So do you guys ever indulge in a good old fashioned glass of ice cold RC cola?
Not some conveluted, super nutrient rich smoothy or diet cola, just a glass of soda all fizzing up your nose when it hits the ice cubes?
Speaking of that: Do you guys have special ice cubes too?
No taco flavor Doritos? Or heck for that matter a crunchy taco from taco bell? Ever?
As far as I'm aware, most (if not all) cola doesn't contain any animal ingredients, so is therefore vegan, however I wouldn't recommend it. I stopped drinking Cola years ago, really bad for you, even the zero-calorie ones. You'll find that once you stop eating/drinking all the sweet nasty stuff, you no longer crave for it any longer.
Some Dorito flavors are vegan, however I try to avoid most of these types of snacks, as they are high in sodium (salt), have GMO ingredients, and cooked in lots of oil (always bad for you). If I do buy these types of chips, then I go for oven-baked (non-fried), and don't eat very often.
Many Taco Bell options can be veganized, I've eaten there before, I love Mexican food. I actually sometimes buy the Old El Paso Taco Kits from local supermarkets, then use a vegan meat substitute such as one made from wheat. Makes a great lunch.
With the exception of alcohol induced vomiting.... woopsie....All of the above statements are true for me as well for about 10 years now. I started eating less junk food and started eating more meat and fish. A good portion of the meat and fish that I consume comes from hunting and fishing. And I grow atleast 50% of my own fruits and veggies which also make up a huge part of my diet. I'm not sure if the above statements are only applicable to vegans. Oreos and freeze pops are vegan. You can't live off of that. The difference is eating healthy, which can be achieved both by vegans and meat eaters. What I would suggest, however, is that meat eaters consider treating animals more ethically which would mean hunting as a source of food or raising one's own livestock as opposed to contributing to industrial meat raising.
As for saving the planet, I'm not convinced it can be done by eating only vegetables. The population growth is not sustainable either way if we have a society that outsources its food production to industrialized farming, be it meat or veggie. And destroying wildlife habitat for veggie fields isn't much more ethical in my view than killing animals for food. Certainly not more ethical than hunting and preserving said species. I admit that less wildlife habitat will need to be destroyed if the world goes vegan. But with unsustainable population growth, that too will catch up. IT just takes longer.
Really, for the save the planet crowd, the only sustainable way of living would have been hunting and gathering and not the move toward industrial farming where communities outsource their food source. So, I'm not convinced that veganism is going to save any of us from anything in the long run. It might just give us a few more years. I'd rather eat healthy without having to take supplements and enjoy the taste of my food if thats all it will buy us.
Correct, Oreos and freeze pops are vegan, but not healthy, there is certainly a fair share of junk food that is still vegan. That's why I say a low fat plant based vegan diet, this consists of mainly whole foods, preferably avoiding as much processed foods as possible.
A meat based diet, puts you at risk of heart disease due to the high cholesterol (fish too is also very high in cholesterol), a vegan diet contains zero cholesterol. Just about every cancer risk increased dramatically when eating meat too, more meat intake = higher risk, and the older you get even more so. So while eating hunted meat can be much healthier than the SAD (Standard American Diet), it isn't exactly healthy, nor is it sustainable for a large population.
BTW Although I have always been a big eater and always loved eating, but it wasn't until I became vegan did I REALLY enjoy eating. I taste real natural flavor now, and eat an amazingly wide variety of vegetables, fruits, grains and beans, unlike I used to. Hard to imagine this difference.
Oof. No wonder your health improved when you quit eating meat. You had horrible eating habits even compared to most meat eaters. Just switching to grilled chicken and baked fish would have done wonders. Lol
No, this was when I was much younger, actually at this time I didn't get sick all that often. As I was super fit, constantly running and gunning, and doing hard training in martial arts all the time. I was actually sick all the time years AFTER I stopped eating meat, until I went vegan. There is a huge difference between just quitting meat and going vegan.
Grilled chicken and fish, again are super high in cholesterol. If I would have done that, honestly I believe I would have died from heart disease long before now. Instead I'm now super healthy, and almost completely mitigated the risks of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and most cancers. All while enjoying food more than ever and while saving the planet at the same time.
I should also add, that I never went vegan for health reasons. I went vegan for the ethical reasons. It just so happened that the biggest benefit I didn't really consider was my health. Honestly, for many years I thought I had become Superman (only with a V on my shirt). lol