[hannah]

@msnewboobies: I can definitely confirm that I am having much less period cramps since going vegan, especially since eating high carb / low fat. Also I had bad acne before I went vegan, which cleared up after some weeks on the vegan lifestyle. And POM is right, a plantbased diet is the healthiest for your body. Dairy and meat will lead to heart disease, cancer and diabetes, that's no secret anymore.

Regarding vegans and "choices/beliefs"... here is a quote which sums it up nicely:

"I was not raised a vegan, I was automatically born into this world without a choice and that is by eating meat and animal by-products. Do you know why I didn't get a choice? Because the meat and dairy industry spends more than 550 million dollars a year into brainwashing society. Their main focus is on children, through things like colouring books featuring why we must drink milk provided at school paid by dairy industry, making it compulsory to hand out 1 carton of milk at school everyday, making sure meat is part of the meals at school cafeterias, paying health organisations to feature their products in the food pyramids and other articles, manipulating scientific studies to get results that they need, trying to make ag gag laws on slaughter houses so people can't go in and show the public what it's really like, putting a million commercials of meat on TV, commercials of milk which include paying celebrities to advertise milk, constant fast food burger commercials, the list goes on and on. They are extremely powerful industries and will do anything to exceed in profit.

So please tell me again who is forcing their beliefs on you? I'm sick of hearing people tell vegans to stop forcing their "beliefs" on people. First of all it is not a belief, it is a conscience decision based on facts to put your actions inline with your morals. Maybe if the meat and dairy industry stopped forcing their beliefs onto society than maybe we wouldn't need to "force" ours and by force I mean educate because that's all vegans are really doing, is educating and presenting facts. Vegans value all animals lives the same and is that so wrong? We are vegan because we believe all living beings have a choice to live the way they choose. If people didn't speak up than I probably would still be eating dead flesh now. So NO we won't stop "forcing" our "beliefs" onto people until you stop forcing yours onto us, the animals and the environment" https://instagram.com/p/6qC12FFfci/

If you are interested in the environment: "Agriculture is the most destructive industry in the world today, responsible for global warming, deforestation, droughts, murders of land activists etc." Watch Cowspiracy on Netflix, it's one of the best documentaries ever.

@POM: I definitely recommend you also to watch Cowspiracy.

I am still following your thread Peggy, I'm a great plant-eater myself. And as much as you probably hate to hear it I still eat meat, BUT a lot less since I saw the green tumor picture. Anyhow this is a matter of consciousness, and in this new age modern time we live in now..people will become more and more aware of this. Its awareness versus tradition.
I wanted to bring up a completely different subject to you Peggy, which also has to do with awareness and deception namely Vaccins. What do you think about that Pegs? Ever heard of the extreme conspiracy which shelters behind the: '' It will protect you from deadly disaeses''--fake ''fact''?
Do you also know how they let ie polio cells grow on animal DNA making us even more sick of some meat that is beeing used in the vaccins? Or all these rising allergies like peanut allergy..because peanut oil is the most used carrier oil in vaccins?
If you are interested in it I'll post up a thread soon with concerning information, sorry for hijacking but my search after vaccins reminded me about yours in animal products. A whole new vision opens itself when we just start knowing how it works and become AWARE instead of just doing because thats what we always did. Unfortunately many people just look away and that will always stop us from developing, but you probably know that from experience when you bring subjects like these up with people, they dont want to hear it. You can see from their faces they are geting tired as soon as you bring these facts up:p
So you doing this makes me really proud, You are worth life, because you want to know life instead of just taking everything for granted and just clothing your eyes, look away and deny the clues that are showed to us. For me you are a hero!: And I know how hard it is to convince people without getting a negative image yourself. But you say what you think and thats great!