Veganuary: How to go vegan in 7 simple steps

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Every year, thousands of people worldwide sign up to participate in Veganuary — the world’s largest vegan movement, inspiring people to try a vegan diet in January and throughout the rest of the year.

But why go vegan? Especially when you live on the only planet that’s got cheese?

What convinced me personally was that it’s no longer contemporary to eat animal products.

My reasons to go vegan:

• I am one of 7.8 billion people that live on this planet.
• Factory farming’s needed to feed that many people.
• It takes 18 times more land to feed an omnivore compared to a vegan.
• An omnivore diet requires 13 times more water compared to a vegan diet.
• We live in a capitalist society — profit, not fairness, is always a top priority.
• If I ever thought I only ate meat, cheese, and milk from happy animals, I should be assured that such an amount of happy animals doesn’t exist on this planet.
• Did you know that a wild chicken lays around 15 eggs a year instead of the almost 300 eggs a factory chicken lays because the eggs keep getting taken away from them? That’s…