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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.
GreyThreadAndGin
I can completely understand how you feel about some things in veganism being problematic (im vegan also) bad advocates,the fact that were mostly white people making the discussion, dont even get me on the thai food festival and the total lack of awareness of other issues, very little intersectionality goin on wish there was more of that, right now veganism is kind of just a club, i think thats mostly due to purists, and really where are the vegan communities offline? how many vegan schools or daycares do you see? answer:not many /rant
LunarVanilla · 26-30
@GreyTreadAndGin Exactly. I don't really see any gatherings in my area, but I'm pretty introverted anyway. But I especially agree about how vegans focus a little too much on it rather than issues that are more in arm's reach sometimes (or issues related to veganism that are more in arm's reach). Not that there's nothing good that comes from vegan activism or the activities. I'd say I'm a purist vegan in that I don't eat fish, unfertilized eggs, honey, and so on. But I assume that's not what you meant using the word purist. I'm a little different in my thoughts on the topic today than when I wrote this story, but I'm not drastically different. I've kept the same general encompassing ideas.
GreyThreadAndGin
you are correct about the purist thing I'd rather see a sunday vegan than none at all and yea I think all rights movements can be interrelated but instead we make our own vegan clubs and bash each other caise one of us doesn't fit the others ideology instead of focusing on the movement as a whole and trying to help people become vegan their own way even if it doesn't fit our other ideologies liberalism ans what not

 
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