Going Vegan in Today’s Fast-food,  Meat-Eating Industrialized Social Experiment

A Vegan lifestyle can be a simple way to improve your body, budget and the planet. The benefits of a Vegan diet include a diet filled with fiber, rich in natural vitamins and minerals from fruits, vegetables and anti-oxidant plant oils. The cost of living both for the consumer and the planet also drops. This basic way of eating is sustainable  because farmers grow crops and produce energy through plant food products and then animal products. Our grocery bill can be cut drastically when we cut out this second step of animal food production and rely on the energy plants provide. On many levels the economic and health aspects of Vegan eating just make good common sense.

In fact, it is surprising how many of us live a lifestyle that is nearly vegan without knowing it. If you eat oatmeal with fruit for breakfast, enjoy high- protein soy milk, have a peanut- butter and jelly sandwich on whole grain bread and an apple for lunch, maybe baked beans or stir fry with rice and broccoli for dinner, you are already half- way to being a vegan – without even realizing how much you prefer vegan dishes!.

The need for more fiber, found in basic fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes in our diet today has changed how we shop and cook- even down to airline menus and fast food menus that now offer tasty salads and fruit options.

With an economic downturn affecting the way we shop and cook, it is now possible to save hundreds of dollars on food, bringing us back to the basics- for our health and our family budget. The variety of protein-rich and low- priced dry beans available in any supermarket is quite surprising. These staples of Vegan cooking are also easy to make: soak a few cups of beans overnight and turn on the crock pot while you are at work. A healthy Vegan lifestyle is surprisingly easy once you have some basic foods stocked in your kitchen.

Vegan diets generally omit dairy products such as cheese, milk and butter as well as eggs, fish, meat and chicken. The reasons for doing so are complex and may even change in the course of an individual’s vegan career. Some people begin experimenting as vegetarians and find they do not miss meat at all. The step to avoiding dairy and eggs can sometimes involve a food sensitivity on many levels- feeling better, healthier, less congested when these things are removed from the diet. Others feel strongly that the plant kingdom supplies all the nutrition we need as humans by processing sunlight and water with minerals from the earth and air.

Another reason to take up a Vegan diet comes from the principle of protecting animal life and animal rights. The idea of taking an animal life, removing honey from the honey comb or eggs (chicks) away from a broody hen makes a good argument for eating food based on plant production. As a source of energy for humans, animals represent an extra step, since the cow eats the grass and grains first, then we eat the cow. Humans can consume the grains, saving the planet from a large and unnecessary production cost.

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