People can go vegan at any age. In fact, nobody is too old or too young to make this decision. It may be harder as one grows up since one needs to give up on a lifestyle and on diet habits that had been adopted for many years. However, change is always possible. If you put your mind to it, nothing is impossible.
In Italy, a vegan couple has come under harsh critisism for raising their child vegan-friendly. Their child was malnourished and the parents were blamed for it. Since the parents had been vegan they were accused that their malnourished child was due to the vegan diet. However, veganism has definitely not be the reason for the derogatory development of their child but…
By now, there are so many dishes that can be prepared vegan-friendly. However, there are still some challenges when it comes to replace animal ingredients entirely by non-animal components. This is particularly true in cases where dairy products need to be equally substituted by non-dairy ingredients. Creating whipped cream without milk definitely belongs to those challenges.
Vegans are often criticized for being rather extreme not only considering their own diet habits but also for pushing their food choices on others. This had also happened to Jeff Merkel, a 24-old likeable young man, who had been working in a kitchen of a restaurant surrounded by meat until he couldn’t bear it any more.
This startup company seems to have a very bright future since they have been successfully operating at Silicon Valley to create a burger made of plants which happens to be so realistic that even meat eater cannot tell the difference. In fact, this company had become so successful that even Google kept an eye on it trying to buy it.
There is no doubt that veganism is on the rise. In the United Kingdom vegans rose by 350% since 2006 totaling more than 500.000 vegans by now. Even in the United States meat consumption has dropped considerably by 15% in the last 12 months. Of course, it’s still because of those three reasons that make people go vegan: love of animals, health and the environment.
The readiness to change diet habits is becoming more and more evident. Especially, the awareness of the suffering of animals is increasing rapidly. It seems that it becomes more and more difficult to simply ignore that diet has an extremely strong impact not only on the lives of other creatures but also on the environment and particularly on someone’s health.
Growing up with a bad temper and with a diet based on burgers nobody would have ever thought that this man was ever going to go vegan. Even his wife was laughing out loud when he wrote her a text message from the gym that he was thinking about going vegan. However, Kendrick Farris, made a flip-flopper and turned totally vegan.
Many countries and cities start to adapt to the increasing numbers of vegans worldwide. Countries such as Israel which has the highest numbers of vegans per capita in the world or Britain that recently declared veganism to be its fastest growing lifestyle ever are just two examples. For instance, Britain still lays behind when it comes to offer entire vegan sections in supermarkets. So, the demand for vegan products in this country still exceeds the supply.
People in Britain are going vegan at an impressive pace. This applies especially to the young generation at the age between 15 and 34 years old accounting for a 50% surge of vegans in the last decade. However, as much as vegan dietary options are concerned Britain still seems to lay behind. So, Britain needs to rapidly catch up with this.