Top 5 Reasons I'll Never Become a Vegan

1. Meat is delicious


Ham, sausage, burgers, bacon; they're all delicious. If bacon is wrong, man, I don't want to be right. The same goes for ham; I love ham.

Do I feel bad for the animals? Of course, but I honor their sacrifice by making sure it doesn't go in vain. Besides, that's how the world works. It's called the food chain; and as my old roommate was quick to point out, if God didn't want us eating cows, he wouldn't have made them out of steak.



2. It doesn't seem healthy


I know, a lot of vegans swear that a vegan diet is a huge step up in terms of health, but honestly, I don't see how.

Going without meat is one thing, you can cover that gap through other means, but you're talking about depriving yourself of two of the five major food groups. That is not a balanced diet, and this brings me to my next point.



3. No options


What're you supposed to eat? Most foods contain meat or dairy in some form or another. You can say goodbye to a vast majority of sandwiches. Heck, you can't even have a bowl of cereal in the morning. Some go even further, choosing not to eat things like eggs, seafood, or poultry. That menu seems extraordinarily slim.



4. I just don't get it


Vegetarianism, I understand, but this is pushing it. If you choose not to eat seafood and poultry for the same reasons you don't eat meat, I can even understand that. It's the dairy part that confuses me. Cows need to be milked, in fact, not milking them causes them a great deal of discomfort so, as far as I'm concerned, this is a win win scenario.

It's not like the cows are being hurt. Heck, it's not even equatable to animals being kept in captivity. Cows are usually given wide open fields to roam around, and even with that they generally just tend to stand there. I don't think we're keeping them from any sort of important cow related duties or trying to change their nature in any way, shape, or form.




5. Vegan food is gross


Have you ever had vegan food? It is not pleasing to the palate. Back in college, I was in the dining hall and they were out of pasta, so I decided to try some vegan pasta, thinking that pasta was the sort of thing that you couldn't really screw up. Turns out, you can.

There was another instance where I got a sample of vegan food, when of my old roommate's lady friends brought us some vegan chocolate chip cookies as a nice gesture. The thought was nice, the cookie...not so much.

I couldn't imagine living on that food and that food alone. I mean, if you want to, that's your choice, but when it comes to things like pasta or chocolate chip cookies, I'll stick to the real thing, thank you very much.