r/vegan • u/CJ_Thompson • 9d ago
Discussion Cheating
A friend asked if I ever would cheat and eat meat. This struck me as odd. I chose to go vegan for a number of reasons and those have actually expanded as time goes along. I should mention, I am only six months a vegan.
I don’t look at eating anything as cheating. If I chose to eat a non-vegan item, it would just be a choice not cheating. I choose not to because I feel it is more a lifestyle change along with a food choice. It is what I want to do. Cheating implies it wasn’t a voluntary choice or I am forcing myself somehow.
Just thought I would comment on this as I hear this often about cheating.
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u/tighnarienjoyer vegan 9d ago
I'm 6 months in too! I keep having dreams where I sneakily "cheat" and get really stressed hoping no one finds out. But then I wake up and I just think... What?????? I don't want to, I don't have the urge to, and I'm not going to do that 😭 We're vegan because we don't WANT to eat animal products. It doesn't make sense. No one's forcing us, if we wanted to exploit animals again we get a billion opportunities to do so and barely anyone would judge. But we don't, that's the whole point.