Save yourself 12 minutes: 1. It was harder to find places to eat out. 2. Cooking was harder. 3. Dairy, eggs, and animal products are in a lot of food products. 4. Lost a little weight. 5. Felt proud after ordering a vegan option at a restaurant, even if it had a lot of sugar. Few details or examples given, not much information.
YES: Most products dont need milk and never had milk a few decades ago. Than they had to sell all this trash side products anywhere and it turned out it was a cheap (BUT unhealthy) ingreedient.... Nearly all chips have milk. Whats doing milk in my bellpaper chips? or salt vinegar? or just salt...there has to be potatoe oil and salt in there NOT milk
I know right? I feel in general though everyone should read the label on their foods. I think among other things that is another helping thing that happened after turning vegan. You're more aware of what's in food.
I find it tricky because I eat with relatives, family, and friends. I think lots of food have dairy and eggs in it even if not required. They prefer meat meals, and I would prefer vegan. The compromise is a lacto-ovo vegetarian meal.
I've been vegan for about a year. I'm never hungry and have no issues making or finding food. I recently had to get blood drawn for a reason I won't get into. My results came back perfect. My calcium, protein, iron, and potassium levels are great. Which is what most people say vegans are low on. Don't let nutrition scare you! Being vegan is perfectly healthy.
Ive been vegan for three years and it’s been a journey and also one of the best decisions I have ever made. Please don’t shy away from the fact that society in general is not vegan . Like Katherine said it’s an amazing experience despite your motives you are contributing to the environment and helping the animals
Within the first line, I knew this would be typical millennial crap, by the word "journey". It's now a word that all terrible, unoriginal millennials use to feel like they did something big.
I lot of these "problems" sounds like things that would be so easy if you were vegan for more than 30 days... Like not knowing where stuff is in the grocery store, cooking dinner and having to know whats inside what. It all becomes second nature, the longer you do it the easier it gets. I'm vegan for 2.5 years and i dont have to put my mind to anything its all second nature.
2,5 yrs here too. :) I never have to look any food up at the store either, only if there's something new. It's really easy and as long as you don't eat vegan junk food all day you feel so good both physically and mentally. I went vegan from being vegetarian all my life. I always had bad atopic eczema, it all went away after I made the switch. My anxiety almost disappeared fully too. Love it.
Cooking vegan is really not that difficult. I’m in college and I take the bus to the store and carry all of my own groceries to my apartment. I meal prep and I only spend a few hours cooking once a week.
Agree. Family of four, two trips to grocery per week (smaller ones) and 2 times of prepping per week with wife and me which takes about 2hrs per and the rest of the days are simply plug and play easy. No prep and hardly any time spent.
When I “challenged” myself to “try” being vegan... I thought it was pretty difficult and suffered through terrible meals. I tried veganism (years before becoming a vegan) for about 30 days and I swore I could never... I didn’t have the right energy around me to do better for myself. When I woke up and became vegan (opposed to “trying” it) as a life choice with zero excuses... it was easy-peasy. There’s always a way to not eat meat / eggs / etc... Planning will be required in the beginning, but after the first couple of weeks I felt... it’s only as big of an inconvenience as you make it. Food is tastier than ever and I’d rather eat my go-to vegan foods over any chefs cooking any day. I LOVE MY VEGAN LIFE!
Ive just started and I'm going through the process of learning what to make etc, Mic the Vegan is great for ideas, I'm hungry a lot but I think that is good because my metabolism is normally really slow. However, I'm not going to go back to eating animal products, it's so awful for everything sentient below us on the food chain.
yes, but it really depends on where you live. I live in Israel which have the most vegans per capita and especially in Tel-Aviv so it's not weird when I say I'm vegan, but at the beginning my friends bugged me a lot about it and sometimes laughed at me.
Strange, for me, it's not hard being vegan. I made the change quite easily. The problem is that most don't understand the diet, and that definitely is a problem. As veganism grows and expands, it will likely be easier for people to find vegan food and to find others who can help.. I was a meat-eater for decades. Changed and have never looked back..
Negan Not really.. A good vegan diet gives me all I need. The problem is that most are not following a true vegan diet. A vegan diet is healthy and tasty.. And my B12 levels are fine.. But even if someone claims that they need to take B12, so what? Many people on a traditional diet are now taking many supplements each day already.
@@samayasarjain4559 Hi there, I, personally, would recommend to opt out of consuming animal products (protein) as animal protein is the cause of nearly all diseases, from gathered information e.g mad cow disease and tuberculosis, that are on the rise. Cows milk, for instance, is for calves and not mankind. Furthermore, fish like wild salmon and tuna ought to be avoided due to radiation in the seas (mercury affecting tuna too). Farmed fish too should be avoided as they may lack nutrients e.g farmed salmon may lack Omega 3 Fatty Acids obtained from algae by wild salmon in the seas. I do encourage to adopt (even if it means making small changes here and there) a well-planned, organic, unrefined and untempered with vegan diet (consuming raw plant foods where possible so as not to denature or destroy the life-forces and enzymatic activities beneficial to the human system. If disagreeing on this matter, please take some steamed carrots, plant them and see if they will grow; if not, it is because they are 'dead' plant food that cannot benefit one's 'living' cells) consisting of organic fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and whole grains as it is the best diet to provide mankind with ultimate health and longevity. I do not even see a reason to use pharmaceutical supplements e.g Vitamin D is obtainable from organic chestnut mushrooms (UV exposed) and sun-dried mushrooms with the exception of the body's ability to make it (and store it for future use) when exposed to the sun; Iron from organic beets; Zinc from organic cashew nuts; potassium and magnesium from organic bananas; Omega 3 Fatty Acids (beneficial for the brain) from organic walnuts and pecans (looks like the brain and targets it). Please avoid factory produced meat alternatives whose chief ingredient can be 'soy' and may contain preservatives as well as additives (e.g Vinegar, a corrosive agent). Food toxicity and nutrient deficiency are a deadly combination as one is hindering the body's building materials needed to action healing whilst at the same time taxing the system with more toxic stuff, thus bringing about disease and possibly even an early death. Best wishes 💙💙💙
@@Look.Upward Honestly speaking, I was a Vegan for sometime before, few years back. Later on, I came into a Vegetarian lifestyle. And, Vegan or non-Vegan products. Anything in EXTREME is not very good. But, everything in *Moderation,* (whether Vegan or non-Vegan) is absolutely fine !
@@samayasarjain4559 Hi there, I have been moved to make you aware of the dangerous path many take leading to disease and early graves before you do get there too. I encourage being a sceptic and look things up for yourself, and you will find out that the diet i have shared with you is actually for your own good e.g processed meats are classified as carcinogenic to humans in Group 1, which is as bad as it can get, where as organic plant foods are classified as anti-cancer foods, thus applying the concept of moderation is not wise. I cannot continue any further to try and persuade you as i am for a 'free will'. If you end up being diseased, please do not blame it on GOD as others do when they violate the laws of health, which are just like the law of gravity (to every cause, there is an effect). 💙💙💙
I've been vegan for 2 years now and I have to say it's been one of the best decisions I've ever made. I live in New York so if there ever are days where I want to eat out I'm always 20 minutes away from vegan burger spots, latin vegan food or even vegan diners. I do run into challenges when I'm out with my friends because they want to go to more typical places like Applebees or Fridays but I try to my best to make it work by either grabbing food somewhere else nearby or eating beforehand if the places we go don't have any real vegan options. Kudos for doing the Veganuary challenge!
You live in New York and your friends want to go to Applebee's? To someone from the Midwest growing up in a small town where there wasn't many more places to go, that sounds really strange.
marci konopa, i know right? i live in the midwest and applebee's is pretty popular out here and it's pretty weird that they want to go there in new york when there's like thousands and thousands of better resturants.
My husband and my daughter 7 years old we are all vegan 2 years now ,we are very healthy never get sick,lost all our friends because they just didn't want to know anything about harming animals ,the planet or their health,but we don't care.We are never going back ever again.After watching Earthlings it completely changed us.
Maria Stoycheva I think it’s more unhealthy for a seven year old to have meat and dairy. As you are more likely to get cancer and high cholesterol. Plus meat are pumped with many antibiotics due to the many diseases they get from the dire conditions they are in. Which ofc can then lead to antibiotic resistance in humans which isn’t healthy. Manycows get infections to the overproduce of milk. Which can lead to swelling and then puss and milk is produced in the milk which we drink which is unhealthy. Which is definitely not all filtered out.
Thijs Smudde true. But, people become vegan for different reasons. Some people are more focused on health, some on the wellbeing of animals, some on the environment, all the above, etc. So, usually people just call it a diet because it is this one(sometimes a variant of one) way of eating for multiple different reasons
theres nothing political about not wanting animals to suffer. And religion is based on sheep-like behaviour. every vegan ive seen did a conscious choice. It seems like the meat-eaters that blindly say 'NO I DONT WANNA BE VEGAN UR CRAzy' are the religious ones .
Haha, yeah right. Animal rights activists are VERY political. And on religion let's see: Pious holier than thou attitudes -check Rigid set of rules that absolutely must not be compromised - check Won't shut up about it and think they have to make sure everyone knows their viewpoint - check Proselytizing - check Religious level of fervor - check Yep, they're like religious zealots. But I would not agree that religion is based on sheep like behaviour as most religious people I have known (not the zealots) evaluate things for themselves.
Oh, I even forgot to mention the monk-like life of asceticism and self-denial amongst the ways veganism is like a religion. Except monks seem to mind their own business, practice their religion and not bother other people about it, unlike vegans.
The issue with dairy and eggs is that they're incredibly brutal and cruel industries. Environmentally, eggs for example are not as bad...but yeah, vegans are vegan for ethical reasons, which you didn't mention at all. Surprised me a bit. Otherwise your points are all true: It's a bit of a pain eating out, depending where you are and you have to cook more. But I think learning to cook for yourself is not a bad thing. It can actually be very empowering.
Well but if you do so because of slaughter houses - dairy cows and egg laying hens all end up there as well. Going vegetarian is not a bad start though - but I still want to add that I am a *very* lazy person as well - and veganism was still quite doable :D And as an American, you actually have the benefit of having a lot of awesome vegan products to choose from, that I can only dream of here ;_;
Tracy Zidon, the dairy and the veal(baby cow meat) industies are the same industry. Chicken eggs that hatch are separated by gender and almost all male chicks get killed on their first day of life. Animals that do get to live are exploited for their secretions, untill their production drops, then they get a knife to their throat, they don't even reach the half of their natural lifespan, they are literally being worked to death. Vegans are not just vegan, because animal agriculture is a cancer on our planet, we also are vegan, because animals are being holocausted and as a vegetarian you still contributed a tremendous amount of pain and suffering to animals. Going vegan and telling your friends and family not to torture and murder animals for fun, is not asking a lot at all, considering what the resistance fighters in WW2 did to end the jewish holocaust.
0:07 mmmm that’s a toughie For the animals For your health For the land For our water For the rainforests For peace For compassion For nonviolence That’s why
aidsbrigade I understand that misinformation is complicated, I wish someday you could do your own research with an open heart, then you would understand what I am talking about. Wish you the best.
aidsbrigade no I don’t despise you because before I became vegan I was someone just like you. Misinformed and brainwashed. Please don’t show hate before you actually know the truth
aidsbrigade you are that because the meat, egg and dairy industry doesn’t show you the real thing. Go see slaughterhouse footage and come back to me and tell me that animals are still food. They don’t want to die. You can have delicious meals without any animals suffering
aidsbrigade have you even seen footage of a slaughterhouse? Watch and then come talk to me with ACTUAL information, you heartless freak. Would you eat your cat or dog?
I don’t think being vegan for thirty days makes a expert I’ve been vegan for a year and cholesterol is normal. Doctor has cut my blood pressure meds in half. I’ve lost thirty pounds and my doctor is excited. I never have any problems getting meals p.S. I’m 74. Walk in the park.
I went vegetarian when I was five years old (living in a German extremely meat heavy family-- having tons of meat for every single meal) and when I told my mum at 15 that I wanted to go vegan she wouldn't allow it. I went on a hunger strike for three days (ya know dramatic teenager) and after that I just went vegan cold turkey. At the beginning it was the hardest thing ever. I would come to school unprepared, starving at the end of the day and the teacher giving cookies to the rest of the class- had me crying by the end of one week. There was no way for me to continue supporting the cruelty in eggs and dairy so I did my part on a lot of research. And honestly this is really what I wanna advise you, DO AS MUCH RESEARCH AS YOU CAN!! and I don't mean research about the animals, but rather research all the vegan diets, try stuff out, look at all the recipes and look at the health aspects!!! This helped me soooo much!! I found out that the most random things- I had assumed weren't vegan-- actually were (German pretzels, specific store bought apple cakes, mustard (shocking), and a lot of candy!!). Indeed it is very difficult at times especially at family dinners, going to e.g a steakhouse, but honestly I've never not had anything to eat. Even if I just put together my own meal of steamed veggies, salads, loads of other sides and fries, I always have survived in the most meat-heavy places without making it awkward. Now, two and a half years after going vegan, it has become THE most effortless thing ever. I know what meals to make, super super fast, extremely delicious meals, I am at my best health and I've lost all the clinical acne I used to suffer from and I could never imagine not eating this way. As hard as it was for a cheese lover like me to give up cheese, I honestly just love eating what is good for me, the animals and the environment even more (and also do not miss it at all). Im so happy to see you go on this journey, and it is so great that you're reducing the harm you're supporting!! loved the video, much love and good luck in your future
To me, going vegan was so much fun. I loved exploring all of the different ingredients that I probably would have never used if I hadn't discovered vegan cooking. I liked your outlook! I've been plant based for almost two years and never plan on going back.
Eating out: almost every place can make a salad. My life doesn't revolve around food so a salad is not a punishment. Cooking: Not a big deal. Unless you have no idea cook. Rice, beans, salsa, pico de gallo, spices...all vegan. It's not at all harder to make vegan meals. Animal industry is subsidized. I mean, milk commercials, anyone? Beef commercials? So it's not surprising that they find their way into everything. I do feel better, emotionally and physically being vegan. It's not a marginal difference. The dairy industry IS the meat industry. A dairy cow lived on average 4 years, babies are used as veal or beef. Average NATURAL lifespan of a cow is 24 years. Meatless Mondays are so doable.
