A Brief Introduction To Veganism

Your best friend, who follows a vegan diet, is visiting you, and you don’t know what being vegan even means?

Let’s make it short and sweet.

A vegan person’s diet is characterised by avoiding foods of animal origin and their products.

A vegan diet is not the same as a wholesome plant-based diet.

I am probably 98% vegan since I will, e. g. drink an apple juice offered by someone without confirming if it is vegan or not because people don’t know.

But I won’t eat cake, even if I am offered one, since it is pretty evident that most cakes contain at least one non-vegan product like eggs, milk, or butter.

Beyond diet, a vegan lifestyle avoids every product and practice that causes animal suffering under the assumption that animals and humans are similar in terms of pain perception. This lifestyle includes avoiding products such as:

I use medication tested on animals if I cannot avoid it since most medicine is tested on animals before being administered to humans. Still, I do my best to try and find natural alternatives before using medication.

It is not that easy sometimes, especially in the cosmetics world. For instance, if not otherwise declared, keratin treatment for your hair is made out of animal horns, hair, and hooves. If you don’t know, you don’t know.

The same goes for e. g. carmine, the bright red colour in cosmetics, alcoholic beverages, or candy, also known as E120. Carmine is extracted from scale insects’ shells, which irritates me anyway.

And these are just two examples. The list is way longer. I am just not aware of them all.

Here are seven reasons to live a vegan lifestyle

I follow a vegan lifestyle primarily for its ethics, but other reasons are also important. Protecting animals was always a matter of my heart; that included doing the obvious and not eating them.

If you want to surprise your plant-based friend, I recommend two youtube channels for recipes.

I hope this brought a little insight into what Veganism is and what people’s primary motives are.

Thank you for reading!

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