Garrett

Member since: Dec 14th, 2006

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Vapor iPhone case review and giveaway (TUAW.com)

Aug 26th 2010 12:13AM Red please! Pink would be my last choice…

It's World Vegetarian Day! (Slashfood)

Oct 1st 2007 4:17PM (possible) reasons why people are vegan:

- smash capitalism
- support local farmers
- boycott factory farming
- believe it is ethically wrong to support the killing of animals
- health
- the environment (it takes vastly more fossil fuels and food to produce beef, chicken, fish, etc. in industrial settings)

I'm sure there are others...

It's World Vegetarian Day! (Slashfood)

Oct 1st 2007 4:11PM Oh my, the ignorance. Sigh.

I've been a vegan (no dairy, eggs, meat, or fish) for around 5 years, and vegetarian (no meat or fish) for 3 years before that. Nutritionally, several studies have shown that you don't need to get all nine amino acids at once, your body can make the ones you don't get. As far as the amount of protein, it is recommended that you get between 15 and 30% of your calories from protein... That is actually not that much surprisingly and many vegetables like broccoli or kale contain more than 15% of their calories from protein.

The one thing people commonly bring up next is that one can't get b vitamins from vegetables. The fact of the matter is that vegans get the disease, pernicious anemia, statistically as often as non-vegans. Plus, the cow you eat gets its b vitamins from bacteria, which a vegan can get from pro-biotic sources such as nutritional yeast, soy yogurt, certain pickles and sauerkraut, kombucha, etc.

Add to this the simple fact that in countless studies vegans live longer than vegetarians live longer than meat eaters (although those that ate meat once a week or less faired as well as the vegans).

So, basically what it comes down to is if you are a healthy omnivore, you could become an even healthier vegan, but if you eat junk food now, you'll probably end up being a junk food vegan.

Hope this clarifies things for people, for the record, I'm vegan mostly for health reasons.