bwb, I don't give a rat's butt about being cruel to animals. I feel they are here for our domain and intend to use them to their fullest (without be cruel if possible).
However, with that said, I went on a 3 month vegan diet last year after I noticed my legs starting to swell. I am assuming it was heart congestion (not a good thing at all). Within a week of being vegan the swelling went away, sleep apnea started to go away, speech became clearer, weight started to come off, and I just had more energy.
I was one that believed that hype that we get addicted to sugar and not fat. We have been fed garbage by the Atkins craze that fat is good and sugar (carbs) is the enemy. Nothing can be further from the truth. Of course if you do the vegan diet right you should really eat mostly fruits and veggies for your carbs with limited refined sugar, sodas, candy, etc.
After over 3 months I slipped and ate a chicken biscuit and other animal fat products. Well I went on a month eating binge after that. Surprising, I still felt ok during this binge. My legs didn't swell, etc. My conclusion is that being on a vegan diet HEALED me in so many ways that the high fat binge didn't harm as much as it could. Needless to say, I am back on the vegan diet.
Why do we eat food? We eat it for energy of course, but where does the energy come from? It comes from the sun. We eat plants because they directly absorb sunlight. We eat animals because they eat plants that absorb sunlight. It just goes to show you that the closer you can get to the source (sun) the better.  |