What are the benefits of being a Vegan?

Question

What are the benefits of being a Vegan?

Answer 1

It's an easy way to feel good about yourself and get attention without solving any real problems.  You also get to pretend that you are being persecuted so you can identify with the poor suffering animals.

Answer 2

Vegan diets are cholesterol-free since cholesterol is only found in meat, eggs, and dairy products.

Being vegan helps to reduce animal suffering in the egg and dairy industries. (Egg-laying hens on factory farms are crammed into tiny cages so small that the birds can't even spread their wings.)

Better for the environment, since plant-based diets are more efficient than diets that include animal products. (For instance, huge tracts of land are needed to grow crops to feed the billions of farmed animals raised every year.)

Many people report having more energy and clearer skin. Personally, I lost 20 pounds of flab after becoming vegan!

Answer 3

-better health (if you don't give into junk food that is still vegan!)

-less chance of MANY diseases caused by meat and dairy

-better mental clarity (again, if you are into the healthy side of veganism, and not the junk food)

-lose fat/weight like CRAZY

-being kind and supporting to the ANIMALS that are being tortured and slaughtered

-saving the environment --- not supporting the massive energy waste by transporting meat (and hopefully you will be eating an abundance of locally grown, organic fruits and veggies which will support YOUR community! -- AND you can compost almost all your trash!)

-you get depressed less, if EVER (seriously, with meat and dairy cut out, you become a happier person after the initial detox phase)

-you are different... unique... you now have new conversations to start and new friends to make in a new vegan lifestyle!

Answer 4

When everyone be abstained from meat by the year 2021, the livestock industry will deplete all together, but would you OK with that? That is our mission, right?

Eventually we have to live like a vegan, not depending on the livestock at all.

Answer 5

meat cost too much

Answer 6

1>> I became a vegan because it is a better nutritional diet.

2>> Vegan are healthier because the average vegan is lighter than the average meat eater in Britain.

3>> I became a Vegan because I was told about what happens to meat in the gut. It stays there for ages and rots, getting infected with bacteria.

4>> I became a Vegan because I care about what I put into my body. I don’t want to put chemicals in there, nor anything dead. Plants are natural, so they can’t be harmful.

5>> I became a Vegan, because I want to live in a more natural way

6>> I became a Vegan, because stock farming is not economically viable. We could feed the Third World if everyone became a Vegan.

7>> I became a Vegan because I don’t want to finance death. I don’t mind wearing a woollen jumper, because they don’t kill the sheep to get the wool.

8>> I became a Vegan because I think that farming animals is cruel. Farmers do not care about the welfare of their animals; If do, it would be too expensive to sell.

9>> I became a Vegan because crop farming is more efficient than stock farming. 100 units of food energy fed to an animal become only 10 units of meat, so meat production is inefficient.

10>> I don't want to eat anything that I wouldn't be prepared to kill myself.

11>> I don't want to eat anything that I wouldn't be prepared to kill by myself.

12>> I became a Vegan because we don’t need meat.

13>> I became a Vegan because I don’t want to shorten the dairy cow’s natural lifespan from 25 years to 11 years.

14>> I became a Vegan because that’s the way society is going. Thousands of people every minute are becoming Vegan.

15>> I became a Vegan because I’m a biologist; I care about ecosystem & biodiversity.

16>> I became a Vegan because it is the future.

There is an annoying connection made by many people that the way things are going is necessarily good, and/or inevitable. Perhaps the current trends are bad, and the future will not be as good as it could be. Perhaps things are heading a certain way, but this does not mean that we are powerless to stop them, nor does it mean that we should not try. This argument does not work either. One has to supply actual reason for vegetarianism, and this is not a reason, it is just an excuse at best.

17>> I became a Vegan simply because I love animals, but craved to meat, honey, egg and dairy.

18>> I became a Vegan because many scientists, philosophers, environmentalists, humanitarians, spiritualists, thinkers and SICK PERSONS were/are abstained from meat. Meat is absolutely not necessary to make me smart.

19>> AT LAST - THE REAL REASON PEOPLE BECOME VEGAN

Vegetarianism is the new Puritanism. This is my belief. It is also one of my arguments against vegetarianism, and although it may at first seem a flippant argument, I believe that it is very powerful. Vegetarianism is miserable. It attacks one of life’s greatest and surest pleasures - enjoying good food. Anything which makes people less happy is bad.

20>> CONCLUSION

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I think that if my theory became widely understood and agreed with, then veganism would look and feel increasingly silly, and would more obviously occupy the moral low ground. I don’t think that there is any real danger that veganism will ever become the norm, because meat is too nice, and membership of a club is no privilege if everyone becomes a member. The club has to be exclusive in order to be appealing.

Answer 7

It is very healthy, and a clear conscience is also a benefit.

Answer 8

Weight loss that you can keep off forever, helping animals, helping the environment, aging slower, living longer...I really don't get why everyone's not vegan...