WHY VEGAN?

Want to know the truth and be given the Red Pill? If you’ve seen The Matrix you know at the beginning of the movie the main character is presented with two pills: one Blue, one Red. He has to make a choice. If he chooses the Blue Pill he’ll fall asleep, and when he wakes up everything will be exactly the same as it’s always been. If he chooses the Red Pill he’ll finally learn the truth. ~James Wildman

Everything makes perfect sense as you learn the truth. Becoming vegan you will be doing a great favor to your body. You will be eating everything that naturally grows from the Earth, and at the same time you won’t be contributing to animal cruelty, world contamination, and world hunger. It’s a three-way win!

Quieres aprender la verdad y obtener la Pastilla Roja? Si has visto El Matrix el personaje principal se le presentan dos pastillas: una azul, una roja. Él tiene que hacer una decisión. Si él elige la Pastilla Azul él se
dormirá, y cuando se despierte todo será exactamente igual como siempre ha sido. Si él elige la Pastilla Roja finalmente aprenderá la verdad. ~James Wildman

Todo tiene perfecto sentido cuando aprendes la verdad. Hacerse vegano le haras un gran favor a tu cuerpo. Estarás comiendo todo naturalmente que crece de la Tierra, y al mismo tiempo no estarás contribuyendo a la crueldad de animales, contaminación del planeta, y hambre mundial. ¡Los tres salen ganando!

El mejor discurso que jamás escucharás, con subtítulos en español click aquí.

 
 
A few useful sites…
Resources – A page I created with various resources that you can find useful.
Why Go Veg?
What They Never Told You
Vegan Alternatives to Honey
Humans Are Natural Plant-Eaters
7 Things That Seem Vegan but Aren’t
10 Essential Steps To Improving Your Vegan Diet
7 Things You Didn’t Know Will Happen When You Stop Eating Meat
5 Unbelievable Things That Would Happen If Everyone Stopped Eating Meat
20 Meatless and All-Vegan Options You Can Find at Popular Fast Food Chains

Documentaries

• Blackfish (Marine life)
• Blinders
• Call of Life
• Cowspiracy
• Delicate Balance
• Earthlings (Very popular)
• Farm to Fridge
• Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
• Fed Up
• Food Inc (Very popular)
• Food Matters (Very popular)
• Forks Over Knives (Very popular)
• Got the Facts on Milk?
• Live and Let Live
• Peaceable Kingdom
• Planeat
• PlantPure Nation
• Sharkwater (RIP Rob Stewart)
• Speciesism
• The Cove (Marine life)
• The Future of Food
• The Ghosts In Our Machines
• Unity
• Vanishing of the Bees
• Vegucated

Books

• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• God’s Covenant with Animals by J.R. Hyland
• Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman
• The 80/10/10 Diet by Douglas N. Graham
• The Bond by Wayne Pacelle
• The China Study by Thomas Campbell
• The Face On Your Plate by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• The Food Revolution by John Robbins
• The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone (The first book I ready to go vegan ♥)
• Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

Libros en Español

• Delgada Pero No Idiota por Rory Freedman
• El Estudio de China por Thomas Campbell
• Por qué amamos a los perros, nos comemos a los cerdos y nos vestimos con las vacas por Melanie Joy

Single? Check out these vegan Facebook groups and get ready to mingle! ♥
PLANTaPEEL 3k+
Single or Available Vegans 1k+
Vegan Date 2k+
Vegan Singles 4k+
Vegan Singles Around The Globe 600+

Grupos de Facebook
Varios grupos donde puedes conocer a personas que te pueden ayudar.

Vida Libre de Crueldad Creado por mi :))
Veganismo, Vegetarianismo (Libre de Crueldad Animal)
Veganos y Vegetarianos…… 🙂 45k+
Vegetarianos, veganos y crudiveganos del mundo 8k+
Belleza Cruelty Free Chile
Cuidado Personal Libre de Crueldad Animal,  Costa Rica
Buscando el amor entre veganos y animalistas 1k+

Photos from my Instagram account @LynSire

Instagram Accounts
A few of my favorite Instagram accounts about veganism, food, and lifestyle.

@bestofvegan – food account
@bestveganblogs
@health_porn
@IntheSoulshine – for vegan quotes
@LynSire – I share about beauty, outfits, food, etc.
@VeganCommunity – Big community of vegans
@veganfoodlovers
@veganmantras – vegan graphic designer

Cuentas de Instagram
Algunas de mis cuentas favoritas de Instagram sobre veganismo, comida, y estilo de vida. 

@ComunidadVegana – Una comunidad de veganos
@LynSire – Comparto sobre belleza, outfits, comida, etc. 

YouTube Channels
Some of these are vegan and others raw vegan.