Danes Closet: true! The problem I see is that a “vegan milkshake” makes a genuine milkshake look healthy by comparison. Most of these vegan substitutes are the antithesis of natural, they’re about as natural as Tammie Bakker’s makeup.
@@resourcedragon Use Pea Protein milk. Unsweetened vanilla. It's awesome. It actually freezes and gets thick as it hits cold fruit or ice whereas dairy milk will tend to melt the surrounding cold items.
Another thing people dont understand about veganism is that the more vegans there are the easier veganism gets. Everyone always makes the comment of "i wish veganism was more convenient" but it'll only get more convenient with the increasing amount of vegans. Be the change, supply and demand. If youre vegan and demanding vegan options with time more vegan options will come but if you just stick to your old trashy diet and sit around waiting for everyone else to go vegan and make it more convenient itll take that much longer.
I don't want to be rude, but I think You're overreacting a... little bit, especially when it comes to cooking - there are lots of simple and very quick vegan options! Maybe You just didn't come across these ones. :)
I’m not going to argue with someone that doesn’t have basic language skills, but FYI I became vegan to begin with because it was the cheapest way to eat healthy. Rice and beans are literally like $5 for enough to feed you for like a week. But yeah you’re right I’m just a spoiled rich bitch looking for something to make me feel special. Couldn’t possibly just be that I don’t want to eat animals and it’s cheap way to get my nutrients as I try to finance my way through undergrad 🤷♀️
I didn’t, but I’m not surprised someone did. What do you expect when you put word vomit of nothing but curses, ad hominem attacks, and misogyny into a comment? You literally did not add one relevant point, all you have done thus far is called people bitches, pussys, weak, etc.
Yea definitely, like if you’re running low on time and you have other things to do, you can just make rice or pasta, it’s really not hard unless you want to make one of those super elaborate recipes that imitates something else like vegan Mac n cheese or something.
i agree with this i make most of my meals in less than 15 mins i found it was more work to cook non-vegan meals, especially meat bc that takes FOREVER to cook properly
Remeber you had your hole life to get used to how you eat usually. So when people get into Veganism they have to give themselves tiiime and don’t be frustrated super quickly
We are omnivores not carnivores a cave man would eat what was safe to eat as they needed the energy it gave. In todays society we often dont actually need what it gives therefor the most important thing is to eat a balanced and variated diet strictly meat is no go strictly vegis are no go.
I have been vegan for decades and absolutely love it! 30 days is not enough to understand the experience... it;s like working out for 30 days, not enough
But all the meat idiots out here told me you would die withing a week eating a vegan diet? And then something about lions and islands and shit. And they say this stuff to HELP you ... not because they like bacon or anything. lol
@@sajfen you brainwashed idiot yes you will look like 50 when youre 30 on vegan diet and you will get mental illness because of lack of cholesterol. vegs and fruits are sugar starch and fibre and humans are animals which need saturated fat and blood as energy source! fucking idiot its that simple
7 years without animals in my plate and I couldn't be healthier and happier, best decision ever made 💖 brings me so much peace 🕊️ I'm even studying vegan nutrition rn 🎉💜
I highly recommend you do way more research into the vegan lifestyle, you brought up a lot of misconceptions! I wanted to address them all but it would have taken way too long. There are thousands of vegan resources out there to help with these issues. And, with all due respect, I am a disabled person who works full time and I spend no more than half an hour per day preparing all my vegan meals because I cannot stand for longer than that. So understand your positionality when you talk about these things please! (There are dozens of vegan salad dressings, croutons, cream cheese, etc too lol)
Just to add to this, if your time is limited you could food prep. We make our lunches and dinners for the week on Saturday and freeze them. Only a couple hours on Saturday saves many hours throughout the week. Some nights we still cook dinner but, if we don't want to after working all day, pop a frozen one in the microwave and easy meal :)
You should do videos about: doing own bussiness for 30 days, studying on university for 30 days, body building for 30 days, learning a foreign language for 30 days, developing video games for 30 days, being in a serious relationship for 30 days and so on...
I'd just like to point out that there's quite a myth going around about vegans needing to be extra careful when it comes to choosing the right ingredients or combining the right foods in order to keep a nutritious diet, compared with people who eat meat, or at least eggs and dairy. Those people just think because they eat a bunch of stuff their diet is great, but it's pretty common to fall short in nutrients like fatty acids, iron,calcium, vitamins C, D and B12, precisely because they're not eating properly either. They just don't question themselves and they don't know about it. Also, making the time to cook your own meals with fresh ingredients is a great thing to do, even if you're a meat eater. Fast food and snack (even vegan snacks) is something we should all learn to stay away from. By the way I'm not a vegan, I just dropped junk food and red meat for the time being.
Last year I gave up red meat last year and taking baby steps towards shaving the amount of animal products although my Mom and sister are constantly nagging me about my “nutrients”
I haven't even cared about nutrition. I just look up recipes for what I want to eat the coming week and buy that stuff. I don't even list the meals in any order, just have the list on the fridge and decide for each day what it'll be. When there's about 1-2 meals left on the list it's time to make a new one. I don't know if I get every nutrition but I'm 100% sure that I eat healthier today than when I was a meat eater. I've realized after the change how monotonous my eating habits was. Seriously, every meal was always something like meat with potatoes, rise or pasta, and a carrot or tomato or MAYBE a salad.
I should probably add that I'm not a full vegan. So far I've just removed meat from my diet. I will probably look into removing dairy soon. So it's pretty easy to get away with that I don't need to care about nutrition. I know I'll have to look into this more as I go. But my main point was that you don't need to care much to get into it. Just follow recipes and it still probably will be better than your previous diet.
I went vegan for 1 year did it right craved beef something terrible compromised my immune system lost muscle mass virus after virus then after one virus got paralysed with an autoimmune condition then got vitiligo another autoimmune then arthritis. I took powdered k2 with d3 in order for calcium to go to bones not arteries I kept my homocystein low by taking b12 omega 3 epa dha . I lost jaw bone got a loose tooth my hair became thin I now eat whole foods including organic meats eggs dairy I feel much better no more cravings tooth is stable hairs back and i truly believe as a fitness instructor 26 yr runner and holistic therapist that a full balanced diet high in plants with animal protein is the best way. And i nearly died. The problem is a lot of vegans who don't suit it don't know until it's too late. If it works your lucky but it didn't work for me and a lot of others need to be mindful when dismissing entire food groups. It's dangerous.
If someone is trying to reduce their ecological footprint, lessen their contribution to animal cruelty, or improve their health, we should be rooting for them, not judging them for not being perfect. Surely it would have a much bigger impact if ten people cut down on their meat consumption than if one person went 100% plant based. Also, it's not like veganism is the end of the spectrum - similarly you could criticize many vegans for driving cars, buying plastic products, smoking, not being freegans, not only buying local produce etc. Live and let live and try and do something meaningful while you're at it.
Heathen I would argue that buying plastics is a net good as long as you reuse and recycle. After all, plastics are the only reason whales elephants rhinos and walrus still exist.
Well said! The problem isn't Americans eating meat. It's eating too much meat and too little fruits and veggies that give rise to our health problems and messed up agricultural economy. Veganism can lead to poor health as much as eating too much meat. You can't go wrong following the center path.
Heathen Huge swathes of forests are cut down to allow for certain types of foods to grow for vegetarians and vegans. Animal habitats destroyed. Live and let live? Carbon foot print?
stir-fry is my go-to meal. You can cut up and freeze the veggies and just add them to chickpeas and rice with different sauces, spices, etc. Super quick and easy! As for the dairy and eggs part, I'm really lucky as I have naturally never like cheese, milk or eggs. I don't like the taste/smell/texture. So I don't miss those at all :)
You said that you can’t eat marshmallows when you are vegan because of the pig bones inside them. Doesn’t this also mean that you can’t eat them when you are a vegetarian? 🤔
Idk because vegetarians I know dont't eat meat but, they'll still eat products that came from an animal. Vegan I understood won't eat anything that comes from an animal.
Animal bones aren’t vegetarian but i know some people that claim to be vegetarian that eat gelatin. Its not vegetarian. If a “vegetarian” is ok with eating animal based gelatin they arent real vegetarians
I think the transition is the hardest part. Eventually your pantry becomes all vegan and grocery shopping becomes like any other normal routine. You become familiar with the products and where to get them.
Definitely the first month I went Vegan, the biggest thing I remember is the relief of no longer eating animal flesh or products. I felt lighter both spiritually and physically. It is challenging in the beginning, but it only gets easier and Vegan You tubers have truly been my saving grace. I could name 10 right now and they are all so creative, so unique in their cooking styles and that's what keeps it fun! Good for you for doing this! Check out Liv B, Sweet Potato Soul, Caitlyn Shoemaker, Guilt Free TV, Maddie Lymburner, World of Vegan, Well Your World, Tish Wonders, The Viet Vegan, Chill Vegan, Cheap Lazy Vegan. There are too many to name!! Good luck!
Drinking cows milk and eating animal flesh as a child was all that was presented to me. It's all I knew. I continued those eating habits well into my adulthood minus about 3 years of being a vegetarian when I was in college. That is neither here nor there in relation to what I said in response to this video. We have choices and if choosing a vegan lifestyle helps our planet, our own health and the animals, there in lies the RELIEF I felt when I stopped eating those things. It's really very simple.
Aryan Raj after watching Earthlings, i would prefer to slaughter the animals myself. Coz that's what it's about right? The cruelty. If i do it myself and make sure the animal doesn't suffer, then all good.
Frankenllama it goes beyond the cruelty, you are saying your tastebuds are above another sentient being life. You are choosing to place your life above another's just because you can. No animal wants to die, we all have the instinct to avoid suffering, pain and death.
You are absolutely correct. That's exactly what I'm saying. The least i can do is make the pain and suffering part go away and do it in such a way the animal won't even expect it. There are humane ways to go about it, you know.
Frankenllama sure, less traumatic, doesn't mean you are not killing the animal for pure tastebuds pleasure. Cuz as it has been proven, we can get the essential amino acids from plant sources, so we don't need animals.
Reading labels should be a part of everyone's routine if they're looking for healthy options. I'm not vegan or even vegetarian, but having health issues caused by additives has the same "turn the box/jar/bag over" effect. Cooking does take time - I have no hobbies and rarely go on youtube etc. because every single day involves cooking something complicated. If I could cook just for me though, I have so many easy recipes that are vegan. Meat - that's what takes time. Shopping, however, takes so much longer when you're cooking healthy and especially when you want fresh produce - at least for me in the Midwest 3 seasons out of the year.
I agree, I went vegan for 2 weeks, now I am mor3 vegetarian than vegan for now. Cooking vegan was not more time consuming than cooking not vegan, it just takes times to find the recipes if ypur family did not raise you vegan. Of course we cook our own pasta sauce and bake bread and so on so if you buy jar of pasta sauce cooking vegan must be long for you. I have a lot of allergies and that's why vegetarian is a better option for me now. I also read labels for years now, all the stuff they add to the food is scary. Yesterday I saw older man reading ice cream labels in the store and it made me smile, world is changing, people are more aware what they put in their bodies.
I occasionally go out to dinner with my animal torturing friends. Yes, I have to have extended discussions with the servers and chefs about what is in the stuff (food?) they are preparing. Sometimes there are sighs and disguntlings among the carnist crew at the table. I am like look, morons, you should care what is going into what you are about to put into your body too. This is not a vegan thing, this is a sensible, intelligent human being thing.
Cooking vegan gets SO much easier the longer you do it. When you build up some go to recipes, it makes a world of difference. I made the switch a little over 6 months ago because I couldn't support the dairy industry any longer, and I don't ever want to go back!
Honey, you are very young yet. Don't wait until you get very ill like me (CHF heart disease diagnosed in 2010 @ age 52) to totally go vegan. I had to go vegan and I am sooo happy to say I have been healed and reversed my heart disease. I will never go back again. I love being vegan. I don't give a rat's azzzzz what people say. I am alive (past my father's age of death @ 58 in 1983 - same heart disease) AND I PRAY THE L-RD WILL LET ME SEE MY 60TH BIRTHDAY at the end of this year! YAY! GO VEGAN - IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE!
omg I keep trying to convince my mom to do this before she becomes more ill. she's already suffered from congenital heart failure and she's only in her 40s.
Pamela Prizant Thanks for sharing your story. People need to know about how much diet could change your health and life overall. I have a Family member who is in hospice right now, I strongly believe if she changed her eating and exercise habits years ago she would not be where she is right now. It seriously breaks my heart. She was told for YEARS to change her habits but I guess she couldn't stop. Since I've become vegan I have a lot more energy, I use to be so tired all the time. Sure, part of it was because I wasn't getting enough sleep due to insomnia but I sleep a lot better now too. Having more energy allows me to be more productive which in turn allows me to get a good night's rest.
I'm the same way! whenever there's a vegan option I'll take it. I hardly eat ANY dairy anymore and I've been vegetarian for about two months, I love it!
i wish you had told us your reasoning for going vegan, as you seem very focused on how great cheese is, and i really don’t think you would be that enthused if you knew what happened to the cows to get that “delicious” cheese.
Hayley Paige what about the calves that are treated like dirt. Everytime i used to crave milk, dairy i thought about that calf and the mother screaming for her baby.
I’ve been vegan for about 8 months and a lot of the problems that people have fade away after 2-3 months. Like cooking, figuring out how to eat out places, they get way easier. My kitchen isn’t super stocked, the hard part is learning how to make ‘whole’ meals again. Some things do take longer to make but I find it easier, quicker and more fun to make food now. I do have some bad days though where I ‘cheat’ because of being unprepared for eating at friends places, but that’s about it. And of course animal products are in so many things. The tubes of garlic in the veggie section has milk in it! Like ???. But once you get in the habit of it it becomes way easier in those aspects. But to stay vegan you definitely need to educate yourself on the affects of animal products (on you and the environment) and animal cruelty. Otherwise lack of willpower will really get the best of you. It’s good to see a video that’s so open minded 💖😌
It's actually pretty easy for me. I just buy mostly canned and frozen vegetables. And occasionally fruits. I don't really have to cook. I can just eat out of the can.
