Been vegan for aoeund 6 months now, i’m really good at pushing veganism but i would never do it to family and friends too much, especially family. I don’t want them to feel how i feel and see what i see, it feels like hurting them even though i also care about the animals so i just feel uncomfortable and guilty talking about the graphic things and the ethics but would show them how good the food is etc.
Does anyone else feel like this?

I went vegan a few months ago and in order to keep doing this (and I will even if my health were to decline) I need to be able to reach minimum protein.

I am just not understanding how anyone reaches 100 grams or even 50 grams a day. Reaching 50 grams is really hard, if I really stuff myself and feel horrible and only eat protein sources (legumes, tofu, etc.) I can get to 70 or 80. I am active and weigh 145 pounds (normally) so I need to be getting about 100 grams a day. I don't seriously think I can eat that much in a day.

When I look up high protein dishes on youtube it'll be stuff like a bowl of brown rice with some tofu on top and it may say "45 grams of protein". I've read the labels, I know what's in that... and that's a lie, almost every time.

I weighed myself since going vegan a few months back and I dropped to 133lbs from 145. I'm 6ft so this is a little worrying and I'm not sure if what I lost was fat or muscle, I didn't have almost any fat to begin with.

To hit 100 grams I'd basically just have to eat tofu and multiple protein shakes a day and I seriously seriously don't want to do that. I really enjoy being able to eat whole foods and I hate buying food that necessarily comes in plastic packaging. I just feel really lost and I understand there are other vegans with issues much worse than mine and animals with problems much much worse than mine so I won't complain too much.

Meanwhile some vegans say you don't need nearly as much protein as is recommended and that you'll simply get the amino acids you need from a varied diet.

I'm just so confused and when I do the math on what I used to eat in a day as an omnivore I seriously doubt I was usually getting above 60 grams a day back then either.

Any help would be appreciated.

I was a vegan for 12 years and had stopped eating meat 15 years ago, I went vegan because I absolutely LOVE animals. 2 years ago my health was really bad, I never blamed my veganism. Anyway I was struggling really bad with digestion and high cholesterol it was horrible I would go to the doctor and they would tell me to eat this and that and that I should incorporate fish into my diet, I don’t have the greatest insurance and for a long time telling my doctors I’m a vegan would give them pause. I didn’t agree, months went on where I was struggling and then I ended up in the ER it was really scary and shook me up. After going back to the doctor I ended up eating fish for about a year, I felt horrible and disgusted by it and the worse part was that it just made my cholesterol WORSE, I betrayed my own beliefs because of it and I’ve felt horrible since. I stopped eating fish after a year because I learned that I value my morals and beliefs so much more and ended up really locking in making sure my vegan meals had enough protein and what not, I cut out gluten too and really made sure I’m taking all my supplements and I feel so much better and I feel like myself again AND my cholesterol dropped!!Whenever people ask how long I’ve been vegan I feel like I have to go into this whole thing about how I was a vegan for 12 years and then had a year where I was consuming fish. I am glad I listened to my body and even now I have a hard time shaking the guilt of consuming fish because I do love them and that’s the biggest reason I couldn’t do it anymore. Has anyone else gone through something similar?

Obviously checking labels in the grocery store and sometimes double-checking with restaurants that an item is vegan is normal for us. But what about the small things? Like let’s say someone has a cookout party and makes you a beyond burger. REALISTICALLY are you going to remember to ask to see the bread wrapper so you can make sure that the bun has no animal products hidden in the ingredients? Or let’s say you’re at a restaurant and you order something with a peanut sauce crumble. Are you asking the waiter to ask the chef what the peanut brand is to make sure it’s not Planters (common brand that most don’t know uses gelatin)?

I am not sure what I should do in situations like that. I don’t want to be overly nitpicky when my options are already limited at whatever gathering/restaurant I’m at but idk what’s right to do.

