Vegan chef. Opening Charlottes first all vegan restaurant 2009 specializing in pop ups, meal planning, festivals and events.

I went vegan for ethical reasons and plant-based for my health. Having grown up with dogs, I eventually got dogs myself. It was the amazing bond I formed with my pooches as an adult that opened up my empathetic eyes to the complex and beautiful spectrum of emotions that animals possess, and ultimately, provided me with the conduit to vegetarianism in 2014. After watching Earthlings, and resonating so profoundly with the message of activists like Gary Yourofsky, James Aspey and Earthling Ed, I went vegan in 2016. During this period, I had transitioned fairly seamlessly from an omnivorous junk food diet, to highly processed, vegan junk so I was a poor candidate to discuss, let alone showcase the health benefits of whole food, plant-based veganism. Documentaries like What the Health and Forks over Knives along with compelling literature such as The China Study and How Not to Die were pivotal influences in my decision to give up junk food, take control of my health and become a “poster boy” for plant-based eating.

I became a vegan about a year ago because I just felt unhealthy. I was overweight, my skin was pail and dull, so on, etc. The transformation was amazing! I lost 20 lbs and I beamed with healthiness.
But then… I went down for 3 weeks to visit friends and family. I decided beforehand that I would eat what they ate and not be a nuisance. Unfortunately, I have struggled to maintain my vegan diet since returning 5 months ago. I feel tired and moody

Everyone could be vegan

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born and raised vegan! have enjoyed 46 years of vibrant health and feel better than ever - have been an advocate of going vegan for health, the animals and the planet since childhood and have guided many to this lifestyle... so thrilled to see how far it has come via sites like these

I'm a professional vegan chef 30yrs and motivational coach/speaker. I created the 1st plantbased meals service call Veg-In-Out in 1992 and the 1st plantbased craft services call Healthy Hollywood 2013. I currently promote positivity with love Strong USA. We spread love and unity by posting motivational signs all across American ❤️.
Let's all work together to create a compassionate world with unity, equality and love.

I grew up thinking that animal products in general were such a part of "normal" everyday life. I never challenged any of it. Mid 2016, a friend started sharing information with me and I began to learn what I felt I already knew. It was difficult, realizing how long I had my back turned to the truth. I decided no more, I confronted the truth and learned to be a more compassionate and empathetic person. I believe in the movement so much, its also what I do for a living! Veganism is the future!

It became clear that it was the right thing to do. I want to make the world vegan and I try to everyday.

I slowly transitioned to being WFPB/Vegan after attending many NHA health conferences and reading books on Natural Hygiene. I witnessed remarkable health recovery with my young daughter and myself. After being in this lifestyle for over 25 years, I retired from my corporate career and became the Executive Director of the National Health Association which was founded in 1948 as a non profit to promote a Vegan/WFPB lifestyle. www.healthscience.org

I was just watching YouTube. And Changing The Diet In The African Community. Popped up. And I decided from there I had to get control of my life. I already was having problems with meat. The smell was disgusting me.. And everyone around me think meat. Have to be the main course. And me as someone that lift weights. I was like where will I get my protein. Will I lose muscle mass. I just said I'm going all in. I can't let Society take over me.

Been on and off vegan diet for many years, started with vegetarian diet. Want to go total vegan, married to doctor who was brought up mostly vegetarian, had a severe mucus problem and sinus infection, have reneged a bit and eaten some dairy, some meat& fish (a few times a year) only for many decades now. Finally getting message about IGF-1, watch and following many advocates such as Dr. Vincent Longo, Dr. Milton Mills, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Neil Barnard, Dr. DeanOrnish, Dr. T. Colin Campbell of "The China Study", Dr. Esselstyn and his son Rip, author of "Engine 2 Diet", Dr. John Mc Dougall and many others. Am trying to go total vegan, may be using too much soymilk (according to Dr. Mills), want to get the balance better, overcome my "cultural" way of eating, digging into a "total" switch, which is a monumental task for anyone taking cues from wrong sources, such as the USDA food pyramid model. That's about it.

