i'm vegan now

[mrose_s]

i've been toying with the idea for weeks. but i decided the night before last that the whole reson i went vegetarian was because i disagree'd with intensive farming. well i only recently found out that even free range chickens still suffer for their eggs.
so vegan i go i guess. i'm happy though, because it will get me off chocolate and icecream as well.

 

[~Jessie~]

Congrats, that is awesome! I'm a vegetarian, and wish that I could make the leap into going vegan.

 

[mrose_s]

yeah. i'm hoping its easy to stick with. but i'm excited.

does anyone know anything that i should be careful. i know a lot of stuff that is meat and by-product and that sneaks into food. like gelatin and renet. anything else?

 

[RD]

Umm how do free-range chickens suffer for their eggs?

I've been getting my eggs locally from a small family farmer. His free-range chickens don't appear to be suffering to me.

In any case, good luck with going vegan!

 

[mrose_s]

thanks. yeah. i figure a lot of family farmers do do that. thats great that you get your eggs from them. but i found out that to be able to label your eggs "free range" your chickens only have to have "access" to outside. meaning that most free range chickens are kept packed into huge barns with one narrow opening leading to an enclosure too small to fit every hen in it. the enclosue doesn't have to be big, or grassy or anything.

'm going to eat eggs and milk once i get my own chickens and cow. because i know that they have been treated well. but you don't know when you just buy eggs fromt he supermarket

 

[ACooper]

I am not real familiar with "vegan" Isn't that where you eat everything raw as well as no animal products?
No bread or anything??

 

[mrose_s]

veagn. no animal flesh or animal by products. so no milk, eggs or honey. including things with milk and eggs in it, ice cream, mayonaise, cheese, chocolate etc

 

[ACooper]

Oh, Ok............I thought I read somewhere that true vegan was completely raw. I don't know anything about it, or vegetarienism <sp?> either for that matter

 

[mrose_s]

its worth looking up just for knowing about it.

there are fruitarians. they do things like only eat parts of the plant that would fall off naturally. like an apple off a tree. but they won't eat carrots or potatoes because they have to be pulled out of the ground. i dunno. i think that would be a bit hard for me

 

[ACooper]

Do you eat tofu too? I mean you personally.

 

[Lizmo]

Okay, so vegan is where you doing eat ANY dairy products AND meats?

And a vegetarian, is a person who doesn't eat any meat?

Well, comgrates any ways!

 

[mrose_s]

yea thats right,

i havn't eaten a lot of tofu yet. but i guess i'm gonna have to figure out how to cook it. lol

 

[ACooper]

I just don't think I could get enough protien with nuts...............and I don't care for the look or smell of tofu. I take my hat off to you for being so caring, and able to balance your diet.

 

[~Jessie~]

Yep, a vegetarian is a person who doesn't eat any meat, or anything made with animal ingredients where that animal is killed (like gelatin, animal fat, etc).

I'm a vegetarian. I eat dairy... I would have a hard time cutting that out. I wish that I could have my own farm with cows and chickens so that I could get my own milk and eggs, though!

 

[mrose_s]

yeah. i plan on doing that in the next few months. i found vegatrainism very easy. plus now that i'm not eating chocolate it means i am going to have to look at what i am eating more because i can't just go and buy crap from the shop whenever i'm hungry

 

[~Jessie~]

Did you know that most powdered donuts contain beef fat? There are so many different foods where you need to look really closely at the ingredients, because some of them are very surprising

 

[mrose_s]

eww. thats gross. yeah. lucky we don;t have a donut shop here. lol

 

[Paige]

I am a vegan. I've been one for quite awhile now. At first I struggled a lot with it. Every time I got up to eat I had to tell myself "I do not eat animal products!". Reading labels was also a new thing to me. It becomes habbit but you have to be extremely firm with yourself to survive.


Are you going vegan in everything you do or just food? Like are you buying vegan clothes and all that sort of stuff? 'cause if you are, I am pretty sure VANS shoes aren't made with animal stuff. Don't quote me on that though.

 

[mrose_s]

okay thanks. nah i havn't done leather or fur or anything. i have accidentally bought a leather pair of shoes and forgot to check. so i will where them till they are worn out. i'm pretty used to checking labels, for the "no animal testing" and to find out if there is hidden meat in it. or to check which brand is made in australia. but i enjoy it. it makes me find new products,.

 

[Paige]

I met saw a kid yesterday wearing a "AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING" shirt yet he was eating a McDonalds hamburger. Some people confuse me.