Im sorry, but fuck all this pc bullshit. I think vegetarianism and veganism is pretty ridiculous to begin with, but what this dude is talking about borders on the insane.
I agree, soulgasm and sekio have clearly made the best points.
While I'm not a vegan (occasional meat eater, basically), I'm personally more annoyed by anti-vegans. Yeah, some vegans can be intensely annoying, but knowing how fucked up the conditions in factory farming can get, I have to admit that they do get to claim the moral high ground.
Anyway, one thing to consider is that the stearate is, as far as I know, basically a waste product - as in there are no adorable baby cows being slaughtered just to get our jittery hands on that sweet, sweet stearic acid.
Thanks for this logical response.
It frustrates me that electric moon had such a close minded response. I can link him slaughter house videos that will make him feel sick to his stomach. The amount of torture from sick fucks that goes on is disturbing, and you can literally see the cows crying and absolutely terrified. The chickens are row on top of row in cages where they can barely move. The diary cows have hands stuck up there cooches so they can be artificially impreganted to continue producing milk. They are hooked up to milking machines almost 24 hours a day. There baby calfs are immediately taken away from them after birth, and the momma cow cries for days because she lost her baby and doesn't understand why. When the animals don't cooperate they are stabbed with pitch forks, i can show you videos. The calfs are put in cages where they can barely move, to become veal. These animals aren't stupid, they are concious and terrified for every second of their life up until the set date that they get slaughtered. It's truly one of mans cruelest feats to date, the slaughter of hundreds of millions of animals every year that are raised in these conditions.
Most "free range" meats are basically just a buzz word created by these industries. Still raised in crappy conditions and killed when they have lived only 10% of their expected life.
Animal agriculture is the number 1 contributer to global warming. Cows specifically release a lot of methane and other gases. This planet wasn't meant to have billions of cows mass produced.
If we dispersed all the grains and water we feed to animal agriculture, it would solve world hunger and thirst.
Diary literally has cow pus in it, and the industry has regulations for the percent of puss that can be in a diary product lol. Drinking milk has been linked to weakening bones, and the countries with the highest consumption of diary have the highest rate of osteoporosis and bone breaks/fractures, so the entire milk industry is based around a lie that milk strengthens bones. I believe the reason for this is milk contains animal protein which acidifys the blood, and the bodies natural response to this is to neutralize the acidic blood by releasing calcium from your bones.
Meat also has traces of feces and puss all over it.
An egg is a chickens period lol. And
A vegan diet has been proven to be by far the healthiest diet, when studied against a balanced meat eating diet or even a vegetarian diet, the vegan diet lowers cholesterol by a much larger amount and also fat loss to lower overall BMI.
Humans have the teeth and digestive system of herbivores. If we were instinctually omnivores or carnivores, we would have natural hunting insincts and crave and be tempted by raw meat, including road kill we pass by. Our ancestors hunted meat for food with WEAPONS because food was much scarcer back then. It was to survive, not because it contains something essential to human life.
Science has proven we can get all the nutrition and more then we need from a balanced plant based diet.
Meat has recently been ruled a carcinogenic by the world health organization, as dangerous as smoking ciggarettes, drinking alcohol, or being exposed to asbestos.
Show me a hospital full of vegans lol.
I can show you hospitals around the world packed with people who eat meat and diary that are there because of diabetes, heart disease, or cancer. Now i'm not saying you can't get sick as a vegan, but you do greatly reduce the odds.
My primary reason for switching to a vegan diet was because i'm focusing on my health and fitness. The ethical reasons are a bonus.
Don't be so close minded. Do the research for yourself. I know it's hard to accept that meat and diary is unhealthy, since we all grew up on it, but the science does all the talking and if you care about your health overall, and don't want to highly increase your odds of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses, then i really recommend you guys all consider a vegan diet.
Some people just don't want to hear it though. It's hard to swallow that we have basically been brain washed by the multi billion dollar meat and diary industries, i know. I grew up eating meat and diary and used to mock vegans or vegetarians, but as i got older and began focusing on my health and doing research, i learned that it simply is just the most healthy diet.
This is 2015, there are vegan alternatives to all your favorite meats and cheeses that are delicious. The tastiest voted burger in the world this year was a vegan burger.
Now that you have all this knowledge, will you use it?
Once you go vegan you will do your best at least to avoid contributing to the industries that capatlize off the mass abuse of other animals. This includes attempting to avoid pharmaceuticals that contain animal products, but this isn't always possible so the OP is just sticking to his vegan views even though it doesn't make a difference because there is no prescription alternative for vegan adderall. It's just for principle reasons.