After a couple of years in the transition phase, in January of 2021, I committed to being 100% plant-based. I'd slip a day and pick myself up recognizing how sick whatever it was I ate made me. The time before 2021, I was mainly plant-based and it gave me a chance to learn more, especially from the luminaries who pioneered the science-backed studies confirming the benefits of living a plant-based lifestyle. I experienced more, learned more, and talked to more who were inspiring and encouraging. Today, I realize the vision I had of veganism was shaded by the veil of misunderstanding. Hearing people talk about being vegan, even in retrospect doesn't due it justice. I heard the words of compassion and feeling love. I had to experience it from a mother's perspective. I could imagine what it felt like to have your child snatched away from you. I could imagine how it might feel to be raped and impregnated, forced to have the child, and have it stolen away from you. I could imagine how a chicken who was born to lay eggs, would do so only to never see them incubate and hatch. I could imagine the pain of living years couped up in a pen and treated horrendously in horrendous conditions. It reminded me of what my ancestors felt like in the hull of a big boat after being stolen from their homes and carried for months in untenable conditions only to be sold to a human who treated them like animals. I have felt the impact of living in a smog riddled environment; concerned about growing plants because of acid rain and polluted ground water. These are still concerns and I am more than ever committed to being the example of living a healthy whole food, plant-based vegan lifestyle. At nearly 70 years old, I plan to see a few more decades healthy and prosperous as I help others to share their message and help others as well.

I became vegan by reading and learning more about scientific evidence of benefits being Vegan. I can see and feel a great benefit in my body and energy. I just love it

Plant base whole food restarted.

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I had prostate cancer 15 years ago. I read the China Study and became a vegetarian.

Kavita left her high-paying accounting job to follow her passion to open a vegetarian restaurant which serves a unique fusion of street food options which she had been dreaming of since childhood. She pushed hard for this venture to us and finally, we gave in and we are glad that we did. Our family members with their expertise in different fields joined in to support her passion and thus “Veggie Planet” was born on September 2017 in Mississauga. In a nutshell, we are a family-run vegetarian restaurant aiming to serve our unique delicacy of vegetarian food options with warm customer service across the world in the coming days.

I went vegan after watching Gary Yourofsky's best speech in 2011. I literally did nothing more than stop eating what little animal I was eating already and just ate more of everything else I ate, including french fries. In 2017 I had my bloodwork done to save money on my insurance. My total cholesterol was 121!

I remembered having my bloodwork done about 6 years earlier; in late 2010, right before I happened to go vegan. My total cholesterol was 168 then. Six years of not eating animals, no other changes, brought my LDL and Triglycerides down that much and HDL up too. The visceral fat fast that had been progressively accumulating around my waist just like my father, and both of my grandfathers, vanished. And still now at 51 in 2024 I'm basically the same as I was when I was in my late 20's. And, I no longer get sick. Before going vegan I would usually get sick twice a year at the change of the seasons; hence the reason I had my bloodwork done in 2010.

All of this intrigued me. So, I started listening to doctors on YouTube. I also just started walking in my neighborhood for the first time. I would take these long walks and absorb so much of it that I was inspired to prepare more whole plant foods, dig deeper into nutrition, and that led into a little into science, biochemistry, anatomy, evolution, and logic, looking at how others are doing around me, how I've improved but my extended family didn't when they were in their 30's. I'm now 50 with the same body I had in my 20's and very sedentary with all this editing and not being very happy with walking in this neighborhood anymore.

I went vegan for ethical reasons in 2011. In 2017 I realized everyone can be vegan and may even be significantly healthier as a result eating a well-planned vegan diet. Understanding the potential a vegan way of eating has for human health I became obligated to do all I can to share this information, learn more, explore far, and help others along the way as much as I can. To make sure, again I had to ask, "is there any reason to eat animals?" and no one could justify it for anything other than social conformity, an infantile habituation really.

