Why Am I Vegan? 121 Reasons Why Veganism Is Not an Alternative, but the Main Option

By Jon Leore

DON'T YOU BEGIN TIRED OF HAVING TO ANSWER OVER AND AGAIN TO THE QUESTION WHY HAVE YOU DECIDED TO BECOME A VEGAN?

 

Or you may be the one who asks when you meet someone who has decided not to eat animal-based foods. In any case, you are looking at the right book.

Every time someone says they don't eat meat, fish, eggs or milk, it's as if they had to justify themselves. Most people still find it strange that a person decides to stop eating animals.

 

"How? That you don't eat meat, fish, milk, cheese and eggs? That can't be healthy! But why are you doing something so extreme? "

Extreme? There are many reasons and arguments ... that prove rather the opposite. There are so many reasons to become vegan that what we should really consider is rather the reverse: why not be vegan? What leads a person to eat foods that cause illness for oneself and suffering for others? That is extreme! At what point have we naturalized and considered normal a type of diet that is so harmful to humans, to other animals and even to the planet?

 

I hope you enjoy knowing the arguments that demonstrate this, and that without any persuasive intention, this information allows you to know a little more about the nutritional reality that surrounds you. You are free to choose, but at least do it with the proper knowledge.

 

In this book…

- You will discover the need (or not) to consume animals and the deficiencies (or not) of the vegan diet

- You will know a vegetable alternative to alleviate hunger in the world

- You will learn the human values ​​of veganism: solidarity, respect, empathy, compassion, freedom, pacifism ...

- You will discover if human beings are really omnivores and the most appropriate diet according to their physiology

- You will see that the reality we perceive is not the one that really surrounds us and the ability to know what food is or is not

- You will understand that veganism is not something new or a fad, and that it is already practiced and recommended by millenary beliefs

- You will know why foods of animal origin harm your health and are the cause of the most common diseases

- You will have before you a new paradigm in which you will discover that in the end information is the main factor that establishes your beliefs

- You will understand why milk is not a suitable product for humans and why consuming eggs also means death and animal sacrifice

- You will discover the physical benefits of the vegan diet: you will feel healthier, energetic and sexy

 

All this and many more arguments so that you have more information in your possession with which to assess the reality that surrounds you.

Courage, you are about to discover a lifestyle that will take care of both you and the planet!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jon Leore
• Release date: Mar 26, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224300273

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Introduction

Are you not starting to get tired of having to explain over and over why you have decided to go vegan? Every time someone says they don't eat meat, fish, eggs or milk, it's as if they had to justify themselves. Most people still find it strange that a person decides to stop eating animal foods.

How? That you don't eat meat, fish, milk, cheese and eggs? That can't be healthy! But why are you doing something so extreme?

Extreme? There are numerous reasons and arguments for doing this. The number of reasons to adopt veganism is surprising. A few will be named in this book, and they will be numbered in parentheses each time one appears. Let's see how many come out.

There are so many reasons to become vegan that what we should really consider is rather the reverse: why not be vegan? What leads a person to eat foods that cause illness for oneself and suffering for others? That is extreme! At what point have we naturalized and considered normal a type of diet that is so harmful to humans, to other animals and even to the planet?

This book is not an attempt to convince anyone, nor to portray veganism as an imperative choice. It is more of a reflection. It is a compilation of information to try to show a reality that society in general finds it difficult to accept and that by tradition and economic interests has been kept hidden: we should all be vegan for the simple reason that it is the most sensible type of diet, logical, natural and suitable for the human species.

Most people associate veganism only with respect for animals, and in fact it is usually the main reason why one stops eating foods of animal origin. But this goes beyond! It is about a vast opening towards reality, an awakening about our human condition.

What is not normal is eating foods for which our body is not adapted. Are we really omnivores? Or rather we are facultative herbivores? There is much evidence that shows that the natural option in humans should be to eat only food of plant origin, and that current consumption habits are nothing more than a tradition that has spread over time. Until, at last, we have wondered if this is the right thing or not and, like you who have come to this book, more and more people investigate and discover an alternative that should not be so.

It is not (only) about animalistic ideals, but about taking a step into reality, one that has been kept hidden and that will make you see things differently. For all the reasons compiled in these pages (and many more), the option of vegan food should be the main one in humanity, and not just a minority alternative of a few idealists.

I hope you enjoy knowing the arguments that demonstrate this, and that without any persuasive intention, this information allows you to know a little more about the nutritional reality that surrounds you. You are free to choose, but at least do it with the proper knowledge.

Because I don't want to be the cause of animal suffering

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This is the star motive that leads most people to veganism. It is the reason why many adopt this type of diet, due to the excessive cruelty of factory farming(1). It is the most widely used and well-known justification, and that is why we will not dwell on it much. But it was mandatory to name her first.

Animals suffer too(2). Just like us. They may not have our intellectual level or their conscious brain is not as developed ... but the pain mechanisms are practically the same. Their nervous system, their nociceptors... Everything that causes them pain to indicate that something is wrong inside them works in a very similar way in their body and ours.

And don't you like to have anesthesia when a tooth is removed? Don't you take a pill when a headache keeps you from living? Don't you swell to painkillers after an operation or when something breaks inside you? The vast majority of us don't like pain. Except for the masochists, of course.

We only remember pain when we are experiencing it. But when it tightens, we hope with all our might that it goes away, that it stop tormenting us. When it's unbearable, we even turn to drugs like morphine, because the last thing we want is to feel pain. Suffering is something agonizing and stormy for us.

To them, too.

Farm animals when savagely slaughtered for human consumption, suffer. When they live crammed into ultra-limited enclosures where they can barely move and attack each other because of stress, they suffer. When experimented with to create cosmetics, they suffer. When forced to lay eggs or give milk to the point of malnutrition, they suffer. When used to a bloody show, they suffer. The same way that you and I do. Without major difference.

Many minimize this suffering under the usual excuse that it is the law of life. In their natural habitat they also suffer when they are attacked and eaten by their predators. "It is their destiny, to be born to feed us in the natural