Guide to Going Vegan

Guide to Going Vegan

Why Vegan?

• Answers to Common Questions:

http://www.vegan.com/answers/

•  Vegan Starter Kit:

http://vegankit.com/

•  Try Vegan:

https://www.vegansociety.com/try-vegan

• All About Veganism:

http://www.adaptt.org/veganism.html

• 30 Reasons to Go Vegan:

http://plantbaseddietitian.com/30-reasons-to-go-vegan/

Ethics

• Animal Treatment:

http://considerveganism.com/#ethics
http://www.meat.org/
http://10billionlives.com/

• Animal Kill Counter (tracks how many animals are killed worldwide, from the moment you open the page):

http://considerveganism.com/counter/

Getting Started

• 10 Tips for Beginners:

http://thesocialhome.blogspot.com/2012/10/healthy-home-how-it-all-vegan.html?m=1

• Your First 3 Weeks:

http://www.vegan.com/guides/vegan-your-first-three-weeks/

• Top 6 Tips for Going Vegan:

http://www.theglowingfridge.com/my-vegan-story/

•  Free Vegan Starter Kit:

http://www.peta.org/living/food/free-vegan-starter-kit/

Nutrition

•  The Healthfulness of Veganism:

http://considerveganism.com/#health

• Vegan's Guide to Nutrition:

http://www.vegan.com/nutrition/

• Protein in the Vegan Diet:

http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.php

• Dairy Dangers:

http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g6015.full.pdf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/31/study-milk-may-not-be-very-good-for-bones-or-the-body/

• Guide to Going Dairy-Free:

http://www.vegan.com/dairy-free/

• Stocking a Vegan Pantry:

http://www.runningonrealfood.com/plant-based-basics-stocking-a-vegan-pantry/

Vegan Documentaries & Videos:

•  Forks Over Knives 

 Includes the world's largest comprehensive dietary scientific study, The China Study, which shows the relationship between the consumption of animal products and chronic illnesses following 100,000 people over a 27 year timespan.

• Vegucated

Explores the challenges of converting to a vegan diet. It "follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks."

• Food Inc

Insight into the food industry in America, including how food is produced.

• Earthlings

 Reveals how animals are really treated in various industries (meat, clothing, personal care items, pharmaceuticals, etc). NOTE:  Extremely graphic!

• Cowspiracy

Environmentalism and consuming meat, dairy, and eggs.

•  101 Reasons to Go Vegan - James Wildman

First half covers ethics and cultural conditioning, and the second half covers diet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4HJcq8qHAY

•  Bite Size Vegan - Youtube Series

https://www.youtube.com/user/BiteSizeVegan/featured

Facebook Groups that are KIND (many FB groups out there can be quite rude and judgmental):

• Raising Little Vegans:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/733474663430299

• Vegan Pregnancy & Parenting:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/168346079916067



Veganism as a Lifestyle

• Veganism Isn't About Perfection:

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural-health/why-eating-vegan-is-not-about-being-perfect-but-about-being-aware/
http://www.peta.org/living/food/making-transition-vegetarian/ideas-vegetarian-living/tiny-amount-animal-products-food/

• For Christians:

http://www.all-creatures.org/cva/default.htm