Hi, I'm glad you tried the diet! I was a vegetarian for almost 3 years before I became Vegan just three years ago and I felt almost exactly the same way. Eventually, I realized that eating out wasn't a problem because if you deconstruct a menu enough you *will* find a vegan option, at least in my experience. Though I had the opportunity of learning by being employed by several different restaurants throughout my work life, I found that all of the restaurants in the area I live has at least one thing I can eat. For example, I currently work at a Mcdonalds (glamorous, I know) and they have a function on the register called the ALA Carte where you can basically just order ingredients. A Tomato is 11 cents and there's a ton of shit to ring up on there, we also have guacamole that I sometimes get for my fries (yum). The fries are not cooked in the same grease as the meat because of food safety rules and regulations, the same can be said about the hash browns. At waffle house, the hash browns are my favorite. We don't cook them with butter, we use soybean oil, 100% vegan too, I checked the box. Little Caesar's crazy bread, it doesn't have milk in it it's just flour, water, sugar, salt, and yeast. ask for it without parmesan and add Italian seasoning, it's pretty good. Subway is a little obvious. Mellow Mushroom has an entire vegan menu, and a veggie pizza with no cheese add spinach is a pretty good option for Pizza Hut. Ruby Tuesday's got an endless salad bar to die for. Taco Bell is literally heaven for vegans, if you can believe it, they have a whole vegetarian menu, just make sure you don't get any cheese or sour cream. I could go on, but these are just a few that I *know.* My point is that, quite often I never have a problem eating out with family, friends, or coworkers, even though I am Vegan. You just have to look, most places will have something for you.
As a vegan I think you should have studied more about it, about cooking. Also you're missing some things, like the cheese thing you said it's ridiculous there is vegan cheese that tastes exactly the same specially in the USA. Anyways you did a good job and I hope you're a vegan.
I eat whole food 99% of the time, but a handful of meals per year I’ll eat vegan processed meat etc. What vegan cheese do you think tastes just like real cheese?
I don't normally leave comments (ghost watcher - hi there) but I figured here's a good video to share my experience on. My close friend has been vegetarian all her life and has recently gone vegan. My brother is also vegan, for the most part. So I decided to become vegetarian because I eat a mostly vegetarian diet anyway (and of course for other reasons such as health, environment, etc.) and I've got to say I've really been enjoying it. I feel much healthier and "lighter" because I'm more conscious about what I'm putting into my body and how much I'm spending on food. I've only been vegetarian since the holidays, but I'm hoping by next year I can transition to veganism. Like you, I'm mostly vegetarian but will be vegan when I can (I don't buy dairy products and will get the vegan option when eating out). Sorry this is so long - thanks for the video! I'd love to see more lifestyle challenge videos. Minimalism or zero waste for 30 days, maybe?
Sara Marsh thats so great that youre starting on vegetarian/veganism! its great to do baby steps at the beginning, and as long youre already eating less meat its great!! check put hotforfood and avantgardevegan if you dont know them yet. lots of love
I don't know how anyone is addicted to dairy. I've been repulsed by it my whole life. Not eating anything for a month would be easier for me than eating cheese.
Random myths I love cheese and ice cream, so it's been tough. But there are so many vegan alternatives out there that I'm not too worried. I tried vegan cheese at Blaze Pizza the other day and it was AWESOME. My vegan friend is really supportive as well, which makes this an easier transition.
I hate milk and cheese so much that I would rather fast for weeks rather than eat it. I don't even understand how anyone enjoys it, let alone be addicted to it.
My wife and I went whole food plant based over 2 years ago and would never go back to the old lifestyle. I lost 50 pounds and have tons of energy! I'll admit that it is sometimes inconvenient but dying of a heart attack or diabetes is really inconvenient! I'm 70 and hope to go another 30 years.
That would depend heavily on where you're eating, what kind of food they serve, and whether you're asking for the special dairy-free version to be made during breakfast/lunch/dinner rush. You can ask for a salad with no cheese or Ranch, for example, but I don't think you could pop into a rural diner and ask them to make you dairy-free biscuits. I also doubt most restaurants would have dairy-free cheesecake or chocolate lava cake options available. You can find dairy-free items on the menu, and/or ask if something contains dairy ingredients if you aren't sure, but asking them to make you a dairy-free version of some dishes just isn't very realistic.
ErykaSoleil yeah you can ask for menu items to be dairy free if it is a trimming like cheese on your burger or whatever, but we aren't making our own bread here.
Debbie Pease The majority of the flour in a bagel is white, refined flour, which provides no fiber and very few nutrients. Highly refined. Most bagels are empty calories. The refined nature of any white refined bread product means your blood sugar will spike and then drop, leaving you with little energy.
people make it seem like going vegan is this huge hurdle and takes alot of work. i was a chicken and fast food loving southern girl from texas the birth place of using animals and they dead bodies for fun. i went vegan over night lost 30lbs and never looked back. once you make that decision to not let your old bad habits sabotage your new goal its a breeze.
I think about going vegan from time to time but it really is a big hurdle. I'm specially concerned with vitamins that I'll be lacking, paying for supplements seems like such a pain when I could just eat the food...
Viktorija Paškauskaitė Everyone is different, but I only take B12 personally. Sometimes I don't even need to because of the food I consume (vegan milks, nutritional yeast, mock meats) are already fortified with it. If you're eating the right foods you should be able to get everything you need. Take care and thank you for considering it. Even a little helps. :)
Vegan food is SUPER simple and quick to make if you aren't trying to replicate non-vegan dishes. You can cook rice and steam vegetables at the same time in a rice cooker, roast potatoes and veggies in the oven, or even buy bags of frozen veggies/rice that you can throw in the microwave. You can also cook beans, lentils, soups, stews, curries, stir-fries, pasta, etc. in a single pot on the stove. You can also keep it raw with huge salads, fruit bowls, smoothies, etc.
Amanda Pasch My lunch for work for the past several months has been half of a baked potato, frozen vegetables with a seasoning blend, and beans that I cook in my Instant Pot. No real cooking at all. Lol
Amanda Pasch been thinking about going vegan or vegetarian 1st. But i have in a and I'm 5ft10 weapons. I have a very fast metabolism. I can eat all kinds of steak pork cheese junk food and don't gain a pound. I'm almost scared to switch because of that. What should I do
You definitely need to approach a vegan diet with an educated well thought-out plan. One of the biggest mistakes people make is not eating enough calories. Plant foods are the least calorically dense of all foods. You could focus on consuming lots of plant protein (beans, lentils, tofu, protein powder, etc.), starchy carbs (potatoes, rice, etc,) and healthy fats (avocado, nut butters, nuts, seeds, etc.). I am not a nutritionist or health professional. Please proceed with caution and common sense. You could speak to your physician, but many of them do not support vegan diets. You can always try following a vegan diet for a short period of time, or slowly cut out animal products, and see how your body responds.
Did you know that when you consume dairy you're directly supporting the meat industry as well? Male baby cows have no use to the dairy industry so they get sent off to get killed for veal within the first 2-6 weeks of being born. When you buy cheese or dairy milk it supports that, so is it really vegetarian? I suggest you do some research on where and how your food is produced before you decide on going back to you past diet. Dairy is Scary by Erin Janus on TH-cam is a good quick start. If you're really brave, watch Earthlings also available on TH-cam. Good luck!
Brittany Larson Agreed. Also, bagels with hummus and veggies or just plain margarine is delicious. But if you can't live without bagels and cream cheese, vegan cream cheese does exist too.
humandxp so you come onto a video about veganism and talk about meat? I'm so tired of people thinking they are funny when they do that. We honestly don't care that you easy meat. We know not everyone is vegan. Jesus.
Good for you for going vegan for 30 days. I’ve been doing it for two years and have no regrets. It’s been pretty easy for me because I was vegetarian for several years.
I wish people would be less policing in the comments. As an ethical vegan, I support every marginal reduction in consumption of animal products, and it sounds like Katherine has decided to make not just that but a MAJOR reduction. Besides, lots of people start out as "most-of-the-time" vegans and become "all-the-time" vegans once it's second nature. *I applaud you Katherine.* Ethical vegans (a lot of people in the comments probably NEW ethical vegans) are just emotionally charged because LITERALLY NO ONE they know cares about the egregious suffering that goes on everywhere and gives them so much pain to know exists, without the ability to do anything about it other than eat vegan. So, they try to convince other people. Please understand that they speak from pain, and at heart you are helping alleviate this by not eating animal products, for WHATEVER reason! Every vegan meal you eat is a victory against the animal industry, and I cannot thank you enough for that. And thank you for being so respectful towards vegans with this video :)
Thank you for this comment. As an omnivore (I don't eat meat every day) I have always found the ALL or NOTHING vegans a bit - hard to take. I watched a woman castigate herself for realizing a cocktail she ordered had honey in it after the fact and thought it was a bit much.
I have been vegan since June and it's great. I had a thing with eggs and cheese too, but honestly, when I looked at those industries, they are extremely cruel. Heartbreaking, tragic. No amount of convenience is worth that. Good on you for trying, I hope you end up sticking with it. Even your body agreed.
Its interesting to see 2,3 year old vegans vs vegans of 8 plus years.. the mature vegans say they quit after 7,8 years because.. “the first 2 years were good but during the rest of the years, my health declined” 😬😬😬😬
"Italian salad dressing" just doesn't exist in Italy. It's as simple as that. We just dress our salad w/ olive oil and/or vegan. it's really as simple as that
Me and my family went whole food, plant based Nov 2017. Which is a vegan diet. We really did not find it hard at all. We lived in Houston at the time and shopping was easy. We moved to Montana this month and have not had problems here either. In a town of 10,000 just 30 minutes from us is an organic grocery store, as well as in most of the towns that size or larger. I think the Vegan movement because of its political connotations turns off a lot of people. We did it for our health, and as more people get sick and seek to get well, they find the truth about nutrition, which is a whole food plant based diet leads to a healthy body. Even vegetarians like yourself find out how much better they feel. As the health and healing of plant based nutrition grows so will the availability of the food, the demand grows, then the supply grows. We did not really find any of the struggles you did, in Texas or Montana (beef capitals of the country). I have yet to find a menu even at a steak house that I cannot put together something "vegan" sure sometimes it is a really large salad with vinegar and oil for dressing but it works and I am not putting my friends out. I would encourage you while you are young to cut out all the animal products in your life, your older self will thank you a 100 fold!
There are victims involved with production o crops too though, maybe its less in numbers ? But how could we ever find out exactly how many, I dont understand why people are vegan though tbh I know its horrible to think of animals being killed but its less harsh then being eaten alive in the way it happens in nature , I cant wrap my head around how vegans understand and accept animals in wild eating others alive but dont accept human animals killing them in a way less harsh way , Also alot of vegans seem to own cats and buy cat food so they are supporting the meat industry , These things make me wonder why people do it , whats the goal with it? Do they want the world vegan then would they throw theyre cat out and make it homeless lol
RandomMess I have a snake and a cat and a dog, all of which NEED meat so there is no way around it tho with me I can live without it and that is one less person eating meat
I’ve been vegetarian most of my life and “vegan” for a small portion of it and during that time i always felt good and my mood was so much better the majority of the time
Maybe not in Italy. In the U.S. we do have a common salad dressing in stores and restaurants literally called "Italian Dressing" haha. Of course its not Italian but it is real. : ) yes it is more lame than just mixing your own but its just another stupid packaged product we've had.
No one EVER mentions that first big vegan shit. Literally the best shit you will ever take in your life, feels like your bowls and colon are all cleaned out 😂 makes you feel light, literally.
Flippi dude i still poo 4 or 5 times a day and im 2 years in. Probably has to do with the amount of food I eat and my slightly obsessive workout routine.
I been vegan for four months!🙌😍😭lol and i didn't go through vegetarian first because i did the same thing too. I actually watched documentaries that tell you the truth about veganism and the environment and is more than just the food! Is 24/7 of what you use, wear, eat etc. And veganism actually opened my eyes and i considered it as our normal lifestyle because if the whole world tries our normal lifestyle, then the world and everyone in this planet wouldn't be struggling at all (health environment etc) and if you take it seriously and stay honest to your heart and know that veganism is the right thing to do. I say go for it!🙌we love you, the environment and everything else will thank you! If vegans can do it, than why can't you. so that's good that you liked it definitely learn more about it and hopefully you make your decision 😍🙏🙏(btw it is possible to go vegan overnight👍i did it💙)
Interesting you mentioned national parks, because I went to Grand Canyon and I didn't have any trouble eating vegan! Also, my "ideal" version of veganism DOES include eating a lot of substitutes sometimes :) It's great to eat whole foods but I LOVE milkshakes, ice cream, grilled cheese, and bbq chicken, and I've found perfectly satisfying substitutes for all of those, just without implicating other animals in negative way.
One question. Do you know the ecological impact of flying and transporting super foods to countries where the climate is not always warm? I'm sure it's way more than owning your own farm. Maybe we all should own our own farms. That'll help the environment heaps
I don't know about owning our own farms - Many people don't have a fraction of the space, but everyone can grow their own vegetables or herbs, easily. Everyone could at least grow their own window box herbs. :-) Tomatoes will happily grow any there's anywhere there's enough sunlight so long as they get lots of water.
My ex-wife is a vegan. Going out to eat was a pain. Anytime she cooked anything she felt she had to tell me that it was vegan. I asked her to not tell me what was in the food. Words like tofu, soy and vegan are a turnoff for my appetite. I don't begrudge anyone for being a vegan but it's not for me.
