Someone who refuses to either eat or wear anything derived from an animal. Not necessarily any less healthy than your typical omnivore—contrary to popular belief, you can get protein from some plants—but not necessarily any more so.
Also not inherently self-righteous...but altogether too many of them are.
Also not inherently self-righteous...but altogether too many of them are.
"You can preach veganism at me all you want...but I'm not giving up chicken strips, silk shirts, or leather boots. Get over it."
by Qit January 21, 2004
Get the Vegan mug.John stood tall, and proudly proclaimed his Veganism - prior to dropping to the floor due to his microcytic aenemia resulting from iron deficiency, bone degredation from calcium deficiency, and fatal pernicious anemia from B12 deficiency. Poor John.
by staratsx September 20, 2011
Get the Vegan mug.Source of amusement online. Is also a popular member of the online phenomenon 'Find the Vegan'.
Will get red in the face if comments are made about:
-Animals being slaughtered
-Being insulted for being Vegan
-Being mentioned for being Vegan
Can be found on forums and websites such as Tumblr.
You will know someone is a Vegan when they try to tell you about it.
Identifiable features include:
-Posting about Animal Cruelty
-Posting about being Vegan
-Posting about how Non-Vegans must be worshipers of Satan
-Posting fake stories about processing meat meant to convert people.
Examples include:
Will get red in the face if comments are made about:
-Animals being slaughtered
-Being insulted for being Vegan
-Being mentioned for being Vegan
Can be found on forums and websites such as Tumblr.
You will know someone is a Vegan when they try to tell you about it.
Identifiable features include:
-Posting about Animal Cruelty
-Posting about being Vegan
-Posting about how Non-Vegans must be worshipers of Satan
-Posting fake stories about processing meat meant to convert people.
Examples include:
Person 1: How do you find a Vegan at a party? They'll let you know.
Person 2: Excuse Me... So Not True...
Person 1: How do you find a Vegan on Facebook?
Person 1: How do you find a Vegan? They'll let you know.
Person 2: How do you find a Meat-Eater at a party? Don't worry, they'll be everywhere, BBQing dead animals and stuffing them in their mouths and saying 'OMG Vegans are so Preachy'
Person 3: I found the Vegan
Person 1: Science Experiment: Who is easiest to summon?
Egberts?
Pizza?
John Green?
A Vegan?
The only way to find out is to reblog and wait...
Person 2: f**k you vegans aren't your source of entertainment you animal killers.
Person 1: AND THE VEGAN WINS
Person 2: Excuse Me... So Not True...
Person 1: How do you find a Vegan on Facebook?
Person 1: How do you find a Vegan? They'll let you know.
Person 2: How do you find a Meat-Eater at a party? Don't worry, they'll be everywhere, BBQing dead animals and stuffing them in their mouths and saying 'OMG Vegans are so Preachy'
Person 3: I found the Vegan
Person 1: Science Experiment: Who is easiest to summon?
Egberts?
Pizza?
John Green?
A Vegan?
The only way to find out is to reblog and wait...
Person 2: f**k you vegans aren't your source of entertainment you animal killers.
Person 1: AND THE VEGAN WINS
by PaulSmallSmith July 13, 2013
Get the Vegan mug.Someone who chooses to not eat anything animal.
A vegan who puts sufficient effort in to learning how to eat a healthy vegan diet is not unhealthy and skeletal looking, like some vegans who lack knowledge of what constitutes a healthy vegan diet.
A vegan puts effort in to their food choices that goes beyond "convenience food" and is healthier than the Standard American Diet--which gives them a good chance of not dieing from one of the major causes of old-age related death in the Western world--heart disease--and perhaps even cancer, depending on the diet.
A vegan learns that cows milk or other animal's milk are not the only sources of calcium. Protein and other things thought to only come from animals, can also come from vegetarian sources. In fact, with a little culinary knowledge it is easy to eat a wide variety of tasty vegetarian dishes--India's been doing it for thousands of years!
A vegan may know that it is not only protein that accounts for muscle growth, any knowledgeable body-builder can attest to that. Nutrients such as Zinc, b-vitamins, and a generally healthy diet are absolutely critical to muscle growth. Something meat is generally high in, but can be had from a vegan diet.
Avi R. Lehyani, a vegan body builder, who resides in Israel and is on the website veganbodybuilding dot com, is proof that vegans can be strong--contrary to some peoples ignorance. Who can bench press 380lbs and can rack lift 836lbs.