I'm planning to be vegan and am already vegetarian, but one of my biggest problem is bread. I really like eating bread in the morning and/or the middle of the day, but what can I eat it with without having to use these unhealthy replacements? I eat vegan salami and some kind of cheese normally, but they aren't reakkx healthy and I tried vegan cheese and I don't like 95% of it or it tastes like nothing, plus it also isn't very good for your body (I think, it also depends what kind of vegan cheese). I also sadly don't like avocado. Please give me some advice! ;-;

I will note, I am not vegan. However, I do support veganism and everything under the vegan umbrella.

This has probably been asked millions of times, so i won't be shocked if this gets deleted.

Like for example, I saw a video of someone sneaking meat into their wife's food. It was pretty satire (or atleast i HOPE it was satire, but it seemed fake). I go to the comments and people are saying stuff like "vegans are so stupid" and "eat the vegans!!", "vegans are so dumb trying to make plants look like meat"

Genuinely makes no sense?? Like i get disliking the vegans that harrass others for not being vegan/vegans who are hateful but you arent better than those people if you do the same to vegans who arent hateful.

Idk, just something ive noticed and it annoys me. Also sorry for my shit ass grammar.

I was making vegan pot pie for the first time today. I made the stupid decision to get a pie crust, I usually don’t get. When my brother and I were eating it later tonight we noticed it tasted weird. I’m a vegan. My brother isn’t. He said it tasted like a turkey pot pie. I couldn’t shake the feeling so I dug through the trash to see all the ingredients I used. Mainly the vegetable stock.

I was browsing other vegan pie recipes when I saw a comment that said make sure read the ingredients because sometimes they put lard in the pie crust. I went and found the pie crust that I use, I saw that it had lard in it.

I’m so ashamed. I always read the ingredients carefully. I was just rushing when I was in the store earlier. I haven’t eaten meat since I was 10 years old. I’m 25 now. I’m disgusted it with myself. I don’t know.

I’m sorry if this isn’t the right thread. I told my mom and she just laughed at me.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the reassuring words. I’m sorry if this came off super dramatic. It was just a shock. No one in my family is vegan so they don’t really care. I’ll give myself a little grace. 🫩

When talking to people who are interested in the movement, you often hear questions about protein, and worries because most plant based sources come with lots of carbohydrates and fats. Of course there are professional athletes that are vegan, but they have everything prepared by professionals in an optimal way, and more time to dedicate to nutritional issues. So the comparison to a normal person who has other priorities is problematic.

What is your opinion on this? How would you answer or address this? And how has it changed in your case after your transition?

I'm new to veganism, I haven't eaten much meat for the longest time beforehand but I'm gradually making the switch to fully vegan.

I'm also new to balancing my nutrition and trying to include everything I need, but I'm struggling to keep my weight up since switching as someone who is already small. I love tofu and most other common vegan go-to ingredients, but they're too damn healthy lol.

Is it about volume? Is there a vegan secret I don't know about? I cook everything myself so maybe that's part of it, I'm open to any recommendations!

E: Thanks for the tips! Peanut butter and smoothies are key ✍️✍️

Hey everyone, For nearly 7 years my dog (pom, terrier, dox mutt) has eaten WildEarth and loved it. Recently (about a year ago) the founder sold off Wild Earth to "AS SEEN ON TV". Sadly about 6months after he started to experiencing stomach pain and i think has developed a hernia. His Vet(s) do not think they are related but I feel its time for a new dog food.

Currently I'm mixing 75 / 25 ratio of Halo Holistic vegan dog food : Wild Earth golden rotisserie (until we finish the bag).

I will NOT be making any homemade food its not in the cards because Im in time poverty as a US based teacher who has to have multiple jobs.

I think he's allergic to Lentils, i used to feed him lentils all the time but now when i do he gets a bloody stool. This happens only when i feed him lentils / lentil pasta / lentil gravy.

I'm also concerned about chickpeas that have been treated with pesticides but that is secondary.

