Vegan Grandmother Nafisa Taher Shares Why She Went Vegan for the Animals
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- Nafisa Taher shares how she went vegetarian and eventually vegan. Watch her husband's story, Dr. Akil Tahir, here: • Indian & American Diet...
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Sometimes there are no words . . . and this definitely one of those moments!!!!
Totally herself. Totally transparent.
She just shared her life. I will go back & listen again& again. She is so right. Just live your life. You can not FORCE people to eat this way. Yesterday I listened to her husband. Again, there are no words.
Tears came to my eyes as he talked about his wife . . . Both interviews are the BEST I have watched EVER!!!!!
Thank you for watching and sharing!
Kay Thanks for your kind comment. Appreciate you taking time to watch my interview 💕
I agree,two beautiful & intelligent individuals.i really enjoyed these two interviews,spoken with truth from the heart i found them so heartwarming.💗🌿🍛🥗🍲
You can't force people to eat this way, but why did she have to cook the dead bodies of the animals she loved for her husband? Why could he not cook for himself? What is this but disrespect for her ethics, to continue to receive meals from her that he knows she is ethically opposed to?
She is quite a woman! I so enjoyed her talk! Thank you so much for interviewing her.
This brought tears to my eyes. I am vegan but it’s tough sometimes. It’s not because of my love of vegetables because I don’t. But for my love of all animals. Thank you for your story. It will help me keep going .
Thank you Paula. We all become vegans for different reasons. I like you did it for animal cruelty. My husband did it for health and some people do it to save the planet from global warming.
I appreciate your honesty for not liking veggies.
it's always going to be tough - everyday is a fight - not just one time.
@@extropiantranshuman very true.
I watched the documentary “Forks Over Knives” and there was no question that I had to stop contributing to the suffering. I am 79 years old and it’s been almost 10 years. So I understand when she talks about her motivation.
Awesome! Where do you live, I may like to interview you!
She is beautiful human being with kind heart.
Great lady, I’m glad you’re a compassionate human being, your family is lucky to have you.
Thank you. My world revolves round my grandchild, children an husband. In that order😄
What an amazing lady. So wise, kind and so beautiful! Very inspiring interview, thank you!
Such a beautiful grandmother ❤️
🙏🙏. Being a grandmother is a wonderful job. Soil the grandkids and let the mother deal with the meds you have created
I admire you so much ❤️ Gods blessings always 🙏
She has a lot of go points, I love being vegan. Knowledge is power and so are plant foods. Thanks
Thank God this woman speaks the truth without worrying about offending anybody.
This is the most beautiful message ever 😸
What a great conversation with such an inspiring and kind lady. Just wanted to add that there are many plant based eaters in India too and a lot of people are now aware of the harm caused by consuming dairy and the inherent cruelty in the dairy industry. There are many plant based milks, yogurts and cheeses available and a number of vegan restaurants too.
Finding this channel is making my transition easier (I'm new to all of this) but this woman made me feel so inspired
Keep it up! It’s difficult sometimes, I know you can do it
Love this woman!
She is so sweet. I wish she had a cooking show. Thank you for interviewing her.
Thanks Joan. I would love to share my recipe and learn some from you😊
This young lady is beautiful inside and out!! Thank you for sharing ♥️
🙏🙏💕
Such a wonderful human being…❤️
Eating whole foods, plant based (no oil) is good for you, good for the animals, and good for the planet.
Amen!
And less expensive
Ghee is commonly used in my country too. But we don't use it in everything, but my people loveeee drinking cows milk, it's a big cultural practice. She looks incredible at 70 my goodness!!!! and has shared so much wisdom.
I love this woman. ❤️
Love you right back!
Oh, I wish she could show us her recipes in video form.
Lovely woman with courage and wisdom.
I am 69 and have been vegan now over 10 years. I also take no medication. We have changed to Morton’s Lite Salt as my husband loves the salt shaker but he takes blood pressure pills and I go along with this for his sake.
We went to an Italian restaurant and I they had a vegan pizza, and ordered this. It was much more than I could eat. So we took it home. We get an Italian sausage by Fieldroast and it is very good, so I put some Prego spaghetti sauce on the pizza and garlic salt and cooked the sausage on the top and added a little vegan mozzarella cheese and wow, never had a better pizza in my life and my husband felt the same.
We decided we can get that basic pizza and then add some things to it occasionally as it was just that good.
To stay vegan one has to make sure it is enjoyable and delicious which I was doing anyway to keep my family happy when I cooked meats and chicken.
But I feel so much better, as I had been in a wheelchair with arthritis. Now I generally walk 4 miles a day and I feel really good. My husband has not done one bit of research. He had prostate cancer and I told him, to keep cancer from coming back, you have to eat more wisely. He conceded. Now he says he would not change for the world. I hope so.
