Thoughts on Veganism?
About 5 years ago, I thought Vegans were utterly insane I didn't understand why you would cut out Animal products, it seemed unnatural too me.
I watched a couple documentaries and read into it, it did shock me that animal agriculture produced some of the highest greenhouse gases and it was generally an inefficient way of feeding the population as a whole because of the amount of water and grains an animal requires. The whole way Animals are slaughtered and cows have rods of bull semen forcefully pushed into them seems quite barbaric. For a while I kind of made that link and felt conscious of the meat I was eating and eventually cut it out pretty slowly, my main concern health wise was protein while meat/eggs/diary are convenient sources of protein, it is easy enough if you plan your diet to get it from beans, nuts, legumes, tofu and other sources. I haven't struggled with a protein deficiency but initially I was just not eating well and felt hungry constantly until I started tracking protein intake. I do think a lot of vegans who just don't bother with trying to get protein in really make it easier for people criticising veganism to use them as examples.
In general I feel like we are too entitled like we feel because we are the superior or dominant species, it's okay to kill Animals. They are proven to be sentient, I understand a lot of people will argue they don't posses the complexity of our type of sentience but it just doesn't seem like a good excuse. People dissociate as well from food they eat, most people wouldn't want to kill a cow to then hack up and cook then eat.
It is very odd to think how much my thinking has changed in the past few years to be honest.
What are your thoughts on Veganism? If you disagree what are your arguments against?
I watched a couple documentaries and read into it, it did shock me that animal agriculture produced some of the highest greenhouse gases and it was generally an inefficient way of feeding the population as a whole because of the amount of water and grains an animal requires. The whole way Animals are slaughtered and cows have rods of bull semen forcefully pushed into them seems quite barbaric. For a while I kind of made that link and felt conscious of the meat I was eating and eventually cut it out pretty slowly, my main concern health wise was protein while meat/eggs/diary are convenient sources of protein, it is easy enough if you plan your diet to get it from beans, nuts, legumes, tofu and other sources. I haven't struggled with a protein deficiency but initially I was just not eating well and felt hungry constantly until I started tracking protein intake. I do think a lot of vegans who just don't bother with trying to get protein in really make it easier for people criticising veganism to use them as examples.
In general I feel like we are too entitled like we feel because we are the superior or dominant species, it's okay to kill Animals. They are proven to be sentient, I understand a lot of people will argue they don't posses the complexity of our type of sentience but it just doesn't seem like a good excuse. People dissociate as well from food they eat, most people wouldn't want to kill a cow to then hack up and cook then eat.
It is very odd to think how much my thinking has changed in the past few years to be honest.
What are your thoughts on Veganism? If you disagree what are your arguments against?
