Defining why you are vegan will help you get through the rough times during the transition. It will give you something to reference to, and remind you why you started this in the first place. There are hundreds of reasons why someone would want to become vegan, but the most common are animal rights, personal health and environmental benefit.
Animal rights is the most common reason that people have for becoming vegan. It usually starts by watching a PETA video or reading one of their many pamphlets about the horrors of slaughterhouses and fur. PETA and other animal rights organizations say that the best way help animals is to remove them from your diet and lifestyle. Being vegan prevents around 50 animal slaughters a year.
A vegan diet contains minimal cholesterol and is very low in saturated fat compared to the Standard American Diet. Many people have been able to control or eliminate their diabetes by becoming vegan. Eating a diet that is based around plants is very heart healthy and is an easy way to lose weight naturally. From my own experience, I have lost 60 over the last four years, and have never felt better in my entire life.
By not consuming animals, you are lowering the demand for livestock bred for food. A pound of wheat only uses a fraction of the water that it takes to yield a pound of cow flesh. If that wheat is organically grown, it minimally pollutes as well. While a vegan diet does not require food to be organic, one will find that most vegan food is organic or has and organic alternative.
Figure out where you stand with these reasons and write down why you are, or want to be, vegan. Defining it now will help you battle urges and difficulties down the road.
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