Any diet or eating system that requires you to take extra vitamins and pills in order to supplement what you eat, is in my opinion, a very questionable diet.

Also note that veganism by choice, is an idea only to be found in developed countries where people are spoiled for choice. It usually starts to emerge when people no longer have to produce their own food, i.e. the moment the supermarket arrives in town. Cause let's face it, until that happens, you cannot really be picky...

I personally don't have a problem with it, its your right to choose what you want to eat. What does annoy me though, is when people start preaching it onto others, "meat is murder" etc. It's so arrogant, up minded and self-righteous. I didn't climb all the way up the food chain in order to be told I shouldn't eat what I want.

As I celebrate my two-year vegan anniversary, I am proud to say that I have never been anemic. I have never been deficient in any vitamin, and I have never taken a vitamin supplement. I have never been tired or run-down, although I was underweight for several months after becoming vegan as a result of my body learning to process its fats differently.

There are three main reasons I'm vegan. In order of importance, they are ethics, environment, and personal health.

As I've grown as a vegan and become more aware of and active in the vegan community, I've completely done a 180. When I first went vegan, it was because of factory farm conditions, so I thought that when I went to Sweden, I'd be eating the meat my grandfather hunted, etc. I've come to equate a non-human animal with a human animal. I believe firmly that their lives are equal. Animals do not exist to benefit humans. They are not our slaves. This is speciesism, and this is terrible, and this must end. I now understand that I truly love animals, unlike before.

I didn't even realize there was a health factor until after I went vegan. As I was reading about veganism, I kept stumbling across all of these articles and statistics about how terrible meat is for you. I mean, everyone knows that too much red meat is bad for you, but this shit causes cancer? And worse? I had no idea. And milk is basically fatty and pussy (as in filled with pus) and gross and also terrible for you. And eggs? Cholesterol everywhere.

I last learned about the environmental factor. Get this: the animal agriculture industry produces more greenhouse gases than all of the automobiles and trucks in the world. I mean, that's insane! Unbelievable amounts of pollution are coming out of this corrupt business.

The best choice I ever made was going vegan.

I refuse to become the "preacher" that everybody hates and hope to lead by example. I also cannot stand People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and I think they should burn. Whenever somebody tells me that they could "never give those things up," I just remind them that in my pregan years, I chowed down on ribs, steaks, lamb chops, and absolutely loved it all. My grandfather is a hunter! I used to make fun of vegetarians! And now here I am.

In case anybody actually cares about learning the facts on veganism, I recommend http://www.tryveg.com/cfi/toc/, the Compassion Over Killing (COK) website dedicated to converting omnivores. "Earthlings" is also a fantastic movie to watch. I will recommend the PETA website http://www.goveg.com/

Veganism makes you feel better, it's great for the environment, it's cheap, it's animal friendly and discourages factory farming, and it's a great diet.

Well..., lets think about all the animals that are vegans like the hippo, the elephant, the cow. Now lets think about all the carnivores like the cheetah, the lion, the eagle. I don't know about you but I know which group I'd like to belong to ;)

Well, I was a vegan for a year. But I went through some serious deficiencies to the point I was dreaming about chicken. So, I had to give it up in order to gain my sanity back. It wasn't worth focusing on a specific diet to sacrifice my sanity. But anyhow, I'll pull out the argument that eating meat IS natural, but as natural as not eating it. I won't say being a vegetarian is unnatural, it can be perfectly healthy if you follow all the specific guidelines to make it healthy. Ones reason for being a vegetarian though, is another issue. If someone was doing it because they think eating a piece of a chicken is bad, then that alone, has its flaws.

Disadvantages: No-

BBQ Ribs

Orange Chicken

Burger King bacon stacker

Turkey

Fried Chicken

Double Quarter Pounder With Cheese

Prime Rib

Shrimp

Crab Cakes

Jack in the box tacos

Mini sirloin burgers

Advantages: More meat for me.

But seriously depending on what blood type you are, meat can be very important to your health.

The advantages and disadvantages for any diet differ between people. Some people are healthiest on diets full of meat, while others are healthiest on vegan diets. Personally, I could never give up milk, eggs, etc, let alone burgers and steak. However, some people actually become healthier when they give up meat and some people are healthy when they give up everything associated with meat as well, like milk and eggs.

The most important thing in any diet, however, is that the person gets the required nutrients and vitamins through food or pills, if necessary. That's the difference between diets. Different foods have different amounts of vitamins and nutrients that we all need. Of course, we also need protein in meat or soy, carbohydrates in almost anything, and fat found in everything nowadays. But these three things are found in vegan diets and meat diets.

Advantages: No need to kill or exploit animals. Better for the environment. Low fat, high fiber diet.

Disadvantages: Hard to get protein. No tasty animal products.

Veganism is natural. But then so is non-veganism.