Veganism reasoning?

Question

i'm vegan. what are the reasons you are vegan? just outt of interest

Answer 1

I dont think what they do to animals is right but the biggest reason is my health.  There are so many steriods, and medicine and c**p loaded up in the animals that your not really eating meat. Its like man made meat

Answer 2

becuase i am, i needed a reason?

Answer 3

The way the meat industry treats animals...it's horrid.

Answer 4

I refuse to support the meat industry, I do it for my health, and the enviornment.

Answer 5

I am vegan because I refuse to support the meat industry.

Answer 6

I went vegetarian because my body could no longer tolerate meat, and I got truly disgusted by some things I read.

I went vegan a few months later when I learned of the dairy-veal connection, how the cows kept for their milk are treated, and how the hens kept for their eggs are treated.

Answer 7

Ethical reasons mainly. I hated calling myself an avid animal lover yet still consumed animal products. I hate the fact that billions of animals are killed horribly just for my taste buds and my convenience.

Answer 8

FOR THE ANIMALS:

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Today the majority of farmed animals are:

-confined to the point that they can barely move,

-denied veterinary care,

-mutilated without painkillers,

-and finally slaughtered often while fully conscious.

FOR OUR EARTH:

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According to Dr. David Brubaker, PhD, at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for a Livable Future, “The way that we breed animals for food is a threat to the planet. It pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of water, grain, petroleum, pesticides and drugs. The results are disastrous.”

FOR MY HEALTH:

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“Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein, as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochemicals. Vegetarians have been reported to have lower body mass indices than nonvegetarians, as well as lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease; vegetarians also show lower blood cholesterol levels; lower blood pressure; and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer.”

--American Dietetic Association, June 2003 position paper