EasyToBeRaw – Megan Elizabeth. Raw vegan, recipes, Q and A
EcoVeganGal – For everything vegan
FullyRawKristina – Raw vegan. My favorite!!
Gary Yourofsky – Lectures and speeches
JasonWrobelTV – Recipes
LynSire – I talk about beauty, makeup, outfits, food, and more
TheEdgyVeg – Recipes
TheSweetestVegan – Tasha Edwards another favorite! Vegan recipes
The Vegan Corner – Vegan recipes
World of Vegan – Formerly known as VeganBreak. Everything vegan.
ZombieGate – Zombie apocalypse recipes!

Canales de YouTube
Una variedad de canales con recetas veganas.

Cocina Vegan fácil – Recetas veganas
Dimension Vegana  – Recetas veganas
FullyRaw en Español – Recetas crudiveganas
LynSireEspañol – Hablo de belleza, maquillaje, outfits, comida, y más
Mi Vivencia Vegana – Recetas veganas
Veganamente – Recetas
Vegan Beginner – Recetas
Vegan Eat Mx – Recetas
Veganismo True – Todo sobre el veganismo

Photos from my Instagram account @LynSire

Dating Sites
If you’re single, and ready to mingle these are some great dating sites for vegans, vegetarians, and any other type of vegetarianism.

FindVegLove.com
GreenSingles.com
VeggieDate.com
VeggieConnection.com

Good Gossip
Great sites where you can find all sorts of vegan and environmental news.

EcoRazzi.com
EcoWatch.com
LiveKindly.com
VeganNews.co
VegNews.com

Ingredient Checker
Find out if that beauty product, or house cleaner is vegan. Just copy and paste the ingredients list into the checker and it will flag all the ingredients that are not vegan. How cool!

DoubleCheckVegan.com

Jobs 
From vegan career positions to freelance work. Most listings are in the United States, UK, Europe and Canada, but they accept jobs and candidates from any country. Some jobs are remotely workable as well.

VeganJobs.com

Pet Food
Vegan pet food recommended for dogs. Vegan dogs live longer, and a healthier life. Read about the health benefits of vegan food for dogs here.

V-Dog.com

Plant Based Doctors

Find a vegan doctor in any part of the world! Holistic doctors, and chiropractors also support the vegan, and vegetarian lifestyle.

PlantBasedDoctors.org

Travel
The Airbnb for vegans! A travel community of thousands with hosts worldwide.

VegVisits.com
VeganOnTheMap.com

Vegan Passport 
Travel the world with confidence and enjoy local dishes without compromising your vegan beliefs! With your trusty Vegan Passport, you can be sure of finding vegan food in restaurants around the globe. Bon voyage and bon appétit!

VeganSociety.com/resources/lifestyle/travel/vegan-passport

Wine, Beer, and Liquor Vegan Guide
Is your booze vegan? Brewmasters, winemakers, and distillers may include animal ingredients in their products directly, or they might use them in the processing and filtration. Learn which ones are vegan.

Barnivore.com

Inspirational Vegan Quotes

These are some of my favorite quotes I have come across…

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves. ~ Dr. Louis J.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. ~Alice Walker

A morgue is used for the storage of human corpses. In modern times they have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition. If you store animal corpses (or parts of their corpses) in your refrigerator to delay decomposition, then your fridge is their morgue. Dinner is their funeral. And your body becomes their coffin where they slowly rot… ~ Anita Vegan-Mahdessian

A mother’s love is universal; it’s not species specific.

If I would not want it done to me, I will not allow it to be done to others. “Others” includes animals. ~Andrew Kirschner

We look to the heavens and search for life on other planets, but have such a utter disregard for life on our own planet. ~Dhara Meehra

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. ~Abraham Lincoln

I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I’ve crawled on occasion, and I’m glad that no one ate me. ~Alex Poulos

One meal, soon forgotten, in exchange for a whole life. ~Author Unknown

Animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw

If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?  ~As seen on a shirt at veganstore.com

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? ~Buddha

God loved the birds and invented trees.  Man loved the birds and invented cages.  ~Jacques Deval

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?  ~Pierre Troubetzkoy

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.  ~Paul Rodriguez

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.  ~Alice Walker

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.  ~Bradley Millar

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. ~Sir Paul McCartney

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.  ~Martin Buber

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein

The greatness of a nation … can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~Mahatma Gandhi

When diet is wrong medicine is of no use. When diet is correct medicine is of no need. ~Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. ~Buddha

From the Bible

I am not religious but I still wanted to share this link in case you find it useful – ChristianVeg.org 

Genesis 1:29-30 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Romans 14:21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.

Proverbs 15:17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 Every species of animals are a race and nation of their own that we share this planet Earth with, we are no better and no more superior.

Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, and their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

“When someone becomes a monk, they need to reestablish their relationship with the animals. Animals are God’s creatures that need to be loved and cherished. Compassion towards God’s animals is one of the spiritual practices a monk must exercise to honor the name of God”.