It so happened that among my friends there are an incredible number of people who adhere to the philosophy of Buddha, practice yoga and eat only raw vegetables. “Be” – you think, and I agree with you, because I can’t imagine my diet without meat, eggs, sweets and other goodies.
One day I succumbed to persuasion and went to a vegan party. Yes, they drank only tea brought specially for such occasions from overseas ecologically clean meadows, ate beet and carrot chips, fruit sweets and sausage. Honestly, I only liked the tea. The taste of all the other goodies remained in my mouth for a long time, and I could not bring it down with the products I was used to. Still, not everyone can be people of this kind and such taste preferences.
But they also have their own characteristics. So we think that vegan is short for vegetarian, but nothing like that, it is completely different eating behavior.
An experienced vegetarian, an expert on healthy nutrition, Tatyana Ryabinova, helped me to understand these nuances, who said that vegetarians eat non-killing food, but can afford some deviations from the strict diet by drinking a glass of milk with honey or eating eggs, since these foods are not associated with murder. And here vegans do not even eat them because they are strict vegetarians.
Philosophy vegans implies the ethical choice of plant foods, as their call to care for the ecology and the environment in general.
Vegans they eat only plant foods, choose clothes and cosmetics, in the production of which animals were not killed or tortured, and, of course, they avoid places and events with the participation of animals, that is, they do not go to the circus, zoos, hippodromes.
Everyone chooses which philosophy to adhere to and what to buy in their refrigerator, but Tatyana shared the recipes for her favorite dishes, assuring that, having tried them once, we will want to make them a permanent diet.