FredVegrox

joined 5 months ago
 

I care for animals, realizing caring for some pets is not the same compassion, and not so fair, when the animals that are pets would have no care for any protection with happening to not be the pets they are.

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use beans or lentils still, too. I do not really use tofu though, but do not find any fault for using it.

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

There are a number of studies. The China Study that I remember by name was huge, but there are more, all indicating this. Here is a link to an article about a very recent one, any further ones are not hard to find online. https://www.eatingwell.com/plant-based-diet-multimorbidity-study-11796092

 

There will be some variations in the vegetables I use for a cooked meal that is usual for me, but more of those are generally the same, you know, some kind of pasta noodles with those, when it is not cut up potato I cook, or quinoa, or rice which is generally brown rice, with the hummus and salsa, and seasonings, I found guacamole without dairy and I can add some of that to it too, once in a while a bit of dried seaweed too.

 

There is the help for this way for WFPB,
https://shop.forksoverknives.com/pages/beginner-guide

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you can grow any plants for food at all, grow those, it does make significant difference. Remember animals being used for food need to be fed, this whole way is using a lot more food up, with what more is needing to grown, there is only more incidental harm with this way. The whole food was I have is good. I approach the 30 vegetables a week which is really so much healthier by getting more from produce in all that I buy, generally it is otherwise just what I will drink (non-alcoholic) like green tea, coffee, and fruit juice, the pasta and the quinoa I buy, hummus, medium salsa, and jackfruit, jars of pickle chips, jars of olives, some rice milk, almond milk, cashew milk, or soy milk, and cereal (usually raisin bran for warmer days and oatmeal for cooler days), whole grain bread, and complete cookies (Lenny & Larry's). That really is almost all, there are seasonings and very occasional things like seaweed, not so often, I still get what I might for supplemental B12, and minerals anyone might need to supplement, and more so at a higher age, that would concern me.

 

I know reasons to be vegan that I speak of and hope to see others hearing it are understanding them. Animals being used suffer continuously. Animals should be cared for. We do not need animal products for a healthy way we can have. Ending animal agriculture would help us to avoid greater number of extinctions, loss of environments, and climate catastrophe as well.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/02/new-model-explores-link-animal-agriculture-climate-change/

 

All animals being used in animal agriculture and industry suffer, every choice for any products from animals contributes to animal suffering, while every time we do not need those things, there are alternatives without anything from animals for those. But there are addictive substances in food from animal products in them. These are so easy to get past, like within several weeks, and I found the alternatives are not even needed with just having tasty healthy food, that I continue with, and I can say ways I know to have that.

 

There are more resources used for continuing use of animals, with taking more land and more water to raise the animals that need to be fed. There is great destruction to the environments for this, more than otherwise. It is not even better for health than just having meals with whole foods from plants all the time. There is reason to care for animals and not still use items from them. Changing for this latter is vegan, while the former issues need awareness to be responsible with and not be ignored, and many of those are supportive reasons for why being vegan is good. What are any of us doing using animals still? It is an insanity continuing with the addictions we could get over, there are healthy and tasty foods to have anyway without anything from animals.

 

When I decided I must be vegan I had already been going without meat, several years. I was glad thinking I did not contribute to harm to animals being used for meat. I was wrong as I did not know more about it. I learned when online and found communication about it that there were all these issues, all of them. I did not stop caring about issues to animals, but knowing all the issues, except, at that time, about the healthiness of a way without animal crossing, which I would have wanted, mattered, as I saw. So I made efforts to be vegan, and have been now for the last twelve years. I only found there is the very healthy way, which I started using, earlier in the year back in 2016.

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I would hope for connection with others who are vegan here. I see many are seeing my posts labeled to vegan who are not themselves vegan. So I give information through posts that relate to being vegan and that it is of importance.

 

The abuse and slaughter of animals is a primary reason for any to be vegan. But there are the environments being ruined with animal agriculture, so there is environmental reason to take being vegan seriously. Likewise with all the more resources being used for animal agriculture, and all the water, and all the land, for it, and there is the contribution to emissions associated with climate change with the warming of this planet. Having just all whole food from plants is also very healthy for us. Being vegan is done for the animals but all these things as more reason make a strong argument for it. And I found it is not hard at all.

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why consider that? I am busy but manage to come here about this one time in the week. I really want others to see they should be thinking to be vegan. If they need answers, I will be back by the next week to respond to them. Some do just need that help. Yes I do gather information for sharing.

 

Animals should not be going through the abuse for what any of us would have. Why should not any care to have the healthiest way, which could be learned, that would be without contribution to any of that? Many continue on for their preferences even with it possibly being shown as inconsistent with their values or their thinking. That is unfortunately too common, though it was not in my own experience. Being vegan is not hard, there are easy ways to become vegan, I know about this. This Mango Chickpea Salad is refreshing, crunchy and perfect for summer.
Recipe:-https://www.jcookingodyssey.com/mango-chickpea-salad/

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I eat great burritos and sandwiches, and cooked meals with cut up vegetables along with whole grain pasta or else cut up potato I have, adding a few nuts and seeds, with a really great sauce I like with using hummus and some medium salsa, I use La Victoria, and seasonings I like to add. Everything I've been having for over nine years, after several years being vegan already, is with whole foods from plants and not adding things otherwise like processed stuff. This is very healthy and really helps against some serious health problems common for others.

 

There can be thought for change in living for the sake of abused animals, the great harm to the earth, the greater use of resources, and even a better healthy way possible for any of us that is not costly, with not using animal products still. There are ways not really hard to do that, with finding alternatives that will really be liked. I know some things I really like very much and will stay this way gladly.

 

Whole food plant-based eating is indeed healthy, and I have had this way nearly a decade, though I have been vegan longer. I notice the benefits. Animal agriculture is contributing more to problems in the world including loss of environments and extinctions of species. Why need animals kept abusively and slaughtered for what we would still have from them?

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It's the demand for animal products that continues the use of animals with their slaughter for those. Veganism turns from that demand. With there being crop deaths we may choose ways for that to be less. Veganism has less crop deaths than crops for continually feeding the animals being used for the demand for animal products. We can grow some of our own food when possible, too. If we do, crops do not make as much sense. They attract pests. But plants used for food growing just among other plants are not attracting the insects or small animals that crops would. Plants for food can be mixed among any other compatible plants.

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Being non vegan is not causing less crop deaths. duh

[–] FredVegrox@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Really new vegans might say they miss cheese, or maybe something else. Generally there are addictions to certain substances among those to get past, but it fortunately does not take long. Find vegan things you really like to have about as often instead, those really should be healthy things, not just processed stuff. I found I could have a really great sauce that I like so much in my cooked meals almost all the time, with putting some hummus and some medium salsa in them. I use La Victoria, and I add good seasonings I like, but do not add salt to anything. And for other things I would sweeten I use something other than sugar, where I am, bone char is used to filter them so the sugar is not vegan, unless it is a brand verified as vegan, now I generally use agave nectar. Gelatin is from animals too.

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