I actually can’t believe I thought it was acceptable to eat another beings flesh for so long, I have had trouble sleeping just thinking about it, it’s so horrible i genuinely don’t understand how anyone can support it, so I am here to ask for an advice, I am an insanely fussy eater and I through up when I eat lots of different vegetables, what do I eat to keep up with my 150g of protein a day quota, I already got some vegan protein powder and creatine, thank you, and I’m sorry for my years of cruelty

We love traveling! We are currently in Lisbon, Portugal to end our Spain/Portugal trip. We’ve had a great time. It’s been super easy to find fully vegan restaurants, but I get it - he doesn’t always want to do a fully vegan place. We did go to Wild Food in Granada and both loved it. So in a lot of ways he’s supportive.

Tonight I made reservations for a fully vegan restaurant called The Food Temple. He said yeah let’s do a fully vegan one, I don’t care! He seemed happy to go and I was super excited; I know he saw I was excited!

Well on the walk to the restaurant, we walked by a sushi place with a sign that said it had veggie options. I said oh awesome! and he went right in. I said wait, we have reservations in 30 min and it’s a 10 minute walk. He proceeded to get a table and order and yes I could have gotten sushi there but I was so excited for the unique experience at The Food Temple. So I sat with him for 20 min and he proceeds to say I’m way too uptight with being vegan and I should just eat a salad. He went on a rant saying if you choose to be vegan you should be happy with a sad salad. There aren’t even salads at these meat restaurants so I feel like he was just being a jerk. We literally went to one vegan place this whole trip. Anyway, I’m sitting at The Food Temple by myself right now.

Can anyone relate to this or have any advice?

At work I am constantly ridiculed and questioned for simply eating non animal products. This comes not just from coworkers but from partners and clients. This is especially difficult because in the business world, you are expected to dine with clients to build rapport. If i give the actual answers ethical/environmental/health reasons it just seems to invite debate and build ill-will with business clients and coworkers.

So i'm contemplating a different approach to get people off my back.

Can i just say i'm vegan for 'religious reasons'? That seems to shut down the conversation quick, because it's not supposed debated in a work environment. For example, people don't bother my Muslim friends if they're fasting for religion purposes. They also don't debate, when my Jewish friends says they can't eat pork because of their faith.

Will anyone call my bluff and ask 'what religion'?

I would appreciate any input from people that have experience with these difficult situations in the workplace. Avoiding clients, hiding away, or having a grande debating isn't a a good option for me, given that it's a work setting with clients.

Why is empathy so rare? Humans are social creatures and we need each other to survive. How can people be so shortsighted? Even for selfish reasons you should be standing up for human rights.

I'm starting to realize a lot of people see something violent and they don't feel pain or sadness or horror, and instead try to justify it. Like when Gabby petito was murdered and men online asked "wonder what she did to make her bf do that" or when a person is executed on death row... Well what did they do?

Idk how to talk to people like this without sounding like an insufferable douche, but that just simply doesn't cross my mind. Why did it happen? Because some sick person wanted it to happen!!

How do you guys relate to "normies" in your everyday life? Or do you just not? Bc Im running out of ways to be nice to selfish fuckwadd

Peter Singer: "Considering animals as commodities seems completely wrong to me"

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the intersections between feminism and veganism especially the idea that supporting the meat and dairy industries contradicts core feminist values.

The exploitation of female bodies (e.g., forced impregnation, separation from offspring, use of reproductive systems for profit) in animal agriculture is eerily similar to systems of oppression feminists actively resist when it comes to human rights.

So it raises the question: can someone genuinely call themselves a feminist while continuing to consume products that rely on the control and commodification of female animal bodies?

I’m curious how others here view this, do you see veganism as a natural extension of feminism? Or do you think they can exist separately?

