Vegans of BYC!!

[Chicken poppy]

Uh….yeah, you said.
Genuine question.
Allergies, food preferences….? How come?
Most vegans I’ve met have said it’s a moral or allergy issue, so if it’s a moral thing I’m just wondering why not eat eggs from chickens you’ve raised lol.

I know this is old, but i’ll answer incase anyone else is curious. Heres my reasoning. I owned 11 chickens (8 now) and im a vegan and have been my whole life. My entire family is vegan.

I own chickens for pets. Not for meat or eggs. I personally dont eat the eggs because 1. It looks gross and smells like sewage and dirty dishes. Also, i cannot get over the fact it comes out of a chickens butt.

2. I just have no need. Im vegan not just to help animals, but also because of a personal choice. I think a lot of people forget thats also why some go vegan. Not just because of allergies and saving the animals. I think meat is disgusting, and im not kidding, if you put a plate of meat on a plate in front of me, i would actually throw up. I thought i was eating chicken the other day (it was vegan, i just got nervous) and i felt nauseous. It was stringy and shaped like chicken wings that it actually was identical to what meat looked like (never tasted meat before so i don’t know what it tastes like) but look wise? Spot on. The stringy bits even got stuck in your teeth. Even after being told it was vegan i still couldn’t eat it.


I just give away all my eggs. The only reason i have to crack one is to feed it to my chickens, which is rare. I usually only do it if, for example, one got cracked when picking it up. You can’t give a cracked egg to a neighbor.

Also, rooster bribery.

Sorry for my very long ramble.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I’m a vegan

 

[Chicken poppy]

I wonder if you are missing protein or vitamin D? I am a former vegan, now a whole food, mostly plant based, “localtarian”. I had a bout of what I thought was depression, turns out I was way under in Vit D. I was vegan for 6 months, and just didn’t feel “right”, so I added minimal amounts of dairy & animal products, along w my new Vit D prescription, but only from local sources where I knew the animals were well kept and free to be outside. I totally commend your decision to eat vegan. I would definitely get bloodwork done just in case you are missing something. Find a vegan source of whatever you need and increase that in your diet, and add a good multivitamin if you don’t take one already!

Im no expert, but i want to say this: Don’t just be vegan, do it right. Make sure you are getting enough protein and everything. Yes, you can be under protein and be vegan but i hate when this is the #1 excuse. Oh, i can’t be vegan because if i were, id be super unhealthy! Therefor, let me eat 100 steaks and BBQ meat items. Thats surely going to make me healthy.

Im vegan, my family is. Were 100% fine and healthy. My parents are healthier then they were before they were vegan.

 

[Bakbuk]

 

[Iluveggers]

Im no expert, but i want to say this: Don’t just be vegan, do it right. Make sure you are getting enough protein and everything. Yes, you can be under protein and be vegan but i hate when this is the #1 excuse. Oh, i can’t be vegan because if i were, id be super unhealthy! Therefor, let me eat 100 steaks and BBQ meat items. Thats surely going to make me healthy.

Im vegan, my family is. Were 100% fine and healthy. My parents are healthier then they were before they were vegan.

Wasn’t using it as an excuse. After 6 months I was weak, tired, and depressed, plus not sleeping well. I don’t eat processed foods, and didn’t eat any then, and my body had a very difficult time absorbing the nutrients I needed to feel good. Acceptable lowest level of vitamin D is 30…deficient at 20. I was 16. In AUGUST. I also was low in calcium and suffered a fracture. have a garden where I grow much of what we eat, and am outside all the time. After taking a prescription vitamin for a few months, I began adding in a small amount of meat and dairy into my diet. I sleep well, am alert, and my blood levels are at a normal range. I don’t see how that can be an excuse. It’s just the truth. I don’t know how I could “do it right.” It was definitely not right for me, and not worth my health to keep experimenting with different things to see if it worked. I eat about 80% plants, all whole & unprocessed, or made from scratch like breads, and about 20% animal products. A typical family dinner has 3 vegetable dishes and one meat dish. Far cry from 100 steaks and bbq.

 

[Bakbuk]

Wasn’t using it as an excuse. After 6 months I was weak, tired, and depressed, plus not sleeping well. I don’t eat processed foods, and didn’t eat any then, and my body had a very difficult time absorbing the nutrients I needed to feel good. Acceptable lowest level of vitamin D is 30…deficient at 20. I was 16. In AUGUST. I also was low in calcium and suffered a fracture. have a garden where I grow much of what we eat, and am outside all the time. After taking a prescription vitamin for a few months, I began adding in a small amount of meat and dairy into my diet. I sleep well, am alert, and my blood levels are at a normal range. I don’t see how that can be an excuse. It’s just the truth. I don’t know how I could “do it right.” It was definitely not right for me, and not worth my health to keep experimenting with different things to see if it worked.

I understand this completely. My mom had to eat meat and eggs for a little while. She hated it, but it kept her alive.

 

[Chicken poppy]

Wasn’t using it as an excuse.

Wasn’t referring to you.


”doing it right” means not eating just lettuce 24/7

It means having a balanced, well maintained diet. Like all vegetarians, vegans, or meat eaters.
You also cant eat a ton of steaks in one day and call it a good maintained diet.