Nathan Paul She never asked that I not use any words. And I didn't flaunt my food or pressure her. However she would frequently bother me about my becoming vegan. Since we are no longer married it is no longer an issue.
love this video! but as a vegan, i would like to say that "ideal veganism" doesn't have to exclude any types of meat/dairy/egg substitutes..."ideal veganism" is whatever is sustainable for you. plus, by purchasing those vegan speciality products you are supporting businesses that are doing incredible things!
Growing up in a Middle Eastern culture. So many foods I grew up with are already vegan friendly. So my comfort food is already the food of my childhood. I am whole food plant based meaning that I don’t buy fake meat. Basically I buy normal produce like veggies, grains etc. Faux food are for people who grew up with those types of food and want comfort food. So they want burgers and they get impossible burger or other alternatives. To me they are expensive and not worth it, also because I already love to cook and most of the recipes I cook are recipes I learned from my mother.
With respect, the research you did was incorrect concerning dairy and eggs and the environment. "A dairy farm with 2,500 dairy cows creates as much waste a city with 411,000 people". The dairy industry is the meat industry. They are one in the same. Therefore vegetarian and vegan are not the same in regards to environmental degradation.
Dude..I'm sure you mean well, but your numbers don't add up at all. Check the source and recalculate. A city with 411,000 people, and one to three cars per family, an overheated or over air conditioned home, with a dozen lights on, huge tvs and several computers, almost everything they touch made of plastic and therefore petro-chemicals, with huge rubbish bins of packaging weekly, with most consumer goods made in China and therefore transported by container vessel literally around the globe, family pets, and fossil fuels for both transport and electricity, there is no way that is the same as 2,500 cows farting methane and exhaling carbon dioxide. Just no way.
I thought this was another Vegan-bashing video, i'm positively surprised :) I'm guessing 99% of the dislikes are from Vegan-critical people being dissapointed by the Vegan-possitive message :D
I changed to the best vegan diet you can do - a whole food plant based diet. It’s an adjustment for sure but well worth it. I have benefited big time and love it.
Agree 200%. It's not difficult. Is it as easy as not thinking and putting a ton of ready made bad for you crap in your mouth....no. Eat for nutritional excellence period.
I've been vegan for 3 years, and honestly I had the opposite effect in terms of cooking. To me cooking meat was so much more work than veggies?????? Like ? How is it any harder to cook vegan food than it is "standard American food"?
Please, watch "Earthlings" online and "The best speech you'll ever hear by Gary Yourofsky". This is called "Plant based" not "vegan diet". It's a common thing people tend to mess up, but they are two different things. Katherout was plant based for 30 days, no one can be vegan for 30 days.
I got 19 months Whole Plant Bases foods, is healthier than vegan and without any of the activism, plus I got 6 month intermittent fasting 19-21 hrs per day. I got 37 years old and feel just like 23
All wonderful new vegan issues, but as a 10 year vegan in the midwest, I can say that with practice that nearly all of her issues would either fade away or become second nature so you don't really have to think about it nearly as much. Oh, and croutons have milk because nearly all bread is made with milk. Plus cheese ends up in a lot of things even things like Italian dressing. I went to buy a premade pizza crust, which is not normally a type of bread made with milk, but had to put it back because they "helpfully" already put cheese in it. As for environmental impact of milk and eggs, yes it is much less than meat, but still the amount of water and food that goes in and the amount of manure that comes out for each gallon of milk is still unsustainable for everybody on the planet to be able to consume. But my major objection to milk and eggs is the health impacts and the incredible animal cruelty involved. For milk, milk = veal. It is that simple. Half of all calves are male and so no use to a dairy farmer. Those males are either "crated" (a euphemism for stuffing this little scared baby into a dark box and feeding it an iron poor formula so that its flesh stays that nice pale color) and then slaughtered at a couple of months old, or just killed immediately and its body thrown on top of the rot pile of other dead babies whose life is worth so little that it isn't even worth keeping them alive for even a few months. And life isn't any better for the girls, just a little longer and a lot more hellish before they have been so worn out by constant pregnancies and having been bred to produce 5-8 times as much milk as non-dairy cows produce that after just 4 years of their natural 20-25 year lifespan they can't produce as much milk as one of her daughters. So her reward for those years of torment is a steel bolt to the brain and then ground up to make fast food burgers. For eggs it is just as bad. Like with cattle, half of all chicks are born male. Of course only the girls lay eggs and the boys don't grow fast enough to raise them for meat, so this are all just killed on the day they are born. They are either just stuffed into big trash bags and allowed to suffocate or be crushed to death if they wind up on the bottom of the bag, or they are feed alive and fully conscious into big meat grinders and turned into a gruesome paste. The girls chicks like the girl calves have the worse end of the stick. First the most sensitive part of a chicken's body is her beak, especially the tip. It is what she uses to find food. Unfortunately it is also what she pecks other birds with to establish a "pecking order". In nature those lower on the pecking order have to physically move away from the dominant bird to avoid being pecked again. Sadly the lower bird can't because she is stuffed along with 4-5 other birds into a cage the size of a file cabinet drawer. And so the dominant bird keeps pecking and pecking and the other join in as well and eventually the lowest bird in the cage is dead. To "fix" this problem the egg farmer just takes a hot wire and cuts the tip of all of the newborn girl chicks beaks off. No painkillers of course, since that would cost a lot of money and time. The shock and pain is so bad that a significant portion of the chicks just die immediately or starve to death because eating is so painful they can't do it. And like cows, laying hens have been breed to be egg machines cranking out egg after egg day after day until after a year or year and half of her 10+ year lifespan her body is used up and she is killed. Some are ground up for human or animal food. But often nobody want to eat her tough meat, so she is just "composted". So even if you don't think the environmental difference is enough to make it worth the bother to cut out dairy and eggs, perhaps do it for animals that are suffer just as much or more than any animal raised just for its flesh. Dairy - th-cam.com/video/UcN7SGGoCNI/w-d-xo.html Eggs - th-cam.com/video/utPkDP3T7R4/w-d-xo.html
i know this isn't the point of the video like im so proud of you but when she said "i could eat 5 cookies" i audibly laughed. girl ive never eaten LESS than 5 cookies. try 30 😂
You don't have to dictate where you go out to eat. You really have a lot to learn still. So instead of saying it's so hard socially you should try to learn from others and do more research .You can customize a vegan meal by looking at the sides on the menu. Beans, rice, French Fries, ect. Whatever looks vegan. If a meal is mostly vegan but has a nonvegan ingredient swap it out for something else. Use olive oil and salt instead of butter, you can use coconut oil and salt if it's available. Do your best but accept that you may fall short sometimes and that's okay. The point is to do as much as practical and possible as you possibly can. When you truly become a vegan and you learn about how much suffering and destruction is involved you're likely to want to continue your journey. 30 days honestly is not enough time to adjust.
Order a salad and a baked potato. Bring and avocado. Or bring trail mix to the restaurant. Then when you crash and burn after emptying your childhood supplies order a steak or liver or beef broth or maybe some oysters not poisoned from the ships bringing you tropical fruit and oil spills. Then continue your partially nutrient deficient "diet".
Not a farmer, but technically, don't dairy farmers usually deal with the cows and the farms, and the food producers are the ones who put dairy in everything? I'm pretty sure farming organizations aren't adding any slots on the agenda for "How can WE get dairy in more food?" But I can see a food-producing marketer saying, "If you at a gallon of milk to that, we can say, "now with added calcium'." We don't need to witch-hunt dairy farmers, because our highly processed foods have butter in them. Why do they use butter? It makes EVeRYTHING taste better. And there is nothing morally wrong with butter making things taste good, it's how that product interacts with your ingredients. Kudos for trying it!
Actually, my boyfriend did his dissertation on the milk marketing board in the UK and how they push dairy into everything with the backing of farmers! It’s kind of interesting and weird!
I'm vegan. It is a total life change. But the part you even said: "For Once, I didn't feel guilty." Feeling guilty all my life..and not having to? One of the best feelings ever. I love it, but Alot more people do not. So it of course has this"stigma". But it's all worth it to me. Anyway cool video. Thank You. I'm proud of you!
And do you think that adding this bannana for your smoothie while living in Europe, which is shipping from Brazil, is good for environment? This is example.
Save yourself 12 minutes:
1. It was harder to find places to eat out.
2. Cooking was harder.
3. Dairy, eggs, and animal products are in a lot of food products.
4. Lost a little weight.
5. Felt proud after ordering a vegan option at a restaurant, even if it had a lot of sugar.
Few details or examples given, not much information.
apteryx01 Not all hero’s wear capes. 👌🏾
apteryx01 Thanks!
Thanks, much appreciated. I gave up after the first minute.
Thank you!!!
Thank you
When you become Vegan you realize that everything, I mean EVERYTHING has milk in it! It’s just an eye opening experience to always read food labels
Or gelatin 😭
YES: Most products dont need milk and never had milk a few decades ago. Than they had to sell all this trash side products anywhere and it turned out it was a cheap (BUT unhealthy) ingreedient.... Nearly all chips have milk. Whats doing milk in my bellpaper chips? or salt vinegar? or just salt...there has to be potatoe oil and salt in there NOT milk
I know right? I feel in general though everyone should read the label on their foods. I think among other things that is another helping thing that happened after turning vegan. You're more aware of what's in food.
I find it tricky because I eat with relatives, family, and friends. I think lots of food have dairy and eggs in it even if not required. They prefer meat meals, and I would prefer vegan. The compromise is a lacto-ovo vegetarian meal.
My mood stabilising medication has lactose in it.
I've been vegan for about a year. I'm never hungry and have no issues making or finding food. I recently had to get blood drawn for a reason I won't get into. My results came back perfect. My calcium, protein, iron, and potassium levels are great. Which is what most people say vegans are low on. Don't let nutrition scare you! Being vegan is perfectly healthy.
You are probably young
And obviously part alien
My levels are great too and I legit eat nothing but cereal and white pasta. So I mean...
@@sugarplum2467 I eat a lot of vegan pastas made from chickpeas and lentils, which have a lot of nutrients. I think that's what keeps me healthy.
@@WeFindSimpleSolutions 😂
How to make Mexican food without cheese:
Step 1: make Mexican food.
Step 2: don't add cheese.
Step three: hang the guy who spread the idea that it's OK to pour melting cheddar on top of everything
Step four: Make everyone realize how simple it is
Mexican-american food has a thing with cheese. Real mexican food doesn't even need cheese most of the times 🤷🏾♀️
Im mexican and been vegan here in México its soooooo easy ❤️😊
Lol
Ive been vegan for three years and it’s been a journey and also one of the best decisions I have ever made. Please don’t shy away from the fact that society in general is not vegan . Like Katherine said it’s an amazing experience despite your motives you are contributing to the environment and helping the animals
Couldn't agree more. Best decision in my life.
same here
Within the first line, I knew this would be typical millennial crap, by the word "journey". It's now a word that all terrible, unoriginal millennials use to feel like they did something big.
I lot of these "problems" sounds like things that would be so easy if you were vegan for more than 30 days... Like not knowing where stuff is in the grocery store, cooking dinner and having to know whats inside what. It all becomes second nature, the longer you do it the easier it gets. I'm vegan for 2.5 years and i dont have to put my mind to anything its all second nature.
There are even scanner apps you can use. I wish I had that when I went Vegan 12 years ago. Too bad she didn't make the ethical connection.
2,5 yrs here too. :) I never have to look any food up at the store either, only if there's something new. It's really easy and as long as you don't eat vegan junk food all day you feel so good both physically and mentally. I went vegan from being vegetarian all my life. I always had bad atopic eczema, it all went away after I made the switch. My anxiety almost disappeared fully too. Love it.
Donald Draper I’ve been vegan since January this year and it’s become second nature in just 9 months. Love it so much! Life changing!
Should be try to go vegan for 5 years and witness how much shit you have to look at to make sure it’s vegan lol no thank you 🙏
Cooking vegan is really not that difficult. I’m in college and I take the bus to the store and carry all of my own groceries to my apartment. I meal prep and I only spend a few hours cooking once a week.
KateNotKatelynn meal prep is definitely the way to go👍
Agree. Family of four, two trips to grocery per week (smaller ones) and 2 times of prepping per week with wife and me which takes about 2hrs per and the rest of the days are simply plug and play easy. No prep and hardly any time spent.
When I “challenged” myself to “try” being vegan... I thought it was pretty difficult and suffered through terrible meals. I tried veganism (years before becoming a vegan) for about 30 days and I swore I could never... I didn’t have the right energy around me to do better for myself.
When I woke up and became vegan (opposed to “trying” it) as a life choice with zero excuses... it was easy-peasy.
There’s always a way to not eat meat / eggs / etc... Planning will be required in the beginning, but after the first couple of weeks I felt... it’s only as big of an inconvenience as you make it.
Food is tastier than ever and I’d rather eat my go-to vegan foods over any chefs cooking any day.
I LOVE MY VEGAN LIFE!
I had a very similar experience!! I LOVE MY VEGAN LIFE!!!!
Lindas.3 Lindas.3 :))
Ive just started and I'm going through the process of learning what to make etc, Mic the Vegan is great for ideas, I'm hungry a lot but I think that is good because my metabolism is normally really slow. However, I'm not going to go back to eating animal products, it's so awful for everything sentient below us on the food chain.
Sam Lawrence
There’s lots of vegan style recipes and youtubers! Check them out:)
Keep going, you can do it:) it’s very much worth it.
Sam Lawrence
th-cam.com/video/U77t2N8_jJ0/w-d-xo.html
Here’s a link to a good video.
the hardest part about being a vegan is explaining to people that I'm not an alien. otherwise it's easy peasy
That’s your opinion. x
yes, but it really depends on where you live.
I live in Israel which have the most vegans per capita and especially in Tel-Aviv so it's not weird when I say I'm vegan, but at the beginning my friends bugged me a lot about it and sometimes laughed at me.
Avoiding nutritional deficiencies isn't easy. You have to learn all about nutrition and supplements and sometimes not even that is enough.
Strange, for me, it's not hard being vegan. I made the change quite easily. The problem is that most don't understand the diet, and that definitely is a problem. As veganism grows and expands, it will likely be easier for people to find vegan food and to find others who can help.. I was a meat-eater for decades. Changed and have never looked back..
