“I am vegan for the animals” > The animals don’t give a fuck that you’re vegan.
“Why it’s wrong to eat animals is obvious” > It isn’t obvious.
“Animals go through stressful situations…” > That can also be taken as a reason to reform the system, not abolish it.
“How would you feel if that was you?” > This is what vegans' arguments eventually come down to: an appeal to empathy. It’s an excess of empathy that causes veganism. Vegans will fare better with their argumentation if they understand that the reason many of us don’t have a problem with eating animals and animal products is because we’re not encumbered by excessive empathy, and that appeals to empathy should therefore be replaced by other rhetorical strategies.
“Being a vegan is healthy” > A diet low in meat is healthy. A vegetarian diet can be kept healthy if managed carefully. A vegan diet is probably only healthy over a short period and in the hands of the most obsessive orthorexic. I’ve watched several vegans proclaim it to be healthy and then wither over the years.
Ellsworth Wareham is a 102 year old nearly lifelong vegan who is also a retired cardiac surgeon and he very lucid and healthy (look him up). I've been vegan for 17 years and am in perfect health and physical condition. More brainwashing against veganism and why?
Is that a watertight case? Perhaps you've been managing your nutrition better than others. I've known four vegans who suffered health problems due to malnutrition within five years of going vegan, and both they and a further two looked like they had aged ten years in half the time. But as I suggested, an anecdotal numbers game won't produce a conclusive case.
I've known plenty of unhealthy non vegans too. Choosing to eat unhealthily has nothing to do with being vegan or not vegan. But it's a hell of a lot easier to make healthy choices when you are a vegan (less temptation, you cant eat fast food for example). I personally have never met one of these aged looking vegans. I'm thirty and constantly people think I'm still early 20s. Which is annoying but I am thankful that I'm healthy
Is it normal that I am a vegan?
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“I am vegan for the animals” > The animals don’t give a fuck that you’re vegan.
“Why it’s wrong to eat animals is obvious” > It isn’t obvious.
“Animals go through stressful situations…” > That can also be taken as a reason to reform the system, not abolish it.
“How would you feel if that was you?” > This is what vegans' arguments eventually come down to: an appeal to empathy. It’s an excess of empathy that causes veganism. Vegans will fare better with their argumentation if they understand that the reason many of us don’t have a problem with eating animals and animal products is because we’re not encumbered by excessive empathy, and that appeals to empathy should therefore be replaced by other rhetorical strategies.
“Being a vegan is healthy” > A diet low in meat is healthy. A vegetarian diet can be kept healthy if managed carefully. A vegan diet is probably only healthy over a short period and in the hands of the most obsessive orthorexic. I’ve watched several vegans proclaim it to be healthy and then wither over the years.
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Ellsworth Wareham is a 102 year old nearly lifelong vegan who is also a retired cardiac surgeon and he very lucid and healthy (look him up). I've been vegan for 17 years and am in perfect health and physical condition. More brainwashing against veganism and why?
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Is that a watertight case? Perhaps you've been managing your nutrition better than others. I've known four vegans who suffered health problems due to malnutrition within five years of going vegan, and both they and a further two looked like they had aged ten years in half the time. But as I suggested, an anecdotal numbers game won't produce a conclusive case.
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I've known plenty of unhealthy non vegans too. Choosing to eat unhealthily has nothing to do with being vegan or not vegan. But it's a hell of a lot easier to make healthy choices when you are a vegan (less temptation, you cant eat fast food for example). I personally have never met one of these aged looking vegans. I'm thirty and constantly people think I'm still early 20s. Which is annoying but I am thankful that I'm healthy