Becoming Vegan

My research was over the habits one acquires in order to adopt a vegan lifestyle. It's something I've considered and gone back and forth with. It just so happens that this week, my PETA Vegan Starter Kit came in the mail. This pamphlet detailed how to integrate more vegan foods and remove certain animal products from your diet. It explains that most Americans are eating vegan food already (hummus, spaghetti, salad, fruit pie, whatever) and that any food that is not vegan, can be made vegan.

PETA's focus is on how the vegan diet is sustainable for the world and how compassionate it is. It states that vegan diets save 200 animals per year per person, and save hundreds of gallons of water, considerable amounts of electricity, and generally support a cleaner environment because of the strain of the industrial farming present with the current demand for meat.

It offers one method of habit-changing which is replacing meat and dairy with vegan alternatives such as beans, chickpeas, avocado, mushroom, etc.