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Best Argument for Veganism

I think there is enough information out there proving a vegan diet is healthier than the standard American diet; if it is done right.

The Scenario

There are 2 burgers. They taste and look almost exactly the same.

The 1st burger has a high chance of causing heart disease and cancer. It requires a living thing to be murdered; and it is terrible for the planet because it takes 2,000 gallons of water and 2 acres of land to produce.

The 2nd burger is a lot healthier. It is made of plants. No one is harmed.

Which one would you choose?

The Main Argument Against This

“Yeah but these foods aren’t accessible and they aren’t as good and they are more expensive.”

**My Answer:

The reason there is a lack of vegan products is because the demand is low.

If more people go vegan there will be way more products and way more restaurants and businesses selling these products.

The food will only get cheaper, healthier, better tasting and more accessible.

All you have to do is cut your meat consumption in half or go fully vegan and more and more products will be available.

It truly is that simple.

Businesses follow the money. There would be way more vegan restaurants today; but there isn’t a high demand and not much money so people are skeptical.

But once the demand goes up I can guarantee these businesses will take off.

(Side note: vegan food is the cheapest food out there if done right; but I’m talking about meat alternatives here)

The Impossible Whopper Is Not Healthier!

I agree; it is not healthy, neither is the original Whopper.

But as demand goes up the more advanced and healthier the meat alternatives will get.

But I Don’t Like Vegan Food, I Like Meat!

If it is all about taste I can guarantee the higher the demand gets, the better the taste.

**Think about it. You could eat all the food you love; but it will be healthy and won’t cost an animal it’s life, and is way better for the planet**

There are some very creative people out there. They will find a way to create a healthy alternative to any food out there.

Why would you not want to choose the 2nd burger?

Summary:

The first step to there being more vegan products that are easily accessible, cheap and tasty is to go vegan or just cut down your meat consumption.

Once enough of the world goes vegan the demand will be high and all businesses will focus on creating the best and cheapest vegan foods.

**Not only will everyone be healthier and happier. The immoral slaughter of animals will come to and end and MOST IMPORTANTLY we will prevent further pandemics and viruses caused by the consumption of animal!

Do I Ever Get the Urge to Eat Meat or Dairy?

I get asked this question all the time ever since I switched to a plant-based vegan diet.

“I could never give up meat, it tastes sooooo good.”

“I would die without cheese.”

“b..bu…but bacon”

I used to eat meat and dairy all the time. I lived on pizza. Meat lovers pizza to be specific.

Chocolate milk used to be my favorite thing in the world.

But I realized that my health and an animal’s life wasn’t worth that couple minutes of pleasuring my taste buds.

At first it was hard. I did crave pizza and meat and all those things.

But when my diet switched, so did my life.

I started seeing things for how they really were and not how society claimed it to be.

My head became clearer. My energy levels were so high. I felt so much lighter and healthier.

It’s been about a year now and my life is so amazing because of my choice to change my diet.

I would say it took about a month to fully get rid of all the cravings. The more time went on the more I started despising meat and dairy.

Pretty soon it actually started to disgust me.

I finally saw it for what it truly was and now I could never eat it again.

I don’t see meat as food, I see it for what it is. It is the bloody, dead flesh of a poor tortured animal.

I don’t see milk as a drink. I see it as a pus filled concoction of estrogen and growth hormones. I see it as a liquid that was meant for a cow. A cow that was killed or deprived of the milk just so a human could enjoy breastfeeding from a mother cow.

So, no, I do not crave meat or dairy. Not even one bit. It actually disgusts me now that I see it for what it really is.

A lot of people reply with, “Oh, you’re just saying that to defend your vegan argument to prove you are right.”

First of all, that is not true at all. I am always honest and straight up. I have nothing to defend.

Second of all, this is where all the misunderstanding comes from.

People see everything as I’m right and you’re wrong.

Everything is a competition when people are living through the ego.

I do not follow this diet to give myself some weird sense of superiority. I do not think I am better than anyone else. I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than who I was yesterday. I am only in competition with myself.

I do not think I am right because I follow a vegan diet. I do not think people who eat meat are wrong and inferior.

I advocate for a plant-based vegan diet because it is the healthiest, and the best for; us, animals and the planet.

I do not present my information to try to say I am right, and you are wrong.

I am simply just trying to educate everyone. I put all these facts out there to help people.

I am trying to help people be healthier and make better choices.

You do not have to listen to me if you don’t want to. I am putting the information out there for people who actually care about their well-being. I put the information out there for people who care about animals and who would like the world to still be around for their children.

