How to Quit Being a Vegan

If you have been questioning your decision to become a vegan, perhaps it’s time to go about introducing animal products back into your diet. Depending on your reasons for becoming a vegan in the first place, this could be a delicate process.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Remember why you became a vegan. Maybe your parents raised you that way, or maybe you are sensitive to the way animals raised for food consumption are treated. On the other hand, perhaps you are following a vegan diet for the health benefits.

2. Find animal products grown by local farmers who are sensitive to animals, treat animals with respect and slaughter them while inflicting the least amount of pain possible. This will help ease your conscience if you became a vegan for the animals. If you would rather stay away from animal products with hormones, purchase organic dairy foods, eggs and meats.

3. Introduce animal products back into your diet in small amounts so that you don’t upset your stomach. If you drink a gallon of milk and eat a big steak on your first day, you will probably end up with gas, bloating and constipation. In addition, it may take your palate some time to adjust to the flavor of animal products again.

4. Research the health benefits of drinking nonfat milk and eating baked or grilled lean meats. In addition to beans and whole grains, animal products contain protein, which is excellent for building muscle mass and providing energy for people with a high activity level.

5. Learn how to introduce animal products back into your diet in a healthy way, without going overboard on fat content. Animal products can definitely be a part of a healthy and low-fat diet.

Tips & Warnings

• Remember that vegans avoid all animal products, even just a little bit added to a processed food. Now you can stop reading the ingredient list of food labels.

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[xosunflowerxx]

on 10/7/2009 I'm sorry that you have received such negative feedback. I found this article extremely helpful, as I have been wondering how I can transition back to a vegetarian diet from a vegan diet. Thanks!

[beanofdoom]

on 8/18/2009 I'm not going to bash you for writing this like the others. I think what a person decides to eat is his/her own business. I've been Vegan for over twenty years and I have personally never had the desire to go back for a number of reasons.
But ideological differences aside I strongly disagree with the statement in your tips section:
"Now you can stop reading the ingredient list of food labels."
Vegan or not it is your responsibility to be aware of what you're putting into your body. We live in an age of strange, untested chemicals, can of soup with over 110% of the RDA of sodium and supposed health drinks with almost 100g of sugar per bottle.
Please don't encourage people not to read the labels.

[evmj]

on 1/3/2009 "How about I stop being vegan by introducing one type of animal products back into my diet. I'll start of with the editor of this article. I'll love him/her with all I can and then murder him/her in the most compassionate and least painful way possible. I'll probably just slit his/her throat first, hook him/her upside down and boil them. Because that's the power of slaughtering something, it can just be so enjoyable and great. He/she won't even know because like other animals, is clearly not as intelligent as I and therefore doesn't understand what's happening."

[RB1840]

on 9/29/2008 DISGUSTING: eating pieces of those body parts

Please wake up from this lack of insight and stop eating animals which is nothing but being your own number 1 enemy due to being UNAWARE.

Please wake up, Stop eating animals, and don't give it a name. Vegan is just a name. It's what you stand for and do that matters, not the name.

Please stand for caring and compassion. Otherwise, you can't expect to be cared about, either!!!