A vegan who puts sufficient effort in to learning how to eat a healthy vegan diet is not unhealthy and skeletal looking, like some vegans who lack knowledge of what constitutes a healthy vegan diet.
A vegan puts effort in to their food choices that goes beyond "convenience food" and is healthier than the Standard American Diet--which gives them a good chance of not dieing from one of the major causes of old-age related death in the Western world--heart disease--and perhaps even cancer, depending on the diet.
A vegan learns that cows milk or other animal's milk are not the only sources of calcium. Protein and other things thought to only come from animals, can also come from vegetarian sources. In fact, with a little culinary knowledge it is easy to eat a wide variety of tasty vegetarian dishes--India's been doing it for thousands of years!
A vegan may know that it is not only protein that accounts for muscle growth, any knowledgeable body-builder can attest to that. Nutrients such as Zinc, b-vitamins, and a generally healthy diet are absolutely critical to muscle growth. Something meat is generally high in, but can be had from a vegan diet.
Avi R. Lehyani, a vegan body builder, who resides in Israel and is on the website veganbodybuilding dot com, is proof that vegans can be strong--contrary to some peoples ignorance. Who can bench press 380lbs and can rack lift 836lbs.
Guy who has experience with one vegan before learning about veganism: Frank just become a vegan, he's been raving about it for the last few months to everyone he knows! ... judging and praising people intensely. He looks very skinny, he's obviously not eating right. He probably needs some meat in his diet or something to get his calcium... there's 'no way' he can get enough of those in his diet!
Guy after seeing the people from veganbodybuilding dot com and having been a vegan for several years:
I had no idea vegans could be so strong until I saw Avi Lehyani, these guys know how to be strong AND vegan, what a seeming contradiction! When I first went vegan I had no idea how to be anything over 120lbs, then i started eating right and I gained over 10lbs a month, what a difference healthy eating makes! It IS possible to be strong and be vegan!
Guy after seeing the people from veganbodybuilding dot com and having been a vegan for several years:
I had no idea vegans could be so strong until I saw Avi Lehyani, these guys know how to be strong AND vegan, what a seeming contradiction! When I first went vegan I had no idea how to be anything over 120lbs, then i started eating right and I gained over 10lbs a month, what a difference healthy eating makes! It IS possible to be strong and be vegan!
by gerdunga April 13, 2010
Get the Vegan mug.A person who dosen't consume animal products. They are unamerican, probably communist, and in the case of the male vegan most likely a homosexual.
by Joe1961 April 12, 2005
Get the VEGAN mug.a person who cannot accept the cruel, natural order of life on this planet.
from this standpoint, they tend to abstain from all things regarded as coming from an animal, which foolishly denies them all foods which are tasty. as a result, the rest of us get to eat more chocolate, cheese, butter and meat. delicious meat.
the fact that these products create a pleasurable taste/smell is because the brain approves of the nuitritional content, but through the tragic infliction of the brain rotting disease; veganism. the subjects maintain that the moderate eating omnivore is risking their own long term health by consuming them. invariably they look on meat eaters/leather wearers as some kind of evil, set on the idea of inflicting pain on animals because we're lazy.
the sad irony of the preaching vegan is that they dont tend to realise that the only torturous behaviour is theirs. tell it to the lions, because im not listening any more.
from this standpoint, they tend to abstain from all things regarded as coming from an animal, which foolishly denies them all foods which are tasty. as a result, the rest of us get to eat more chocolate, cheese, butter and meat. delicious meat.
the fact that these products create a pleasurable taste/smell is because the brain approves of the nuitritional content, but through the tragic infliction of the brain rotting disease; veganism. the subjects maintain that the moderate eating omnivore is risking their own long term health by consuming them. invariably they look on meat eaters/leather wearers as some kind of evil, set on the idea of inflicting pain on animals because we're lazy.
the sad irony of the preaching vegan is that they dont tend to realise that the only torturous behaviour is theirs. tell it to the lions, because im not listening any more.
vegan of the 16th century: because of my diet of nuts and grass saplings i will live a long, healthy and morally superior life...
(that winter the poor fool died of cold explosure because they refused to use leather)
(that winter the poor fool died of cold explosure because they refused to use leather)
by bluefish July 17, 2004
Get the Vegan mug.Unlike most forms of retardation, veganism is a choice. Common symptoms of veganism include the loss of friends, being beat up and being rightfully labeled as a faggot.
Synonyms: Faggot, Retard, Homo, Loser.
Synonyms: Faggot, Retard, Homo, Loser.
by Anderson-Kun February 13, 2017
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