I believe diet and lifestyle is the most important thing in a person’s life. What you eat decides your whole life.

I grew up having the worst diet imaginable. I grew up on fast food and pop tarts. There were plenty of days where I would eat a pop tart for all three meals of the day.

I used to be sick 10 months out of the year. I always had a cold. I was always so lethargic.

Once I changed my diet my whole entire life changed.

A plant-based diet is the cheapest, healthiest diet for everyone.

Everything I do is to help other people because I wish someone would have told me all this stuff 10 years ago.

I am just trying to help. I’m not here to prove a point and say I am better, and I am right.

Everything I do, is to help you live a better life.

Eating Dogs and Other Animals Is The Same

*WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS*

Hypocrisy

These first two photos should make you uncomfortable. It is hard to see such innocent living beings being mistreated and murdered just because people enjoy the taste of them.

We see dogs as companions so it hurts our hearts to see them be treated as nothing.

News Flash

All animals want the same thing. They all want to survive and be loved and live a happy life.

No animal wants to live in a cage for its whole life and be mistreated and then ultimately murdered and chopped up and eaten at a young age.

All animals have the capacity to love and show compassion.

It is not fair to choose one type of animal to have as a companion and then choose to mistreat, murder and eat all the other ones.

Speciesism

Speciesism is just like racism. It is viewing one type of living being over another. It is believing humans are superior to other animals. It is also believing that some species are better than others. Such as dogs are more worthy of life than pigs.

We choose to nurture one, and then mindlessly murder and eat the flesh of another.

Racism

Not being able to notice that link forms something called cognitive dissonance. You have certain beliefs about something but then totally contradict it with your actions.

In this example you may claim to love animals. You care for animals and those first two pictures disgusted you. You think that it is wrong to hurt such a harmless animal just to pleasure tastebuds.

But then you turn around and go eat some chicken, steak or pork.

How We Are Raised

We are raised to believe that some animals are pets and some are food. We are also raised to believe that we are better than any other living thing on earth and so we can do whatever we want.

But believing one species is superior over another leads to huge problems.

This can be directly correlated to the movement that is upon us right now.

Black Lives Matter

Humans are raised to believe we are superior to other living things. We believe dogs are more worthy of life than pigs.

This trains our mind to view some things as better than others. It forms a disconnect in our mind.

We no longer see all things as equal.

We willingly mistreat some species and nurture others.

Black lives are neglected. Black people are mistreated whereas white people have all the privilege in the world.

A black person’s life gets taken and it’s just “normal.”

But when it is a white person it is viewed way differently and it receives entirely different consequences.

Killing Dogs

The same goes for animals. If a dog is killed it’s the end of the world. Everyone gets upset.

But when billions of cows, pigs, chickens, etc. are murdered everyday; everyone just accepts it and then proceeds to eat the dead flesh of these victims.

Eating Meat Will Kill Us

As of now we are still suffering from the consequences of the coronavirus.

Us humans cause these pandemics with our actions. Our choice to eat large amounts of dead animal flesh exposes the world to more and more diseases.

99% of the meat we eat is factory farmed.

Factory farms are buildings full of blood, disease, misery, etc.

New Deadly Virus

More and more diseases will be coming with the increase of demand of meat.

I can guarantee a new virus will be emerging soon.

The next virus will most likely be from pigs.

This virus will actually be deadly.

There will be another pandemic soon and it will be caused by pigs and it will be deadly.

Learn Your Lesson

What comes around goes around. Everything has a consequence.

Our choice to murder billions of animals just to pleasure our taste buds is coming back to us and we are paying for it.

Eating processed meats causes heart disease, diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, obesity etc.

These are all leading killers amongst humans.

The viruses caused by eating dead animal flesh will cause even more deaths.

These pandemics will not stop until we stop eating so many animal products.

Conclusion

There is no difference between eating dogs and eating pigs. They are both composed of flesh and are considered meat.

Valuing the life of a dog over a pig is speciesist. Having these views can lead to racism.

The pandemic and racism are the two biggest problems we face. Both are linked to the consumption of animals.

If we want all of this suffering to end it all starts on our plate.

Everyone must make the connection that all animals are equal and we should not be torturing and murdering them for our pleasure.

The consumption of animals is destroying our planet and killing us.

A new virus is right around the corner and this one will be deadly. I promise you that.

You can help prevent it by cutting down on meat products and by eating more natural, plant-based foods.

My View On Supplements-Do I Take Them?

