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Why you don’t need to be vegan to live a healthy life
If you live a healthy and sustainable life, you have to be vegan. In those circles, its almost a mockery to eat meat or drink milk. Something that — in its pure state — has such a beautiful message, has been turned into a sheer trend, obsession, and with some people, fanatism. But there is much more to healthy & conscious nutrition than that.
Veganism is just another religion
We all have our personal story, and in my story food has always played a big role — in my life as well as in my personal development. I have been vegetarian for more than 3 years now, but have been conscious about healthy nutrition almost all my life. I decided to not eat meat anymore because I watched one of these very impressive documentaries and something inside of me shifted. I have many reasons for not consuming animal products any more, and I agree with many of the vegan ideals.
Right now I am helping to manage a vegan restaurant in Bogota, Colombia, where I have contact with many relaxed, but also fanatic vegans. The real problem I see with veganism is that some people take it as a religion, they start to identify with something so intensely that they start judging everyone that isn’t on the same path.
And there lies the big problem with anything that…
