A vegetarian is a person that does not eat meat. Some vegetarians will, however, sometimes eat eggs and milk products like cheese and yogurt. The vegetarian is more concerned with the fact that meat is a dead animal and that the animal was killed to harvest its meat. Some vegetarians have ethical issues with this others just believe that it's unhealthy to consume meat. Most vegetarians (that I know) will tell you that cows are going to give milk and chickens are going to lay eggs even without human intervention and they feel like there's nothing wrong with taking advantage of the protein because no animal was harmed to get eggs and milk.
A vegan is a person who believes that you should never consume anything of animal origin; no meat, no eggs, no milk or milk products. In fact some vegans will not buy or use anything that comes from an animal, this means leather and in some cases even wool.
Before I started "The Vegan Experiment" I was a vegetarian and I probably always will be. My shoes have leather in them and my wallet is made of leather and I don't plan on changing this anytime soon. I have long been the kind of vegetarian that eats eggs and cheese an other milk products because I thought that animals weren't harmed for these products and I had no ethical issues with it. I have, recently, been reeducated. I have seen the conditions that chickens are forced to live in to produce eggs. I have learned that in order to keep a cow giving milk they are kept continuously pregnant and the day they give birth the calf is taken from the mother and she is artificially inseminated to get her pregnant again and the cycle continues and in my thinking these types of things are unethical and I do have a problem with that. I have a documentary you should see it's called "Vegucated." and is available without a subscription on Hulu.com and if you would like to see it here's a link http://www.hulu.com/#!watch/478858. "Vegucated." goes into greater detail about the sorts of unethical treatment that I'm talking about.
Still I think that if I knew where the eggs I was buying came from and the chickens were not mistreated in any way I would not have a problem with eating eggs. A friend of mine is talking about buying chickens and she said she sell me eggs if I want them. I know my friend would treat them well and the birds would be in no way mistreated.
My purpose here, however, is go strictly vegan for the next 90 days. I want to see how I feel about this physically. Beginning tomorrow, June 1st I will follow a strict vegan diet until September 1st.
One of the things I would like to accomplish with this diet is weight loss and I've been studying vegan recipes and am starting to put together a menu plan and I have say this about it. Vegan doesn't necessarily mean Thin I've seen some really fattening vegan recipes and I'm surprised. I always thought vegan meant thin. A good example of fattening vegan is "Vegan Red Velvet Cake" I love red velvet cake, it's one of favorite desserts. This recipe doesn't use eggs or cream cheese (which makes it vegan) but it does use Vegan Cream Cheese (which is made from tofu) and two pounds (yes pounds) of powdered sugar!
While going vegan I will be paying close attention to what amounts of fat and calories are contained in the recipes I'll be using and I'll post the best of what I find here.
A vegan is a person who believes that you should never consume anything of animal origin; no meat, no eggs, no milk or milk products. In fact some vegans will not buy or use anything that comes from an animal, this means leather and in some cases even wool.
Before I started "The Vegan Experiment" I was a vegetarian and I probably always will be. My shoes have leather in them and my wallet is made of leather and I don't plan on changing this anytime soon. I have long been the kind of vegetarian that eats eggs and cheese an other milk products because I thought that animals weren't harmed for these products and I had no ethical issues with it. I have, recently, been reeducated. I have seen the conditions that chickens are forced to live in to produce eggs. I have learned that in order to keep a cow giving milk they are kept continuously pregnant and the day they give birth the calf is taken from the mother and she is artificially inseminated to get her pregnant again and the cycle continues and in my thinking these types of things are unethical and I do have a problem with that. I have a documentary you should see it's called "Vegucated." and is available without a subscription on Hulu.com and if you would like to see it here's a link http://www.hulu.com/#!watch/478858. "Vegucated." goes into greater detail about the sorts of unethical treatment that I'm talking about.
Still I think that if I knew where the eggs I was buying came from and the chickens were not mistreated in any way I would not have a problem with eating eggs. A friend of mine is talking about buying chickens and she said she sell me eggs if I want them. I know my friend would treat them well and the birds would be in no way mistreated.
My purpose here, however, is go strictly vegan for the next 90 days. I want to see how I feel about this physically. Beginning tomorrow, June 1st I will follow a strict vegan diet until September 1st.
One of the things I would like to accomplish with this diet is weight loss and I've been studying vegan recipes and am starting to put together a menu plan and I have say this about it. Vegan doesn't necessarily mean Thin I've seen some really fattening vegan recipes and I'm surprised. I always thought vegan meant thin. A good example of fattening vegan is "Vegan Red Velvet Cake" I love red velvet cake, it's one of favorite desserts. This recipe doesn't use eggs or cream cheese (which makes it vegan) but it does use Vegan Cream Cheese (which is made from tofu) and two pounds (yes pounds) of powdered sugar!
While going vegan I will be paying close attention to what amounts of fat and calories are contained in the recipes I'll be using and I'll post the best of what I find here.
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