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My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro, and I'm your host.

I'm the author of several books on living healthfully and compassionately. You can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website Joyful vegan.com and you can also join thousands of people whose lives have been changed by the

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vegan challenge.com. Today's topic is vegan for health versus vegan for ethics does it even matter.

Often when you tell someone you're vegan the response is oh are you vegan for

health or you vegan for health, are you vegan for ethics?

And personally, I find that a very interesting response,

just that question, because somehow the answer matters

to the person asking, and depending on your answer people respond very differently which I find

fascinating if we say it's for health reasons I think that person tacitly applauds us

for doing something beneficial for ourselves, but if we say it's for ethical

reasons or for the animals, I think it makes people feel threatened or judged because, as I've talked

about in the past, a mirror is held up that forces them to look at their

own choices.

Frankly, I think most vegans will say that though there may have been one thing that sparked their desire to become

vegan, they remain so for a number of reasons. And I find it interesting that

there's an expectation that we have to choose one reason. I mean I think the question itself is perfectly

reasonable because most people aren't surprised if you say well I'm vegan for a number of

reasons but I also think that what they're really asking is, you know, what was it that made you become

vegan? What happened that made you make that choice? What motivated you to become vegan?

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