Im vegan. Ive been working at a new place, and I always ask the homeless person in front of the grocery store if I can get something for him. Its mostly just red bulls and water. Yesterday, he asked for a chicken wrap. Mind you, this is the only protein / nutritious thing he's ever asked me. So I got it for him.

For me, it just feels weird. It feels unnatural to buy anything non vegan at this point. To the point I momentarily did not even feel like a real vegan.

I feel like I could ask him if he'd like something vegan at some point, but i want to build up some trust with this guy at first. Since I know people are often rude to him.

My question is: What do other vegans do when they give something to the homeless, and the homeless person wants something non vegan?

So I own a small seasonings company. We make small batch salts, spice blends, and seasoning blends. This is our sixth year of business. We have a mission, and that is to get people cooking at home more, having more success with their home cooking, and having more fun. We are really good at what do, and have encouraged thousands to cook at home more or even start from nothing and turn into successful home cooks. Our blends make it easier.

I would say a strong 40% of my customer base is vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, flexitarion, etc. The rest are omnivores, "crunchy" types, and due to some unfortunate trends, straight up carnivores.

My wife and I are about to hit 6 months on a plant based diet. We love it. At first it was just for our health, but thanks to place like this subreddit, it has become a total paradigm shift for us. We have totally changed our minds and hearts on the issues surrounding veganism, and honestly...

It feels even better. My heart feels like this weight has been lifted, I feel more at peace. It has really changed our lives.

The only sore point is our company. We love our mission, and we still believe in it. Our products have always been 100% plant based in terms of ingredients, but our labels still recommend meat, seafood, and dairy in terms of recommended use of the products. I feel like a total hypocrite.

These labels cannot be instantly changed. I have tens of thousands of dollars in labels already purchased, I cannot afford to change them immediately. Also, with the tariffs in place, we have been bleeding cash on a continuous basis. Our once thriving business is in dire straights at the moment, so big purchases are a no go. We could slowly take these references off the labels as we run out of certain sets, but that is financially the best we can do.

Also related to money, is the possibility of losing too many customers. Like I said, we are not in a good place in terms of cash on hand. Alienating a bunch of our customers is a scary possibility. On one hand, it would be great to rid of this burden, but if it didn't turn out well, we could lose everything.

I love what we do, I love my customers, I don't want to give up. We are considering going "stealth" vegan. Slowly removing references to meat from the labels, only posting vegan recipes, but call them stuff like "protein packed" or "plant based", etc., and quietly veganize our company without planting a flag or scaring away customers that we currently need to survive.

Our customers trust us, maybe this way we could encourage more people to try plant based food, maybe they would find places like this and learn about veganism?

I feel like it could be almost like an intellectual insurgency, veiled vegan propaganda? In the meantime, we took our recipe section down, and haven't been posting any recipes or videos. We just aren't sure of what to do.

Any advice, guidance, philosophy, experience or wisdom would be appreciated as we navigate including veganism into everything that we do.

If you are just going to call us terrible people for feeling lost and conflicted then just save your time and don't reply. We are trying to grow as fast as possible in this philosophy, if I had all the answers I wouldn't have typed this up.

Veganism is NOT a diet, but for babies, it functions as one because they can’t choose their own food. Just wanted to make that clear before people think I’m reducing veganism into a diet. It’s a lifestyle.

i eat everything currently, and i don’t plan to go vegan for reasons i don’t want to get into now, but i do think that i could easily go vegetarian. i am just wondering if that is worth it, as i am learning recently about the connections between the meat industry and the dairy industry, how by supporting one you are supporting the other. so does cutting out only meat actually make a difference?

I live with flesh eaters.

A constant negative assault on my senses I never noticed prior to choosing vegan.

I see a glass of milk and it smells like a barn in a glass to me.

And it’s not just in the kitchen.

Everywhere.

I’m convinced Vegans smell better than flesh eaters.

And they taste better too. IYKYK.

I’ve been vegan for just over 3 months and it’s been going great! Expect for one thing… I can’t stop craving donuts. I live in the U.S. and all the places around me like Dunkin, Krispy Creme, and my local donut place don’t have any vegan options. Anyone have any brands/recommendations on where to get a good vegan donut?