Would love to hear your thoughts (and any reading recs if you’ve come across good writing on this topic)! would love to do my diss on something similar (:

Hi all,

Biochemist researcher here (PhD). Since I've seen this question "how do I start building my vegan diet in a healthy way?" repeating quite a lot here, I wanted to offer an easy go-to guide.
In short, the answer is poor people's diet.
Meat and other animal products were only at the reach of the wealthy for most of the time humanity existed. The majority, aka "the poor", had to find substitutes that will include the proteins and other nutrients needed to maintain a healthy diet.
"Poor people's diet" are rice+tofu, Pita+Humus, rice+lentils, rice+beans, cereals+soy milk, beans on toast, corn and frijoles... in any culture around the world, you'll find vegan dishes, so it's affordable, varied, and easy to achieve. (and recipes improved to perfection).
That also mean, that a vegan diet can be very sustainable and not expensive, if you just stick to the simple ingredients.

Why grains + legumes? The simple answer is, "the right combination of protein's building blocks"
In detail, in order to build proteins, our body needs their building blocks - amino acids. There are 20 most-common types of amino acids, and 9 of them, our body cannot synthesise by itself (from other sources) so they need to come from our food. Think about it this way - if you have bricks, but no metal and wood, you cannot build a full house - no matter how many bricks you have.
Different food sources offer different combinations of those essential amino acids. Some are rich in some types. others lack those but have others. We need a balanced diet, so we get all those 9 amino acids in the proportion our body requires to build proteins.
In which composition? For someone who bases their diet on animal products, it's quite easy to get all those essential amino acids in one go (eg meat). The further the protein source organism is from humans, the further away the combination of amino acids is from our needs. So legumes (beans, chickpeas, lentils etc), for example, are rich in the amino acid Lysine and lack amino acid Methionine, and vice versa for grains - they are rich in Methionine and lack Lysine. So a combination of those will give you the right proportion of amino acids your body needs.
To clarify, it's important to consume them at the same meal: if you have excess of one amino acid but not enough of the others, your body will most likely use it for energy or store it as fat. Our body doesn't know how to store amino acids "for later".
That to say, that if you see a plant-based product (e.g. soy yogurt) that promises it's rich in protein, it's true - only that you wouldn't be able to gain all the building blocks needed to build a human protein out of it, because it doesn't contain the right proportion of amino acids your body needs.
I hope it's clear now why we need a balanced diet, and what it means.
Just to clarify, our body doesn't take a protein (regardless of its source - a cow or soy beans...) and turns it directly into "a human protein". The correct thing is, that our body takes that protein (by eating), breaks it apart to its building blocks in the digestion system, absorbs those amino acids, and then uses them to build a new human protein.
That was biochemistry 101 for a balanced vegan diet, I'm very happy to answer more questions if you have any.
Keep in mind that protein is a major need of our diet, but it's not enough: we also need minerals and vitamins, so make sure to include a variety of nuts & seeds (also good sources of proteins), fresh fruits and vegetables.
And, unlike what someone might have told you - carbs and fats are not necessarily your enemies- depends on what type they are. I can write another post about those if people ask :)
Lastly, keep in mind that the best PR for veganism is a happy & healthy vegan, so look after yourself :)

I’m not telling you anything you don’t know when I say that people in this sub can be very black and white. Either you’re a vegan in every moment or you need to leave.

Now, I recently watched an episode of Hot Ones with Pete Holmes as the guest. He’s vegan but argued that we need to be a tad more graceful. His example was he once got good and drunk with his friends and ate a burger made of sirloin. He was suggesting that this simply was a mistake and didn’t take him off the list of vegans on the hole.

He even suggests that though we, and he himself, made the decision of veganism because of moral grounds, that doesn’t make anyone better than the other. Furthermore that judging non-vegans harshly, or trying to kick out folks who have a fish sandwich from time to time, doesn’t make much sense.

I get what he means in that it turns people away but I’m curious what this community thinks of this. Thank you.

