yea dominion was so traumatizing to me that I felt like there isn't even a choice to be made. i went form full on omnivore to vegan.

Dominion made me so emotional that I never purchased an animal product ever again

I watched Earthlings when I was 14 years. I went vegetarian overnight with the goal to be vegan. I stopped buying things tested in animals right away. I removed dairy and eggs soon after. Transitioning took me a couple months because I had to convince my parents to let me vegan and had to learn how to cook. I’m almost 21 and still vegan.

This is true, I know I did. But we still know that the animals are killed, and the general resistance to watching farm footage speaks to an awareness that things aren't as happy as we've allowed ourselves to believe.

Almost everyone vastly underestimates both what happens there and the intelligence of farmed animals. I felt so ignorant after reading and watching the reality.

I went vegan before those documentaries came out, so I wasn't exposed to any of that stuff. It was just a philosophical decision, based somewhat on the understanding I think we all have deep down that good stuff isn't happening on animal farms.

I was vegetarian and I took going vegan kind of slowly, mostly because I wasn't sure how to get my parents to allow it and I was nervous about telling people. So I guess it happened over a few months? But once I did it it was fine, and I realized there wasn't really a need for a delay. You can keep learning as you go, you don't need to know 100% to get started.

I consider myself lucky. I never had to watch those to become vegan. I thank Alex O'Connor (The Cosmic Skeptic) for that!

Personally, I tend to regret not having gone vegan overnight after just hearing the logic of paying for animal cruelty while being against it at the same time by my brother. I went home to my family in December/January this year for a uni holiday. At a point, my brother mentioned Earthlings to me (after about a year of him being vegan and planting seeds in my mind), and at this point I was already pretty set on transitioning to being vegan when I finished my holiday and started studying again. I think what made me want to watch it then and now was the fact that he never watched it because he knew it would be too upsetting to him. I kinda said I'd watch it on his behalf, almost.

The first time I watched it, I could not get more than ten minutes in before deciding I had to go vegan on the spot - despite it inconveniencing my family a little bit. Joaquin Phoenix's narration in the introduction was too powerful. I couldn't deny that speciesism, this new idea he had mentioned, was just as 

Dominion was the last documentary I saw on that matter (sixth or seventh), so it didn’t single-handedly made me vegan, but it was the final stroke to make me decide.   


After watching it, my only animal purchase was one bag of tuna kibble before my cats went plant-based as well.

For me it was a matter of not being able to refute the arguments against eating animal products. I’d always secretly admired vegans and vegetarians alike, and I think I knew they were on to something deep down. 

I don’t remember what sparked it (likely a Reddit post) but I did a deep dive on this and other subreddits trying to come up with a reason not to go Vegan. After a week or so of this, I went Vegan overnight as I couldn’t bring myself to eat any animal products I had on hand, and found no good argument against it.

I never did watch Dominion or other documentaries, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. That was actually part of it for me… if I couldn’t even watch the abuse how could I pay for it?

I was already vegan before Dominion, but it took about two days after watching (while getting very drunk) for me to look into becoming much more of an activist.


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or similar documentaries like Earthlings?

i always thought its same with everyone; they watch the doc and simply cant bring themselves to go con consuming things like they did before now that they have been aware of nurture and pain these animals go though, 

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i must stress that there is no judgment here whatever! i just wanted to hear how the slower transitions worked for other? Im sure there are many complicated situations with people who have families and kids to think about. i was lucky that i didn't have consider the welfare of others at the time so my transition into veganism was all my choice and it happened overnight.

so this is just judgement free space to share our stories  =)

how long did it take for you to become fully vegan after watching dominion?