We had to take care of my parents who ate themselves into ill health. It was a burden to me as I had small children at the time. Now I am a grandmother and I do not want nor does my husband want to do to our son and daughter-in-law what my parents did in ignorance. We want to be a benefit and to share family joys, not to usurp anyone else’s lives with concern for our health.
There is coming more vegan products. Some are made to be equivalent to meat in protein and fat. We don’t use these as they would likely make us as sick as we were before. One has to be a label reader. And cannot be ignorant.
I love these interviews. Makes me feel less alone ❤️
Her face when hearing about the vegan chocolate bars(which I ❤) is priceless.😊😊
Thank you Marcus!
I still crave chocolates 😞
There is an Indian influencer named Harshdeep Swami who tells how he lost weight and regained his health on a plant based diet. I learned how to make delicious vegan Indian food from his CZcams channel. I believe his channel is called Plant based Swami. He’s very inspiring.
Thanks for the info
Thanks. I will look it up
One of the most beautiful woman, by listening to her you can also see the beauty of her heart. Thanks you so much for sharing, I'm almost a vegetarian 1 year ago. Can't wait for some recipes 😋
Bless your heart. You and your family is so sweet in recognizing that animals are living beings. So naive, so tender, and human beings as God has given more intelligence, they need to realize it.
I cannot wait for you to start sharing your recipes with us. I changed my life style after retirement and my health is perfect now. After taking four drugs a day for different problems with my health, I took it into my own hands and changed my eating and it all improved to be perfect now, after 3 blood tests within 1 1/2 year range, each test improved that I took every 6 months. I'm learning how to make healthy meals that do not require meat or cheese. Thank you for sharing your information with us, I'm learning as I'm going along in life.
Steve Jobs once said ( eat food like medicine or you will eat medicine like food) it’s true!
This is, by far, my FAVORITE interview I have heard on this channel! Very inspiring. I love her views...
Thank you! Heart warming to know you too care about those who have no voice🙏❤️
She said "your mince" not yermins. What a delightful grandmother. She’s doing better than most of the youngins (under age 70) that I know. My husband and I are vegan, but my children aren't. I wish I could influence them to make the change.
🤣 I literally asked her again last night when I was trying to fix the subtitles. I normally don't go through the subtitles but started to a little lately. She didn't know what I was talking about so I told her to look at 42:30 and tell me. She tried but I had already scheduled it so it was private. I didn't get her text that it was inaccessable until late so I made it unlisted again and she didn't get back. Then I forgot to change it back to scheduled for 2pm. At 2:20 I suddenly remembered and was like "oh no! It didn't go out yet!" So I released it late all because of Yerman! And you had to catch that right away 🤣
@@VeganLinked this response cracked me up. Glad to be of service🤣
I don't scrub the entire transcript though, it's been hard to take time for it with so much to edit...
@@VeganLinked I’m enjoying your work. Let me know if you’d like some help.
They will come around. My daughter is half way vegan and my son eats poultry occasionally.
Oh I just loved listening to her! Great interview
Wonderful hearing you.you are so compassionate.hats off to you.
A great lady with amazing integrity and insight - such a privilege to have listened to this incredible individual - thank you maam 🙏🙏 for sharing so much..I am a much better human being as a result of listening to your vast life experience 😊
That's so sweet thank you so much for watching and commenting!
I love her. And her reasons. Thank you for these interviews
Thanks bridge.
Love listening to her! Please post more videos with Nafisa 😊
Mrs. Tahir, You are doing good by eating fruits instead of drinking the smoothie. While chewing fruits, we get lots of good bacteria from our mouth, which helps grow good bacteria in the gut.
Blending some things may make nutrients more available. Bacteria in the colon benefit from insoluble fibers that make it there. So perhaps you mean those may be destroyed by the force of the blender, in theory. But those foods with insoluble fibers aren't usually what people put in the blender, like beans, vegetables... However, chewing elicits bacteria in the mouth to convert dietary nitrates to nitric oxide in the mouth which is important for vascular health and the immune system...
Agree I don't make smoothies for this reason and chewing food makes it last longer 😊
@@VeganLinked Excellent! Thank you, It is good to know all these in detail. Also, I do not use any straw if I have to drink a smoothie. So that smoothie does not go directly from my glass to my stomach.
Thank you Bimal! When I get lazy at times, I do resort to smoothies.😋
It’s always better to just eat the fruit whole. But for those who have a hard time getting in enough fruits and veggies, it’s a good way to get those nutrients. Just sip slowly so you don’t get the glucose too quickly.
