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I want to try to become a vegetarian for a week and see what happens and my parents wont let me. How can I convince them that I want to become one just for a week?
Why would you need their permission.
Didn’t you realize that they are people out there that will actually go for days as a vegetarian and not even notice: oatmeal for breakfast, apple for a snack, veg wrap at lunch and a coffee, spaghetti with tomato sauce for dinner… OH NO, I FORGOT TO EAT MEAT!! Really, some people SAY ‘I could never eat a meal without meat, but actually they do that all the time without thinking about it.
My friend has a mother that doesn’t want her to become vegetarian (not everybody has a hippy mom, I guess). How can we convince her that eating meat is wrong and that there are other alternative choices with the same nutrirional sources?
God also made something called fast food that is tasty but that does not mean that is good for you…..
PS: I think it’s cruel to eat animals, if you don’t agree with me, that’s ok.
There is a Japanese analogy/proverb that goes like this, “The nail that sticks up is the one that gets hammered down”. People are like this everywhere. When you tell your family that it is your personal belief that animals should not be eaten, they take a look at themselves and it can be subconsciously translated into, “What you do is wrong and I choose to be right.”
Her parents have probably been taught a huge amount of misinformation by their parents and their teachers while growing up. You guys really need to research vegetarian diets and health before you even think about saying the “V-word” in front of your parents.
When you have gathered enough information and feel confident in a vegetarian diet’s ability to maintain or even improve health, you may mention to them that you have made the decision. They may be shocked, angry, worried, curious or many other things, but you must NEVER react to their behavior and always stay calm. If they are able to speak to you and respect your choice, please tell them everything and answer all questions. If they are rude, inconsiderate, judgmental, violent, or verbally abusive, refuse to continue any conversation until they can speak to you with respect.
The best advice is to study everything that you can about a healthy vegetarian diet and keep yourself in good shape (better than most people your age or than your friends/family if possible). If nobody that you know shows a genuine, positive interest in your choice, don’t give them the privilege of the knowledge that you have gathered. Work your way around any attempts they make to trivialize your beliefs and if possible, go shopping with your parents and buy things that aren’t obvious veggie fare. Instead of trying to sneak fake meat into the cart, toss in lentil soup, peanut butter, pasta, fruits & veggies or anything else that you have learned is needed to fill any gaps in your diet.
There have been vegan Olympic gold medalists and a vegan woman can create an ENTIRELY NEW,HEALTHY HUMAN BEING INSIDE OF HER. Many of these children stay vegan and grow up to be perfectly healthy adults. So just keep yourself educated about what you eat and don’t let anyone tell you that a veg diet is lacking anything essential.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/advocacy_933_ENU_HTML_(Draft).htm
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If you want to become a lacto-ovo vegetarian, the transition should be quite simple. Almost all meats have widely available commercial replacements. All that you have to do is replace any flesh in your diet (beef, pork, poultry, seafood) with meat analogs or just leave it out altogether.
You should keep in mind that a journey such as this can be quite short but should just be the beginning of a longer one to a plant-based diet with no animal products. This is because of the reality of factory farming in which animals that are kept alive to produce milk, eggs, etc suffer much more and longer than animals that are raised to a certain weight and then slaughtered.http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/
http://meat.org
Some people use the word “vegan” in reference to this idea, but be aware that applying that label to yourself should always come with the inclusion of wise activism and advocacy.http://www.veganoutreach.org/advocacy/index.html
Two extremely important examples of this are that you should never speak to someone about vegetarianism/veganism without their consent and genuine interest or as a comment on what they are eating AND your dietary beliefs should never be used as an introduction or explanation of who you are as a person. Veg*ism should be something that comes up AFTER people get to know you and they offer you a situation that makes it confusing to withhold the information/discussion. Also, if you are presented something that you choose not to eat or you are
ordering food/eating together somewhere/picking the best place to eat.
When you you hold off on the subject until it’s necessary and then act like it isn’t a big deal at all, people are usually surprised and WAY more interested and curious than if you were to bring it up when someone’s eating or just using it as a conversation starter.
A responsible vegan ALWAYS studies the subject of their own health and how to keep their body completely provided for in every sense. http://www.veganhealth.org/sh
To neglect their body is to define a plant-based diet as unhealthy and is the opposite of helping the animals.