Negan Not really.. A good vegan diet gives me all I need. The problem is that most are not following a true vegan diet. A vegan diet is healthy and tasty.. And my B12 levels are fine.. But even if someone claims that they need to take B12, so what? Many people on a traditional diet are now taking many supplements each day already.
Following a plant based diet really isn't that hard when you know why you're doing it...
I'm a Vegetarian
@@samayasarjain4559 Hi there,
I, personally, would recommend to opt out of consuming animal products (protein) as animal protein is the cause of nearly all diseases, from gathered information e.g mad cow disease and tuberculosis, that are on the rise. Cows milk, for instance, is for calves and not mankind. Furthermore, fish like wild salmon and tuna ought to be avoided due to radiation in the seas (mercury affecting tuna too). Farmed fish too should be avoided as they may lack nutrients e.g farmed salmon may lack Omega 3 Fatty Acids obtained from algae by wild salmon in the seas.
I do encourage to adopt (even if it means making small changes here and there) a well-planned, organic, unrefined and untempered with vegan diet (consuming raw plant foods where possible so as not to denature or destroy the life-forces and enzymatic activities beneficial to the human system. If disagreeing on this matter, please take some steamed carrots, plant them and see if they will grow; if not, it is because they are 'dead' plant food that cannot benefit one's 'living' cells) consisting of organic fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and whole grains as it is the best diet to provide mankind with ultimate health and longevity. I do not even see a reason to use pharmaceutical supplements e.g Vitamin D is obtainable from organic chestnut mushrooms (UV exposed) and sun-dried mushrooms with the exception of the body's ability to make it (and store it for future use) when exposed to the sun; Iron from organic beets; Zinc from organic cashew nuts; potassium and magnesium from organic bananas; Omega 3 Fatty Acids (beneficial for the brain) from organic walnuts and pecans (looks like the brain and targets it).
Please avoid factory produced meat alternatives whose chief ingredient can be 'soy' and may contain preservatives as well as additives (e.g Vinegar, a corrosive agent). Food toxicity and nutrient deficiency are a deadly combination as one is hindering the body's building materials needed to action healing whilst at the same time taxing the system with more toxic stuff, thus bringing about disease and possibly even an early death.
Best wishes
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@@Look.Upward Honestly speaking, I was a Vegan for sometime before, few years back. Later on, I came into a Vegetarian lifestyle. And, Vegan or non-Vegan products. Anything in EXTREME is not very good. But, everything in *Moderation,* (whether Vegan or non-Vegan) is absolutely fine !
@@samayasarjain4559
Hi there,
I have been moved to make you aware of the dangerous path many take leading to disease and early graves before you do get there too. I encourage being a sceptic and look things up for yourself, and you will find out that the diet i have shared with you is actually for your own good e.g processed meats are classified as carcinogenic to humans in Group 1, which is as bad as it can get, where as organic plant foods are classified as anti-cancer foods, thus applying the concept of moderation is not wise.
I cannot continue any further to try and persuade you as i am for a 'free will'. If you end up being diseased, please do not blame it on GOD as others do when they violate the laws of health, which are just like the law of gravity (to every cause, there is an effect).
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@@samayasarjain4559 I think killing animals is pretty extreme and the dairy and egg industry need to do it!
I've been vegan for 2 years now and I have to say it's been one of the best decisions I've ever made. I live in New York so if there ever are days where I want to eat out I'm always 20 minutes away from vegan burger spots, latin vegan food or even vegan diners. I do run into challenges when I'm out with my friends because they want to go to more typical places like Applebees or Fridays but I try to my best to make it work by either grabbing food somewhere else nearby or eating beforehand if the places we go don't have any real vegan options. Kudos for doing the Veganuary challenge!
The Josh Speaks : I tried beyond sushi when I was at the Manhatten club...it was amazing
The Josh Speaks hey josh love your videos
thanks!
You live in New York and your friends want to go to Applebee's? To someone from the Midwest growing up in a small town where there wasn't many more places to go, that sounds really strange.
marci konopa, i know right? i live in the midwest and applebee's is pretty popular out here and it's pretty weird that they want to go there in new york when there's like thousands and thousands of better resturants.
My husband and my daughter 7 years old we are all vegan 2 years now ,we are very healthy never get sick,lost all our friends because they just didn't want to know anything about harming animals ,the planet or their health,but we don't care.We are never going back ever again.After watching Earthlings it completely changed us.
Yes💗
Maria Stoycheva it’s actually suitable for any age, you can still get all of your nutrients and vitamins from a plant based diet
Maria Stoycheva I think it’s more unhealthy for a seven year old to have meat and dairy. As you are more likely to get cancer and high cholesterol. Plus meat are pumped with many antibiotics due to the many diseases they get from the dire conditions they are in. Which ofc can then lead to antibiotic resistance in humans which isn’t healthy. Manycows get infections to the overproduce of milk. Which can lead to swelling and then puss and milk is produced in the milk which we drink which is unhealthy. Which is definitely not all filtered out.
I'm vegan, but one thing I don't do is preach and push it onto my friends and family, if they want to know about it they will ask.
Mark Clapton I agree it’s the preaching that puts people off as a vegan just get on with it if people want to know they’ll ask
Veganism is not as much a diet as it is an ethical position.
Thijs Smudde true. But, people become vegan for different reasons. Some people are more focused on health, some on the wellbeing of animals, some on the environment, all the above, etc. So, usually people just call it a diet because it is this one(sometimes a variant of one) way of eating for multiple different reasons
It seems more like a combination of a religion (based on the fervor and the rigidity) and a political opinion.
theres nothing political about not wanting animals to suffer. And religion is based on sheep-like behaviour. every vegan ive seen did a conscious choice. It seems like the meat-eaters that blindly say 'NO I DONT WANNA BE VEGAN UR CRAzy' are the religious ones .
Haha, yeah right. Animal rights activists are VERY political.
And on religion let's see:
Pious holier than thou attitudes -check
Rigid set of rules that absolutely must not be compromised - check
Won't shut up about it and think they have to make sure everyone knows their viewpoint - check
Proselytizing - check
Religious level of fervor - check
Yep, they're like religious zealots. But I would not agree that religion is based on sheep like behaviour as most religious people I have known (not the zealots) evaluate things for themselves.
Oh, I even forgot to mention the monk-like life of asceticism and self-denial amongst the ways veganism is like a religion. Except monks seem to mind their own business, practice their religion and not bother other people about it, unlike vegans.
The issue with dairy and eggs is that they're incredibly brutal and cruel industries. Environmentally, eggs for example are not as bad...but yeah, vegans are vegan for ethical reasons, which you didn't mention at all. Surprised me a bit. Otherwise your points are all true: It's a bit of a pain eating out, depending where you are and you have to cook more. But I think learning to cook for yourself is not a bad thing. It can actually be very empowering.
i'll personally become a vegetarian because of slaughter houses but asking me to give up milk and eggs is asking too much of one lazy american
Well but if you do so because of slaughter houses - dairy cows and egg laying hens all end up there as well. Going vegetarian is not a bad start though - but I still want to add that I am a *very* lazy person as well - and veganism was still quite doable :D And as an American, you actually have the benefit of having a lot of awesome vegan products to choose from, that I can only dream of here ;_;
Tracy Zidon, the dairy and the veal(baby cow meat) industies are the same industry. Chicken eggs that hatch are separated by gender and almost all male chicks get killed on their first day of life. Animals that do get to live are exploited for their secretions, untill their production drops, then they get a knife to their throat, they don't even reach the half of their natural lifespan, they are literally being worked to death. Vegans are not just vegan, because animal agriculture is a cancer on our planet, we also are vegan, because animals are being holocausted and as a vegetarian you still contributed a tremendous amount of pain and suffering to animals. Going vegan and telling your friends and family not to torture and murder animals for fun, is not asking a lot at all, considering what the resistance fighters in WW2 did to end the jewish holocaust.
She mentioned it at 8:33
She mentioned it at 9:28 as well
Love being a vegan ❤️
0:07 mmmm that’s a toughie
For the animals
For your health
For the land
For our water
For the rainforests
For peace
For compassion
For nonviolence
That’s why
aidsbrigade I understand that misinformation is complicated, I wish someday you could do your own research with an open heart, then you would understand what I am talking about. Wish you the best.
aidsbrigade no I don’t despise you because before I became vegan I was someone just like you. Misinformed and brainwashed. Please don’t show hate before you actually know the truth
aidsbrigade you are that because the meat, egg and dairy industry doesn’t show you the real thing. Go see slaughterhouse footage and come back to me and tell me that animals are still food. They don’t want to die. You can have delicious meals without any animals suffering
aidsbrigade have you even seen footage of a slaughterhouse? Watch and then come talk to me with ACTUAL information, you heartless freak. Would you eat your cat or dog?
@Permakultur - leben in und von der Natur if you are eating fake cheese and ultraprocessed food you are not doing it for health
I don’t think being vegan for thirty days makes a expert I’ve been vegan for a year and cholesterol is normal. Doctor has cut my blood pressure meds in half. I’ve lost thirty pounds and my doctor is excited. I never have any problems getting meals p.S. I’m 74. Walk in the park.
Awesome! I've been vegan for 2 years and am lovin' it!
I've been omnivorous for 31 years and I'm in perfect health
I have been vegan for 2 1\2 years it will be 3 years on my birthday.
My doctor is excited 😂😂😂 like he gives a shit
DEMO Relax she does. You Don’t Care about your Health but that’s your business.
I went vegetarian when I was five years old (living in a German extremely meat heavy family-- having tons of meat for every single meal) and when I told my mum at 15 that I wanted to go vegan she wouldn't allow it. I went on a hunger strike for three days (ya know dramatic teenager) and after that I just went vegan cold turkey. At the beginning it was the hardest thing ever. I would come to school unprepared, starving at the end of the day and the teacher giving cookies to the rest of the class- had me crying by the end of one week. There was no way for me to continue supporting the cruelty in eggs and dairy so I did my part on a lot of research. And honestly this is really what I wanna advise you, DO AS MUCH RESEARCH AS YOU CAN!! and I don't mean research about the animals, but rather research all the vegan diets, try stuff out, look at all the recipes and look at the health aspects!!! This helped me soooo much!! I found out that the most random things- I had assumed weren't vegan-- actually were (German pretzels, specific store bought apple cakes, mustard (shocking), and a lot of candy!!). Indeed it is very difficult at times especially at family dinners, going to e.g a steakhouse, but honestly I've never not had anything to eat. Even if I just put together my own meal of steamed veggies, salads, loads of other sides and fries, I always have survived in the most meat-heavy places without making it awkward. Now, two and a half years after going vegan, it has become THE most effortless thing ever. I know what meals to make, super super fast, extremely delicious meals, I am at my best health and I've lost all the clinical acne I used to suffer from and I could never imagine not eating this way. As hard as it was for a cheese lover like me to give up cheese, I honestly just love eating what is good for me, the animals and the environment even more (and also do not miss it at all).
Im so happy to see you go on this journey, and it is so great that you're reducing the harm you're supporting!! loved the video, much love and good luck in your future
I went vegetarian when I was five and I went vegan when I was fifteen too! In a heavy meat eating household as well. We seem to be quite similar lol
Good one
To me, going vegan was so much fun. I loved exploring all of the different ingredients that I probably would have never used if I hadn't discovered vegan cooking. I liked your outlook! I've been plant based for almost two years and never plan on going back.
Eating out: almost every place can make a salad. My life doesn't revolve around food so a salad is not a punishment.
Cooking: Not a big deal. Unless you have no idea cook. Rice, beans, salsa, pico de gallo, spices...all vegan. It's not at all harder to make vegan meals.
Animal industry is subsidized. I mean, milk commercials, anyone? Beef commercials? So it's not surprising that they find their way into everything.
I do feel better, emotionally and physically being vegan.
It's not a marginal difference. The dairy industry IS the meat industry. A dairy cow lived on average 4 years, babies are used as veal or beef. Average NATURAL lifespan of a cow is 24 years.
Meatless Mondays are so doable.
Vegan milkshakes exist too fyi
gmurph There’s a Vegan version of everything now a days.
Danes Closet: true! The problem I see is that a “vegan milkshake” makes a genuine milkshake look healthy by comparison.
Most of these vegan substitutes are the antithesis of natural, they’re about as natural as Tammie Bakker’s makeup.
I was thinking the same thing
@@resourcedragon Use Pea Protein milk. Unsweetened vanilla. It's awesome. It actually freezes and gets thick as it hits cold fruit or ice whereas dairy milk will tend to melt the surrounding cold items.
@@resourcedragon there's healthy and unhealthy versions of milkshakes vegan or not. Thats why homemade is best
Another thing people dont understand about veganism is that the more vegans there are the easier veganism gets. Everyone always makes the comment of "i wish veganism was more convenient" but it'll only get more convenient with the increasing amount of vegans. Be the change, supply and demand. If youre vegan and demanding vegan options with time more vegan options will come but if you just stick to your old trashy diet and sit around waiting for everyone else to go vegan and make it more convenient itll take that much longer.
palitsa lol
The more vegans there are the cheaper the dairy and meat will be for us! Bring it on :)
I don't want to be rude, but I think You're overreacting a... little bit, especially when it comes to cooking - there are lots of simple and very quick vegan options! Maybe You just didn't come across these ones. :)
"rich people do it in california so it must be ridiculous." solid logic there. Can't find a single flaw lmao
I’m not going to argue with someone that doesn’t have basic language skills, but FYI I became vegan to begin with because it was the cheapest way to eat healthy. Rice and beans are literally like $5 for enough to feed you for like a week. But yeah you’re right I’m just a spoiled rich bitch looking for something to make me feel special. Couldn’t possibly just be that I don’t want to eat animals and it’s cheap way to get my nutrients as I try to finance my way through undergrad 🤷♀️
I didn’t, but I’m not surprised someone did. What do you expect when you put word vomit of nothing but curses, ad hominem attacks, and misogyny into a comment? You literally did not add one relevant point, all you have done thus far is called people bitches, pussys, weak, etc.