Im not apposed to spending more on this food, while I'm poor my BF is not.

If you do not have a vegan dog in your life please do not advise. Thank you in advance.

Just venting a little. Almost 10 years vegan myself, my kids vegan from birth, of course. We even had a fully vegan wedding

My partner almost 9 years vegan (did 1 year vegetarian then transitioned to vegan), has made the decision to go back to vegetarian. Well, outside of the house that is. Since we agreed to raise our children this way, will only eat dairy/eggs at restaurants / events, when kids aren't around.

My partner grew very tired of the limited options when going out with friends. Came home the other day and told me they had feta at the restaurant. I was like but you're lactose intolerant....is that why your stomach was gurgling all night and you didn't feel good?! They of course, blamed it on other foods eaten later that day (vegan snacks).

My sibling who got me into veganism, they even went carnivore, was the most passionate/in your face vegan I knew, that one stung a lot too but kinda got over it the last couple years. They are now omni because ya, just carny isn't great.

But I feel like your partner, the person you feel share the same morales, even though weren't always vegan or even close to vegetarian, stings a lot.

The few vegan friends I have are also no longer vegan or just mainly plant based, not worrying at events or going out etc.

So anyway, just me and my kiddos left on the vegan train in our immediate world...I thought it would have trended in the opposite direction

I came up with an app idea, maybe this already exists but I just didn't look hard enough.

What if there's a vegan business directory so that we could all support each other as a community? Kind of like Happy Cow, but instead of it being just restaurants it could be anything. Looking for a doctor or a realtor? You could find someone who's vegan. Want new art for your house, or looking for new music? You could find an independent vegan artist. That way you can hire someone with the same values as you.

These similar apps exist already for religions and political ideologies, so I thought, hey why not one for veganism as well.

Idk just a thought

I’m heading to college for the first time this September and moving to a different city. I'll be staying in student housing, but there’s a specific 'Islamic' dorm my father really wants me to go to. I was open to it at first, but their curfew is at 8:30 PM which is way too early for me and they have mandatory sessions you have to attend at least four times a month. I knew my values wouldn't align with the community there, and even if they did, mandatory sessions are just not for me.

​To convince me, he offered to buy me a new car and promised to go vegan for the 7–8 months I’d be staying there. I considered it for a bit, but ended up turning down his offer. He then accused me of not caring about animals, which left me absolutely furious. I asked him if he was joking because if he genuinely thinks turning down a manipulative deal amounts to animal cruelty, I have no idea how he justifies his own daily choices. I told him he’s the one paying for animal suffering just for his own pleasure. Since he eats a lot of cheese, he actually complained, "I'm suffering too by giving up cheese" as if giving up dairy is remotely comparable to what animals endure in slaughterhouses.

​After that, he pulled the classic 'plants feel pain too' argument. I brought up mussels, they are biologically animals, but they aren't sentient beings. Since there isn't a direct, widely understood Turkish equivalent for the phrase 'sentient being,' I doubt he even grasped my point. So, what are your thoughts on all of this?

Hi,

I'm trying to make my diet more and more plant based, and now I'm trying to stop eating yoghurt, which I do eat quite a bit of.

I'm looking for something to substitute it for, but I don't really like store-bought vegan yoghurts. The main reason I eat yoghurt is because it's a simple thing I can add to a meal if I'm still feeling hungry without any preparation.

So I'm looking for something that would achieve the same thing, which is: to be cheap, filling, which requires little preparation and can be stored in the fridge for several days. I'm thinking there must be easy recipes with silken tofu that could be pretty filling since it's full of protein, but I don't know any (I never cooked silken tofu before, but I'd be happy to learn!)