Edit: you guys can stop responding. I had a feeling you would be assholes even when spoon fed the chance to be decent. Yup. By vegans. You aren’t better than anyone.

Hadn't seen this anywhere so I thought I'd share. During New Jersey Senator Cory Booker's remarkable phil-a-buster, he yielded for a question from California senator Adam Schiff where he thanked him for doubling the amount of vegans in the senate ! Brought a smile to my face.

I have been making my gf vegan version of meals I’d usually eat since vegans have limited options on the menu when we go out to eat and today I made her vegan “chicken” tikka masala and vegan naan all from scratch and she loved it. She’s never had it since she went vegan. If anyone wants cooking/baking recipes for vegan meals let me know and I’ll gladly help

I’ve been vegan a long time, and two things still annoy me more than most.

- Smiling animal mascots advertising their own slaughter
- People who think you can just “pick off” the meat and it’s vegan

I started turning these kinds of moments into comics under the name May Contain Animals.

I’ve got a list of these going from the last 20+ years of being vegan, but if you’ve got one that still makes you roll your eyes—I’m all ears.

Happy Slaughter

Pick It Off

I try my best to avoid ordering from non vegan restaurants because I don’t like the idea of my money going to torture and murder. Today I was in a bind and starving so I went to Panda Express and ordered the beyond orange chicken and some lo mein. I took two bites of my food before my spouse said “that doesn’t all look like the beyond chicken nuggets” so I opened it and lo and behold I just ate out of a plate that had a mix. Some was beyond some was dead bird. I can’t help but wonder if this was a cruel prank. I feel sick to my stomach and I’m livid. I will no longer give non vegan restaurants my money. They don’t care. Especially fast food establishments

Hey fellow vegans. I am also allergic to wheat. Extremely curious to see what people bring on planes with them. On this upcoming trip I will be waiting for my friend to arrive at the airport and New Orleans isn't really super friendly to plant-based especially at the airport lol. Any suggestions on food that can last a while? Lower sugar, I'd love to bring a salad but I'm not sure if it would make it lol.

Dear fellow vegans,

A friend with over 50 animals has broken his hand. Is there anyone on the Northern East Coast of the USA (or elsewhere) who could help care for them at his sanctuary? Experienced vegan sanctuary volunteers would be ideal, especially those who have worked with rescued chickens. A live-in option and vegan food can be provided.

If anyone reading this can help, kindly get in touch or leave a comment on this post. I would also greatly appreciate it if people could share this post and tag others who may be able to lend their support.

AnimalSanctuary #VeganVolunteers

Hi everyone! So as some of you may be aware A Minecraft Movie is out now and I really want to go see it. But there’s something that’s holding me back. They used actual animals in the movie, though according to what I’ve heard it was only for just one scene. A friend who already saw the movie told me it said “No animals were harmed in the making of this film” during the credits, but I’m still not too sure if it’d be okay to go see the film. What do you guys think? Do you think it’d be unethical to pay to see a movie that animals were used in? Please let me know what I should do. Thank you all in advance!

How do you deal with the societal backlash of being vegan? Is it tricky eating out? I am not vegan myself but looking into it. There are quite a few things I believe would be easy to swap out, but many things have additives or traces of dairy and the like. Do you shop vegan exclusive stores only? Looking for stories and suggestions, thanks.

Hello, I'm a vegan ranger for the NPS, I've also worked for the Forest Service and been an outdoor guide and natural science educator. I'm just curious if there are more of me out there!!

I'll be in Alaska this season. Just want to connect with others that are vegan and immersed in the outdoor world.

There's such a culture of hunting and killing even amongst rangers which I find a severe form of cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy and cowardice.

I will always recall being at Yellowstone as a ranger and hearing my fellow rangers lecture the public about the importance of bison, to respect them and how they almost went extinct due to mans greed, how much they loved them and in the same breath telling visitors which restaurant in town had the best bison burgers.