Yea definitely, like if you’re running low on time and you have other things to do, you can just make rice or pasta, it’s really not hard unless you want to make one of those super elaborate recipes that imitates something else like vegan Mac n cheese or something.
i agree with this i make most of my meals in less than 15 mins i found it was more work to cook non-vegan meals, especially meat bc that takes FOREVER to cook properly
I've been vegan for 3 years. Some of these points (like the not knowing how to make mexican food without cheese ???) made my head SPIN.
Remeber you had your hole life to get used to how you eat usually. So when people get into Veganism they have to give themselves tiiime and don’t be frustrated super quickly
kiimolii Whole*
kiimolii Remember*
kiimolii time*
You might have a "hole" life but mine is "whole".
We are omnivores not carnivores a cave man would eat what was safe to eat as they needed the energy it gave. In todays society we often dont actually need what it gives therefor the most important thing is to eat a balanced and variated diet strictly meat is no go strictly vegis are no go.
I have been vegan for decades and absolutely love it! 30 days is not enough to understand the experience... it;s like working out for 30 days, not enough
Good job! I am also a vegan. I have been vegan about 20 years. Nice to meet you.
Wow.
But all the meat idiots out here told me you would die withing a week eating a vegan diet? And then something about lions and islands and shit. And they say this stuff to HELP you ... not because they like bacon or anything. lol
@@sajfen you brainwashed idiot yes you will look like 50 when youre 30 on vegan diet and you will get mental illness because of lack of cholesterol. vegs and fruits are sugar starch and fibre and humans are animals which need saturated fat and blood as energy source! fucking idiot its that simple
@@呼吸-e9b Mic drop.
@@呼吸-e9b r u serious or just joking??
7 years without animals in my plate and I couldn't be healthier and happier, best decision ever made 💖 brings me so much peace 🕊️ I'm even studying vegan nutrition rn 🎉💜
Your plates were made from animals?
never knew your plate was made from animals, damn, kinda sus😳
I have just decided to go vegan and I (almost) stopped eating animal products. Never have I felt this peaceful
@@dilektica8275 Good for you 🤗🥰🥰 take your time. You’ll get there 💕
Thats amazing!!!
I highly recommend you do way more research into the vegan lifestyle, you brought up a lot of misconceptions! I wanted to address them all but it would have taken way too long. There are thousands of vegan resources out there to help with these issues. And, with all due respect, I am a disabled person who works full time and I spend no more than half an hour per day preparing all my vegan meals because I cannot stand for longer than that. So understand your positionality when you talk about these things please! (There are dozens of vegan salad dressings, croutons, cream cheese, etc too lol)
Could not agree more!
Just to add to this, if your time is limited you could food prep. We make our lunches and dinners for the week on Saturday and freeze them. Only a couple hours on Saturday saves many hours throughout the week. Some nights we still cook dinner but, if we don't want to after working all day, pop a frozen one in the microwave and easy meal :)
Great points!
Hannah what a great reply......totally agree
I did a vegan month; and let me tell you, those vegan shits are silky smooth. No one ever mentions that.
sirfieldinghoward 😂😂😂 that would be the fiber.
sirfieldinghoward you will never be constipated ever again 😂😂🤣🤣
sirfieldinghoward haha😂. Yes, it's very high in fiber.
Lol SERIOUSLY!
Vegetable farts are terrible :/
You should do videos about: doing own bussiness for 30 days, studying on university for 30 days, body building for 30 days, learning a foreign language for 30 days, developing video games for 30 days, being in a serious relationship for 30 days and so on...
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So why haven’t you?
I'd just like to point out that there's quite a myth going around about vegans needing to be extra careful when it comes to choosing the right ingredients or combining the right foods in order to keep a nutritious diet, compared with people who eat meat, or at least eggs and dairy. Those people just think because they eat a bunch of stuff their diet is great, but it's pretty common to fall short in nutrients like fatty acids, iron,calcium, vitamins C, D and B12, precisely because they're not eating properly either. They just don't question themselves and they don't know about it. Also, making the time to cook your own meals with fresh ingredients is a great thing to do, even if you're a meat eater. Fast food and snack (even vegan snacks) is something we should all learn to stay away from. By the way I'm not a vegan, I just dropped junk food and red meat for the time being.
Last year I gave up red meat last year and taking baby steps towards shaving the amount of animal products although my
Mom and sister are constantly nagging me about my “nutrients”
I haven't even cared about nutrition. I just look up recipes for what I want to eat the coming week and buy that stuff. I don't even list the meals in any order, just have the list on the fridge and decide for each day what it'll be. When there's about 1-2 meals left on the list it's time to make a new one. I don't know if I get every nutrition but I'm 100% sure that I eat healthier today than when I was a meat eater. I've realized after the change how monotonous my eating habits was. Seriously, every meal was always something like meat with potatoes, rise or pasta, and a carrot or tomato or MAYBE a salad.
I should probably add that I'm not a full vegan. So far I've just removed meat from my diet. I will probably look into removing dairy soon. So it's pretty easy to get away with that I don't need to care about nutrition. I know I'll have to look into this more as I go. But my main point was that you don't need to care much to get into it. Just follow recipes and it still probably will be better than your previous diet.
I went vegan for 1 year did it right craved beef something terrible compromised my immune system lost muscle mass virus after virus then after one virus got paralysed with an autoimmune condition then got vitiligo another autoimmune then arthritis. I took powdered k2 with d3 in order for calcium to go to bones not arteries I kept my homocystein low by taking b12 omega 3 epa dha . I lost jaw bone got a loose tooth my hair became thin I now eat whole foods including organic meats eggs dairy I feel much better no more cravings tooth is stable hairs back and i truly believe as a fitness instructor 26 yr runner and holistic therapist that a full balanced diet high in plants with animal protein is the best way. And i nearly died. The problem is a lot of vegans who don't suit it don't know until it's too late. If it works your lucky but it didn't work for me and a lot of others need to be mindful when dismissing entire food groups. It's dangerous.
alot vitamin b12 is in "sauerkraut", a awesome southgerman medieval food
If someone is trying to reduce their ecological footprint, lessen their contribution to animal cruelty, or improve their health, we should be rooting for them, not judging them for not being perfect. Surely it would have a much bigger impact if ten people cut down on their meat consumption than if one person went 100% plant based. Also, it's not like veganism is the end of the spectrum - similarly you could criticize many vegans for driving cars, buying plastic products, smoking, not being freegans, not only buying local produce etc.
Live and let live and try and do something meaningful while you're at it.
I like you!
Heathen I would argue that buying plastics is a net good as long as you reuse and recycle. After all, plastics are the only reason whales elephants rhinos and walrus still exist.
Well said! The problem isn't Americans eating meat. It's eating too much meat and too little fruits and veggies that give rise to our health problems and messed up agricultural economy. Veganism can lead to poor health as much as eating too much meat. You can't go wrong following the center path.
I'm allergic to almonds, guilt be gone
Heathen Huge swathes of forests are cut down to allow for certain types of foods to grow for vegetarians and vegans. Animal habitats destroyed. Live and let live? Carbon foot print?
stir-fry is my go-to meal. You can cut up and freeze the veggies and just add them to chickpeas and rice with different sauces, spices, etc. Super quick and easy! As for the dairy and eggs part, I'm really lucky as I have naturally never like cheese, milk or eggs. I don't like the taste/smell/texture. So I don't miss those at all :)
You said that you can’t eat marshmallows when you are vegan because of the pig bones inside them. Doesn’t this also mean that you can’t eat them when you are a vegetarian? 🤔
Sonnenlein
duh
Idk because vegetarians I know dont't eat meat but, they'll still eat products that came from an animal. Vegan I understood won't eat anything that comes from an animal.
Animal bones aren’t vegetarian but i know some people that claim to be vegetarian that eat gelatin. Its not vegetarian. If a “vegetarian” is ok with eating animal based gelatin they arent real vegetarians
Leianna Thomas she said she didn’t know they had that in them before this. You don’t know if she stopped eating them or not.
There are vegan marshmallows.
I think the transition is the hardest part. Eventually your pantry becomes all vegan and grocery shopping becomes like any other normal routine. You become familiar with the products and where to get them.
Definitely the first month I went Vegan, the biggest thing I remember is the relief of no longer eating animal flesh or products. I felt lighter both spiritually and physically. It is challenging in the beginning, but it only gets easier and Vegan You tubers have truly been my saving grace. I could name 10 right now and they are all so creative, so unique in their cooking styles and that's what keeps it fun! Good for you for doing this! Check out Liv B, Sweet Potato Soul, Caitlyn Shoemaker, Guilt Free TV, Maddie Lymburner, World of Vegan, Well Your World, Tish Wonders, The Viet Vegan, Chill Vegan, Cheap Lazy Vegan. There are too many to name!! Good luck!
But, you enjoyed eating animal flesh and product for the first 4 to 5 years of your life (mammal milk) as a baby.
Drinking cows milk and eating animal flesh as a child was all that was presented to me. It's all I knew. I continued those eating habits well into my adulthood minus about 3 years of being a vegetarian when I was in college. That is neither here nor there in relation to what I said in response to this video. We have choices and if choosing a vegan lifestyle helps our planet, our own health and the animals, there in lies the RELIEF I felt when I stopped eating those things. It's really very simple.
check out hotforfood and Avantgarde vegan! x
Melhut65 Sarah’s Vegan Kitchen, Hot for Food..
clear mist so?
After watching earthlings, all these excuses doesnt make any sense to me.
Aryan Raj after watching Earthlings, i would prefer to slaughter the animals myself. Coz that's what it's about right? The cruelty. If i do it myself and make sure the animal doesn't suffer, then all good.
Frankenllama it goes beyond the cruelty, you are saying your tastebuds are above another sentient being life. You are choosing to place your life above another's just because you can. No animal wants to die, we all have the instinct to avoid suffering, pain and death.
You are absolutely correct. That's exactly what I'm saying. The least i can do is make the pain and suffering part go away and do it in such a way the animal won't even expect it. There are humane ways to go about it, you know.
Frankenllama sure, less traumatic, doesn't mean you are not killing the animal for pure tastebuds pleasure. Cuz as it has been proven, we can get the essential amino acids from plant sources, so we don't need animals.
paula r please Paula explain the purposes of a cow and chicken, other than being nutritional for a humans diet. Go ahead, we will wait.
3 years vegetarian and 8 months vegan my only regret.. it’s not doing it earlier.. I do agree eating out is super hard.. specially at Columbus GA ❤️🌱
JessyJessy Style but you can always get fries😉
Super hard? No dairy, no eggs. Usually vegan :)
Nån Ting the best fries are fried in beef fat
JessyJessy Style 9 month vegan here, wish I would have started earlier too.
Also vegan in Columbus GA and its HARD here! Very very few options in this mundane old world town.
Yep!
In starting days of going vegan, I felt superlight and proud. It had a different kind of positive feeling.
Reading labels should be a part of everyone's routine if they're looking for healthy options. I'm not vegan or even vegetarian, but having health issues caused by additives has the same "turn the box/jar/bag over" effect. Cooking does take time - I have no hobbies and rarely go on youtube etc. because every single day involves cooking something complicated. If I could cook just for me though, I have so many easy recipes that are vegan. Meat - that's what takes time. Shopping, however, takes so much longer when you're cooking healthy and especially when you want fresh produce - at least for me in the Midwest 3 seasons out of the year.
rachiti I agree!! Before I was vegan I was reading ingredients list. One man even playfully teased me about it in the grocery store.
There's nothing easier then cooking meat, take it out, cook. finished in 10min.
I agree, I went vegan for 2 weeks, now I am mor3 vegetarian than vegan for now. Cooking vegan was not more time consuming than cooking not vegan, it just takes times to find the recipes if ypur family did not raise you vegan. Of course we cook our own pasta sauce and bake bread and so on so if you buy jar of pasta sauce cooking vegan must be long for you. I have a lot of allergies and that's why vegetarian is a better option for me now. I also read labels for years now, all the stuff they add to the food is scary. Yesterday I saw older man reading ice cream labels in the store and it made me smile, world is changing, people are more aware what they put in their bodies.
rachiti Reading labels is pointless a lot of times. They lie about the names of additives.
I occasionally go out to dinner with my animal torturing friends. Yes, I have to have extended discussions with the servers and chefs about what is in the stuff (food?) they are preparing. Sometimes there are sighs and disguntlings among the carnist crew at the table. I am like look, morons, you should care what is going into what you are about to put into your body too. This is not a vegan thing, this is a sensible, intelligent human being thing.
Cooking vegan gets SO much easier the longer you do it. When you build up some go to recipes, it makes a world of difference. I made the switch a little over 6 months ago because I couldn't support the dairy industry any longer, and I don't ever want to go back!
Honey, you are very young yet. Don't wait until you get very ill like me (CHF heart disease diagnosed in 2010 @ age 52) to totally go vegan. I had to go vegan and I am sooo happy to say I have been healed and reversed my heart disease. I will never go back again. I love being vegan. I don't give a rat's azzzzz what people say. I am alive (past my father's age of death @ 58 in 1983 - same heart disease) AND I PRAY THE L-RD WILL LET ME SEE MY 60TH BIRTHDAY at the end of this year! YAY! GO VEGAN - IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE!
omg I keep trying to convince my mom to do this before she becomes more ill. she's already suffered from congenital heart failure and she's only in her 40s.
Pamela Prizant Thanks for sharing your story. People need to know about how much diet could change your health and life overall. I have a Family member who is in hospice right now, I strongly believe if she changed her eating and exercise habits years ago she would not be where she is right now. It seriously breaks my heart. She was told for YEARS to change her habits but I guess she couldn't stop. Since I've become vegan I have a lot more energy, I use to be so tired all the time. Sure, part of it was because I wasn't getting enough sleep due to insomnia but I sleep a lot better now too. Having more energy allows me to be more productive which in turn allows me to get a good night's rest.
The very best to you :)
You'll make 60 no worries, and 70 and 80
And no dead animals either :)
G-d willing! Thank you! Amen! ;)
Wow, reversed heart disease. That's incredible!
