Hi there, I've been a vegan for over 10 years now, and I've been experiencing a large amount of bloating and gas over the past year.

Embarrassingly, it's causing excessive flatulence throughout the day, sometimes for multiple days after certain foods.

I eat a lot of green lentils.

I'm wondering anyone else has also experienced this and if you've found a way to deal with it?

I'm currently considering massively increasing my fibre intake with every meal, but I don't really know.

I've seen a doctor, and the guy said that the cause of my gas was my vegan diet. So, yeah...

Notable aspects of my diet: I cook with only the smallest amount of olive oil to keep meals low fat. I usually eat one large meal a day, rarely do I eat three meals a day.

Recently, I ate three servings of a lentil, carrot and kale soup I made. My abdomen region was greatly enlarged due to the bloating of gas. It was this that caused me to finally admit that I may have some kind of digestive issue that I'm unaware of, which doctors don't care enough to help me find.

Any advice, anecdotes, or help would be muchly appreciated at least for the sake of those in my vicinity lol

I want to make it clear that I do think we should criticize meat eaters for doing this, but we also need to stay consistent, since overweight and bodybuilding vegans also contribute to unnecessary harm to animals( of course they commit less harm to animals than meat eater but they still commit harm). This is because they both tend to eat more than they need to live and since crop harvesting does kill animals to some extent and they both are eating more than they need to they are causing more death to animals.

Vegetarian: A person who doesn't eat meat

Lacto-ovo-vegetarian: A person who eats milk products and eggs but not meat

Lacto-vegetarian: A person who eats milk products but not meat and eggs

Ovo-vegetarian: A person who eats eggs but not meat and milk products

Flexitarian: A person who mainly eats plant products but eats meat on rare ocassions

Pescetarian: A person who eats fish but not any other kind of meat

Pollotarian: A person who eats birds but not any other kind of meat

Pesce-pollotarian: A person who eats fish and birds but not any other kind of meat

Vegan: A person who doesn't eat anything that comes from animals

I kinda have the feeling the term is a semi-vegan. I know this isn't the same but I read a flexitarian is a person who generally only doesn't eat meat but does in some rare ocassions but in this situation I'm including a person who eats both meat and other things that come from animals in rare occasions

Let's settle this once and for all: is there really a difference between "dairy-free" and "plant-based" cheese? Does understanding that difference change your expectations of the cheese products? Like I think plant-based cheese might be less stretchy than dairy-free ones? Both are popular these days and I do not know how to pick!!

I knew the vegan sub wouldnt care as 80% of them are non vegans identifying as vegan so i didnt post there

But i thought the Vystopia sub would be different, i was wrong, so hopefully im in the right sub now

I did not agree with the current vegan society definition, they included the practicable and possible excuse in the definition even though it wasnt originally in there and i feel this just allows animal abusers to call themselves vegan, obviously im excluding medical and things where its impossible, i shouldnt have to even say this in a so called vegan sub but the fake vegans in Vystopia had an issue with it, so ill include this link

Veganism is about intention, do i intend to harm animals or do i not

https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/16li8bj/gatekeeping_post_intention_matters_when_it_comes/

I contacted the vegan society because i felt we need to get on the board in order to change the definition to remove the possible and practicable junk

But they dont even require you to be vegan to be on the vegan society board, they call plant based dieters DIETARY VEGANS and allow them to serve on the board and vote

Based on this it looks as though veganism isnt the right cause for us and thus vystopia isnt either since vystopia comes from veganism, i dont think we can take the term veganism and restore it to its original meaning because of this

Thoughts? How should those of us that actually value animal lives proceed? Veganism just means plant based dieter according to the vegan society

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