As you all probably know I follow a plant-based whole foods diet.

When I first started it I had so much energy and felt so amazing. But I didn’t know a lot about diet and I was mostly just eating the same foods every day.

I didn’t know about all of the wonderful plant-based food out there that is full of nutrients.

After a couple months I started losing some of that energy and was very tired at times.

I decided to download Cronometer to check if I was getting the proper nutrition I needed.

It turned out I was lacking things such as B12, Selenium, Iron, Zinc and Omega-3s.

I simply just wasn’t eating enough of the food with these nutrients because I never really looked in to a balanced diet.

I just focused on macronutrients and calories and that was it.

So I started doing some research and implemented foods high in those nutrients in to my diet.

My energy levels were back and I felt even better then when I started the diet.

But nowadays I am super busy with school, work, my blog, writing my books, taking care of my dog and so on.

So now I don’t eat that much food so it is hard to get a balanced and nutritious diet.

So now I take Complement supplements.

Complement is a very good brand and their supplements are full of all the nutrients that the majority of the population lacks in their diet.

It is a very clean supplement and I honestly see amazing results when I use it.

Now, supplements are not needed to have a healthy diet. Especially a plant-based diet.

I only take them when I don’t have enough time to eat 3 meals a day.

Nowadays I only eat 1, maybe 2 meals a day so I take a supplement to get those nutrients I am lacking.

If you don’t want to take supplements and you want to follow a plant-based diet, that is very possible.

The 5 most common nutrient deficiencies on a plant-based diet are zinc, iron, B12, omega-3s and Vitamin D.

Good sources of Zinc are beans, legumes and grains

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Good sources of Iron are green vegetables, grains, lentils, dried fruit, seeds and nuts

Good sources of Vitamin D are the sun lol. But to better absorb this vitamin make sure you have enough calcium in your diet

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Good sources of Omega 3s are chia seeds, flax seeds, walnuts and hemp-seeds. I just add chia to my oatmeal and smoothies.

B12 is the tricky one. B12 is harder to get because it used to come from the dirt of vegetables and it used to be in the water. But now with pesticides and fertilizers and fluoride and chlorine in out water it is harder to get.

Just about everyone should supplement B12. It is possible to get it from nutritional yeast and some types of fortified milk; but you are better off just taking a supplement.

This is one successful argument for non-vegans but what a lot of people don’t know is cows are supplemented with B12, and animals don’t produce B12. It is found in bacteria and in manure, and sense animals are exposed to manure they sometimes absorb it.

So everyone should be supplementing B12, even those who eat meat.

  • So to sum it up, yes I take supplements but only because I don’t eat a lot of food nowadays.
  • No matter what diet you follow you should be taking B12 supplements.
  • If you feel like your diet isn’t super balanced then head on over to https://cronometer.com or download their app in the App Store

If you would like to try Complement supplements head on over to https://lovecomplement.com/products/complement-plus-smart-vegan-capsules?variant=14329502302257

For Those Who Don’t Want to Eat “Nuts, Seeds and Grass”

Following a vegan diet doesn’t mean just eating natural foods.

I advocate for a plant-based whole foods diet because it is the healthiest and the cheapest.

But if you don’t want to go vegan because you don’t want to just eat these “healthy foods” then there is still a very good option for you.

There are plenty of meat and dairy alternatives out there.

You can still eat the things you don’t want to give up such as:

  • Burgers
  • Wings
  • Pizza
  • “Chicken”
  • Ice Cream
  • Yogurt
  • Milk
  • Cheese
  • Tacos
  • Bacon
  • Sausage
  • Eggs
  • “Jerky”
  • “Steak”
  • And on and on
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There are alternatives to just about any food you can think of. The best part is it can usually be made from real food and it isn’t dead animal flesh.

These alternatives will only get better tasting, more nutritious, cheaper, more accessible and more plentiful the more the demand goes up.

Most of these alternatives already exist.

You Are Mostly Vegan Already

A lot of the food you eat is already vegan, believe it or not.

For example; let’s take a burger. Bun, lettuce, onion, mustard, tomato, ketchup, pickles, and side of fries all vegan. The one thing that is not vegan is the patty. So just switch the patty for an alternative that tastes just as good.

So, to bring the demand of these types of vegan food, more people need to eat them and less people need to eat meat.

With the depletion of meat eating; things like obesity, heart disease, high cholesterol, viruses, pandemics, cruelty, etc. will go down. 

The earth will also greatly benefit.

How Can I Make the Change?

Just A Few of the Many Alternatives