My life before veganism

TODAY'S VIDEO:

If I could go back in time and tell my past self that I was going to go vegan, I would have laughed. You see to me, vegans were all protein deficient, hippy tree huggers, who loved forcing their extreme views onto other people. Why did vegans have to be this way?

This is the story of how I went vegan, and how the seeds had been planted in my mind long before I made the change.

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[ed.winters]

I hope you guys like this one! I would also like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all of you for being here and for all of your support. I have lots of exciting things planned for 2021 that I can’t wait to announce. And if you’re still in lockdown like I am, I hope you’re handling it okay.

[nickfigueroa]

“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.”

- Joaquin Phoenix

[itsbobo]

the seed is planted AND has flourished! Been vegan for a month now! absolutely 0 regrets. Thank you for your work

[chrisc]

Vegan for 4 years. Even after loving bacon cheeseburgers and vanilla milkshakes. And even while working as a dishwasher at one point. If I can do it, anyone can.

[netflixmania]

Vegan for 3 years and I am the same as Ed, my only regret is that I didn’t go vegan sooner

[wullfae]

Hello Algorithm please show this video to more people

[karolinagun]

Because of YOUR and Joaquin Pheonix influence, I’m celebrating 1 year being vegan. Thank you! 🌱 I’ve been vegetarian for 8 years and I regret not going vegan sooner.

[d.]

It is sad that good, compassionate and "animal-lover" people don't even realize how much pain they inflict on animals. I was one of them.

[marcdeneus]

Been vegan for 10 years. It's a very fulfilling emotion to know that you are not contributing to this global atrocity. Feels amazing to be standing on the right side of history.

[gustavsson]

It's crazy for me to believe that you have been vegan for less time than me, yet you are so much more evolved and enlightened than I am. I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your work and your journey. Keep it up, my friend, you're making the world a much better place than 99% of us would ever have the energy to

[emmamimosa]

I’m 16 year old girl from finland and next month i’ve been vegan 1 year! The best decision i made🌱💕

[WTFisMYname]

Before going vegan I almost commited suicide multiple times due to depression and indescribable pain from rheumatism. Today I'm pain free for 3 years almost and I'll never ever ever look back. Veganism saved my life!

[robyndaniels]

I've been vegetarian since the age of 4 when I regularly saw my father slaughter chickens and pigs for the table and saw eggs come out of carcasses bloody and without shells. I knew it was wrong to do this to animals and refused to eat their flesh or eggs. I still drank milk as at that age I didn't realise that our cows and calves went off to slaughter eventually too. I'm now 72 and only became vegan 8 years ago too - like yourself Ed - when I became aware of the evils of the dairy and egg industries. I couldn't watch Earthlings in one go (had to stop after 40 mins as crying relentlessly and took 2 days for me to go back and watch the rest - I believed I knew of the atrocities it would show me still going on. It saddened me deeply to be living so long in a kakopian world. Thank you for all the work you have done and still do for those innocent creatures. I had cancer last year (recurred 10 months ago) and I dream of a world where animals are respected and left in peace but do not believe it will happen in my lifetime. Human beings are so incredibly self-serving and carelessly or callously unkind. I shall be glad to leave this world behind and hope I don't come back as an animal.

I went vegan because of the animals, of course. But YOU were the one who opened my inner eyes; the eyes of my soul. You, Ed Winters, are the reason why I connected the dots. Since your video on why vegans don't consume honey, I was shocked. Why would we steal from another species? Why would we cause unnecessary suffering to sentient living individuals? So I stopped consuming the flesh of innocent hens and their ovulations (since they were the only animal products I consumed) from one day to another. Your existence is truly a relief to the world. That article about the chicken truck caught your attention for a reason. Those chickens died for a reason. Because their death made you vegan, and so you made me and thousands more vegan too. Thanks again for yet, another amazing video.

[YvonneDH]

I'm 60 and very stubborn. No one could have convinced me to go vegan. It took a health crisis, hitting bottom before I would change. Then I evolved to animal compassion and sustainability.

[TheSilverGate]

Your girlfriend awoke a lion in you my friend, and for that I give my respect to her.

Thank you for what you both have done for the animals and for the planet. Keep it up!

[veganfortheanimals]

Ed was skinnier when he was eating corpses; so much for that argument

[pecky]

I went vegetarian as a kid, but only went vegan 5 years ago. I was genuinely too naive to realise the egg and dairy industries were really an issue.

[luminvader]

I remember as a child I really felt horrible eating meat; yet my parents kept forcing me into it so I just accepted it and moved on. Years later I was looking up recipes and saw a slaughterhouse video. It horrified me and I started reading comments... one caught my eye and made me change my tune fast. "You may not be killing the animals yourself but you pay them to do it. So it is happening because you are keeping them in business." That got me. And soon after I went vegetarian for a year and then went vegan. Almost 4 years soon and never going back. I feel a million times better and actually going vegan made me find out I had an allergy to gluten! So my digestive issues got better too :)

[vegansomething]

This is a great topic really for a video. Shows how vegans are just normal people who realised the truth about animal exploitation. I think we all agree, "I only wish I had changed sooner", hence wanting to guide others to change.