The Vegan Thread

How long you going for? Iceland is amazing. Have fun.

Three months.
Mad excited for it

Started reading Meat is for Pussies last night by the almighty John Joseph and it got me thinking... what was it that made you go vegan?
For me, it was reading Fast Food Nation, I'd never thought about food that way until I read it and it changed the way I live to this day... best decision of my life as well.
Another thing, how many of you do it for the animals, or just for health reasons?
Be nice to get other peoples perspectives on this.

For me it was watching cowspiracy.
I've been aware of how shitty the meat industry is and have hated it but managed to pretend it was okay and there was nothin I could do.
Then watchin Cowspiracy and realising the environmental impact really fucked me up. I'd consider myself environmentally conscious and couldn't ignore it.

Yet to watch it for some reason, I've heard good things about it, so I don't really know why I haven't seen it.

For me it was basically thinking some things through / being honest about how I feel about them,
as well as watching Gary Yourofsky's presentation 101 resons to go vegan (it's on youTube),
finally Earthlings - which sort-of made me want to vomit and cry at the same time.
Had been a vegetarian for years, but after watching that I said to myself fuck this, I'm going vegan.

I was vegi for like three years before I went vegan, we didn't have the influx of people like Gary or documentaries like Earthings or Cowspiracy when I took the plunge, I read up on it a lot through sites etc, vegan food was harder to find as well back then, but it's helped me in every way I can think off, I love cooking and it made me stand on my own two feet as there's not so much food I can just whack in the oven... Mid-April it'll be 13 years that I haven't eaten meat and 10 of those years will be vegan

Blew my mind open..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNCGkprGW_o

I met a friend who was vegan; before that, I had honestly had no idea veganism existed. I knew pretty quickly that I wanted to be vegan but it took me four years from going vegetarian to become vegan. What made me finally do it was nothing more than that in the hot summer of 1998 the cow's milk kept going off in my leaky fridge. At the time, I was drinking enormous amounts of cow's milk and was so sensitive to the taste that I could taste the slightest change, and it put me off milk completely. Several times before, I'd tried to first cut out other dairy items like cheese, of which I consumed much less than of cow's milk, but that didn't work; only the big step of dropping cow's milk from one day to the next did the trick. (I was a lacto-vegetarian before that, as I'd read about what happens in egg production and had cut out eggs long before then.)

I like telling this story as it can be the slightest thing, and quite unexpected, that can make you act. While I made the resolution to be vegan as a New Year's resolution in 1999, I have to add that at the time I had no idea that beer could possibly not be vegan and continued to drink non-vegan beer for a few years, so technically wasn't vegan yet, although I plead ignorance.

Cook Daily and Easts afterwards Wednesday week (20th?)

1 Oliver Schick
2 Johnnyw
3 Sam
4 Thrasher

what time at cook daily oliver? will keep this on my radar as not been there for a while. or easts for that matter

Just learned that all beer brewed following the German purity law is vegan.

Also found this site that helps you check whether your booze is vegan: http://www.barnivore.com/

I'd been veggie for about 25 years, always knew I ought to be vegan but, you know, how hard do you want to make your life? Eventually was coaxed by a girl I was dating to try veganism together for a month. She lasted a week, the relationship another week, I'm still at it almost 4 years on. I was surprised how easy it was - turning vegan in London in the 2010s is waaaay easier than turning vegetarian in Belfast in the 1980s.

NB - I did press pause on veganism and eat eggs/dairy for a few weeks last year when running in the mountains in Afghanistan because, well, you try telling hungry subsistence-farming villagers who're sharing whatever they have with you to kowtow to your bourgeois western life choices. Also, the only phrase I knew was 'I don't eat meat'.

tl;dr - for a woman.

German beer in general is lovely as well which really helps, they've been brewing beer for hundreds or years so they know their stuff. Franziskaner, Weihenstephaner, Schofferhofer, anything by these breweries you can't go wrong with.

Some companies still use Isinglass finings in cask beers but not in keg or bottles... Barnivore has been a life saver for nearly ten years now, it's an absolute godsend

We did 6 last time, would that work for you?

The idea is, of course, to have sufficient pub time left.

Yes, that's partly why I never expected beer not to be vegan.

Before Barnivore, there was veggiewines.co.uk, which I'm sorry to see is no longer going (although for all I know it may just have been renamed). The work of dedicated volunteers in a difficult-to-capture market.

6 might be pushing it a bit for me fella, I think the earliest I could be there would be like 20 past or something along those lines... that's without getting stuck at work again obviously!

Pub time is good time!

6 is clearly too early, then, shall we say 6:30 on Wednesday week (20th)? Would that suit everyone?

1 Oliver Schick
2 Johnnyw
3 Sam
4 Thrasher
(5 jonny?)

6.30 I can do! Count me in

Bangin'

Tried going to Cook daily the other day an it was closed. Ended up going to The Bonnington cafe in Vauxhall instead. Was good, and only a fiver for a main.

Just had the Brazilian black bean with rice lunchbox from Leon. Marked as vegan on their menu so thought I'd try it and it was well nice.

Tried going to Cook daily the other day an it was closed.

Come on Wednesday. :)

Thats good. But leon's portions are awful. Come to cook daily on wed if you can. Proper portions

Bump for Wednesday 20th January, 6:30pm, at Cook Daily upstairs in Shoreditch's Boxpark (just off Bethnal Green Road, west of Braithwaite Street).

List so far (put yourself on it if you want to come):

1 Oliver Schick
2 Johnnyw
3 Sam
4 Thrasher

There's not only Cook Daily, but they've also taken over another container just across the way. They call it 'Home' and from memory it has different food, all vegan, too.

I'm going on to Easts afterwards, do join me:

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