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I’ve been a vegetarian for the past 12 years and am now thinking about becoming a vegan.what are the benefits?

Friday, October 22nd, 2010
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Is anyone here a vegan and can you share some infromation with me about it. Thanks!
Best Answer
There are physical benefits you’re probably already aware of. Vegetarians often eat a lot of cheese and other dairy, and that’s not much better than eating meat health-wise. Below I’m going to include a link to a post I did on my blood tests while vegetarian and then vegan so you can see the difference.
Instead of talking about that, I’ll tell you my favorite benefit of going from vegetarian to vegan, and that is that I let loose my compassion. While a vegetarian, I still had to make excuses for why I was eating something that I knew caused suffering. “I don’t eat much of it, ” or “It doesn’t kill them.” When I first went vegan and people asked me why, my most common answer was, “My excuses stopped holding water.” It was and is incredibly liberating, in a way I couldn’t possibly anticipate, to be able to fully express my values through my actions. Non-vegans have no idea of the price they pay in their psyche for a bit of flesh or cheese. To justify eating that stuff, a person has to have an off-switch on their compassion. This choice inflicts mental damage on them in the form of walls which restrict the values they would like to live by and chokes off their compassion and humanity
I’m incredibly grateful that someone told me the truth about eggs and dairy and that I opened myself to it and to change. It was a very difficult decision to make, but when I became vegan, in an *instant* I ripped out that switch and knocked down that wall, and you can’t possibly understand how that feels until you do it.
Good luck!

detailsIs anyone here a vegan and can you share some infromation with me about it. Thanks!

Best Answer
There are physical benefits you’re probably already aware of. Vegetarians often eat a lot of cheese and other dairy, and that’s not much better than eating meat health-wise. Below I’m going to include a link to a post I did on my blood tests while vegetarian and then vegan so you can see the difference.
Instead of talking about that, I’ll tell you my favorite benefit of going from vegetarian to vegan, and that is that I let loose my compassion. While a vegetarian, I still had to make excuses for why I was eating something that I knew caused suffering. “I don’t eat much of it, ” or “It doesn’t kill them.” When I first went vegan and people asked me why, my most common answer was, “My excuses stopped holding water.” It was and is incredibly liberating, in a way I couldn’t possibly anticipate, to be able to fully express my values through my actions. Non-vegans have no idea of the price they pay in their psyche for a bit of flesh or cheese. To justify eating that stuff, a person has to have an off-switch on their compassion. This choice inflicts mental damage on them in the form of walls which restrict the values they would like to live by and chokes off their compassion and humanity
I’m incredibly grateful that someone told me the truth about eggs and dairy and that I opened myself to it and to change. It was a very difficult decision to make, but when I became vegan, in an *instant* I ripped out that switch and knocked down that wall, and you can’t possibly understand how that feels until you do it.
Good luck!

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