Veganism Research Paper

People from all over follow different diets. A diet isn’t what you’re thinking of, the word diet originally means: the food or feed habitually eaten, but we’ve been using it in the wrong context almost our whole lives. Usually associate diets with weight loss, but someone can be on a diet for weight gain. Simply put, all a diet is is what you normally eat on a daily basis. Like I said, there are weight loss diets and weight gain diets and even cultural diets, but there are also what I like to call “moral” diets. These are diets that don’t benefit a person and have no end goal. Only reason to follow them is because of moral beliefs. The number one example of all moral diets that comes to mind is veganism. Veganism is a diet that is based around …show more content…
In his article, Dan Seamens begins by mentioning his friend Mark who was a vegan that had had the some of the same symptoms as I mentioned above, always tired and exhausted. One day, Seamens’ friend, Mark, decided to go to a microbiologist, and when he came back, he told Seamens that had been ordered by the microbiologist to eat pizza and drink milk every day because of his condition. He was undernourished because he wasn’t getting enough calories from the vegan diet that he was following. Once Mark was on the new diet for a short while, his health improved, he had more energy, felt better and even looked better. Seamens also quotes Ann Louise Gittleman, who is a nutritional counselor and consultant specializing in women's health in Santa Fe, as saying; "I think that a strict vegetarian diet [minimal use of dairy products] acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods, and for a time it is therapeutic. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire” (Seamens). Usually when vegans feel like things are going bad with their diet, they blame themselves, not the diet itself. ," Seamens quotes Rachel Albert-Matesz, the author of GOURMET WHOLEFOODS: VEGETARIAN AND MACROBIOTIC CUISINE as saying: "Vegetarianism is almost like a religious commitment to some people, Vegetarians are fond of saying that if the diet isn't working it's because …show more content…
In Tara Parkers article, she talks about how vegan food is much more expensive than its non-vegan equivalents. She even quotes a woman as saying; “even a box of Gardenburgers is $4, which doesn't seem expensive, but when you compare it to the meat counterparts, it's so much more” (Parker). Parker also says that there are many physical and mental constraints to being on a vegan diet. Foods in stores and Restaurants have hidden meat ingredients in their foods. Even Hannah Schosler, a researcher in the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije University, was quoted by Parker as saying “It’s not very accepted in our society to not eat meat” (Parker). Even when people try to replicate non vegan products, it’s a hard process, especially dairy as Parker briefly mentions. Another woman mentioned in Parkers article, Megan Salisbury, says that she prefers a vegan diet, but she can’t follow through all in all, because it is hard for her to buy vegan food as a result of it being either too expensive to keep up with or just too

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