Just to clear things up, the vegetarian/vegan diet is not composed of salads, vegetables, fruit and fake meat. Fruits and vegetables are always important but they DO NOT make up the largest portion of any healthy diet.
A balanced plant-based diet includes grains(breads, pasta, rice,cereal), legumes(soy, beans, peas, lentils), fruit and vegetables.
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/food_groups.html
http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/eating.html
Being vegan can be an art, one whose challenge is to take things that involve the suffering of the innocent and change them into something free of cruelty.
A vegan woman can create an ENTIRELY NEW,HEALTHY HUMAN BEING INSIDE OF HER. Many of these children stay vegan and grow up to be perfectly healthy adults. So just keep yourself educated about what you eat and don’t let anyone tell you that a veg diet is lacking anything essential.
Technically the term “vegetarian” does imply that you don’t consume anything that comes from the body of an animal that requires killing it. Many ingredients such as gelatin and glycerin are found in many candies, Fig-Newtons, and many of other foods as well as rennet found in many cheeses.
http://www.happycow.net/health-animal-ingredients.html
The best thing to remember is to take your time so that for example: when you are comfortable not eating beef and pork you can then give up chicken when you are sure you can make the commitment permanently.
Depending on your age or reliance on parents or regional options, it may not be best to give yourself a label. The important thing is to do your best to make progress and be committed to your compassion towards animals. Never put your focus onto what you or other people use to describe yourself.
If you meet someone that talks down to people for eating meat, dairy, etc or to you because they think they are “more veg” than you, laugh in their face and tell them they are a disgrace to the entire philosophy. People like this only hurt the idea of veg*ism AND the animals. The point of all of this is to live compassionately and and as free from cruelty as you can, all the while maintaining your health and a positive attitude. People who don’t maintain either, need not open their mouths and represent our beliefs.
If you actually choose to read all of this, I hope it helps. If not, feel free to e-mail me if you have questions.
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I’m vegan and these are some of my favorite things to eat:
Breakfast: bananas, cream of wheat with brown sugar and soy butter, cereal, pancakes or french toast with real maple syrup, vegan “sausage” patties, smoothies.
Snack: BRUSSEL SPROUTS =) no joke
Lunch: VEGAN “SAUSAGE” SANDWICHES, sandwiches with vegan deli slices(Tofurkey is the only one that’s kinda funky), fruit, dinner leftovers, couscous salad, vegan sushi, potato or pasta salad.
Dinner: sloppy joes, “sausage” and gravy with homemade biscuits, Spaghetti and Trader Joe’s “meatballs” or TVP, lasagna, Thai pad see ew, pad khi mao(drunkard’s noodles), pad prig king, tofu+eggplant with basil sauce, yellow thai curry with tofu or vegan chikn and veggies and jasmine rice, Indian dal with homemade roti or dosai, channa masala, aloo gobi, vegetable or minestrone soup, pizza, STEAMED “PORK” BUNS with potstickers or spring rolls, sweet&sour/orange/lemon chikn, vegan pho or wonton soup, baked tofu, BBQ homemade seitan (tastes like BBQ’d ribs)
I use these sites to find recipes:
http://www.foodnetwork.com
http://vegweb.com
http://www.recipezaar.com
I want to become vegetarian but I don’t support PETA because PETA takes it way too far. Whenever I don’t want to eat meat, they say I need protein for it and then they start arguing with me. I try telling them that there are meat substitutes that are soy-based. But, they don’t listen to me, what do I do?
I don’t support PETA. Most vegetarians nowadays have evolved and see PETA for what it really is: a cult that makes vegetarians look like terrorists. The Animal Liberation Front can be justified because they actually rescue animals. PETA just terrorizes people without any long-term benefits coming out of it. They bring light to important issues, but what they do about it? Turn people off. That’s why it is up to you and I, and other vegetarians and those interested in the diet to cause change.
Protein is not limited to meat. In fact, Joel Fuhrman, M.D., goes as far as saying that protein is almost exclusive to grass and plants and that the only reason lions and carnivores are so large and muscular is linked to the high protein content in the herbivores that the carnivores eat (gazelles, lions, antelope). Where do herbivores get it from? Plants. The only reason dairy has so much calcium in it is from the alkaline plant foods that that cows eat. Dairy calcium is unhealthy for humans since it is exists for the calf to feed on. Casein and lactose have eben linked to cancer (especially in the stomach) in human beings. If you stop to think of it, I’m sure vegans aren’t the only ones who think that drinking the breast milk of another species is more than a little bit awkward. I emphasize the fact that plan foods are alkaline because that is generally a symbol of a healthy food.
