Vegan thread!

if I had received $1 every time than someone asked me where I getmy protein from... I'd be rich!

I'm vegan for about one year now, before I've been vegetarian for four years, but I ate more and more vegan. It's just like one day I started to think about what I'm eating.

I've been vegan for about a year now! I went completely cold turkey (no pun intended) because I no longer wanted to support animal cruelty in every way. My favorite part about being vegan is constantly being amazed at food and how much vegan options resemble their animal product counterparts!

Have any great low carb vegan recipes? I mean really low carb?

?incomplete protein? myth

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The ?incomplete protein? myth was inadvertently promoted and popularized in the 1971 book,Diet for a Small Planet,by Frances Moore Lapp In it, the author stated that plant foods are deficient in some of the essential amino acids, so in order to be a healthy vegetarian, you needed to eat a combination of certain plant foods at the same time in order to get all of the essential amino acids in the right amounts. It was called the theory of ?protein complementing.?

Lappcertainly meant no harm, and her mistake was somewhat understandable. She was not a nutritionist, physiologist, or medical doctor; she was a sociologist trying to end world hunger. She realized that converting vegetable protein into animal protein involved a lot of waste, and she calculated that if people ate just the plant protein, many more could be fed. In the tenth anniversary edition of her book (1981), she retracted her statement and basically said that in trying to end one myth?the inevitability of world hunger?she had created a second one, the myth of the need for ?protein complementing.?

In this and later editions, she corrects her earlier mistake and clearly states that all plant foods typically consumed as sources of protein contain all the essential amino acids, and that humans are virtually certain of getting enough protein from plant sources if they consume sufficient calories."

source:

http://www.forksoverknives.com/the-myth-of-complementary-protein/

I became a vegetarian January 12, 2014 and I haven't eaten meat since then!:D I'm so happy! I just hate telling people that I'm vegetarian because they'll say that I made a terrible choice, say that they'll place meat in my meals, and say I'm a bad person. Gosh, that makes me want to explode! No matter what though, I'll still be a proud vegetarian!

Even when I was little I never really liked eating meat, before I even knew it came from a living animal.The taste always just made me feel sick. I don't know, there's just something about it. But as I got older and learned the truth, it disgusted me that people were killing inoccent animals for pleasure. I understand that it is natural instinct, but we know better. We shouldn't kill animals or harm them in any way.

Hi, I'm not a vegan but I recently watched the documentary "forks over knives". It explained how diseases can be controlled based on the food we eat.It wasn't necessarily saying that vegan is the best lifestyle choice rather eliminating highly processed foods ingeneral could significantly decrease chances of diseases. I've read a lot into food about GMO's,chicken farms, and the meat industry. It was really interesting I thought you guys might want to check it out.

Hey guys! I'm a new listener on this site but I have been a vegetarian all my life and I love it for the most part! It gets hard sometimes when you're with friends at a restaurant and they're like 'oh let's share this and that!' but it works out in the end! I have tried meat on and off for about a year to get the expereince of it but didnt really like it.

I became a pescatarian 6 years ago, then a vegetarian a few months in and then Vegan somewhere around five years ago. As a child I knew it was wrong and I'd ask my parents if I was eating something that knew love. They said this is what they are for. After a quarter life as a sick, fat, acne ridden, depressed kid who knew something was wrong with the world, I went to the library and picked up a bunch of books about environmentalism and nutrition. Somewhere in the middle of the back and forth between books I discovered that animal foods were the least healthy possible foods, AND the worst for the environment. Then I looked into veganism and rediscovered the part of myself that knows eating other sentient beings is wrong. Spiritually, holistically, physically, the best thing to do for myself and for the planet and the animals and other human beings had to be to stop eating animals. It's all connected, if we can be cruel by default and opporate on auto pilot all our lives we'll just keep going in the same direction we've been heading (down). Or we can change, steer the course in a new way. Thats what I hope we're doing now.