Hackney and Soho are particularly good for vegan food. But any Thai, Chinese or Indian restaurant should be able to serve a tasty vegan meal easily if you take time to ask them.

22 years eating a vegan diet. Perfectly happy and healthy on it.

I am vegan, although relatively new to it, I refuse to push my views on to other people as it is their choice. However, to moan about vegans always 'lecturing' you is so stupid when you see it from the other side. I get the same treatment when I tell people I'm vegan, 'lectured' on the health benefits of eating meat or any other reason why I should eat meat or just childish stupid questions. Whether you choose to eat meat or not makes no difference to me but I do think some people do need to be educated on the facts and pros and cons of both in order to make an informed decision

Edited by AshfordEagle94 (19 May 2017 11.17am)

Yes mate! I'm not the only Vegan Eagle! and I wholeheartedly agree, the food bit about being a vegan is easier than the rubbish people say about the choice of being one.

100% respect for the realness

22 years eating a vegan diet. Perfectly happy and healthy on it.

I don't wish to stereotype vegans at all but my point is about the charity PETA.

They have a lot of horrific promotional videos that show animal abuse in circumstances which I look to avoid and would want to be banned. Examples like battery chicken farming, 'industrial' milk farms and the like. PETA generalise all consumption animals or animal products as being akin to condoning and funding this type of treatment of animals.
This I despise and PETA and others are giving vegans a bad name for this. I hope that the subset hardline ideology that is coming to be associated with veganism is quashed because veganism as a dietary principle and the mindset behind it about animals is perfectly acceptable.

I do get a bit frustrated sometimes. If we were all to go vegan tomorrow there would just be so many problems because of the millenia of livestock farming before us.
For example, there isn't enough space to grow crops to feed us and many of the animals.

Second, where would all the animals go? Before we were thinking about animal rights, cows were bred in the West to maximise certain characteristics. They wouldn't survive without us! And there's no incentive to keep them if they just leech off of us and we can't even have a slurp from their teats.

Third, there would be a catastrophic job situation thinking practically. Humans have evolved so far as they require milk from an early age until about three. Cows and goats are essential in developing countries for their milk. Also, people who own livestock and work in the industry would not be able to earn.

Fourth, vegans love animals. Fair enough. But surely if you don't eat animal products because it isn't the animals' preference for you to, then surely continuing breeding domestic animals and selling them and keeping them as pets is counterproductive? Surely letting them go the other way and adapt back into the wild like wolves and wildcats is the right way to go? That is their instinct.

I respect vegans who aren't militant and simply can't bear to eat meat or animal products. It's only the ones who preach because fundamentally, like it or not, the world has got to a stage where a process of reversal is impossible.

Edited by EaglesEaglesEagles (19 May 2017 11.54am)

I ain't got nuthin' funny to say. Sorry.

Going to give me a lecture on a sport I have participated in since I was a kid and now coach youngsters.

Is it true that vegans cannot maintain an erection due to the lack of animal fats in their system?

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02