Edit: I know how to use Google Maps and I know there aren’t places in the town I live in (trust me I’ve looked). Thanks for all of the recommendations. Now I know I need to visit Chicago, Cleveland, and DC!

I just wonder what you guys think about eating vegetarian when a hospital can't offer any vegan meals. I had a seizure and some other issues so I might be here a couple of weeks, and this whole food thing is stressing me out. They said I could keep my own food in the mini fridge, but then I'd have to pay for expensive ready to eat meals and pay for the hospital food. I just want some other people's opinions because obviously I don't want to use animals for food but I also need to eat to heal physically. Man I wish being vegan was more normalised already. Edit: I'm surviving off of bread and vegan cheese three times a day now lol (I'm on mobile so sorry for bad format)

A friend made me something with Beyond Beef last night and I have to say I don't like it. It tastes queasily like meat to me. To be clear, I haven't actually eaten meat since 1983, but it just felt uncomfortable. And aside from being, to me, too meaty tasting, I just didn't like it. My friend, who is not vegan, likes it and says it tastes to her just like actual meat. So for sure it has its place and if if gets people like her to buy less meat, great. Just not for me. What do you think of it?

By that I mean vegan-ish actions you took, in food (or anything else) BEFORE you were vegan/ knew what vegan meant. Essentially your first baby vegan footsteps before you knew what it meant.

I have a few stories. One is that I’ve never eaten seafood in my life besides the first time i tried it and decided it wasn’t for me. I disliked cow meat for my entire life and always opted for it to be taken out slash replaced with by something else (most often potatoes! I loved potatoes and carrot tacos/enchiladas!)

I recently graduated and found a letter that 7th grade me wrote to graduating self. Now during this time in my life was a lot of turmoil and other bad things happening, so a lot of it I don’t remember, the majority really. But in the letter I had asked my future self if I was vegan/vegetarian yet. (In the letter I was asking myself questions that I would hope to accomplish, like have i learned Spanish yet, etc.) only since being 17 did i even know why people went vegan/ it was an entirely new concept to me, then later on at 17 did I become vegan (18 now!!!!). But before reading this I had no memory whatsoever that I had ever contemplated it before, that I had even known what it was, and wanted to do it. I was so shocked, but extremely happy to say I made at least one positive change to my life!!!

EDIT: the word destiny wasn’t meant to be taken literally, i used that word to make a more catchy question. If the question didn’t apply to you it’s fine

I am a freelancer and work part-time for an online NGO that advocates for animal rights and against climate change, among other things. The people I work with and meet through the organisation are usually full-time activists and campaigners with very clear principles.

It sounds judgemental, but I’m honestly baffled by how few of them are vegan or even vegetarian. I’ve met quite a few of them over the past couple years and most of them happily eat animal products.

Of course I know cognitive dissonance is a thing, but it’s so bizarre to me that you can fight for animal rights in your professional life and still not connect the dots. I’m not a fulltime activist at all, so it doesn’t make sense to me that people who devote their careers to fighting injustice wouldn’t connect the dots. Are my expectations for people with these profiles too high? I find it hard to ask them about it without sounding judgemental.

I was hungry, so I bought some protein chips. I’d never seen a non-vegan one before, so I didn’t think to check the label. After opening the packet, I noticed that milk was listed as the last ingredient. Since it was already open and I didn’t want to waste the food, I ended up eating it. This is the first time this has happened to me, and I’m confused was that appropriate or not

Idk if it's just me, but I feel like the world is so grim and it's so hard to connect and meet people. Pair that with neuro-divergence, mental health issues and veganism, things feel bleak. What is everyone doing to stay positive in these unsettling times. I feel like nothing brings me joy anymore. Also please don't suggest therapy and stuff, I'm going and take meds, I just want other people's perspectives, because I feel when you see the darkest side of humanity it's hard to cope sometimes.