In an effort to organize my contributions and efforts, free content creation for vegan businesses and events, I started VeganLinked.com as a website directory. I didn't have the budget or help to accomplish much beyond that in the first stretch of working on the site. I took a break from developing the site after a few months into it and just left it on autopilot while I was building up the YouTube.com/VeganLinked channel.

Now the channel is approaching 100K subscribers. I’ve shot hundreds of interviews around the country on location, solo. I produced a documentary for Jane Velez-Mitchell in 2019. I bought a house an hour and an half from me in 2020 to produce videos with Dr. Garth Davis; after fixing the house up, renting it b/c I can’t afford it, putting an accessory building on the property and turning that into a studio.

Garth and I did about 5 videos before he and his family suddenly had to move back to Texas. At the same time Dr Kong approached me about the book she was working on called Vegan Voices; composed of stories from 50 different authors.

I offered to interview some of the authors from her book if she helped me with travel and coordination. And it was that first run that set motion for hundreds more interviews to come.

Right away, about 3 interviews in, I realized I needed to do a documentary. I had helped Jane with hers but that was her vision and entirely her style. I just did all the editing and helped think things through and shot some of it.

The documentary I would love to do hasn’t been done really. And it’s unfolding now through the interviews as they progress.

As time has permitted over the years I have tried to come back to the website. Each time I have spent a couple or few months dealing with the developers and ultimately brought it a step further. I worked hard on the site from 12/22 to 3/23 and really overcame some milestones (with listings & events) that were holding me back for years. This enabled me to focus on and try and take the site to a new level (with user profiles) which brought on new issues. Now in 2024 I’m getting past those user issues and implementing a forum and hopefully getting to a point of stylizing the site and actually start promoting it.

So, that’s just some of how things evolved in my vegan life; from ethics to health, to everything and everyone, to doing all I can and now this is all I do. I would love to pull off a huge documentary. But, thus far it’s just been me with really zero budget. Consequently, it may just end up being more of a compilation instead of reshooting specifically for the documentary and with a team.

I learned about eating better while worming in the natural foods industry. The more i learned, the more i stopped eating, until i was completely vegan.

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Realized dairy and eggs contributed to same industry I was trying to boycott. So went fully vegan.

I am working on switching my diet.

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I am passionate about plant-based nutrition for sustainability, health, and athletic performance.

We “discovered” Dr Greger and then Dr Fuhrman. It just makes so much sense to eat a whole food plant based diet in order to live a long healthy life!

Co founder of www.plantbaseddata.org. Vegan physician and expert on vegan diet and health, environment, and pandemic risk reduction. Special interest in global equity and food security issues as related to plant based diet.

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I was pescatarian since 2014 and became began this year after watching conspiracy. I love animals and I really saw the hypocrisy in eating animals.

Health devastation .... exit animal products and processed foods and enter whole plant foods.... bye bye chronic diseases! 🤗

Excited about this new lifestyle.

I became vegan due to health concerns.

I was a vegetarian for 7+ years before I found out about the horrors of dairy, eggs, and honey.

Once I found out about these industries, I became vegan and an activist.

I've been vegan since some time in early 2000. My reasons have shifted over the years, but I am primarily interested in the environmental benefits nowadays.

Striving toward it

It started out as a spiritual vow which lead into a new lifestyle.

It all started with seeing the speech from James Wildman 101 reasons why to go Vegan.

I went vegetarian for the first time when I was 16 when I found out about the suffering. I spent the next 15 years bouncing back and forth struggling to comprehend the reality of animal agriculture and reconcile that with the decent people I knew in the world I thought I lived in… Finally on 2005 all of the information I’ve been reading for 15 years clicked, after watching a particularly devastating undercover video of a Chinese for farm. Part of my inability to stay vegetarian or vegan in the past had something to do with not feeling well, so when I went vegan and 2005 I decided to learn about nutrition and try to be as healthy as possible. I’d now say I’m vegan for the animals, the environment, and health. No the truth is, it’s my love of animals more than anything that got me to go vegan and will keep me VEGAN forever no matter what. I run a small animal rights group in Mobile, Alabama, as well as a micro sanctuary for chickens rescued from animal agriculture. I also at any given time share my home/life with around 12 to 15 rescue cats and three rescue dogs. And I’m about to release a short documentary on the importance of including non-human animals in our circle of compassion.