I'm the same way! whenever there's a vegan option I'll take it. I hardly eat ANY dairy anymore and I've been vegetarian for about two months, I love it!
i wish you had told us your reasoning for going vegan, as you seem very focused on how great cheese is, and i really don’t think you would be that enthused if you knew what happened to the cows to get that “delicious” cheese.
Hayley Paige what about the calves that are treated like dirt. Everytime i used to crave milk, dairy i thought about that calf and the mother screaming for her baby.
I think she addressed at the very beginning she didn’t want to get it into it - but she could’ve been talking about something else. Not sure.
She said it was for environmental reasons. Someone clearly didn’t watch the whole video.
I’ve been vegan for about 8 months and a lot of the problems that people have fade away after 2-3 months. Like cooking, figuring out how to eat out places, they get way easier. My kitchen isn’t super stocked, the hard part is learning how to make ‘whole’ meals again. Some things do take longer to make but I find it easier, quicker and more fun to make food now. I do have some bad days though where I ‘cheat’ because of being unprepared for eating at friends places, but that’s about it. And of course animal products are in so many things. The tubes of garlic in the veggie section has milk in it! Like ???. But once you get in the habit of it it becomes way easier in those aspects. But to stay vegan you definitely need to educate yourself on the affects of animal products (on you and the environment) and animal cruelty. Otherwise lack of willpower will really get the best of you. It’s good to see a video that’s so open minded 💖😌
It's actually pretty easy for me. I just buy mostly canned and frozen vegetables. And occasionally fruits. I don't really have to cook. I can just eat out of the can.
@@nerychristianThat's sad bud.
Hi, I'm glad you tried the diet! I was a vegetarian for almost 3 years before I became Vegan just three years ago and I felt almost exactly the same way. Eventually, I realized that eating out wasn't a problem because if you deconstruct a menu enough you *will* find a vegan option, at least in my experience. Though I had the opportunity of learning by being employed by several different restaurants throughout my work life, I found that all of the restaurants in the area I live has at least one thing I can eat.
For example, I currently work at a Mcdonalds (glamorous, I know) and they have a function on the register called the ALA Carte where you can basically just order ingredients. A Tomato is 11 cents and there's a ton of shit to ring up on there, we also have guacamole that I sometimes get for my fries (yum). The fries are not cooked in the same grease as the meat because of food safety rules and regulations, the same can be said about the hash browns.
At waffle house, the hash browns are my favorite. We don't cook them with butter, we use soybean oil, 100% vegan too, I checked the box.
Little Caesar's crazy bread, it doesn't have milk in it it's just flour, water, sugar, salt, and yeast. ask for it without parmesan and add Italian seasoning, it's pretty good.
Subway is a little obvious.
Mellow Mushroom has an entire vegan menu, and a veggie pizza with no cheese add spinach is a pretty good option for Pizza Hut.
Ruby Tuesday's got an endless salad bar to die for. Taco Bell is literally heaven for vegans, if you can believe it, they have a whole vegetarian menu, just make sure you don't get any cheese or sour cream.
I could go on, but these are just a few that I *know.* My point is that, quite often I never have a problem eating out with family, friends, or coworkers, even though I am Vegan. You just have to look, most places will have something for you.
As a vegan I think you should have studied more about it, about cooking. Also you're missing some things, like the cheese thing you said it's ridiculous there is vegan cheese that tastes exactly the same specially in the USA.
Anyways you did a good job and I hope you're a vegan.
Delfina Pelater this is supposed to be a realistic approach, take it or leave it ..
I eat whole food 99% of the time, but a handful of meals per year I’ll eat vegan processed meat etc. What vegan cheese do you think tastes just like real cheese?
What they don't tell you is that if you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Well, you could just eat vegan pudding.
Teachers leave them kids alone
LOL THE BEST!
GothamDiesel Tom petty breaking the wall.I love that song..
Oh damn! My selective hearing heard wheat!...
It's not that hard to go vegan, really, I made it with my very nearly null constancy
You learn a lot about cooking and try new products/flavours
I don't normally leave comments (ghost watcher - hi there) but I figured here's a good video to share my experience on. My close friend has been vegetarian all her life and has recently gone vegan. My brother is also vegan, for the most part. So I decided to become vegetarian because I eat a mostly vegetarian diet anyway (and of course for other reasons such as health, environment, etc.) and I've got to say I've really been enjoying it. I feel much healthier and "lighter" because I'm more conscious about what I'm putting into my body and how much I'm spending on food. I've only been vegetarian since the holidays, but I'm hoping by next year I can transition to veganism. Like you, I'm mostly vegetarian but will be vegan when I can (I don't buy dairy products and will get the vegan option when eating out). Sorry this is so long - thanks for the video! I'd love to see more lifestyle challenge videos. Minimalism or zero waste for 30 days, maybe?
Sara Marsh thats so great that youre starting on vegetarian/veganism! its great to do baby steps at the beginning, and as long youre already eating less meat its great!! check put hotforfood and avantgardevegan if you dont know them yet. lots of love
I don't know how anyone is addicted to dairy. I've been repulsed by it my whole life. Not eating anything for a month would be easier for me than eating cheese.
Random myths I love cheese and ice cream, so it's been tough. But there are so many vegan alternatives out there that I'm not too worried. I tried vegan cheese at Blaze Pizza the other day and it was AWESOME. My vegan friend is really supportive as well, which makes this an easier transition.
Great! Can't wait for you to turn vegan!
I hate milk and cheese so much that I would rather fast for weeks rather than eat it. I don't even understand how anyone enjoys it, let alone be addicted to it.
My wife and I went whole food plant based over 2 years ago and would never go back to the old lifestyle. I lost 50 pounds and have tons of energy! I'll admit that it is sometimes inconvenient but dying of a heart attack or diabetes is really inconvenient! I'm 70 and hope to go another 30 years.
The cool thing about eating out is you are paying them to make food how you want it. Most anything can be made without dairy if you ask.
That would depend heavily on where you're eating, what kind of food they serve, and whether you're asking for the special dairy-free version to be made during breakfast/lunch/dinner rush. You can ask for a salad with no cheese or Ranch, for example, but I don't think you could pop into a rural diner and ask them to make you dairy-free biscuits. I also doubt most restaurants would have dairy-free cheesecake or chocolate lava cake options available. You can find dairy-free items on the menu, and/or ask if something contains dairy ingredients if you aren't sure, but asking them to make you a dairy-free version of some dishes just isn't very realistic.
ErykaSoleil yeah you can ask for menu items to be dairy free if it is a trimming like cheese on your burger or whatever, but we aren't making our own bread here.
Bagels with avocado and a little salsa....SOOOOO good!
Debbie Pease The majority of the flour in a bagel is white, refined flour, which provides no fiber and very few nutrients. Highly refined. Most bagels are empty calories. The refined nature of any white refined bread product means your blood sugar will spike and then drop, leaving you with little energy.
Sounds like a snack.....not sustainable food!
people make it seem like going vegan is this huge hurdle and takes alot of work. i was a chicken and fast food loving southern girl from texas the birth place of using animals and they dead bodies for fun. i went vegan over night lost 30lbs and never looked back. once you make that decision to not let your old bad habits sabotage your new goal its a breeze.
I went vegan pretty quickly too, but growing up on animal products, then cutting them out in such a short time, is daunting for people.
I think about going vegan from time to time but it really is a big hurdle. I'm specially concerned with vitamins that I'll be lacking, paying for supplements seems like such a pain when I could just eat the food...
Viktorija Paškauskaitė Everyone is different, but I only take B12 personally. Sometimes I don't even need to because of the food I consume (vegan milks, nutritional yeast, mock meats) are already fortified with it. If you're eating the right foods you should be able to get everything you need. Take care and thank you for considering it. Even a little helps. :)
Beannie projecting much
Nate River Yeast is mushrooms those are NOT vegan
Go vegan save lives including yours 💚🌱
savita subrahmanyam I quit being vegan after a week. Couldn’t handle it. I was really tired and sometimes sleeping in my classes.
@@samriwelkeish7981 then eat more lol, easy
@aidsbrigade two articles, not scientific papers. Nice.
@aidsbrigade Not pair reviewed, one doctor, one claim. Many doctors oppose
@aidsbrigade You can find out my just searching
Vegan food is SUPER simple and quick to make if you aren't trying to replicate non-vegan dishes.
You can cook rice and steam vegetables at the same time in a rice cooker, roast potatoes and veggies in the oven, or even buy bags of frozen veggies/rice that you can throw in the microwave. You can also cook beans, lentils, soups, stews, curries, stir-fries, pasta, etc. in a single pot on the stove. You can also keep it raw with huge salads, fruit bowls, smoothies, etc.
Amanda Pasch My lunch for work for the past several months has been half of a baked potato, frozen vegetables with a seasoning blend, and beans that I cook in my Instant Pot. No real cooking at all. Lol
Amanda Pasch been thinking about going vegan or vegetarian 1st. But i have in a and I'm 5ft10 weapons. I have a very fast metabolism. I can eat all kinds of steak pork cheese junk food and don't gain a pound. I'm almost scared to switch because of that. What should I do
You definitely need to approach a vegan diet with an educated well thought-out plan. One of the biggest mistakes people make is not eating enough calories. Plant foods are the least calorically dense of all foods. You could focus on consuming lots of plant protein (beans, lentils, tofu, protein powder, etc.), starchy carbs (potatoes, rice, etc,) and healthy fats (avocado, nut butters, nuts, seeds, etc.).
I am not a nutritionist or health professional. Please proceed with caution and common sense. You could speak to your physician, but many of them do not support vegan diets. You can always try following a vegan diet for a short period of time, or slowly cut out animal products, and see how your body responds.
Did you know that when you consume dairy you're directly supporting the meat industry as well? Male baby cows have no use to the dairy industry so they get sent off to get killed for veal within the first 2-6 weeks of being born. When you buy cheese or dairy milk it supports that, so is it really vegetarian? I suggest you do some research on where and how your food is produced before you decide on going back to you past diet. Dairy is Scary by Erin Janus on TH-cam is a good quick start. If you're really brave, watch Earthlings also available on TH-cam. Good luck!
Bagels with almond butter is delicious.
Brittany Larson Agreed. Also, bagels with hummus and veggies or just plain margarine is delicious. But if you can't live without bagels and cream cheese, vegan cream cheese does exist too.
Yes especially w slices bananas
humandxp: you're so very original
humandxp so you come onto a video about veganism and talk about meat? I'm so tired of people thinking they are funny when they do that. We honestly don't care that you easy meat. We know not everyone is vegan. Jesus.
Unhealthy!
Good for you for going vegan for 30 days. I’ve been doing it for two years and have no regrets. It’s been pretty easy for me because I was vegetarian for several years.
I wish people would be less policing in the comments. As an ethical vegan, I support every marginal reduction in consumption of animal products, and it sounds like Katherine has decided to make not just that but a MAJOR reduction. Besides, lots of people start out as "most-of-the-time" vegans and become "all-the-time" vegans once it's second nature. *I applaud you Katherine.* Ethical vegans (a lot of people in the comments probably NEW ethical vegans) are just emotionally charged because LITERALLY NO ONE they know cares about the egregious suffering that goes on everywhere and gives them so much pain to know exists, without the ability to do anything about it other than eat vegan. So, they try to convince other people. Please understand that they speak from pain, and at heart you are helping alleviate this by not eating animal products, for WHATEVER reason! Every vegan meal you eat is a victory against the animal industry, and I cannot thank you enough for that. And thank you for being so respectful towards vegans with this video :)
Thank you for this comment. As an omnivore (I don't eat meat every day) I have always found the ALL or NOTHING vegans a bit - hard to take. I watched a woman castigate herself for realizing a cocktail she ordered had honey in it after the fact and thought it was a bit much.
Thatsprettiemuchit ethical vegan-went are you going to start killing the lions, they kill other animals to survive
Have you watched Earthlings yet?
Veganism needs more people like you.
Kevin Cservid what's your bench press?
have you noticed a difference in your skin? It looks stunning!
Maddie Flores a lot of it is dairy products, but drinking PLENTY of water will help
I have been vegan since June and it's great. I had a thing with eggs and cheese too, but honestly, when I looked at those industries, they are extremely cruel. Heartbreaking, tragic. No amount of convenience is worth that.
Good on you for trying, I hope you end up sticking with it. Even your body agreed.
Its interesting to see 2,3 year old vegans vs vegans of 8 plus years.. the mature vegans say they quit after 7,8 years because.. “the first 2 years were good but during the rest of the years, my health declined” 😬😬😬😬
"Italian salad dressing" just doesn't exist in Italy. It's as simple as that. We just dress our salad w/ olive oil and/or vegan. it's really as simple as that
Me and my family went whole food, plant based Nov 2017. Which is a vegan diet. We really did not find it hard at all. We lived in Houston at the time and shopping was easy. We moved to Montana this month and have not had problems here either. In a town of 10,000 just 30 minutes from us is an organic grocery store, as well as in most of the towns that size or larger. I think the Vegan movement because of its political connotations turns off a lot of people. We did it for our health, and as more people get sick and seek to get well, they find the truth about nutrition, which is a whole food plant based diet leads to a healthy body. Even vegetarians like yourself find out how much better they feel. As the health and healing of plant based nutrition grows so will the availability of the food, the demand grows, then the supply grows. We did not really find any of the struggles you did, in Texas or Montana (beef capitals of the country). I have yet to find a menu even at a steak house that I cannot put together something "vegan" sure sometimes it is a really large salad with vinegar and oil for dressing but it works and I am not putting my friends out. I would encourage you while you are young to cut out all the animal products in your life, your older self will thank you a 100 fold!
Wonderful story!
This is exactly the problem, forgetting there's victims involved.
I know right, she should've called it 'plant based for 30 days or something'
There are victims involved with production o crops too though, maybe its less in numbers ? But how could we ever find out exactly how many, I dont understand why people are vegan though tbh I know its horrible to think of animals being killed but its less harsh then being eaten alive in the way it happens in nature , I cant wrap my head around how vegans understand and accept animals in wild eating others alive but dont accept human animals killing them in a way less harsh way , Also alot of vegans seem to own cats and buy cat food so they are supporting the meat industry , These things make me wonder why people do it , whats the goal with it? Do they want the world vegan then would they throw theyre cat out and make it homeless lol
People choose to be vegan,animals don’t.
