isolation, fear, and horror begins. In factory farms they're caged to the point they can't really move. They're poorly handled and beaten -- designing a world for them of pure horror. A world of pure petrification. Housed in the dark in a massive dirty toilet. It's insanely cruel... all the way up until the end, where they're prodded and beaten into being lined up for their execution. And they know it. They can smell it. They can hear the others.



    They're smarter than we give them credit for. They're all highly evolved mammals with more similarities than differences to ourselves (except for the birdies who live the cruelest of fates).



    I say why be a patron to that when you can be healthier as a vegan and endorse a much more ethical market.

    Dec 23, 2007
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    • solarxmoon

      those conditions are really horrible. I'm still shocked when people say they're aware of that, but just don't care. What happened to their empathy? They seem good towards other humans. I don't understand it...

      Jun 30, 2011
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