I was pescaterian for a year, at 57 years old, decided to go vegan a year into it. As much as I liked the taste of meat, I never wanted anyone to die for me. So, I said, no more. Better late than never! Now I am WFPB certified. A volunteer with a local vegan/animal rights group. I protest, do investigations and anything else I can to to promote animal welfare and compassion.

Hi, I went vegan because I watched What The Health. This changed me. I began to watch more and more on the China Study. I’m hooked. I also looked at what happens to the animals on the front end of the food process. This really did it for me. Plus the stories were proof on how fast and healthy one can be going vegan.

New vegan!

Vegetarian for 10 years before - cut our dairy - much happier now after 7 years totally plant based 👍

I was experimenting with veganism until I watched the Gamechangers documentary. I decided to go from plant-based to vegan.

Watched Gamechangers. Decided to try to become vegan.

I watched “What the Health” with my wife and we decided to become vegan to be more healthy.

My candles made me vegan!

I started my candle business a few years ago after becoming frustrated that I couldn't find eco-friendly, pure and non-toxic candles on the market for use in my Complementary Therapy business. I then decided to make my own. I wanted them as close to nature as possible without harming anything deliberately in the process. It then got me thinking...I loved the finished product so much and was so proud that they were vegan (I was a vegetarian at the time) that if I was promoting them as vegan, surely I should be too!

I was introduced to a vegan diet at a Buddhist retreat centre.

I became a plant based eater after reading the book How To Eat To Live. Never turned back

I went vegan for the animals in 2020 when I realized iys not ethical not to be. A year after, I started a vegan & cruelty-free business for making vegan living easier.

A selfish unethical vegan. It's not about the animals and it's all about my health.

🌱 Former Vegf**ktarian between 2012-2020, I realized how hypocritical I was: wearing other individuals' skins, furs & skins, and consuming their secretions & periods while claiming to be ethical by abstaining from eating their dead bodies. 🤦‍♀️

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Been vegetarian for years, closing in on my 50th birthday next year and want to be my healthiest ever, lower weight and get off the high blood pressure meds. My ethical nature also needs more nurturing and a community of like minded, and like hearted people, as I'm surrounded by a family and circle of friends of carnivores who put absolutely no thought into where their food is coming from.

Hi Everyone, I am trying to heal my body from autoimmune diseases. I am learning about using foods as medicine. I watched a YouTube video of
Dr. Montgomery speaking about the many benefits. I am not eating vegan yet but I 'd like to try. I have autoimmune diseases and my body has sensitivities to many things. My purpose is to improve my sad diet and health. Thank you for educating people. I love animals and I look forward to becoming vegan.

Blessed to be born to a vegan mother and growing up with a health-conscious mindset. Recently started my own business focused on a WFPB lifestyle for young athletes.

i became vegan for the health benifits and became passionate after learning about the horrors of animal curelty

Went vegan in the summer of 2018. "What the health" documentary was the final push for me. Once I saw that my diet was not hurting just myself ( that, I could live with) , but poorly kept and inhumanely slaughtered animals ( I had told myself before I saw contrary evidence that there was no way the authorities would allow inhumane conditions), and also the planet....everything just clicked into place and made perfect sense to me. All in one instant. It was instantaneous. I became vegan overnight. Rid myself of rheumatoid arthritis symptoms along the way too.

Occupation: Vegan Writer For the Animals

After meditating on the suffering of the cows, I finally made the complete shift to Vegan. I thought I would miss cheese so much, but actually I have not missed it even one time. I am Vegan For the Animals, and writing for them as an author and blogger is my calling.

I just finished reading Vegan Voices and I am so inspired for the work ahead!!!

May all beings be free of suffering.
May all beings be happy!

