write between 150 to 200 words and include in your letter: -the kind of peope who become vegans -the products that vegans eat and use -why ou think veganism would / would not suit your friend|||Dear Friend, I understand that you are contemplating to become a vegan. You should first understand the meaning of the word 'Vegan'. 'A Vegan' is one who does not use animal products. First let me tell you the kind of people who become vegans, then may be you can decide if you should be among them. People who consider killing of animals sacrilegious, wish to be vegans. The sages and Hermits who have renounced life tend to be vegans. People who suffer from obesity or any other heart ailment may also consider becoming vegans so as to lead a healthier life and save themselves from risk of losing their lives. You must also know what the vegans eat. They eat only plant products. Plant products provide us with all sorts of food - fruits, cereals, vegetables, spices, condiments, oils and fats, pulses, leafy vegetables etc. So a vegan's platter is rich with a variety of food. No worries about it. You may have to forego milk and milk products which are of animal origin. In vegetarianism these are included but a vegan does not use these as well. Be sure about your wanting to be a vegan. Milk and milk products are difficult to give up if you like ice creams, tea and coffee with milk, butter and so on. There is no harm in trying out being a vegan for a month or so. If you find it comfortable go ahead and become one. All the best to you. Yours lovingly, Print your name here|||Most vegetarians I know are not primarily motivated by nutrition. Although they argue strenuously for the health benefits of a vegetarian diet, many see good health as a reward for the purity and virtue of a vegetarian diet, or as an added bonus. In my experience, a far more potent motivator among vegetarians, ranging from idealistic college students, to social and environmental activists, to adherents of Eastern spiritual traditions like Buddhism and Yoga, is the moral or ethical case for not eating meat. A typical argument goes something like this “In order to feed modern society's enormous appetite for meat, animals endure unimaginable suffering in conditions of extreme filth, crowding and confinement. Chickens are packed twenty to a cage; hogs are kept in concrete stalls so narrow they can never turn around.” (Maddox, 2006) This in some cases does prove to be true, but is indeed the minority. It far benefits the farmers to have free range animals rather than to keep them penned up. When you eat meat, you are eating the muscle of the animal, and the more muscle they have the more money the farmer makes. Muscle growth in animals is extremely similar to that of humans. (Herta, 2002) Here is a hypothetical question: you have 2 men, 1 spends his life in the gym lifting weights and running, the other behind a desk and on the couch, which has more muscle/meat? This is why it benefits the farmers to let the cattle/pigs/chickens roam free, as getting a farm animal on a bench press is rather difficult. Being caged also makes for higher stress levels and stress hormones in the animals, which toughens and ruins meat. Few things about the caging of animals benefits a farmer, and truly is a rare practice, but it looks good on camera. The next argument goes to the massive resources needed to feed livestock. Meat animals are fed anywhere from five to fifteen pounds of vegetable protein for each pound of meat produced; An unconscionable practice in a world where many go hungry. Whereas one-sixth an acre of land can feed a vegetarian for a year, over three acres are required to provide the grain needed to raise a year's worth of meat for the average meat-eater. Where we start on this subject, is learning about livestock, cows epically. Cattle are ruminants, which means they can digest things we can't. They turn inedible roughage into highly-digestible meat. So what does livestock eat? Feed; comprised of leftovers, carrot tops, wheat husks, corn husks, grass, weeds, you name it; (Herta, 2002) All things unsuitable for human consumption. The way the argument is stated, it sounds like we pour all of our resources into growing gourmet crops for cattle just so we can enjoy meat, and this simply isn’t the case. Two thirds of the land in the world needs forage vegetation harvesting to prevent erosion, and only ruminants can harvest that forage. A fair number of vegetarians don’t eat meat because they claim it doesn’t taste very good. I don’t understand this in the slightest, because to me this simply means they’ve somehow just never tried it. To taste meat is to visit flavor country, a magical and euphoric place. If meat tastes bad, then why do soy burgers and soy hotdogs exist? A product made out of a plant, meant to taste and look exactly like meat. Why go out of your way to make such a product if it was gross in the first place? An animals teeth, digestive tract as well as taste buds are designed to prefer the foods it’s meant to eat. A koala loves eucalyptus, but to us it tastes vile and is indeed quite poisonous. This seems to imply that if we weren’t meant to eat it, we wouldn’t enjoy the taste so much. Now let us tackle their ace in the hole, the fact that killing is wrong. Understand that this issue is really about a persons moral standing. “We are so far removed from the killing of the animal that our meal just becomes “a piece of meat”” (Herta, 2002). What makes killing a human wrong, and a cow okay? Killing a buzzing mosquito is second nature, but you swerve your car to avoid a rabbit. What is it in the human psyche that differentiates, or qualifies one creature to live and another to die? Is it sentience? In that case, because an animal has a larger brain than another we allow it to live. It just so happens to have a certain organ larger than the other animal so it may live? To me that is ridiculous. How about because it can feel pain? This just means it has an advanced nervous system, so it lives? Genetically, a fly is more complex than a dog, yet we don’t shed a tear after swatting one. How far do we go before it doesn’t count anymore? The bacteria on your hands at this moment is alive, is washing your hands murder? It seems to me that all life has a right to exist, but at the same time life is a cycle. The sun feeds the plants, plants feed herbivores, herbivores feed carnivores. The morality of killing is a creation of man, a bear doesn’t think “poor salmon” as it breaks its back with its teeth. What we n

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