I eat great burritos and sandwiches, and cooked meals with cut up vegetables along with whole grain pasta or else cut up potato I have, adding a few nuts and seeds, with a really great sauce I like with using hummus and some medium salsa, I use La Victoria, and seasonings I like to add. Everything I've been having for over nine years, after several years being vegan already, is with whole foods from plants and not adding things otherwise like processed stuff. This is very healthy and really helps against some serious health problems common for others.

Why consider that? I am busy but manage to come here about this one time in the week. I really want others to see they should be thinking to be vegan. If they need answers, I will be back by the next week to respond to them. Some do just need that help. Yes I do gather information for sharing.

It is true they were not vegan, and I put in copied text of what was in a post I saw. There was no such thing as veganism until the middle of the last century, there were no vegans before that. Vegetarians were known as Pythagoreans earlier. Einstein was definitely vegetarian the last few years of his life.

Really new vegans might say they miss cheese, or maybe something else. Generally there are addictions to certain substances among those to get past, but it fortunately does not take long. Find vegan things you really like to have about as often instead, those really should be healthy things, not just processed stuff. I found I could have a really great sauce that I like so much in my cooked meals almost all the time, with putting some hummus and some medium salsa in them. I use La Victoria, and I add good seasonings I like, but do not add salt to anything. And for other things I would sweeten I use something other than sugar, where I am, bone char is used to filter them so the sugar is not vegan, unless it is a brand verified as vegan, now I generally use agave nectar. Gelatin is from animals too.

What that I said are you disagreeing with?

There are tasty meals as alternatives, and I can be helpful.

I use beans or lentils still, too. I do not really use tofu though, but do not find any fault for using it.

The site has little to do with the way that I eat, which I speak for, with whole foods which in my case is all from plants. It is a healthy way really, and with the ways I quickly learned I have delicious food that I enjoy more than food I had before. I am older, so of course I was wise with doing these things.

The whole foods from plants are so very healthy for us. As an example I made a meal with quinoa, green lentils, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, cashews, almonds, butternut squash and squash seeds, a little broccoli, celery, cabbage, guacamole, jackfruit, medium salsa and hummus, and various seasonings, a bit of dried seaweed, and triscuit woven crackers were added. I try now for at least as much variety in cooked meals, with use of whole foods from plants.

The China Study, besides many more studies, Forks Over Knives, https://www.forksoverknives.com/, there was nothing in my communication against cooking, it was pointing out we and any people are not natural predators, which do not need cooking. Uncooked vegetables and fruits are available to us, any meat that would be desired is necessarily cooked, unlike what natural predators would eat. I made my point, with studies backing up what is healthiest.

I blog and share on media. It is not forcing anyone, but I do not hold back the relevant information I find, that shows this way I speak of, the healthy way for eating plants and not having stuff taken from animals used for that, to have it seen by anyone, that without being forced what they choose they still realize these things. Why should any be left ignorant? It is not with me being emotional about it still. Things may be sad without my being emotionally sad.

Being non vegan is not causing less crop deaths. duh

It's the demand for animal products that continues the use of animals with their slaughter for those. Veganism turns from that demand. With there being crop deaths we may choose ways for that to be less. Veganism has less crop deaths than crops for continually feeding the animals being used for the demand for animal products. We can grow some of our own food when possible, too. If we do, crops do not make as much sense. They attract pests. But plants used for food growing just among other plants are not attracting the insects or small animals that crops would. Plants for food can be mixed among any other compatible plants.

I would hope for connection with others who are vegan here. I see many are seeing my posts labeled to vegan who are not themselves vegan. So I give information through posts that relate to being vegan and that it is of importance.

If you can grow any plants for food at all, grow those, it does make significant difference. Remember animals being used for food need to be fed, this whole way is using a lot more food up, with what more is needing to grown, there is only more incidental harm with this way. The whole food was I have is good. I approach the 30 vegetables a week which is really so much healthier by getting more from produce in all that I buy, generally it is otherwise just what I will drink (non-alcoholic) like green tea, coffee, and fruit juice, the pasta and the quinoa I buy, hummus, medium salsa, and jackfruit, jars of pickle chips, jars of olives, some rice milk, almond milk, cashew milk, or soy milk, and cereal (usually raisin bran for warmer days and oatmeal for cooler days), whole grain bread, and complete cookies (Lenny & Larry's). That really is almost all, there are seasonings and very occasional things like seaweed, not so often, I still get what I might for supplemental B12, and minerals anyone might need to supplement, and more so at a higher age, that would concern me.

There are a number of studies. The China Study that I remember by name was huge, but there are more, all indicating this. Here is a link to an article about a very recent one, any further ones are not hard to find online. https://www.eatingwell.com/plant-based-diet-multimorbidity-study-11796092

I do not care for it as I prefer a lot of other things I prefer more. That is all. I do not mean it tastes bad or is not good for you, it's fine that others will have it among their food, and if they offer me their food with it wanting me to eat it I would not turn it down. But I live on my own and make my own food.

Everything is a choice, nothing is requirement that must be done, and what is reasonably possible is part of vegan choices.

I only make food for myself

I should also answer using animals in any way is not a part of vegan choices any people make.