so let it be known that veganism isn't just for hippies.

for instance,

I am not vegan but eat a vegan diet. Occassionally people rag on me for it and I set out to prove myself, or I find a pastry or something that isn't vegan but i like pastry so I go for it. I then eat something with milk or eggs.

Following this, i have encountered these problems:

-Nausea accompanied with severe, sharp stomach pains
-Diarrhea (often "the runs")
-Constipation
-Blood in my stool
-Bloating
-Dehydration / Dizziness
-other forms of discomfort

this has been happening EVERY TIME I eat something with dairy in it or eggs (though MUCH MUCH moreso with dairy) for the past year.

In fact, I know that it is from dairy so well that in Seattle, I drank some Jones soda drink and encoutered some of the symptoms. I was confused, because it was a beverage...a juice drink. I went back and read the ingredients, and the third of forth one was "non-fat skim milk." Apparently it was a smoothie-type-thing. I had only about 1oz worth.

Today i ate a cookie with milk fat (the chips), butter, and 1 egg. I then had enough blood in my stool to look like someone poured red ink in the bowl.


So that said, I'm probably not going to eat anything from animals again anytime soon, due to health issues. People's bodies stop making enzymes for things once we stop eating them for a while, like dairy products or certain animal proteins.

Be nice to your local vegan! It might not be your choice for diet, but it's theirs and picking on them will just make them eat the donut or ice cream and shit blood like me. (holds stomach in pain)

ha ha you care about the animals

i was vegan for 8 months. really hard to do at college where they stick butter in every other frigging thing.

hippie

Do you think it's because you're lactose intolerant?

I became lactose intolerant after a while. Prior to civilization, we only really drank milk when it came from our mothers, and then when we stopped the enzyme the breaks down lactose turns off as it is superfluous and the body need not manufacture it anymore. However, since the production of dairy on a more consistent basis, with animal husbandry and all, dairy enzymes stay on longer as we take them in.

It is very common for long-term vegans to eventually "become" lactose intolerant after a point. When I was in junior high, I used to chug a gallon skim milk a day. Now, if I even have a sip of somethign with dairy, or eat pizza that had cheese on it prior, I get like this (feels awful)


Point is, so many people go "Dude, just eat the fucking pizza" or "It's only a little meat" or even say "It's totally vegan" but really has cheese or chicken broth in it and it's pretty god damn ignorant cause they do that thinking it's all just a "choice" but at some point it's very tough for your body to turn back. My friend Tristan was vegan for pretty much his whole life - his parents raised him vegetarian and at like 8 or 9 he switched to vegan. Then at 20 or so he tried a piece of fish and threw up like you wouldn't imagine.

He ate a piece of pizza in Europe since he had trouble finding vegan food and got so backed up he had to go to the hospital.

All I'm saying is be a little more compassionate to people who are vegan, treat them as they have legitimate food allergies after a while, cause otherwise we can get really really sick...and it's not very funny when that happens. :(

eat some meet hippie.

how about dont go vegan in the first place.
or do a little more research on the horrors of going from a vegan diet to a non vegan diet.
that way they will be more prepared for when they decide to 'BREAK THE VEG'.

who cares?

(shrugs) only me I think.

im only fuggin around, i cut a lot of dairy out, except cheese but i still eat meat just because you never know when you'll have to go fishing or shoot a deer for survival. i like having that option instead of being totally 100% reliant on the supermarket for food

I don't get why you made this post, since it wasn't an issue with anyone? You lost your mind.

true.

well

kind of true.

trust me, when you don't eat meat, people push all sorts of crazy food on you and try and tell you that you should just eat it. But when you do and you shit blood, that proves it's not so funny...like the "till someone loses an eye" thing.

(shrugs) if anything it makes for an interesting biopic into my life.

You can't beat the meat my friend.
Especially cute animal meat.

Mmmmmm....tasty kitty....

I may be vegetarian, but I LOVE TO EAT PUSSY!

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

You intentionally removed yourself from the food chain, and you expect anyone to have sympathy?

I'm not vegan, I just eat what is considered a vegan diet.

There's a difference. It's like listening to a hardcore band or calling yourself "hardcore". They're worlds apart.

Join the BFMC... Barbarians for Meat Consumption...

Joe/NotCommon said:

Yeah, doesn't this belong in a live journal or something?

im making steak stuffed with ham and egg and cheese and crushed bacon on top of it for dinner.... im gonna wash it down with some milk i got from a cow next door and have beef terriaki (instead of a popsicle) for dessert.

anyone want to come over?

Lynneaus said:


is that to make up for the last meat free meal you had at my place?

lol actually i prob wont eat... i have to work tonight but i just like buggin you vegetarians/vegans... meat is really so amazing tasting

i could never be vegan, i'd die without cheese because i'm italian

being a meatatarian is the best.

i knew a kid back in high school who would walk up to people in the cafeteria and yell at them for eating meat or wearing leather jackets. he used to get the shit beaten out of him.

"dude there's nothing better than like man listening to jerry like wiggin' out on the guitar" - grateful dead fan

10 seconds later, god killed jerry.
I think he was fair.

ha

One time I didn't eat meat for a half hour and both my arms fell off.

Then once I thought about even the word "vegetarian" and my eyes shot out and landed in my soup, covered in pus.

I will never, ever think about that evil word or that evil breed of hippy again!!


Maybe I should have titled the thread:

"Excerpts from my potential DeadJournal"
"The perils of Lactose Intolerance"
"Minorities Lose Out Again: People To Poop On After Rosa Parks"

or "Why I'm such a hippie"

damn it!!!!!

I never had dreads.

This is a rumor x 7.