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Killing and eating a fish is as ethical as killing and eating a dog. A fish is no less conscious, and no less intelligent, than a dog. A fish being pulled out of the ocean suffers no less than a dog being strangled. I strongly urge you to watch the video I posted above ("How Conscious Can a...

I read the whole thread, including the original thread in which I posted the factor of five comment. My original comment was clear, but they misrepresented it in a new thread, making it difficult for me to realize that my statement had been misrepresented. I do not think that it is...

You misunderstood (or intentionally misstated) the comment I made in the other thread. The factor of five refers to the fish who are actually removed from the ocean. In other words, five pounds of fishes are killed in order to bring one pound of fish to market. In other words, in the...

The OP appears to be working under the assumption that fishes are not conscious, or that if they are conscious, they must be so at a lower level than land animals. Anyone who is unaware of the recent research on fish consciousness should watch the following video: and read the book that...

Also, about the nighttime leg cramps: they are probably not related to diet. My husband was suffering badly from those, and we experimented with all kinds of diet changes, to no avail. In the end, we started doing calf stretches before going to bed every evening, and he hasn't had a leg cramp...

I just saw your thread. Since you've gone quiet, I'm assuming that you went back to eating animals. I just wanted to direct you to some information you might find useful, in case you want to give veganism another try. Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D., has an excellent book on treating diabetes through...

It seems to me that you're giving a lot of weight to the words of a very small percentage of vegans. (For one thing, if the vegans who criticized you were doing so online, then you are really focusing on a tiny group of vegans -- ones who have so much pent-up anger that they spend large amounts...

Check out Vegan Richa as well: https://www.veganricha.com/ She is a brilliant recipe maker. I've tried all kinds of recipes from all kinds of web sites, but they don't always turn out well, even when I follow the instructions to the letter. With Vegan Richa's recipes, things turn out well even...

There is a really good book about relationships between vegans and non-vegans. It's by Melanie Joy, and it's called "Beyond Beliefs". I'm not in a relationship with a non-vegan, but I learned a huge amount about communication and relationships from that book. It's pretty densely written, and...

Are you serious? You really think more animals are harmed when you eat plants than animals? Have you considered that the animals whose flesh you eat had to eat something themselves to get to the size they were when they were slaughtered and their flesh was cut up and packaged? Feeding an...

Thank you for figuring this out. However, by quoting two carefully selected bits of my post, you have created the impression that I suggested that they were essential, when I said explicitly that I believed they were not necessary. It's really getting too tiring to post here.

I haven't gone through the paper in great detail, but at the very bottom, under "Competing Interests", you can see that the main author of the article "reports a grant from the North Dakota Beef Association to study the impact of diet quality on the relationship between red meat and human...

I just looked at that guide, and it recommends eating animals and their secretions. So I was right when I said it is "written for people who eat animals". It says (warning: the following can cause some vegans to feel anxious and angry, so please skip reading the rest of this post if you are...

For the past year or so, my spouse and I have also been following Dr. McDougall's diet. We eat large amounts of starch (potatoes, sweet potatoes, whole-wheat pasta, whole-wheat bread, brown rice, corn) with green vegetables (broccoli, chard, collards, zucchini, asparagus, green beans, green...

It seems that not all Quorn products are actually vegan. Here is a list of what is vegan: https://www.quorn.co.uk/products/vegan-food Their "Mince" seems to be vegetarian, not vegan. It contains "rehydrated free range egg white". https://www.quorn.co.uk/products/vegetarian-food...

I've looked at some of your other posts and remembered that you have been struggling between going back and forth between being vegan and vegetarian. I also see that your family is not exactly supportive of your veganism. I'm thinking that during your periods of being vegan, you may be...

How would you feel if the same thing were done with human breast milk? After all, human breast milk is much better suited for humans than cow's milk. We could put a bunch of women in a farm and impregnate them so they have babies and start producing breast milk. We wouldn't kill the babies...

Congratulations on becoming vegan! The only supplement you absolutely need to take is vitamin B12. For vitamin D, make sure you get a little sunlight each day (you need just 5 minutes around noon if you're light skinned, several times more than that if you're dark skinned). As long as you're...

I was not a fan of PETA in the past, so I became a member of one of the other vegan organizations. Then, I learned that the organization I was supporting was a sexist organization that not only did not promote women but created a hostile workplace for its female members. I looked around online...

Wow. This explains so much. In my early years of veganism, I used to have occasional cravings for meat, and I interpreted them as my body needing protein. I found that if I ate a pretty large piece of tofu with a little soy sauce on top, the craving went away almost immediately. Much later...