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Genuinely curious questions, as I only know people who have made the decision to go vegan as adults: do you feel or know that this diet had any side effects on

Genuinely curious questions, as I only know people who have made the decision to go vegan as adults: do you feel or know that this diet had any side effects on you growing up? How much attention did you pay to getting a diverse diet and all required nutrients? How long have you been vegan now?

zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
No side effects. I was quite healthy in my teen years and early 20s. Not saying I'm unhealthy now, but I don't workout like I did back then. I'm no less healthy than my brothers. 1 follows a regular omnivore diet, the other is vegetarian. I eat a good variety of fruits and vegetables, but have started eating more processed crap as I've got older and busy with work and life. When I was younger I was really into cooking intentionally healthy meals. Most of my protein comes from beans and tofu. I get asked about that a lot. I've been vegan for 21 years. Spring of 2002 I started cutting back on meat, slowly went mostly vegetarian over the summer, then vegan that autumn. Initially I stopped eating beef because of seeing some of the health issues my uncle's were experiencing and I attributed it to overconsumption of beef. I don't know if that's true, but anyway. Then reading about antibiotics and hormones given to the animals, I just didn't want to eat that. So I was in the mindset that I wouldn't eat factory farmed meat. I thought hunting was ok. Until I went hunting. Deer and pheasant seasons are early autumn, I think. Hunting both was what made me decide I was completely done with all animal products. My dad got a deer and I helped butcher it. That was some fucked up shit. I went pheasant hunting, shot one, didn't kill it, strangled it to put it out of its misery/not shoot it again and ruin the meat. That shit was really fucked up. So yeah, killing an animal and helping to skin and cut up that animal and another one are what really did it for me. Had I not gone hunting I might have just stayed a vegetarian and maybe eaten the occasional meat. These animals were no different than my pets and I would never do that to one of those guys.
- Cockbrand 3y ago
  Thank you for the elaborate answer! Well appreciated!

zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago

No side effects. I was quite healthy in my teen years and early 20s. Not saying I'm unhealthy now, but I don't workout like I did back then. I'm no less healthy than my brothers. 1 follows a regular omnivore diet, the other is vegetarian. I eat a good variety of fruits and vegetables, but have started eating more processed crap as I've got older and busy with work and life. When I was younger I was really into cooking intentionally healthy meals. Most of my protein comes from beans and tofu. I get asked about that a lot. I've been vegan for 21 years. Spring of 2002 I started cutting back on meat, slowly went mostly vegetarian over the summer, then vegan that autumn. Initially I stopped eating beef because of seeing some of the health issues my uncle's were experiencing and I attributed it to overconsumption of beef. I don't know if that's true, but anyway. Then reading about antibiotics and hormones given to the animals, I just didn't want to eat that. So I was in the mindset that I wouldn't eat factory farmed meat. I thought hunting was ok. Until I went hunting. Deer and pheasant seasons are early autumn, I think. Hunting both was what made me decide I was completely done with all animal products. My dad got a deer and I helped butcher it. That was some fucked up shit. I went pheasant hunting, shot one, didn't kill it, strangled it to put it out of its misery/not shoot it again and ruin the meat. That shit was really fucked up. So yeah, killing an animal and helping to skin and cut up that animal and another one are what really did it for me. Had I not gone hunting I might have just stayed a vegetarian and maybe eaten the occasional meat. These animals were no different than my pets and I would never do that to one of those guys.

Cockbrand 3y ago
Thank you for the elaborate answer! Well appreciated!