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The Difference Between Vegetarian and Vegan

I truly believe living a ‘Vegan’ lifestyle would be a bridge too far for me. It seems like it would be far too demanding and very difficult to maintain. Personally, I draw the line at possibly being a border-line vegetarian. I say border-line because once or twice a month I might eat lean beef, but basically I don’t care for meat all that much. However, I don’t believe I would want to ever restrict my diet as much as Vegan’s do.

The major difference between a vegetarian and a vegan is that vegetarians just avoid meat, but vegans avoid any animal by-products and not just the meat of the animal itself.

Try as I might I cannot see the rationale behind not eating chicken eggs and drinking milk from dairy cows. What would the world be without yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, goat’s milk and cheese. Come to think of it “every” cheese in the world?

And no ice cream!

I think there would be a major world wide mutiny if it was suddenly declared the whole world had to go Vegan.

How boring it must be in a Vegan’s home at dinner time. “Pass the wheat grass please. Oh, and the soy burgers.” You would think that if the Vegan diet was so great, there would be vegan restaurants and fast food joints springing up on every corner. Well to be honest, I have never even seen one.

It’s really hard to accept that a Vegan diet could possibly be healthy. When you think about it, they have pretty well eliminated about 95% of possible protein sources. Basically vegans are left with soy, nuts, and legumes. Even a Vegetarian can substitute cottage cheese, eggs, milk and cheese as protein sources to replace meat.

It really seems that being a practicing Vegan is bordering on fanaticism when it comes to diet. More than anything, it seems that it would make life unnecessarily difficult. For instance, going out to a restaurant for dinner must be next to impossible without virtually sending a recipe in for the chef to prepare for you.

Also, how would one ever go out to a friends or relatives for dinner without putting in all sorts of special requests?

I believe that’s why if you were to look at your family, all your friends, and all your co-workers, you will find several Vegetarians and most likely, not one Vegan.

Ray Fauteux

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