I'm allergic to everything. Mushrooms, soy/tofu, tree nuts (but not peanuts), raw fruits (and some cooked), raw veggies.

I'm Mexican but even I can only eat so many beans in one week. I'll stick with doin my best though.

To the non vegans willing to approach this with an open mind:

I would highly recommend you to watch this.

Ethical reasons aside, if you do care about the environment and climate change, then vegan diets have a much much lower negative environmental impact.

If you're smart with it, then vegan diets tend to be a lot cheaper too! Most humans are lactose intolerant. Maybe you are too. If you are, then switching to vegan milks could mean less gases, farts and bloating. It's quite comfortable to not have all that...

That being said, if you do switch to a vegan diet, you would quite likely need vitamin supplementation (at least I do).

Don't go vegan. Don't go crazy on meat either.

Eat Billionaires instead

A beige farmer will thank you

Devils Advocate: Some reasons outweigh others.

The list of why you should never get on a airplane is also very long.

Carnist here, feel free to ratio me in the comments.

The thing that I find most annoying in these intermittent "debates" where various people with different believes make starwmen and yell past one another is the shocking disconnect between people and the food that they eat at a fundamental level.

I am firmly of the belief that people need to be aware of what goes into the production of the food that they eat and look at the consequences of their actions directly.

People who eat meet but divorce that dish from the animal who made it are misguided at best to delusional at worst.

Similarly people who champion the removal of animal products but won't look into the eyes of a combine harvester and the animal it has ran over, the displacement or slaughter of animals in the clearing of farmlands, the increase in water consumption as new areas are turned over to fast cash crop agriculture based on whatever the current trend is, the removal of byproducts from industry such as long lasting leathers of adhesive products in exchange for quick rotting fast fashion made largely of petroleum products, and the costs associated with all of that are also misguided at best to delusional at worst.

Independence and community support are the best answer. But when so many see the people they live alongside as enemies what hope do we have of cooperation.

So maybe instead of fighting one another over petty concerns we can come together and take a look at the system trying to keep people apart and reliant on its own monstrous excess

Is it 2012 again? I thought we'd grown past this dumb shit

It's expensive, I like cheese, I like baked goods that don't involve chickpea water, I occasionally like meat, I like mead, all vegan cheese is truly awful.

Also any meat substitutes are always substituents for highly processed fast food which I don't eat anyway. As far as I'm aware there's no vegan alternative to coffee encrusted venison with a red wine reduction.

Also don't get me wrong, I do eat vegan food, I'm just not prepared to exist exclusively on it.

Also eating meat doesn't make you a bad person. There are like 8 people in the world whose company I can tolerate for more than a few minutes and two of them are obligate carnivores.

im not vegan however i do want that animals would not be treated in the way most industrial farms treat them

It tastes good and finding good vegan cheese is a struggle

Says "Money" so makes sense

Because I am failure.
I don't have a kitchen, and most ready to eat food is non-vegan.
I am currently living either with parents or at dorm.
Parents are hoarders, so the kitchen can be considered out of service. There's no space, and it's far from food-safe.
The dorm kitchen is shared between ~20 people, and I don't do well around those, so I haven't used it. Plus the situation with electric appliances is complicated there. I'd have to somehow haul my own fridge over there. And get it approved first, so more human contact.
I also share a room with someone, so I just try to do least of anything over there.
As I only tend to eat once a day, this is economically doable.

Our uni also has a cafeteria, but I haven't yet been there because... I haven't yet been there. I don't know how it works. I tried observing others, but I see the order system is done using some touchscreen terminal, the UI of which I don't know (I was watching from further away), and I couldn't find any precise manual online. Actually, I couldn't find any manual online.

I'm just here with popcorn, don't mind me.

Price, availability and easiest to balance. Not much more needed to choose omnivore diet. Eating is already annoying enough chore, no point to make it more difficult.