Vegan Vs Vegetarian Essay
The Difference Between Vegan and Vegetarian Diets
A Meat Eater Learns More About Two Heallthy Lifestyles That Both Start with "V"
I never understood the difference between being a vegan and being a vegetarian. To me they seemed to be cut from the same cloth. Kind of like the way one pronounces the word "tomato". Is it toe-may-toe..? Or is it toe-mah-toe...? Does it really matter if you're both trying to accomplish the same goal? And so it was - I thought - with vegan and vegetarian diets.
Little did I know that vegans and vegetarians are a world apart. By definition, vegetarians are those individuals that do not eat any meat products, they will however, eat dairy products and eggs. Vegans on the other hand, do not consume any animal products at all! Or derivitives or such. So guess where an egg comes from? A Chicken! And milk? A cow! So you can cross both eggs and milk off your list. The Vegan diet walks a hard thin line. I admire both groups of people. They have both made choices that will leave them healthier and I presume happier, while living a longer life. On the other hand, there are those of us who have decided to take the short road: I happen to enjoy a hearty …show more content…
It's just that I don't personally find the use of animals as a food product as "useless slaughter". Maybe there's a different word out there we can use besides "slaughter". Animals that "valiantly sacrifice their life so that humans may Bar-B-Q" sounds a lot better to me. That doesn't detract from the principals behind a vegan diet as such. But I look at it this way: if we don't use cows and steers and other potential meat sources as just that - - a meat source, then we're going to have an over-abundance of these animals. Then what do we do? Lift the bans on mountain lions and wolves and bears and whatever other predatory animals are out there? Or do we convince these animals to convert to vegan food
A Meat Eater Learns More About Two Heallthy Lifestyles That Both Start with "V"
I never understood the difference between being a vegan and being a vegetarian. To me they seemed to be cut from the same cloth. Kind of like the way one pronounces the word "tomato". Is it toe-may-toe..? Or is it toe-mah-toe...? Does it really matter if you're both trying to accomplish the same goal? And so it was - I thought - with vegan and vegetarian diets.
Little did I know that vegans and vegetarians are a world apart. By definition, vegetarians are those individuals that do not eat any meat products, they will however, eat dairy products and eggs. Vegans on the other hand, do not consume any animal products at all! Or derivitives or such. So guess where an egg comes from? A Chicken! And milk? A cow! So you can cross both eggs and milk off your list. The Vegan diet walks a hard thin line. I admire both groups of people. They have both made choices that will leave them healthier and I presume happier, while living a longer life. On the other hand, there are those of us who have decided to take the short road: I happen to enjoy a hearty …show more content…
It's just that I don't personally find the use of animals as a food product as "useless slaughter". Maybe there's a different word out there we can use besides "slaughter". Animals that "valiantly sacrifice their life so that humans may Bar-B-Q" sounds a lot better to me. That doesn't detract from the principals behind a vegan diet as such. But I look at it this way: if we don't use cows and steers and other potential meat sources as just that - - a meat source, then we're going to have an over-abundance of these animals. Then what do we do? Lift the bans on mountain lions and wolves and bears and whatever other predatory animals are out there? Or do we convince these animals to convert to vegan food