You are a very kind human being.God bless u!
Sanatan dharma is the best. What you were saying in video. We sanatani been following for thousands of years. You dont have to be sanatani. You can be vegetarian for different reason. Your gujarati is very sweet.
It’s different when I was ignorant but now that I know..
❤️
Thank you for this video. What an absolutely beautiful lady. I am starting slowly but for me it is health issues.
Great conversation take care
Keep up the good work 👍
Can she have her own channel please?
That would be cool 😎
Oh no! I would freeze.😓
@@nafisataherbhai9859 yes please your own channel.
Loved the interview. I am transitioning to vegan and your interviews was helpful.
@@fatimazoeabrahams2130 Fatema, The translation can be a challenge. I would suggest baby steps. You can achieve it one step at a time. Will b glad to share some recipes with you, if you so desire.
@@fatimazoeabrahams2130
Fatima, I am not tech savvy. Wouldn’t know where to begin😁
Thank you very much Madame !
You are very welcome 🙏
All the very best to you!
@@nafisataherbhai9859
Oh merci infiniment pour votre adorable message Nafisa 🙏 !
Je vous souhaite une belle continuité , en étant toujours aussi inspirante 😊 .
Quelques fleurs de France 🌻🌺 ⚘ mais universelles , pour vous .
Elisabeth
Loved your and your husband’s interviews.
✨✨I would get another opinion on the blood pressure medication. Hypertension is hypertension and not relative. Also, the med may well be what is making you more lethargic and missing your yoga. I wish for you the utmost health and energy into your 100s. You may never see this message but maybe you will receive it another way. Peace. ✨✨
Great interviewer!
Amazing lady, x
Why is it difficult for people to realize., we have got our natural body from this nature.As soon as we grow up, we are killing it for our pleasure. Why not have a happy environment for all living beings. We all in the same boat on the same planet. People need to grow up.
Tafisa your covenant with God is pure and Noble .
Thank you Konami. Like everyone else I too have skeletons in my closet.
Now there are chocolates without milk and sugar! Using raw cacao and other 'healthier' sweetness like coconut sugar.
she got a lot of sense.
Its never too late to do the right thing for the Animals, the planet and ourselves 💚
#VeganIsTheFuture #StopAnimalCruelty Go #PlantBased Go #Vegan #Empathy #Compassion #Equality #Peace
Well said Thersa! I could not have said it better.
@@nafisataherbhai9859 Thank you Nafisa you are awesome have a wonderful week 🌺
She looks great for her age.
Beautiful
Jeff I agree with you, being vegan has been much cheaper for me than being an omnivore. But perhaps since the interviewee was already not buying animal flesh, she experienced less of a financial gain when she took that final step.
It's great that she stopped consuming animals, but as I understand the definition as defined in recent decades, is not a diet. She has the frame of mind of a vegan, but for me it is not only diet, but in everything I purchase and do. My cars, personal-care products, clothes, and much more. I also seldom buy any processed foods. I eat 99% raw and I am doing great. It is far cheaper for me to eat. My shampoos and toothpaste used to be more expensive but not anymore.
Indeed, really there are so many ways we can evolve as vegans.. I have even had a vegan tell me they don't use toilet paper, which is next level lol. Some thrive off of dumpster diving, freegans. Anything we can do to decrease our footprint and impact on other lives makes us more vegan. Living in smaller homes, driving less or not at all, etc.. We are all on a journey coming from a very destructive beginning, working our way toward a better future.
@@VeganLinked I agree with most of your points here. I also know of some that do not use toilet paper. I am not there though.
@@charliemorrison8168 yeah, I'm not there yet either 😂 one day I hope to live somewhere amongst a food forest where I can live more in harmony with the cosmos. Maybe then it will make more sense to poop where and rinse in a creek or something lol
You are a better person than I am Charlie. I too will get there one day.
@@nafisataherbhai9859 You will be for sure. You have your heart in the right place. I do not think that I am better than you though.
I eat vegan chocolate. lol. Nafisa is inspirational.
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I enjoyed this interview so much until the ninth minute when she said she cooked meat for her husband because she didn't want to force her diet on anyone else. Why not just let him cook his own meals, in that case? How could she continue to cook the dead bodies of those animals, knowing what they went through, and loving animals? I'm Indian myself, and I believe the root of this is women's socialisation in Indian culture that they think they have to cook for their husbands and cater to their preferences. When my mother was sick with a brain tumour, the cousins and aunts who lived nearby visited us and I cooked for them. I asked them to wash their own plates in the sink. The men dumped the plates and my aunt washed up after them. It's such a disappointing attitude. It is self-disrespect and brainwashing to think we are inferior. Women should NOT drop their ethics for the pleasure of their husbands.