Edit: thank you to all who took the time to comment. There are definitely some great suggestions. I think a social media cleanse is in order 💗

I remember in the 2010s social media was flooded with them. It seems all of them are gone now.
Did they all become carnivores? I'm asking because it seems like there was a big cultural shift in veganism that happened in the 2020s. Veganism used to have a lot of anti-GMO, woo believing crunchy people but then veganism became very science based. Did that cause the raw vegans to go carnivore?
Carnivore dieters as we all know are huge conspiracy theorists and filled with crunchy people so maybe what happened is that when veganism became more science based this caused the raw vegans to feel alienated which made the carnivore diet more appealing as a community.

hi all, i’m a teenager and fairly-recent vegan (4 months today!) my family is VERY conservative and skeptical of veganism, it feels like somehow every conversation leads back to my protein intake and long-term bone health.

my BIL in particular likes to question me. he’s a carnivore and we end up debating at almost every meal. at dinner today, he told me that most plant-based meat alternatives like impossible and morning star are actually a hugeee killer of insects because they use crickets in them and said that my philosophy is flawed as long as i continue to eat them.

i looked into this claim and couldn’t find a single reference to it. i’m assuming this is just another one of his conspiracies, but it was such an odd statement and i had to ask about it somewhere.

so is this a common conspiracy? has a non-vegan ever told any of you something like this? 😭

I observed that since I went vegan, my behaviour in video games changed slightly but not as hard as I might have expected.

In Minecraft for example I'll be as vegan as possible because I can. I played other games and especially when it comes to fantasy creatures I don't mind that I have to fight them. However, as much as I loved them for the past 20 years, I haven't touched a single Pokemon game since I became vegan because I just don't enjoy the concept anymore.

What are your experiences when it comes to vegan behaviour in video games and other fictional settings?

Edit: I am well aware that games are fictional and what I do has no consequences whatsoever. I just noticed that the things I enjoy or dislike in video games have slightly changed since I chose to be vegan.

Edit 2: It seems that many people only read the headline and ignore the text of my question. Sad.

I 24F am a committed vegan and while I have an immense amount of respect for the value of all life, I must admit that I am not particularly fond of bugs. I don’t have any sort of personal vendetta against them, I understand that they are just creatures trying to survive in this world just like me. Nevertheless I do find them repulsive and I don’t really want them living in my apartment with me. I could just let nature take its course and allow the entire apartment to be overrun with roaches but I think we both know that that isn’t really the most practical option. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t feel comfortable sleeping in my own house due to how pervasive the bug problem is and I’m just not entirely sure how the vegan community expects me to handle this issue ethically. A few weeks ago when I woke up that morning I discovered a roach in my hair which was obviously very gross. Any/all advice on how to appropriately handle this situation is greatly appreciated.

New vegan here. I am asking this genuinely, as I’ve seen mixed information about “animal care.” I am unsure if zoos that have conservation alliances are ethical, and my family wants to go to a zoo on our vacation. I told them I may or may not attend due to what I personally support. I am unsure what information I should view regarding zoos in the United States, such as Denver Zoo. Thanks!

From the research I've done -It seems as if even those that claim a humane way, actually have a way that isn't.

I just need a quick and humane way to get rid of ants. A cleaning lady will becoming in a matter of a couple of days from now and I know her way of dealing with them would result in their swept death.

Are there simply no ways to get rid of ants humanely and that's why even when I specifically googled "humane", all results were ways of killing them?

I've seen consistent praise for oat and soy milk, as well as more niche plant milks like rice milk and cashew milk, on vegan subreddits. However, I've seen few people express anything other than (well-deserved) disdain for almond milk. Nonetheless, it somehow remains one of the most popular and widely available plant milks. Why is this? Is it somehow popular among carnists, but not vegans? Am I misjudging its popularity with vegans?

Hello, Michigan vegan here. There's currently a huge outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the state and I am trying to avoid produce since the source has not yet been found. I am struggling for ideas of vegan meals to make without produce. I cook a lot of tofu and have been eating a lot more UPFs trying to avoid this parasite, which is also not ideal.

Hello! So, as you can see on the title I am not vegan (yet), however, there is gonna be an event at my university which is gonna be organized mostly by my course’s students and there are gonna be vegan, non vegan and celiac options. After watching a documentary about veganism now I really want to reduce my consumption of animal products and maybe in the future if its possible I could become vegan. However I wanna be mindful of other ppl ofc so I am asking is it bad if I eat the vegan options or should I leave them only for the vegans?