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Vegan

Vegan

Date: May 11 2007

Topic: Vocabulary

Author: max's girlfriend

Lesson

Perhaps you have been in a restaurant or food market and have seen a food item labeled as "vegan."  Do you know what this means?

 Vegan is a word used to denote a life-style in which a person abstains from the use or consumption of any animal products, or as a label for the person themself.  It is also used to describe food and other items that are made without the use of any animal products. This includes insects, meat, dairy, leather, fur, or any other part of an animal.

Examples:

    "Sweetpea Bakery makes a wicked vegan cheesecake." (adjective)

    "Did you know that Alice Walker is a vegan?" (noun)

Vegan is sometimes thought of as a more extreme form of vegetarian.  Vegetarians do not eat meat, but they sometimes eat eggs and other dairy products.  The word vegan was created from the word vegetarian by people who felt that the label "vegetarian" had become too ambiguous, in other words, the word no longer has a clear definition.

 Some people "go vegan" for health reasons, but I think the majority of people who are vegan are so because of their concern for the welfare of animals.

For more information I recommend the site www.veganoutreach.org

 (If you know the word for "vegetarian" or "vegan" in another language, please post a comment! I'd love to know what it is! )

 

 

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~Seniorita~

Russian Federation

It turns out that I'm a vegan!it's really interesting! thanks!

03:16 PM May 17 2007 |

DAR

DAR

Taiwan

Sometimes,Chinese dish is labeled like poem.I dont know what I eat in this situation.According to this lesson,it`s said a life-style.I think that influence our habit and agricultural economy.We can also see animals killing another.Sometimes,we protect a kind of animals.it can not live without eating another animals.because it must eat.like natural law.so I think it`s one of human`s life-style.You can choice,but most people eat animals that is not wrong.Thanks for this lesson.I got many new words.

12:34 AM May 17 2007 |

mohammad2158

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

i do agree whit vegan but every body do not make notice that we kill ourself ,we see every day in iraq and other place that solders kill children and famels and young people for some crezy reason like Boush says we attak to iraq to kill algaede but theire solder kill people i think it is really disgusting

 

11:11 PM May 16 2007 |

skma

skma

Algeria

Hi,

Thanks for your replies but I still think that it is a false problem. Nobody will convince me that being vegan is the best way to protect animals. It is an extrem attitude.

What do you think of people who prefer the company of animals and spend incredible sums of money for their food, clothind and health. Dont they see poor people in their neighberhood? Its another extrem attitude.

Let's be just in the middle. Protecting animals, nature and the harmony of life is a necessity but protecting the right of people to live a natural life is an obligation.

We did not creat ouselves.God created us. I do not believe in Darwin's theory.  

05:27 PM May 15 2007 |

harpitkaur

India

I often thing tht How can human being eat Non veg. How???? this is very shameful  for us. How'll we feel when any animal eat our child. to see tht we cry but cannt do anything. we can do onething sure tht we can kill tht animal. that mean when anybody eat non-veg then should punish him. After all i want to say only one thing tht we should be vegan. we should not kill the animals. becoz   that person are not good who hunt and eat that. i think that there are no differnce  betwwen animals and them. they are same. so think about this… no body have rights to kill to anyone….

05:03 AM May 15 2007 |

max's girlfriend

United States

you are right, skma, humans are "omnivores", which mean that they can eat and digest both plants and other animals. 

 i do not know how animals are raised in other countries, but in the US, many animals used for food are raised in "factory farms" where they never go outside, and are often crammed into cages with so many other animals that they cannot move and become very stressed out. This leads them to attack each other and themselves, and many get very sick and die.  This is not natural.  When people say that eating meat is natural for humans, I often ask them what is natural about their lifestyle. Cars, television, and computers are not found in nature, either. It's just something to think about.

09:50 PM May 14 2007 |

skma

skma

Algeria

Hi.

Humans are carnivors and vegatarians by nature. 

   I think it is a false problem.I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH THE MASSACRE OF ANY SPECIES.

            
 

07:53 PM May 14 2007 |

sfourne

sfourne

France

me i kike meat i like chiken meat !

05:51 PM May 13 2007 |

LaGaby

LaGaby

Argentina

Well, we’re animals, so we’ve instintios, like any animal that eats meat.
I’m not agreement with the furtive hunting, for take skins, for example.
But we eat meat by nature.
ok…by!!

02:43 PM May 13 2007 |

shapour

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

yeah, u r right.i think killing animal is very 

disgusting.because they are very innocent. 

 

04:01 AM May 13 2007 |

peacockblue

China

Etreme form,right.

 "Vegetarian"="素食者"(Chinese)

"Vegan"="严格素食主义者"Smile

06:36 PM May 12 2007 |

happy eva

happy eva

China

Yeh ,I support it.Animal is our friends,he is a fresh life as us ,if we dont find some way to protect them ,we will regret what we have done today.Vegan is worth to praising

09:04 AM May 12 2007 |

harpitkaur

India

really very nice. i didn't know before. i often thought tht what can we write of vegetarian. Vegan is good really!!

07:30 AM May 12 2007 |

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