I'm talking abut somebody who already has given up red meats, fish, chicken, gelatin... but wants to give up milk and eggs. What are the health, environmental, ethical benefits?
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mstar designs... I don't even know what to say! did you wikipaste that?
Remember people... I'm not asking about giving up meat... just eggs and milk.
Lu
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The health benefits of a vegetarian going vegan will be that they will have cut out all cholesterol from their diets. Milk and eggs and cheese are all high in cholesterol and saturated animal fats.
The environmental benefits if enough people went vegan would be that there would be fewer dairy and chicken farms polluting the soil and water (waste products into rivers and streams near the farms then running off into larger rivers and to the oceans and lakes).
Ethical benefits are that there would be fewer chickens who would have to live their lives in chicken farms, producing eggs until they die, and there would be fewer cows and their calves (a cow has to have a baby cow to produce milk, and the bulls are involved in this too) having to suffer the milk machine every day of their lives.
The babies and fathers are necessary to make the milk, but then they are sold for veal or meat, so milk, cheese, ice cream etc. does involve a culture of killing animals.
You cannot get the milk and dairy products without the bull to impregnate the cow, and the cow to give birth to a calf.
Those calves and bulls enter the bloody slaughter house soon after.
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richa b
I m from India and most Indians are vegans. If you could get your hands on some great Indian recipes and learn how to cook them accurately, i think you would never look at any non-vegan thing again. And can haev a great health too.
Also try combining meditation with veganism. You will love the way your life will go.
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Celtic Tejas
HEALTH:Read some studies, like The China Study or books by John Robbins..I think his current 1 is Live to Be 100. Go to Dr. John McDougall's website. He has a great back log of articles in his newsletters(free)
You can live eating these things but you will THRIVE eating 100% Vegan.
ETHICS: Check out how these animals are treated. We are not talking about your small local farmer, it's a huge horrible business with no thought to morality of how fellow creatures should be treated.
ENVIRONMENT: See the above books by Robbins he covers it thorougly in his early ones. In fact he covers all the above subjects well.
Anonymous
I don't think Veganism is about a personal benefit. It's about a benefit to the planet, or to animals.
Vegan's consider the way chickens and cows are treated as akin to torture. If nobody bought eggs, or milk then they'd stop selling them.
As far as a personal benefits, I think the only valid ones are that what replaces it is usually lower in fats, and that you can speak from a higher moral ground.