Vegan lifestyle articles that discuss ways of living in peace with humans, animals, and the environment.
Prior to going vegan July 2014, I thought veganism was extreme, weird. I didn’t know that the values I held dear were already in alignment with living vegan. Like most people, I believed I needed to eat animals to be healthy.
Living vegan seems daunting until we learn about the many positive impacts
our food choices have on the planet, our health, the animals, and on every
individual’s life. Prior to going vegan July 2014, I thought veganism was
extreme, weird. I didn’t know that the values I held dear were already in
alignment with living vegan. Like most people, I believed I needed to eat
animals to be healthy.
Then reality struck hard. I saw undercover videos of animal agriculture and
I was devastated. I immediately dove into researching everything I could
find, from every reliable source. Within a week,
I chose to never eat, use, or wear anything derived in whole or in part from
sentient beings. I learned volumes of information that I condense here.
When researching the many areas impacted by agriculture, I found these six
to be most profound:
While this article focuses on the impacts of agriculture, all methods of commodifying animals contribute to the inequities inherent in animal, fowl, and fish agriculture.
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