I believe I am a voice for the bears, moose and trees and their representative and guardian. they are my relatives and I am connected to them. They are my teachers not some old book that just states how big and fast they are.

I've seen bears watch sunsets and bison mourn the death of another and wasps recognize me over time and scorpions become my pal. They are our community.

Areas of AK like many hunting areas are rooted in a culture of killing and it gets conflated with need. I've been vegan there, south east Asia for months and in solitude from humans in the forest. You can be vegan anywhere, it's a myth otherwise. It is very difficult however to convince others in very culturally rooted killing areas that the death of their deer neighbor was in fact not needed. One must take a slow, patient and respectful approach and recall their identity is connected to that death and way of life.

Edit and personal note: I was raised with notions of animals being less than humans. I once killed ("hunt" is too glamorized of a term) animals and have blood on my hands. I was able to learn, grow and change. I carry their spirits with me. I refuse to not speak of their emotional capacity, that they celebrate, mourn and experience most of what we do, regardless of the species. They experience fear as well, I know personally. I owe it to them and have dedicated part of my life to honor the ones I took. I was ignorant and awful for who I was then, that was many years ago but it honestly haunts me some days and drives my career and personal passion more to do better and be better.

I would love to connect with other humans that are on this journey. Let's unite, I can always learn from others and be able to say "Theres a lady who lives in the forest of ______ who is a vegan, or a human that lives in the desert of ____________ who knows this"

I suppose I also know I will have limited community amongst the few folks I will be with at my post and I also want to know better ways to connect with others about this existence and I need more community.

I want to be better at this and I would like the aid and community of others.

This feels very vulnerable haha, and I'm used to being tough on my own. A good step for me!!! Also, thank you if you read this. I hope it made sense.

Genuine question from a meat-eater, does the smell of meat bother vegans? I have a co-worker that is vegan and we work together and eat lunch in close quarters (a work truck) and I’m always self conscious that my food smells offensive to him. Like, I remember when my friend was pregnant and she said the smell of cooked meat made her want to vomit. Is it like that?

I know we are far away from that point, so this is likely unimportant, but it is something that crosses my mind from time to time.

I sometimes wonder what should happen to the last generation of animals in agriculture and the breed humans made, both on the level of individual animals and the level of whole breeds/variants/subspecies? On the one hand, I feel like their origin with humans does not diminish their value, but on the other many breeds were created just to be exploited and have biological features that are inherently linked to suffering. Then again, I don't belive that suffering makes a life unworthy, but if we said that cruel breeds deserve to be preserved to the same degree as wild animals, so we should actively try to stop them from dying out, wouldn't we just reproduce part of the cruelty of animal agriculture indefinitely?

Should the agricultural animals just be released despite all the negative ecological consequences that might entail? Should we keep them on extensive but ultimately restricted pastures? Should they be allowed to continue to reproduce or be sterilized (i.e., they would die out with time)? There are sometimes programs to help endangered wild species reproduce. Should we also make active efforts to preserve breeds of formerly agricultural animals if they can not sustain themselves and they would permanently rely on humans to reproduce?

Edit: I hope this has not been asked too frequently before.

My husband and I have loved kite hill for the last probably 10 years but they must have changed something recently - the last 3-4 times we got it, it’s had a yellowish tint and tastes different. We’ve tried others but can’t find anything close. Trader Joe’s cream cheese is okay. Violife is okay. Both of them have odd textures for cream cheese. Not a huge fan of Miyokos. Not sure what else to try.

Are there any brands close to the old kite hill?

Hello guys! Recently i thought about converting and being vegan. The only problem is I dont know how and where to start. How should i compose my diet, how do i choose and find the recipes? Every time I have to go shopping do I have to check the list of ingredients of each product? I'm afraid of causing nutritional deficiencies in my body due to a poorly composed diet, that's why I've never started... How do i organize myself with this new lifestyle? Thanks!