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Hello,
So as the title says I'm currently exploring the idea of going to a vegan diet, primarily for animals as a lot of what im told goes on doesn't sit right with me, and secondly for health.
I've been a "carnivore" for 30 years of my life, eating at all you can eat BBQ restaurants, drinking lots of milk, eating lots of cheese and I love my eggs for breakfast, so go easy on me as this is a big transition for me.
I've only just had a dominos pizza tonight which was all veggie with no cheese, and I made a delicious vegan curry the other day with chickpeas.
I've seen a video on YouTube which you all probably know which I'm talking about, where it shows farming with horrific scenes of a calf being dragged away from the mother and the mother clearly distressed, and chicks being thrown away. You probably know which video I mean. However, the video is American. I find it hard to believe the scenes would be the same in U.K. Is this what goes on here? I drive all round the country and only today have I seen fields full of cows WITH the calfs clearly more than days old.
I live in the countryside and we have a farm that sells raw milk straight from the Coe and I've seen the herd and all seem happy and totally not distressed in anyway.
I buy eggs from up the road where a family own a few chickens in their garden and sell the eggs at the front door. Is this really wrong? And why?
I see things, and I think that's it, I'm going vegan. Then I realise the thing I've seen or read is American and think well it's a massive change for me based on some information from another country. I want to know what happens here. Any one got good reliable info on this with evidence, links etc?
After all the info I can get before making a huge lifestyle change.
Thanks!
So as the title says I'm currently exploring the idea of going to a vegan diet, primarily for animals as a lot of what im told goes on doesn't sit right with me, and secondly for health.
I've been a "carnivore" for 30 years of my life, eating at all you can eat BBQ restaurants, drinking lots of milk, eating lots of cheese and I love my eggs for breakfast, so go easy on me as this is a big transition for me.
I've only just had a dominos pizza tonight which was all veggie with no cheese, and I made a delicious vegan curry the other day with chickpeas.
I've seen a video on YouTube which you all probably know which I'm talking about, where it shows farming with horrific scenes of a calf being dragged away from the mother and the mother clearly distressed, and chicks being thrown away. You probably know which video I mean. However, the video is American. I find it hard to believe the scenes would be the same in U.K. Is this what goes on here? I drive all round the country and only today have I seen fields full of cows WITH the calfs clearly more than days old.
I live in the countryside and we have a farm that sells raw milk straight from the Coe and I've seen the herd and all seem happy and totally not distressed in anyway.
I buy eggs from up the road where a family own a few chickens in their garden and sell the eggs at the front door. Is this really wrong? And why?
I see things, and I think that's it, I'm going vegan. Then I realise the thing I've seen or read is American and think well it's a massive change for me based on some information from another country. I want to know what happens here. Any one got good reliable info on this with evidence, links etc?
After all the info I can get before making a huge lifestyle change.
Thanks!