Everything has a balance.

A typical family dinner is also very far off to what i was taking about. Not sure where you got that from.

 

[BelovedBirds]

I know this is old, but i’ll answer incase anyone else is curious. Heres my reasoning. I owned 11 chickens (8 now) and im a vegan and have been my whole life. My entire family is vegan.

I own chickens for pets. Not for meat or eggs. I personally dont eat the eggs because 1. It looks gross and smells like sewage and dirty dishes. Also, i cannot get over the fact it comes out of a chickens butt.

2. I just have no need. Im vegan not just to help animals, but also because of a personal choice. I think a lot of people forget thats also why some go vegan. Not just because of allergies and saving the animals. I think meat is disgusting, and im not kidding, if you put a plate of meat on a plate in front of me, i would actually throw up. I thought i was eating chicken the other day (it was vegan, i just got nervous) and i felt nauseous. It was stringy and shaped like chicken wings that it actually was identical to what meat looked like (never tasted meat before so i don’t know what it tastes like) but look wise? Spot on. The stringy bits even got stuck in your teeth. Even after being told it was vegan i still couldn’t eat it.


I just give away all my eggs. The only reason i have to crack one is to feed it to my chickens, which is rare. I usually only do it if, for example, one got cracked when picking it up. You can’t give a cracked egg to a neighbor.

Also, rooster bribery.

Sorry for my very long ramble.

Oh my gosh same, I can really relate to thinking something is meat, or too similar to meat, to be able to eat it. I can't stomach it either. I used to love meat, but now I feel sick if I eat something that seems too realistic.

 

[BelovedBirds]

Wasn’t using it as an excuse. After 6 months I was weak, tired, and depressed, plus not sleeping well. I don’t eat processed foods, and didn’t eat any then, and my body had a very difficult time absorbing the nutrients I needed to feel good. Acceptable lowest level of vitamin D is 30…deficient at 20. I was 16. In AUGUST. I also was low in calcium and suffered a fracture. have a garden where I grow much of what we eat, and am outside all the time. After taking a prescription vitamin for a few months, I began adding in a small amount of meat and dairy into my diet. I sleep well, am alert, and my blood levels are at a normal range. I don’t see how that can be an excuse. It’s just the truth. I don’t know how I could “do it right.” It was definitely not right for me, and not worth my health to keep experimenting with different things to see if it worked. I eat about 80% plants, all whole & unprocessed, or made from scratch like breads, and about 20% animal products. A typical family dinner has 3 vegetable dishes and one meat dish. Far cry from 100 steaks and bbq.

Did you take many vitamins or supplements? Being vegan and maintaining good health can be really really hard for some people, I struggled initially because of an iron deficiency, but have since improved my diet.
I believe strongly that it is possible for anyone to be healthy on a fully plantbased diet, because when you break it down it makes sense- the vitamins and proteins are fed to the animals, the meat contains the nutrients and protein, and you eat the meat- it generally comes second hand from the animal.

But the sad reality is that a lot of people dont know what to eat, or where to get the supplements or how to prepare it, or they may not have enough access to the foods- all while still making an enjoyable meal that leaves you feeling sayisfied. But I assure you, and all the other folks on this thread, it is possible.

The first time I went vegan was for... a year, I think. I didn't eat properly during that time and had bad health. I had bad health even before going vegan- with a history of passing out and throwing up randomly.
I just went out and had some dairy-- then started eating meat again. I enjoyed it, it felt so weird at first to eat those things again- but I so enjoyed it.
And then I gave up certain things, like pig meat, because I knew how intelligent those animals are and I loved them- and felt like a hypocrite. I was a hypocrite- so I gave it up. And then gradually after another year I cut out more products. Until I decided one day to just stop, and I did.
Haven't touched meat or dairy in a year.
I don't even eat my ducks eggs because I feel they deserve to get to enjoy them themselves, and its kind of gross to me to eat anyway.

I was unhealthy for my first months back being vegan, but the last few months have been better than ever. Healthier than when I ate meat, healthier than when I was an ignorant vegan-
I feel better now, and happy that I can help the planet and animals. Meat poses a lot of risks, from high cholesterol to cancer, and 60% of people cant even properly digest dairy. I will never see that as a healthy diet despite how it is farmed.

I think a lot of people forget than veganism isn't just a diet, its a whole lifestyle, where we avoid testing products on animals, or wearing fur, etc etc.

I'm really proud to stand for that, but I don't look down on other people who dont stand for it- yet. It took me most of my life to realise being vegan mattered. I was raised on all kinds of meat, with feather filled cushions (80% of feather filled products come from china where live plucking is still practiced), and using shampoo that was tested on lab animals- and I live to regret that. I can't judge others for doing the same things I did.


Edit: sorry this turned into quite the vegan ramble

 

[Sussex19]

I definitely admire people who can and want to be vegan, but its just not for me.
However, I don't use anything tested on animals, don't wear fur, and only eat organic free range meat.
We have been vegetarian in the past, but not in the moment. Do you mind me joining in? I find it all quite interesting.