RandomMess I have a snake and a cat and a dog, all of which NEED meat so there is no way around it tho with me I can live without it and that is one less person eating meat
@@ciaramaya4417 dogs dont actually need meat
I’ve been vegetarian most of my life and “vegan” for a small portion of it and during that time i always felt good and my mood was so much better the majority of the time
There's no such a thing as "italian salad dressig". We use olive oil, salt and maybe balsamic vinegar. That's it :D
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Maybe not in Italy. In the U.S. we do have a common salad dressing in stores and restaurants literally called "Italian Dressing" haha. Of course its not Italian but it is real. : ) yes it is more lame than just mixing your own but its just another stupid packaged product we've had.
Would love to see her watch What the Health, Earthlings, and Cowspiracy and then make this video again
Rhea Metituk agreed
Rhea Metituk oh please. For all you know she already did
I would actually like to watch them but I'm way too scared of what I'll be in for
I watched all three and it didn't change my mind one bit. Still love and cook meat, will never stop.
I've killed animals eaten them seen the shit videos still eat meat
I suggest you research the dairy industry. If you care about animal welfare, you will find it more disturbing than CAFOs.
Cameron Mitchell i suggest actually becoming a farmer from what you are writing there you dont know how it is.
Btw, how would becoming a perpetrator in these acts help change one's mind about the atrocity that is the dairy industry?
4 years vegan and my body never adapted to the high fibre intake, many people are like me cuz the vegan diet is not for everyone!
No one EVER mentions that first big vegan shit. Literally the best shit you will ever take in your life, feels like your bowls and colon are all cleaned out 😂 makes you feel light, literally.
Flippi dude i still poo 4 or 5 times a day and im 2 years in. Probably has to do with the amount of food I eat and my slightly obsessive workout routine.
🤣😂🤣
Yep at first i was going up to 5 times a day it was amazing lol
If pooping is your thing, you can get the same response from taking a fiber supplement.
What kind of comment is this?
I been vegan for four months!🙌😍😭lol and i didn't go through vegetarian first because i did the same thing too. I actually watched documentaries that tell you the truth about veganism and the environment and is more than just the food! Is 24/7 of what you use, wear, eat etc. And veganism actually opened my eyes and i considered it as our normal lifestyle because if the whole world tries our normal lifestyle, then the world and everyone in this planet wouldn't be struggling at all (health environment etc) and if you take it seriously and stay honest to your heart and know that veganism is the right thing to do. I say go for it!🙌we love you, the environment and everything else will thank you! If vegans can do it, than why can't you. so that's good that you liked it definitely learn more about it and hopefully you make your decision 😍🙏🙏(btw it is possible to go vegan overnight👍i did it💙)
Interesting you mentioned national parks, because I went to Grand Canyon and I didn't have any trouble eating vegan! Also, my "ideal" version of veganism DOES include eating a lot of substitutes sometimes :) It's great to eat whole foods but I LOVE milkshakes, ice cream, grilled cheese, and bbq chicken, and I've found perfectly satisfying substitutes for all of those, just without implicating other animals in negative way.
Thatsprettiemuchit they’re just excuses.
1:11 “salad place”??? Did you say “salad place”!? You know there is more to eat than salad? Right?
it’s hard to transition and you’ll miss your favorite food, it gets easier when you find other food you love.
I think it may take more time initially but once you have a routine, you would be fine.
It is easy to go out to eat to eat with friends while vegan. Most of my friends aren’t vegan but you can usually compromise.
Damn youre making this sound a lot harder than it is.
It is not that difficult
It was for her.
One question. Do you know the ecological impact of flying and transporting super foods to countries where the climate is not always warm? I'm sure it's way more than owning your own farm. Maybe we all should own our own farms. That'll help the environment heaps
I don't know about owning our own farms - Many people don't have a fraction of the space, but everyone can grow their own vegetables or herbs, easily. Everyone could at least grow their own window box herbs. :-) Tomatoes will happily grow any there's anywhere there's enough sunlight so long as they get lots of water.
Just eat seasonal fruits and veggies 😅🤷♂️
My ex-wife is a vegan. Going out to eat was a pain. Anytime she cooked anything she felt she had to tell me that it was vegan. I asked her to not tell me what was in the food. Words like tofu, soy and vegan are a turnoff for my appetite. I don't begrudge anyone for being a vegan but it's not for me.
Nathan Paul I never banned any words. I simply expressed my desire to not hear certain ones.
Nathan Paul She never asked that I not use any words. And I didn't flaunt my food or pressure her. However she would frequently bother me about my becoming vegan. Since we are no longer married it is no longer an issue.
love this video! but as a vegan, i would like to say that "ideal veganism" doesn't have to exclude any types of meat/dairy/egg substitutes..."ideal veganism" is whatever is sustainable for you. plus, by purchasing those vegan speciality products you are supporting businesses that are doing incredible things!
Growing up in a Middle Eastern culture. So many foods I grew up with are already vegan friendly. So my comfort food is already the food of my childhood.
I am whole food plant based meaning that I don’t buy fake meat. Basically I buy normal produce like veggies, grains etc. Faux food are for people who grew up with those types of food and want comfort food. So they want burgers and they get impossible burger or other alternatives. To me they are expensive and not worth it, also because I already love to cook and most of the recipes I cook are recipes I learned from my mother.
With respect, the research you did was incorrect concerning dairy and eggs and the environment. "A dairy farm with 2,500 dairy cows creates as much waste a city with 411,000 people". The dairy industry is the meat industry. They are one in the same. Therefore vegetarian and vegan are not the same in regards to environmental degradation.
Dude..I'm sure you mean well, but your numbers don't add up at all. Check the source and recalculate. A city with 411,000 people, and one to three cars per family, an overheated or over air conditioned home, with a dozen lights on, huge tvs and several computers, almost everything they touch made of plastic and therefore petro-chemicals, with huge rubbish bins of packaging weekly, with most consumer goods made in China and therefore transported by container vessel literally around the globe, family pets, and fossil fuels for both transport and electricity, there is no way that is the same as 2,500 cows farting methane and exhaling carbon dioxide. Just no way.
Simon Inglis lol
God forbid if you cant go out to eat socially in America. Eating is not a hobby!
"eat socially" ? Haha
Light Yagami people are obsessed with eating
I thought this was another Vegan-bashing video, i'm positively surprised :)
I'm guessing 99% of the dislikes are from Vegan-critical people being dissapointed by the Vegan-possitive message :D
I believe those people subconsciously feel extremely guilty. They are just trying to suppress it because they know what they are doing is unfair
I changed to the best vegan diet you can do - a whole food plant based diet. It’s an adjustment for sure but well worth it. I have benefited big time and love it.
Agree 200%. It's not difficult. Is it as easy as not thinking and putting a ton of ready made bad for you crap in your mouth....no. Eat for nutritional excellence period.
I've been vegan for 3 years, and honestly I had the opposite effect in terms of cooking. To me cooking meat was so much more work than veggies?????? Like ? How is it any harder to cook vegan food than it is "standard American food"?
proud of you! the vegan diet is amazing!!!! everyone should try it for at least 30 days. it does wonders for your body, your mind, and your life.
If you can do it for 30, you can do it for longer! Had the best vegan lunch today of pumpkin flatbread and hummus
i agree!!! yum!!!
Please, watch "Earthlings" online and "The best speech you'll ever hear by Gary Yourofsky". This is called "Plant based" not "vegan diet". It's a common thing people tend to mess up, but they are two different things. Katherout was plant based for 30 days, no one can be vegan for 30 days.
🤦🏽♀️am just a day old being vegan
you still vegan?
Still vegan?
Still vegan? :)
I got 19 months Whole Plant Bases foods, is healthier than vegan and without any of the activism, plus I got 6 month intermittent fasting 19-21 hrs per day. I got 37 years old and feel just like 23
just to clarify it's Whole Food Plant Based. could just be a language barrier so my apologies. no insult intended just wanted to clarify.
All wonderful new vegan issues, but as a 10 year vegan in the midwest, I can say that with practice that nearly all of her issues would either fade away or become second nature so you don't really have to think about it nearly as much. Oh, and croutons have milk because nearly all bread is made with milk. Plus cheese ends up in a lot of things even things like Italian dressing. I went to buy a premade pizza crust, which is not normally a type of bread made with milk, but had to put it back because they "helpfully" already put cheese in it.
As for environmental impact of milk and eggs, yes it is much less than meat, but still the amount of water and food that goes in and the amount of manure that comes out for each gallon of milk is still unsustainable for everybody on the planet to be able to consume.
But my major objection to milk and eggs is the health impacts and the incredible animal cruelty involved. For milk, milk = veal. It is that simple. Half of all calves are male and so no use to a dairy farmer. Those males are either "crated" (a euphemism for stuffing this little scared baby into a dark box and feeding it an iron poor formula so that its flesh stays that nice pale color) and then slaughtered at a couple of months old, or just killed immediately and its body thrown on top of the rot pile of other dead babies whose life is worth so little that it isn't even worth keeping them alive for even a few months. And life isn't any better for the girls, just a little longer and a lot more hellish before they have been so worn out by constant pregnancies and having been bred to produce 5-8 times as much milk as non-dairy cows produce that after just 4 years of their natural 20-25 year lifespan they can't produce as much milk as one of her daughters. So her reward for those years of torment is a steel bolt to the brain and then ground up to make fast food burgers.
For eggs it is just as bad. Like with cattle, half of all chicks are born male. Of course only the girls lay eggs and the boys don't grow fast enough to raise them for meat, so this are all just killed on the day they are born. They are either just stuffed into big trash bags and allowed to suffocate or be crushed to death if they wind up on the bottom of the bag, or they are feed alive and fully conscious into big meat grinders and turned into a gruesome paste. The girls chicks like the girl calves have the worse end of the stick. First the most sensitive part of a chicken's body is her beak, especially the tip. It is what she uses to find food. Unfortunately it is also what she pecks other birds with to establish a "pecking order". In nature those lower on the pecking order have to physically move away from the dominant bird to avoid being pecked again. Sadly the lower bird can't because she is stuffed along with 4-5 other birds into a cage the size of a file cabinet drawer. And so the dominant bird keeps pecking and pecking and the other join in as well and eventually the lowest bird in the cage is dead. To "fix" this problem the egg farmer just takes a hot wire and cuts the tip of all of the newborn girl chicks beaks off. No painkillers of course, since that would cost a lot of money and time. The shock and pain is so bad that a significant portion of the chicks just die immediately or starve to death because eating is so painful they can't do it. And like cows, laying hens have been breed to be egg machines cranking out egg after egg day after day until after a year or year and half of her 10+ year lifespan her body is used up and she is killed. Some are ground up for human or animal food. But often nobody want to eat her tough meat, so she is just "composted".
So even if you don't think the environmental difference is enough to make it worth the bother to cut out dairy and eggs, perhaps do it for animals that are suffer just as much or more than any animal raised just for its flesh.
Dairy - th-cam.com/video/UcN7SGGoCNI/w-d-xo.html
Eggs - th-cam.com/video/utPkDP3T7R4/w-d-xo.html
i know this isn't the point of the video like im so proud of you but when she said "i could eat 5 cookies" i audibly laughed. girl ive never eaten LESS than 5 cookies. try 30 😂
You don't have to dictate where you go out to eat. You really have a lot to learn still. So instead of saying it's so hard socially you should try to learn from others and do more research .You can customize a vegan meal by looking at the sides on the menu. Beans, rice, French Fries, ect. Whatever looks vegan. If a meal is mostly vegan but has a nonvegan ingredient swap it out for something else. Use olive oil and salt instead of butter, you can use coconut oil and salt if it's available. Do your best but accept that you may fall short sometimes and that's okay. The point is to do as much as practical and possible as you possibly can. When you truly become a vegan and you learn about how much suffering and destruction is involved you're likely to want to continue your journey. 30 days honestly is not enough time to adjust.
Order a salad and a baked potato. Bring and avocado. Or bring trail mix to the restaurant.
Then when you crash and burn after emptying your childhood supplies order a steak or liver or beef broth or maybe some oysters not poisoned from the ships bringing you tropical fruit and oil spills. Then continue your partially nutrient deficient "diet".
Not a farmer, but technically, don't dairy farmers usually deal with the cows and the farms, and the food producers are the ones who put dairy in everything? I'm pretty sure farming organizations aren't adding any slots on the agenda for "How can WE get dairy in more food?" But I can see a food-producing marketer saying, "If you at a gallon of milk to that, we can say, "now with added calcium'." We don't need to witch-hunt dairy farmers, because our highly processed foods have butter in them. Why do they use butter? It makes EVeRYTHING taste better. And there is nothing morally wrong with butter making things taste good, it's how that product interacts with your ingredients. Kudos for trying it!
Yeah, that's the same reason nearly everything has sugar in it too...
Theresa Pittman Better milk or butter in everything than refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and toxic chemicals.
Actually, my boyfriend did his dissertation on the milk marketing board in the UK and how they push dairy into everything with the backing of farmers! It’s kind of interesting and weird!
I'm vegan. It is a total life change. But the part you even said: "For Once, I didn't feel guilty." Feeling guilty all my life..and not having to? One of the best feelings ever. I love it, but Alot more people do not. So it of course has this"stigma". But it's all worth it to me. Anyway cool video. Thank You. I'm proud of you!
"What's even the point? I'm not going to eat a bagel without cream cheese"
-Video summarised in one line
There's vegan creamcheese!
You can give up bagels and eat flatbread a instead. 😊🌯🌯🙏🙏
Feel like crying why did I watch this video aaaaaaaaa
And do you think that adding this bannana for your smoothie while living in Europe, which is shipping from Brazil, is good for environment? This is example.
So you believe people should only eat food produced in the countries they live in? Bizarre.