r/AskVegans

For context I just recently went vegan abt a month ago. I walk around a lot and when I wasn't vegan somewhere along my walk I found an animal bone and took it home with me.

For years it's been sitting in my room and I remembered it was there today when I went to a shop that sells animal bones (they harvest animal bones using the same method as I did-finding them on the ground and cleaning them. Although I'm assuming some of the pieces are donated or purchased by the owner).

When I was with some of my friends they were asking if the owner could help them identify what bones they had and the owner even offered to clean some off for free(my friend collects all kinds of bones not just wild animals but human teeth too) and I had remembered that I had an animal bone that quite frankly after going vegan didn't rly want in my home!

So I offered to sell a bone to him,however I'm wondering if it's kinda disrespectful to the animal if their bone is sold for profit? I'm kinda looking for cash rn tho so I'm unsure if this is smth that I should do. My two solutions I was thinking of were to trade the animal bone(for like something else in the shop of the same value bc they also sell like tea and jewelry) so that I'm not giving it up for profit,but my concern with this is that the person I'm giving the bone to almost definitely will sell it for profit,which I kinda understand isn't my responsibility anymore but if I know where the bone is going to then it kinda is my responsibility??? I guess?

My other option (probably the most hippy dippy vegan option) was to bury the bone however I'm not sure if my attempt at burying the bone would be sacrilegious. I know it sounds incredibly silly but I do a little bit believe that animals have souls and that maybe burying a part of the body away from the rest of it would be more disrespectful that to sell it to someone who has a better spiritual connection with animals and their bones.

I'm not super into spiritually so if someone could give me like a guide on how to properly bury an animal bone that would be great and if it doesn't actually matter that much do I sell it or trade it??

TLDR:I found a bone on the side of the road and idk what to do with it(sell,trade or bury)

Hi y'all, my friends and I want to run a vegan cooking and education workshop for the leftists in our circles who are receptive to veganism but who need some assistance in bridging that gap between belief and action. A lot of the non-vegan people we've talked to have said that the cooking and nutrition side of things can be intimidating because our animal-exploitation-pilled society doesn't teach people how to cook without meat, dairy, eggs etc. and this is obviously a practical issue they face every day.

We want to run this workshop in a non-judgemental manner and try to be gentle and meet people where they're at. Any tips or places we can look to for guidance on how to run a workshop like this?

Cheap and easy recipes are also appreciated 🌱

I've seen some people talking about kids being upset when they realize meat is animal flesh, and I was wondering how common of an experience it is. I definitely believe it happens, I just personally don't remember ever thinking meat was from a plant or something.

I have a 17-year-old son. He is autistic and he is a passionate vegetarian. Without further knowledge, he was OK with eating eggs and dairy not understanding that those animals eventually end up dead. He just learned that today and no longer wants to consume any dairy or egg products. Here’s the problem, he is 6 feet tall under 120 pounds and losing. He has eating challenges and the dairy and eggs are really the only things that are keeping him alive at this point. He can’t stand the feeling of oily food in his mouth, but he desperately needs the fats. Non-fat yogurt, cottage cheese, and eggs are staples. It would be virtually impossible for us to make an overnight shift to an all vegan diet. He cannot afford to even miss one meal. He is barely medically stable, with bradycardia and less than perfect labs (we are under the watchful eye of an eating disorder doctor). There’s no way he’ll switch to food that he does not like just to get the calories in. He’s a very picky eater at this point.

Oh, the most fun he has in life right now is making ninja Creami s with high protein milk.

He is just crushed at the moment.

Advice? I am not vegan and am burned out trying to keep him alive. I do not have the time or mental capacity to find vegan foods that will replace his vegetarian, but not vegan foods. I have been with him 24/7 for about 26 months straight… these eating challenges are brutal….. he also has gastric and pelvic floor issues severally compounding it challenges…he has a good team of professionals, but nobody that he would listen to to help navigate this new knowledge and sudden loss of all his favorite foods.( No one that could understand his moral beliefs.)

My son has had a very rough last 3 years and has nothing to live for at the moment (once healthy, he has runs if f potential - he is smart, atheistic, loves to learn) he currently did not have that drive to stay in this world and today the world became a bit more cruel.

Since a lot of vegans are vegans because they care about planet, why do you think that is better for nature to use synthetic clothes, that is leaking microplastic and plastic fibers, that pollutes water and soil and therefore harm many more animals and people over leather and wool which are bio degradable? And most of the time the vegan leather is just piece of plastic but its still being called better for environment.

I have heard some stories about people who lived for more than a hundred years, and their longevity was attributed to following a diet based on vegetables and fruits. There are also other spiritual sources and teachings from some ascetics that recommend eating vegetables and fruits and avoiding meat example " Ramana Maharshi " ( The food served at his ashram was strictly vegetarian, and he emphasized the importance of Sattvic food — that is, food regarded in Yoga and Vedanta as conducive to mental calmness and clarity. He also explicitly said that those who wish to gradually become accustomed to a vegetarian diet can do so.)

