Name: 生活方式大改變｜成為素食主義者？ (Big Lifestyle Change | Becoming a Vegan?)
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How do you know if someone's a vegan? Don't worry they'll tell you!

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Hey guys! So, not to make that very very lame joke true but I have decided to take on the

vegan diet/lifestyle for the month of October. Why just for the month of October you maybe

asking. Well to be completely honest, and since YouTube

is a place to be ourselves. It's because I'm afraid of failure.

No, but really, I am just such an all or nothing kind of person that once I commit to something

I will kind of go crazy and be really extreme about it.

I wanted to give myself a month to learn what it was going to be like to actual be a vegan.

What parts were going to be difficult, what parts wouldn't be so difficult.

And allow myself to mess up or accidentally eat animal products without getting mad at

myself or whatever. I'm telling you I take things way too extreme.

So I'm giving myself a month goal of sticking to it.

If I mess up, that's okay! It's going to be a learning process.

And I also maybe, a little bit, wanted a potential cop out in case at the end of the month I

thought this was awful. But turns out the month of October is vegetarian

awareness month I believe, and November first is National Vegan Day, or something. So if

I give up on Vegan Day that'll be really sad. So I'm hoping I can stick to this.

Currently, as I'm recording this video, it's been exactly one week of no animal products

whatsoever in my diet. And I gotta say, I'm feeling pretty good.

It hasn't been too hard. There haven't been many times where I'm just annoyed that I can't

eat something. Little disclaimer though, I already really

don't eat a lot of meat, so it's not a huge transition for me to cut out dairy products

that are in my diet. So it wasn't this big drastic change for me

so far. The main point for this video though is to

explain why I've decided to embrace the vegan lifestyle, at least for a month.

And also what that might mean for this channel. It's somewhat scary though to think completely

different than almost everything I was taught from the moment I was born.

I was always taught that you needed animal products for protein and milk to be strong

and you would eat eggs for breakfast everyday. That was just the way we were taught to think,

so I didn't really know any different. To hear the complete opposite of those ideas

really changed my thinking and honestly was terrifying.

At the same time as a communications major in college, my main focus was rhetoric and

being able to take the words, images, ideas that are being presented to you, look past

the surface level and really find the truth and make your own opinions. Not just based

on what is given to you. So that's what I decided to do!

In the past I didn't really think much of vegans.

Not positive or negative, I just didn't really think of the idea much.

Other than that it seemed maybe like unrealistic and unnecessary.

I just saw vegans as extreme animal lovers and having really intense willpower.

About two years ago. I just kept stumbling upon so much pro-vegan information. I kind

of couldn't avoid my ignorance anymore. This lead to me watching tons of documentaries

based on what you eat, where it comes from, how it effects your body and what not.

And with each documentary my ideas and feelings towards veganism really grew more and more

and more. Some of these documentaries are: Food Inc.,

Forks Over Knives, Vegucation, Cowspiracy, and 101 Reasons To Go Vegan, which is actually

a presentation online. You can watch it on YouTube.

I will link all of those documentaries below. You can watch most of them, I believe, on

Netflix or on Youtube, but I will put everything below so you can check it all out.

After watching these I had three main issues that were really sticking in my mind.

Those are my health, animal cruelty and our environment.

Now I don't want to rant at all and tell you why you should be a vegan. I'm not trying

to push this on anyone by any means. I just want to explain what pushed me over the edge to try this.

I want to live a long life where my body is healthy enough to do what I want it to do.

I good example of how health is related to being a vegan is the topic of milk.

I'm sure everyone's seen those "Got Milk?" ads but what most people don't know is that

under the Federal Dairy Promotion Program, dairy farmers are actually forced to pay for

those ads. The American government literally tells us

that we need to drink milk in order to be strong and grow.

And this isn't even true. Studies have actually shown that milk might

be depleting the calcium levels in our bones. Wait, what?

Now isn't that opposite of what we're told? Yes, yes it is.

So here's what happens. Your body needs to maintain a certain PH.

Now milk raises the acid levels in your body. To fix this, your body compensates by using

calcium to balance out those levels. Where does it get the calcium?

Your bones. When I read that I was like...

I got nothing. That doesn't make any sense to me.

So after all milk might not be the best source of our calcium, if it's taking calcium out

of our body. There are plenty of other ways to get calcium,

be strong and have your muscles grow. Not to mention, milk is intended for a ninety

pound calf to drink and grow eight times that. Eight times that!

Just while it's drinking the milk. It then stop drinking the milk.

So the cows aren't even drinking the milk when they're older.

Why are we drinking another species milk through our whole entire adult life hood.

It doesn't really add up anymore now does it.

There are tons of other health issues that I found but for sake of time, let's move on.

Sadly there are endless videos and images depicting how just disgraceful ninety to ninety-five

percent of the animals are treated that are eventually going to become the food on our

plate. I don't know about you guys but putting that

bad energy and sad, sick animals into your system doesn't feel right and can't be good

for you. Watching these videos is so horrific. Half

the time I find myself looking away. I can't even bear to watch what they do to

However, these videos would effect me for a couple days, it would honestly make me sick.

The one time I watched one right before my mom was making dinner, and it was some kind

of animal product. And I couldn't eat it! I was like, not doing

it tonight! But I guess just because it's been embedded

in me that that's just what we do and that's just how the world is, I would get over it.

Shortly after watching these videos I'd find myself going back to eating a chicken sandwich

or bacon for breakfast or whatever. I don't know why we're so desensitized to

it that it was okay. Even though I know that they're being treated

so horribly, I continued to eat the food. I kind of just figured, oh it's fine. I'll

eat free-range, it'll be okay, those animals are treated well. Everything's okay and right

Even free-range doesn't really mean anything. At most they get a couple more inches of room.

In certain parts of the world eating dogs and cats is a delicacy, but most Americans

would find that absolutely repulsive and disgusting. But where's the discrepancy between a dog

and a pig. We're just conditioned to see one as a pet

and one as dinner. Overall my current view is that if I'm not

willing to go and do what is done to those animals before I eat, then I really don't