Aunty, you say that ignorance is not an excuse but that you can forgive people who continue to eat meat when they are ignorant. But you weren't ignorant at the time you were preparing their dead bodies for your husband. I wish you could open your eyes to the sexism that you were brainwashed with, that you felt you had to prepare the dead bodies of those you loved for a man you were married to - open your eyes for the sake of your grandchildren. The next generation of women need to stand up for themselves and for the ones they love (non-human animals).
"We all like our independence" - How is it independence when a man depends on a woman to cook for him? Especially when he's making her cook something she is morally opposed to?! And I do not understand that it is a person's "freedom of choice" to consume animals. Certainly paying for the abuse, torture and murder of somebody else whether human or non-human is a choice, but it is not a valid choice. You wouldn't say it's a person's freedom of choice to abuse other humans, so it is not freedom of choice to abuse animals either. It stops being a personal choice when there's a victim involved.
Omg! Most Indian woman do this bargaining with God. I am in the same basket.it was funny and reassuring to hear it from someone.
🤣😁
You are beautiful inside and out.
You make do lengthy vedios.....
Unfortunately chocolate ( including the highest quality cacao, nibs, etc) is now known to have high levels of lead. I wish this wasn’t true, but the best science to date says that it is.
I looked into this recently and found that some brands aren't as bad as others. A concerned parent who was putting cocoa in her children's smoothies and what not daily had her children tested and there was no evidence of them consuming lead. But, you're right, we do need to be careful, but that goes with a lot of things.
Garlic helps remove heavy metals :)
I am born vegetarian. I have hard time to be vegan. I dont care for cheese, butter and ice cream. I stoped drinking milk. But i need milk in my indian tea or coffee. Now my wife has forced me from 2% milk to 1% milk. My father in law has became vegan last 4 years. He does not drink tea or coffe. So its easy for him. Please advise
@You scared? i came to us from india when i was 16 year old. In india my mon never let me touch tea or coffe. Even us did not touch cofee or tea till i was 47. My mother in law stays with us. Typical indian lady has to have her tea two times a day. That ginger tea smell so good. From trying a sip. Get hooked on. Now she has cut down the tea. I am hooked on tea.
Yes same here.cannot find a substitute for milk in coffee
Plant based milks such as soy milk, cashew milk, almond milk, walnut milk instead of animal milk. You can buy them or make them in a vitamix raw. Only exception is soy milk must be cooked. I cook my soy milk in the instant pot.
@@nfnnln8049My wife heard about oat milk. I am going to try oat milk
@@vipulmpatel9101 Good Choice! Can use over rolled oats as a nutritious breakfast!
her blood pressure sounds way too low on that medicine. like maybe that’s why she sometimes now felt to skip more days of her exercise
I will discuss that with my physician when I see him next.
It's amazing and very educative. She looks really good fir her age. She so confident and positive and has a good heart. God bless
@@dorcasagbor8100 Thank you!
@@dorcasagbor8100 Thank you for the compliment. I am Human and do have lots of faults to. Love always
The blood pressure measurement doesn't make sense.
Just know it was high and probably because she loves salt and is a foodie ethical vegan more than a heslth nut :)
@@VeganLinked ok, but the blood pressure measures were pretty low to start with. There was no need for low dose medication.
@@desthomas3020 Right on I don't recall what they were. I'm traveling right now so I can't really look but I imagine her doctor knows what's best. And she may not be recalling it correctly...
@@VeganLinked Thank you,you might be right on that,she probably got the reading wrong. Best wishes from the uk.
You may be right.@@VeganLinked
If we weren’t supposed to drink milk, our mothers would have spewed cool aid!
Yes when we are young not adults and human mothers are not forced to produce milk constantly .
Infants drink human milk, if you're not an infant you no longer need human milk. Cow and goat milk is for cows, I'm assuming you're neither so what are you saying exactly?
@@VeganLinked I know. I haven’t consumed milk since I was very very young. I DO NOT LIKE IT! LOL. Follow your body, because it speaks to you!
Drink milk while your mother can produce it! After that its Good bye milk. You don't drink that which belong to another infant human or animal!!
OREOs are vegan.
maybe, but not next level vegan, that's like old school low level vegan. Processed foods are invasive to the environment since they require packaging and excessive resources. And they're not healthy for the human animal. So, they're not very high level vegan. But, I'm not scared to eat one, or two, or a few.
@@VeganLinked Oreos are vegan.
Sweet level vegan.
42:58 Cool its basically what we call TVP here in the states 🥣 I never soak mine and have been using it since I was a meat eater even though I've seen recipes that way 👍🏼