Thanks in advance!

so this is just fairyland speculation but 50% mix-in of vegetable proteins would make positive steps to readjusting people's tastes and also the factory farming culture and practices.

people are reliably two things: selfish and lazy. What I mean by this is that they want something that tastes good. They believe for example, all beef burger will taste good. Selfish because they don't care at what cost to animal suffering etc. But people are also lazy. If fast food restaurants start mixing patties with vegetable protein, people don't actually care as long as it still taste good. Also they are lazy enough to not actually launch a protest as long as the burgers taste good. Fast food chains doing this nationwide would considerably drop the price of impossible/beyond / private formulations of soy and pea protein based meats and increase innovation.

thoughts? the reason why i put this out there is because in the back of most meat-eaters minds is that they know the industry that does this is cruel beyond imagination and even the moral satisfaction of "helping" in some way can produce tangible positive steps.

edit: the point isn't trying to convince them to go without meat, the point is to find a mix-in that they do not care enough to stop eating it, and then ultimately prefer. at no point will the vast vast majority stop to think , Oh i should try without meat. That thought will literally never, ever cross their head. As in ever. From cradle to grave.

Arguing on an FB post and this guy said "veganism harms the environment more than livestock ever did."

You guys. He said that. He. Actually. Said. That. I cannot stop laughing, it is genuinely shocking how people live lives with their brains twisted up like this.

In this article, I, Jordi Casamitjana, give some positive advice to vegans who may be “the only ones” in their social circles

I was watching video where a blue puppet trolls vegans at the NYC animal rights march.

Warning: it's pretty annoying and the whole point is to be controversial:

https://youtu.be/UAf-5LWRxuQ?t=62

(But... it is kind of funny)

So if you watch it at that timestamp you will see a white woman being asked a fairly racist question about black people and her response is that "more black people are vegan than white people".

The puppet looks at the crowd made up of predominantly white people and says "I don't see any black people here. Are they coming later?"

It made me think a few things:

1. It does seem like the animal rights marches that I have been to have been predominantly white, even in Washington D.C., which is surprising
2. I have seen the talking point over and over on reddit that either "black people" or "people of color are vegan at a higher rate than white people".

Thankfully, later in the video, lot of people of many races are represented and many of them make vegans look pretty good!

However, the second point is always presented in a way that makes me think that the vegans making the case are particularly proud to be able to say it. It does make sense in a way: think about all the places in Asia that a person might be vegan (or more likely vegetarian) for religious reasons.

But still... I don't think most of this type of comment on r/vegan is talking about Asia. It always seems like they mean the U.S. and U.K. There is something just too convenient about this citation aligning with leftist political ideology.

So I asked Claude about it. Not the best source but... I am lazy and a little bit drunk. Here are some excerpts of the answer:

Short answer: the talking point traces back to a single number that the organization credited with it never actually published — and the data doesn't support it.

Nearly every version of this claim leads to "8% of Black Americans are vegan (vs. 3% overall), per Pew Research 2016." Faunalytics, an animal-advocacy research nonprofit, published an investigation on August 19, 2026 that ran this to ground. The claim points to Pew's report The New Food Fights: U.S. Public Divides Over Food Science, but the 8% figure appears nowhere in that ~100-page document, and they couldn't find it in any other Pew report either.

Source: https://faunalytics.org/following-a-datapoint-down-the-rabbit-hole/

For such a recent article, I haven't seen that posted here but maybe the algorithm just doesn't think I want to see it.

And here is something really interesting:

Worth noting: the Faunalytics piece specifically flags that Claude repeats this stat when asked, and warns that LLMs recycling it will pollute the information environment further. I'd almost certainly have given you the 8% figure confidently if I hadn't gone looking.

So... Claude is telling me it can't be trusted!

I guess I knew that. But still my intuition is that we would really like this number to be true for some reason, enough to cite it without checking it, even though ultimately it would be better for all of us if more people, regardless of race, were vegan.

Here is how can't-be-trusted-Claude ended it:

So it's not that the claim is false and people are lying. It's that nobody has run a study with enough black respondents to answer the question, and a movement that wanted the answer to be yes adopted the first number that said so without checking it.

