Vegan and vegetarian are two terms often confused with each other.
They have a similarity:
- Both Vegans and Vegetarians do not eat meat
So what are the differences between Vegan and Vegetarian?
Taking the choice to be vegan means consuming absolutely no animal products and attempting not to use animal products in any way.
So, these things are not eaten by vegans: eggs, milk, cheese, chocolate, cake made with eggs including pancakes.
No dairy products of any sort and no eggs.
You may say: “But you NEED eggs and milk.”
Many nutritionists attribute things like asthma, acne and eczema to milk and dairy products.
Milk is produced by cows for their little cows… who have a stomach compartmentalized into four sections for digestion. We have only our one little stomach, that is not made for digesting milk.
And pasturised milk is even worse!
When you pasturise milk, you boil it to remove bacteria. But, in the process, you remove the natural enzymes in the milk that help to digest it. So the milk humans generally drink is even harder to digest than the milk the calves are drinking.
It’s strange, but I used to suffer asthma, acne and eczema. But cutting out milk products has eliminated the last two. I still get a bit of asthma, but it’s not nearly as bad!
Cabbage is a great source of calcium and beans are excellent for protein – I suppose the cabbage and bean farmers just don’t have enough money for marketing as the dairy farmers.
There are also all sorts of things made with animal products like tablets covered in a soft shell is made using pigs trotters.
Here’s a more in depth list of products that use animal products.
