Veganism Isn`t About Losing Weight

Veganism Is Not About Weight Loss Despite What The Increasing Number of Youtube Vegans Think!

As I continue to watch and make videos via the wonderful resource that is Youtube concerning Veganism I cannot help but notice that more and more people appear to think that being a Vegan is purely about weight loss and looking great.

As both Youtube and Instagram continues to fill with eager young Vegans ever ready to show us their beach ready bodies and talk about how being a Vegan makes you look and feel amazing I cannot help but wonder if the real message of Veganism is being lost.

There are many various and valid reasons to become a Vegan but surely the most prominent one is the welfare of animals. The right for animals to live, breed and die without humans claiming that they have the right to visit imprisonment, agony and a horrible death upon them. Surely that is the most important point to make. 

So why is it that so many Vegans fail to address this point or to even mention it amongst their videos of their "amazing" blender for mixing their smoothies and the "my hair has improved since I gave up animal products"

My worry is that Veganism has become a fashion accessory in the same way that a tiny dog that fits into your handbag is and that when the initial excitement of belonging to the new cool club wears off then many of the new Vegans will simply drift away like yesterdays fallen leaves.

There are many, many wonderful Vegans on social media of course focusing on the real issues of Veganism but it appears that the younger Vegans are using the moral choice of non-suffering as a way of drawing attention to their waist size and the amount of fruit that they can eat in a day. Improving health and weight loss is of course a brilliant thing as the majority of Western culture hurtles toward mass obesity and premature death however the new trend for the mass media and celebrities to suddenly claim that Veganism is the cure for everything smacks of manipulation and an attempt to empty peoples pockets of their hard earned cash.

Of course, there is another side of this point of view. It could be argued that the reason one becomes a Vegan doesn`t actually matter. At the end of the day if you are a Vegan for the animals, or for the environment or because you think it`s cool then you are still not consuming animal products and therefore not taking part in the mass misery and murder of animals that deserve better. 

Let`s see if the new "recruits" to the Vegan community are still Vegans twelve months or two years from now. I have the strong suspicion that many of them won`t be but I will be incredibly happy to be proven wrong, I really do hope that I am.