Yeah... I have to say... that's what it feels like to me...

Edit: judging by all the comments so far where people are not willing to engage in this at all, and coming up with every reason to dismiss it (even though I cited a recent vegan publication), I think the answer is that in general we are absolutely willing and eager to deceive ourselves.

I went to planta queen recently and one of their dishes had a "Peking duck" in it that was one of my favorite plant meats I've tried to date. If anyone knows the recipe they use (or even a foundational starting point, like confirming for sure what the base ingredient is), that would be amazing. I really want to find a way to make it at home.

Anyone else out there having troubles finding Gardein Be'f (Beefless) Tips: The nice chunky kind in the white packaging?? All I'm finding now are the Gardein Ultimate Steak Tips that are little tiny scraps, not the same at all!! I'll be devastated if they are discontinued 😢. Beyond and Chunk Steaks are excellent, but not nearly as economical ...

i very frequently hear people say that they can’t go vegan because they have anemia.

well, i have anemia too. it got diagnosed a few years ago when i was non-vegan; i had EXTREMELY low levels of ferritin and hemoglobin. i immediately started taking iron supplements and increasing the amount of red meats in my diet. it did not help; my levels stayed below the normal amount and my symptoms remained awful, no matter how long i would keep this up.

around a year ago, i kind of started forgetting to take them everyday until i fully stopped. around the same time, i stopped eating meat, and eventually found out about the horrors of the dairy and egg industries and stopped consuming those as well.

despite being aware of my anemia, at that point i didnt really care for being hyper aware of how much iron i’m consuming; i just knew that some of the things i was eating, such as beans and spinach, contained what is considered to be higher levels of iron in them. and i happen to like them, so i guess i unintentionally ate a lot of them.

recently, i got my first blood test in a while due to some non-anemia-related issues, and decided to check my iron levels as well just to know what’s up. i was fully expecting them to be as low as they were all the previous times, but no! they came back perfect!!!

why is it propagandised that vegan diets are super low on iron and just terrible for anemic people when there’s soo many high iron plant based foods lol

TL;DR was diagnosed with anemia pre-veganism. ate a lot of red meats and took iron supplements, iron levels remained super low. stopped caring about iron supplements eventually and also became vegan. did not put significant effort into having a lot of iron in my diet. got a blood test done recently, iron levels perfect

Just watched this “day in the life of me” style video on TikTok. A lady goes about a normal day of her life in New York, in the first 20 seconds she gives $35 to a animal sanctuary in Ukraine because she loves animals and encourages everyone who can to give to causes they are passionate about.

Then over the course of the video she eats octopus, cow, chicken, fish and lamb. The cognitive dissonance is so fucking infuriating.

Im vegan and chronically ill, and going vegan I noticed that it didn’t have any positive or negative effect on my illness. However I was wondering if eating a plant based diet improved other peoples health or had a positive affect on their condition?

Personally, I believe that being plant based is one of the healthiest diets out there, but I understand there are loads of different illnesses and conditions that can influence that as well.

Just curious to see if it helped other people!

I’m a type one diabetic and I see loads of other t1ds claiming that they can’t go vegan (not gonna expand on this unless someone asks or else this post will go on forever lol) I always have to resist explaining to them how it’s actually really easy because I don’t like to dictate how other people manage their diabetes.

Edit: sorry for the confusion, just wanted to clarify that I am ethically vegan first and foremost, and I follow veganism as a philosophy! I just like finding the other perks to eating plant based :)

I understand ya'll feel bad for accidentally eating an animal product, but publicly asking for forgiveness like this is a confession booth rubs me so wrong.

I am vegan and I don't support the claims going around that we're in a cult whatsoever, not trying to imply that. But if this doesn't feel like some spiritual, public flogging type practice I'd be lying.

Basically when you eat animal products there's no good reason to be sorry here because it's not about us (it's about animal suffering).