I am Vegan
I'm aware of the meat factories and their cruelty as well as how dairy is obtained. But I'm not vegan for those reasons, I'm vegan because I don't want to live at the expense of other sentient creatures/life-forms/beings or encourage it on the market. I find some or more vegans irritating, but that won't stop me from being one. I'm vegan for my morals. And I assume other vegans are too, so forcing others to change their diet or views is contradictory since it's immoral. More vegans get on my nerves than meat-lovers. For many more reasons. Anyway, this is my second time typing this so I'm sorry if I left things out or if it's not as formatted this time. I scrolled down and it closed the window. (Not the browser window, the box where you type the stuff.)
Edit: I absolutely love meat and milk, it's just that my morals matter more to me. (Soy & almond milk tastes better anyway and has better contents. I would drink tons of milk everyday, I did that for all of my life. Now it's soy instead of skim, but I still do.) I'm not addicted to meat though, I've went without if for months at a time long before I even knew what vegan-ism was.
Edit (08/08/15): I went vegan between the ninth and tenth of June this year, so a few days before I posted (or edited) this story. I know, I'm severely late considering I've already lived so many years. I don't really understand why I never thought to do it sooner other than that there was no pressure. Not that there was pressure around the time I did go vegan, I had just been thinking about the topic and related stuff. Oh, and I don't drink soy milk, I did for a few days, but that's it. I've only really been having Almond Milk for the past couple of months. I still don't care for substitutes, but Almond Milk is nice regardless of how is tastes slightly like dairy. The unsweetened Almond Milk tastes almost nothing like it though. And yes, I know of the B12 dilemma, but the supplements have apparently been doing me fine since my levels are normal.
Edit: I absolutely love meat and milk, it's just that my morals matter more to me. (Soy & almond milk tastes better anyway and has better contents. I would drink tons of milk everyday, I did that for all of my life. Now it's soy instead of skim, but I still do.) I'm not addicted to meat though, I've went without if for months at a time long before I even knew what vegan-ism was.
Edit (08/08/15): I went vegan between the ninth and tenth of June this year, so a few days before I posted (or edited) this story. I know, I'm severely late considering I've already lived so many years. I don't really understand why I never thought to do it sooner other than that there was no pressure. Not that there was pressure around the time I did go vegan, I had just been thinking about the topic and related stuff. Oh, and I don't drink soy milk, I did for a few days, but that's it. I've only really been having Almond Milk for the past couple of months. I still don't care for substitutes, but Almond Milk is nice regardless of how is tastes slightly like dairy. The unsweetened Almond Milk tastes almost nothing like it though. And yes, I know of the B12 dilemma, but the supplements have apparently been doing me fine since my levels are normal.