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How do you feel about the idea of being vegan, but only 95 percent of the time?

Authors of The 95% Vegan Diet Dr. Jamie Noll and Caitlin Herndon believe that you can be a successful vegan by only following the lifestyle only the majority of the time. This is in direct conflict with the traditional vegan mindset which is more of an all-or-nothing view, creating two factions of vegans, dietary and ethical.

On their website, the authors differentiate between dietary vegans and ethical vegans. They say their diet plan is for dietary vegans, therefore does not have to adhere to the stricter guidelines followed by ethical vegans. “Many people would like to ‘go vegan’, but they don’t even try because they feel they could never give up certain foods forever,” Dr. Noll said. “As you know, in science we allow a five percent variance before we consider the data to be significantly different…In fact, there are no 100 percent vegan cultures in the world.