'No Longer Vegan” 2018-2024 - The REAL Reason Plant-Based Dieters Quit…

Why are they no longer vegan? Here's the REAL reason plant-based dieters quit...

Why do you think we are seeing an influx of ex-vegans? Let us know in the comments!

Presented by Klaus Mitchell
Script & Research Lead - Bridget DeMarsh
Editor - Gerardo Arias

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[nooooobingo]

A hard lesson for vegans to be less reliant on influencers and focus more on nutrition advice and better everyday meal planning I think. Good video 👍

[KJSvitko]

Adopt from a shelter. Don't support breeders.

[BrenTenn]

I never wanted to be vegan, but stopped eating meat and dairy for health. Then realised that animals didnt have to die just because I’m hungry and haven’t looked back. Sometimes i miss a pizza piled with carcass but quickly remember that is bits of people and not food and i come back to reality. 58, 000, 000, 000 a year is absolutely heartbreaking to me and i hope i never forget it. RIP to all those people that didn’t have the luck of being born as a human ✝️

[vrunner]

Miley quit smoking weed that’s certainly made a difference to her brain function 😅

[davidsthoughts]

Wow. I also started eating wfpb after reading The China Study at my doctor's insistence. I then saw some factory farming footage, so now eat wfpb for the animals as well as health reasons. It helps me to have multiple reasons. I don't always do it perfectly, but am still trying.

[Vegan_Ape_]

Reason #1: They weren't vegan for the animals(did it for personal health reasons)

Reason #2: Ignorant about nutrition

Reason #3: "Convenience"

[ShermanKyle]

The Miley one always cracks me up — as if reducing the copious pot use wouldn’t have substantially helped her cognitive function LOL

[RainWalking]

Her brain was not functioning proppertly? So that was not the drugs and alcohol then?

[DBASSDAN]

I've been vegan over 30 years, it's not that hard 🤷‍♂️

[zenape]

I've been vegan for 11.5 years, and have been poor as hell for most of that time.

Anyone can do it, you just.habe to care enough to try when things get tough.

[kenzovich]

I think they just have mental health issues cause their entire life is build around their YT channel and an online presence. It seems that going from one extreme to the next is one of the only ways to stay relevant in this buisness and knowing how dissociated someone can be from the real world by living on the internet, it makes a lot of sense why these channels exist. Let's be real, if you got health issues, the one time you eat animal products isn't actually cleansing you of that. But it certainly helps your view count if you make a video about it and sell bullshit.

[thecharlieL]

I’ve been vegan for 17 years. The only health issue I had was low iron. Which I also had as a non-vegan. These people were never vegan but instead plant-based dieters with a low key eating disorder. 🙂

[juliesykes]

Have been vege/vegan for over 50 years. Am far healthier than my surviving siblings and most of my surviving cousins. I have always been the only vege/vegan in my family. I really don’t understand the difficulty. Being vegan is so easy. Have never found it difficult. If it is not vegan it isn’t food, simple.

[Chiungalla]

I think most of those influencers have narcissistic personalities. It just fits the narcissistic personality type pretty well to have all this attention and admiration. And they probably never were vegan for the animals in the first place, but rather for the attention. And the second they realized that ex-vegans get as much attention as vegans... they jumped back onto the band waggon.

[vfran]

I've been vegan for 12 years. I researched how to maintain my health by taking Vitamin B-12 and D3 and now I take an algae based EPA/DHA for my Omegas. My arthritis disappeared, my aches and pains disappeared. My son went vegan and now they can't find any signs of his Ulcerative Colitis. I also care about animals and once I learned about how we raise animals for "food" - I stopped eating animal products. I've never been sorry.

[eleonorabartoli]

I have been vegetarian for 50+ years and vegan in the last few. It happened when they killed my calf. The doctor in the family said that I would die. My whole family died instead, all of cancer in the following ten years. I have always thought I was spared because of help from the animals.

[NiteOwl]

That part about salmon inducing a wet dream was hilarious 😂

[thebowandbullet]

Love that you said "Plant-Based Dieters" in the title, PBN, because that's all they ever were -- at best.

[mikebeagley]

If an influencer is chasing a bigger following, a sure-fire way to do that is to be pumping out material which makes the biggest number of people feel good about their bad habits.

[livavapa]

I was 15 when I first tried to be vegetarian (for ethical reasons). I failed miserably and was feeling sick because I had no idea how to cook well, about basics of nutrition and I was one of those who thought vegs only eat salads. Luckily, my mother always let me be so she never was pressuring me into eating meat or never told me I would lack protein or those stuff. I went back to eat meat but I never blame vegetarianism for that. I just simply thought "It is impossible that these people only eat salads", I didnt know about B12 or omega 3 or anything. So I spend like 2 years researching and reading about nutrion, plant based food, veganism and all those stuff. Now I'm good, I'm still a vegetarian (eating eggs for covenience and hoping to go fully plant based/vegan soon). Also I see a nutritionist (she's a vegan tho) 2 or 3 times a year just to make sure I'm doing it right. Like 5 months ago I learnt I have an iron deficiency, again, I didnt blame it on vegetarianism, my brother eats meat and has iron deficiency too lol. I just take an iron supplement and eat more spinach (that I didnt have in my diet before) now. You just have to eat right and balanced no matter what diet you have.