My question is: Is following such a diet considered unhealthy, or should I abandon this idea?

Weevils sometimes infest rice and beans. Is it still vegan to eat this rice and beans or is this a throw it away situation? Washing the rice would kill them I assume, but you wouldn't consume them, unless you didn't wash them thoroughly enough, which is always possible. They're really tiny and hard to see. Easily mistaken for a dark piece of dust or just the darkness between rice grains in a large bowl of rice. You really wouldn't notice one until it moves.

While Gen Z is still more likely to go vegan than Boomers there seems to be a trend of Gen Z in areas of higher veganism in Western society refusing to go vegan and incorporate more plant based alternatives. Why is this happening in places like the UK, France, and the US?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721061192?via%3Dihub

Long-time vegan here, with some slip-ups.

Some context: I have a difficult relationship with my Dad but we have a shared interest in some movies and we connect on that basis. Recently watch Life of Pi with him and we both enjoyed discussing it afterwards.

Internally tho I couldn't quite overcome my discomfort with how it depicted animals (I know most of them are CGI) -- normally I'd just stop watching if I see like animal harm/meat/pets etc. but never been quite sure how to respond to animals 'acting', even CGI ones. I felt like Pi in particular was contributing to the anthromorphizing of some circus animals and depicted others are brainlessly violent. I found the relationship between the main character and the animals to be one where the human is depicted as strangely controlling or in power over the animals.

I guess my question is where do you land on this grey area?

I apologize if this has been asked before. Does anyone make exceptions for items, not necessary food,that is 100% bound for a landfill?

I became vegan 2 days ago. I've been taking notes on what I can and can't eat, and finding recipes for vegan dishes. I got a good idea on how it works, but as a noob vegan, I'm still learning which vegan brands to go for, and what to avoid. I'm doing my research, but I'm all for ideas. Any recommendations?

Confused about vegan v plant based labels (pls read fully)

I feel lowkey stupid for not understanding this. Please don’t insult me, I have cognitive dysfunction from a head injury and I blame this for me not being able to put this together.

\- I understand that veganism is the moral philosophy that animals don’t exist to be used by humans, so vegans practise this belief by refusing to use animals for food, clothes, medicine and entertainment and stuff. Veganism is not a diet, it’s a philosophy.
\- Being plant based is a person who eats a ‘vegan diet’ without fully (or at all) agreeing with vegan philosophy. Plant based is a diet, not a philosophy.

I conclude that all vegans are plant based, but not all plant based are vegan.

So when we have people who …
\- 100% agree with vegan philosophy
\- but don’t eat a 100% plant based diet
Why do we call them plant based?
When being plant based has nothing to do with veganism and everything to do with diet, and the thing the person is struggling with is the diet aspect.

Does it not make sense to make up a new term for these people, instead of using a term that contradicts itself/ the definitions of vegan and plant based? I feel like these people aren’t vegan or plant based. They’re something else entirely. And I feel like it’s kind of insulting to people who are trying to be vegan because they complete agree with the philosophy, but have dietary limits. It almost feels like gate keeping. But I’m also worried I’m missing something and jsut being an idiot.

What the title says. It looks dirt cheap but I don’t see a vegan label. Does anyone know if it’s vegan and if not what is the cheapest B12 per serving that is vegan?

Im newly vegan and I have medical issues with my feet and since insurance wont cover othortics the only shoe ive found on the market that dosent make me yern for a wheel chair are the fully cork foot bed of berkinstocks after breaking them into my feet but all the ones I find use leather. I've been looking through other brand that use cork and they all seem to share the leather issue. Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking at or looking for. I don't see why I'm struggling to find something similar that's vegan friendly considering how cork the thing that seems to be the key component is from a tree. I'd prefer sustainably made as well but I guess I can't be that picky unless I'm just utterly blind.

New vegan here 4ish months in. I've been phasing out my old things, cosmetics, toothpaste, clothing etc since I feel bad about the thought of giving up the things I already owned and hence not valuing the suffering animals went through for me to use those things.

Anyway, in my quest to become vegan in every aspect of my life, what are some things that I should look out for, and find vegan options, which one would never think to even consider?

Thanks you beautiful people ;3

Ps: food recommendations appreciated

Everyday I have to hear bs from my dad about me being vegan. He always tells me that he doesn’t think veganism is for animals, says that vegans are like “zombies” and that they aren’t healthy. I’m a baby vegan only 6 months but man I hope I don’t have to hear this for the rest of my life.

With all of the lead that plant protein powders tend to have, isn't taking plant-based protein powder dangerous in the long term, especially when it comes to retardation?

For example, orgain protein powder just tested above the safe levels of lead and it is 143% above California's limit.

Costco is currently in a lawsuit because of this, because the products are not as healthy as marketed to consumers.

You might not notice the effects immediately, but the heavy metals accumulate over time in your body.

People like to make fun of California's law but have you ever thought about maybe that they are right and have the progressive position in the regulation of cancer-causing substances in food?