Dairy is acidic, so most of the calcium absorbed from it is eliminated from the body through urine. When all of that calcium leaves your body, to avoid becoming deficient in calcium, your body strips calcium from the reserves in your bones, which actually leads to a loss of calcium.
I support your journey in becoming a vegetarian and feel that it will be a good experience for you and your whole family. Set an example for your family and hopefully someday you will be ethical, healthy, and as green as possible.
Veganism is the answer. Vegetarianism is both an umbrella term for veganism as well as a stepping stone to becoming a vegan.
Soy, rice, and almond milk exist to replace dairy milk and all of the toxins in it.
To request a free vegetarian starter kit, visit http://www.tryveg.com/request.
For the health benefits of a vegetarian diet, visit http://www.pcrm.org (the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine)
For recipes: http://www.cok.net/lit/recipes/, http://www.chooseveg.com/vegan-recipes.asp, http://www.vegancooking.com or http://www.vegweb.com.
It is not a hard diet to follow.
Always remember, vegetarianism is a diet; veganism is a lifestyle.
Either way, it is the greatest route of eating for the animals, the environment and it’s resources, and your own health.
Some of your family members will likely catch on through your example.
Good luck!
Some of my vegetarian friends say they are vegetarian because it is either a stance against animal cruelty or a stance against how wasteful it is preparing meat. I know there are many more reasons out there, so
Why would YOU become vegan or vegetarian? Also, what would be a reason to be one over the other?
Hmm, I think my initial reasoning was the videos I saw about how they raise livestock, those videos nearly made me punch a hole in the wall.
After that my resolve was strengthened by more and more information, I found out that meat, dairy, and other animal products are not only unnecessary, but they are harmful to ones health. I found out the impact the meat and dairy industry had on the planet, and how much water and land and food and other resources we waste to raise animals for slaughter. I later found out more about how they treat animals in captivity, how they go about euthanizing pets, how many pets are euthanized each year, it’s not just the animals that are raised for food that are treated so horribly(granted euthanization is a necessary reality with how many animals we bring into this world via breeding, not getting our domesticated animals fixed(domestication is cruel, but so is trying to reintroduce a domesticated animal back into the wild), etc). But I think we also need to look at our own reproduction, it might sound horrible, but if it was in my power I’d force people to limit their reproduction to 1 child per person or 2 per couple(not including adoptions). In the future I don’t see myself as anything but an inspirational figure and/or a martyr, hopefully it’s the former. I’ll probably practice abstinence or succumb to reality and get a vasectome at a young age, and adopt if I feel I have what it takes to raise a child. Unfortunately I can’t live in my own matrix, the more I learn, the more I see this world for what it is, a wonderful place quickly being destroyed by disgusting humans and the ignorant humans(I’m not using ignorant as an insult here) that unknowingly support them.
One could argue cows milk is worse for you than meat itself, pasteurized it’s one of the worst things you can do to yourself, “milk, does a body good,” my ass. When you drink milk, you’re getting it from a cow whose been fed hormones to increase milk production and/or you’re taking it away from that cows baby cattle who instead will become someones dinner. Chickens that are raised for meat and eggs are both treated terribly, and the reality is hens need to be kept in cages to keep roosters away, which is exploitation, or you’re going to be eating a baby chick. Harvesting honey always poses the risk of bees trying to attack the invader, which as we all know, kills them, and it steals their food, and obviously clothes made out of the animals skin is cruelty, wool is exploitation and possible cruelty if the one shearing them isn’t properly trained. It’s exploitation because in their proper environment, they wouldn’t need humans to shear them, as it would naturally come off and regrow with changing climate. I could go on…
i went green, i love animals and i am pretty much a full blown tree hugger. vegetarian is the one thing missing from that personality. the thing is i hate fruits and vegetables and love meat but really want to go vegetarian. is there an easier way to become vegetarian without just forcing myself to learn to like fruits and vegetables?
I hope you like tofu because its a big source of protein. Just gradually start eating less mean and more salads and vegetables and after you get used to eating less meat, it wont be that hard to stop completely. Good luck and good for you!