Thinking of becoming vegan

Signed up for the 30-day PETA Veg Pledge at www.goveg.com.

I would now love some inputs from DP users already (real) vegan and if this has affected your health in any considerable way?

"Scientific data suggests that a Vegetarian diet helps prevent diseases such as obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer"

Also one small moral question; I have a petsnake since many years that live off frozen mice (wouldn't this be considered a breach of "veganism")?

Cheers

 

Thought the thread header was 'Thinking of becoming virgin' at first glance .... turns out to be all fruit and veg! ..... no meat!

 

I went to that site and clicked on the sign up for the 30 day pledge link, and just got a message- "The system cannot find the file specified."

Can everyone else get to it ok?

 

You have been watching the original Star Trek too much, I think you would have to be born on Spocks planet to be one. JJ


Cheers

 

Yes, eating your pet snake is definitely a violation of strict veganism.

Actually, I don't think it matters if you snake ate mice or not, eating him would still be against the rules. Why would you possibly think otherwise..?

-Michael

 

Well it's pretty easy, no cravings really, cleansing(colon, etc.).

 

I'm not a vegetarian personally, but I think that becoming a vegan is too extreme. Sure, there are complimentary amino acids, but what's wrong with eggs, milk etc. More power to you if you do decide to do it though

 

I was a vegan at one point in my life. Honestly I hated it. I hate tempeh and tofu, but I ate it anyway. It's just so expensive to be vegan, and the food you eat just doesn't taste as good.

If you're serious about giving something like this a try, why not go vegetarian? Allowing cheese into your diet opens up so many food combinations. I mean, spaghetti without parmesan cheese (or any other italian food for that matter.)

Just my two cents.

 

Thanks for all the input and obviously I was refering to the fact that I would still have to keep frozen mice in the freezer as food for my snake (NOT EATING THE SNAKE)

Concerning "becoming a vegetarian" I did consider it since I do know for a fact that the local milkproducers etc do treat their animals very well,
I actually think Swedish senior-citizens being shuffled of to the different retirement homes faces a far more cruel ending than say milkcows...

 

We shouldnt miss the big difference. Do you want to become a vegan or a vegetarian?

But whatever you decide, congratulations for looking into this direction.

Could access it without problems.

 

Thanks mate, I will try this for 30 days

One of the reasons I am even considering this is that my current summerjob apart from regular studies, is at a local meatproducer and being faced with the "truth behind the curtain" everyday changes your priorities. Maybe I should start some kind of blog telling the story "Going from 21 Years of Meat to a Life of Veggies"

 

Seems you havent followed the scientific arguments.

Thats just simply wrong.

Most probably because they have more respect for others.

And you are from Finland.


Whatever, its definitely not necessary to trash a serious thread with silly comments.

 

You are allowed to express your opinion, but you arent allowed to obviously trash a thread with silly comments

Get your facts straight before making such comments and you will see they are wrong.

For the rest, see Kerosene's reply please.

 

Obviously you are not familiar with the board's rules.