I just watched a documentary on Egg farming this morning, and I was so disgusted that I prayed about it and made a committment to take dairy products out of my vegetarian diet. I'd been playing with the idea of being Vegan for sometime now, but that video really did me in. I feel I walked away a bit more educated to the effects of farming on the enviroment and on the animals.
Still haven't dropped seafood from my diet though and am still researching seafood. So for the time being, is there such a thing as "pescavegan" or is it all "carnivore"? Not that labels matter I guess, but it helps me to realize where I am in the process. How do people feel? (edit: took out a couple lines re: how hard it is to give up seafood...was too lengthy)
i definitely agree with your move on eliminating dairy products, since i'm vegan, but i still don't understand your reasons for continuing to eat seafood. with all the mercury in fish and bycatch and gross leaking of crap in the sea from fish farms, there are plenty of reasons to not eat it. fatty acids and other stuff found in fish can be gotten from other sources just as easily. that being said, you seem to REALLY want to keep eating seafood, so if all that isn't enough for you to quit, then don't. labeling yourself is unneccessary.
Okay... FINALLY discovered and learned what bycatch is tonight. It's midnight here, but I couldn't sleep thinking about it. Disgusting...
Alright, I think I'm all done with fish.
A fish is not a plant.
Didn't we discuss bycatch in the last thread?
If we lived in a world where our water wasn't so polluted i would probably be a pescavegan. haha.
fish are pretty healthy for you (well i mean if they didn't live in such polluted waters they would be.) in small amounts and it's something you can catch on your own pretty easily.
but fish is really contaminated with mercury and other pollutants. and a lot of seafood that you get from the store is caught by huge nets that drag along the ocean floor and ruin the habitats there. and a lot of it ends up being bycatch. i've heard figures about how 80% of shrimp catches are bycatch.
yea, so those are the two things i would look up if i were you.
Thank you all... after a lot of research, talks with a couple friends and some serious soul searching, I'm officially Vegan as of yesterday. This is a nice fun experiment that I hope to turn into a major lifestyle. Thanks for all your insights as I start this journey!
Unfortunately there are no regulations on free range eggs so unless you have personally visited the farm (we do have a local farm here that you can visit) there is no way to know if the farm is promoting cruelty or not. Just because the label says free range means little to nothing. Fortunately there are plenty of great substitutes for meat, dairy and eggs - some natural, some not so much. :)
Original Post by calvinator:
Thank you all... after a lot of research, talks with a couple friends and some serious soul searching, I'm officially Vegan as of yesterday. This is a nice fun experiment that I hope to turn into a major lifestyle. Thanks for all your insights as I start this journey!
congratulations!! I've been vegan for about 2 months now, and I was surprised at how easy it was, with all the substitutes there are out there..
good luck!
