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I've had a few 'moments' at social functions when I have made the mistake of counting lives. One in particular was when I went to a friends house not long after going vego. It was no big occassion...

Couldn't have put it into words better myself. Do you mind if I use this definition in my future discussions with pro farmers?

RubyRose is spot on. I get lots of people saying "you bloody vegans are destroying the rain forests to eat all the soy". But when I tell them that up to 80% of the soy from these plantations is...

I think that the average vegan will definitely have a higher IQ than the average meat eater, but it's a cause and effect issue. Are vegans smarter because of a vegan diet, or do vegans become vegan...

I like jalepenos too, but I'm usually making it for others too so I leave them out. I have never tried to add cheese to it, but personally I think cheese in general seems to overpower the flavours...

I was at the Cruelty Free Festival too. What an awesome day. Great bands, great food, and I caught up with so many people I don't see very often. I love going somehwere where most of the people...

This is specifically for Zarncar who has hit a wall with veganism, but afere reading the post I thought there might be a few vegans out there who also crave vegan (and healthy) versions of some of...

I have been vegan for 4 years now and the only cravings I get are for sweets. Fortunately the thought of dairy or meat straight out actually makes me feel ill, but sweets are impossible to...

The egg argument is a complex issue. I personally choose not to eat any animal products so I don't eat eggs (and find the thought of eating a chicken's menstrual cycles disgusting quite frankly),...

I used a variation of this as a comeback to a drunken redneck at one of our stalls at a music festival once. He came up to the stall asking us if I had *expletive* (male private parts) because I...

I would be VERY wary of taking on any job in a 'charity' unless it was with an animal rights specific charity. Most charities these days are nothing more than insidious capitalist corporations, whose...

Correct, that's what I call them when I'm talking about them in relation to their diet. I rarely bother trying to talk to them about food any more.

The healthy bones comment is so frustrating. I try to explain to them that dairy depletes the bones of calcium but they just won't listen. When it suits them, people are very quick to believe what...

You are just lucky to be living in a slightly more enlightened society than me. Australia is still firmly in the vice like grip of the meat and dairy industry propaganda machine, which has everyone...

What? No "Where do you get Calcium and Iron from?" I've tried to explain the myths and propaganda of the meat and dairy industries relating to this but I usually give up and tell them to go to...

Everybody knows that if you aren't sick when you go in, the food will make you sick, and that's just the regular food for the meat eaters :)

But seriously, no matter what diet I was on, if I went...

I think one of the real problems facing the vegan movement is the almost complete lack of choice when eating out. As much as we all enjoy the health benefits of being vegan, to get more mainstream...

It's amazing what you can deduce about somebody just from loooking in their shopping basket. Since going vegan I've found that I am always looking in other people's shopping trolleys whilst waiting...

Like many others have said in response to this, it's hard to say what you will do in any situation until you are actually in it. That's the problem with hypothetical questions. You get hypothetical...

Hi Laura,

It's very frustrating getting judged by everyone when they find out you're vegan. Just because we are a small minority people seem to think they can judge us a whole on their...

I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone say "I don't want to know about it because if I knew I might not eat it anymore".

I also have to laugh (whilst being extremely offended and...

Sounds like some of the ridiculous comments form articles I've read like when vegetarians are blamed for deforestation of rainforests for soy plantations.

Sheila, I understand where you are coming from. Working on stalls for animal activist groups here in Sydney, I often get approached by argumentative meat eaters with this same type of question, or...

This comment reminds me of a quote from the dalai lama himself who once said he tried to be a vegetarian but it was too hard (I have recently read that he is now a vegetarian but his diet seems to...

It is unrealistic to think that ALL humans will convert to a vegan diet as a matter of choice. The health reasons are compelling, but no more compelling than other health warnings which have also...

The other thing to consider in the pound of meat v 7 pounds of vegetables is that the resulting pound of meat is utterly useless nutrition wise (in spite of what meat industry funded 'research' has...