I am a Registered Nurse for 31 years. I Have been overweight my whole life. I developed gestational diabetes 15 years ago. I feel compelled to focus on my longevity primarily for the sake of my son. I don't want to miss the major milestones in his life. I want to be a "Glam Ma"! I don't just want to be alive, I want to LIVE. I am currently prescribed Metformin, Victoza, Glucophage, Lisinipril, Simvastatin and Gabapentin. I need to get off these medications. I enjoy eating the fruits and veggies. I have been avoiding fried foods, bread, dairy, white sugar. I have issues with candies. When I eat them, I overeat them. I know I am doing better with food choices. I am 5 6.5 211lbs. Goal weight is 150lbs. I am convinced WFPB eating can help me reach that goal.

Tenho 33 anos, nasci no Brasil e quando não estava muito satisfeita no meu curso universitário no Brasil, decidi visitar o Canadá - isso foi há 13 anos e desde então me tornei cidadã canadense.


Minha jornada veg começou aos 13 anos, quando li num zine, num show alternativo de punk rock, que mais de 90% das florestas são desmatadas por causa da “agricultura animal”.

Meses depois (1999), deixei de comer animais, também inspirada por uma nova amiga vegetariana na escola.



15 anos mais tarde, comecei a procurar grupos online de pessoas veg. Num evento, contando como eu era ovolacto pra uma moça, ela me perguntou “por que não é vegan?” - Eu não tive resposta e naquele momento já soube que queria ser vegana. Pesquisei, mudei hábitos alimentares e outros, assisti documentários e eventualmente vi um post no Instagram sobre uma vigília, evento da organização The Save Movement pelos direitos dos animais.
A partir daí, fui me envolvendo mais e mais no ativismo, até após 1 ano resolver sair do meu trabalho corporativo de 9 anos, me desfazer do meu apartamento e carro e viajar pra deixar de participar daquela rotina sistêmica e passar mais tempo com a família e vivendo a vida.
Minhas participação e organização de eventos ativistas enquanto fazia o mochilão não foram despercebidas. Falar português e espanhol também foram fatores pra uma das organizações que mais admiro me convidar pra turnês pela América Latina pra abrir mais grupos, atender VegFests e organizar vigílias, oferecer palestras e expandir o movimento pelos direitos dos animais nos países de língua portuguesa e inglesa.


Desde então, viajei por 20 cidades de 12 países exclusivamente pelo projeto #SaveLatino, abrindo novos grupos e não só organizando vigílias e palestras, mas também participando e (co)organizando eventos de conscientização, reuniões, Cubos da Verdade (Anonymous for the Voiceless), interrupções (DxE Direct Action Everywhere), resgates, investigações em matadouros, fazendas e feiras onde animais são usados e mortos.
Fora as ações de rua e o ativismo diretamente relacionado à causa animal, também participo ou apoio e tenho interesse em movimentos em prol do meio-ambiente, da população indígena, de imigrantes, moradores de rua, LGBTQ, saúde física e mental, e outros que lutam por um mundo mais justo e compassivo.

Mais recentemente, tenho aberto as portas da minha casa pelo AirBnB, onde posso conhecer e compartilhar experiências e informações com pessoas do mundo todo sem sair de casa. Também tenho pesquisado sobre o desperdício de alimentos fazendo o Dumpster Diving, onde temos a oportunidade de oferecer alternativas àqueles que não têm dinheiro pra se alimentar.

Hey, I'm Tash and I'm the 2nd half of the SYV duo. Matt and I have been together for over 5 years (thank you Tinder) and have been in business together for over 3 of those years now. We've built 2 previous businesses before this one & we love it! We both love being business owners, it's just part of who we are and what we enjoy + being surrounded by sweets is a bonus.

Being a Vegetarian all my life, I never felt the need of eating meet or eggs but loved dairy and dairy products more than any of the plant based food. In mid 2014, while living in Seattle, I came across some talk on Internet which talked about impact of Dairy on health, environmental and the cruelty involved. It didn't believe it and started researching further, over the period of next few weeks, I found overwhelming evidence of each of these aspects and it all started to make sense. Then over the next few months I started weaning off after like 38 years of my life. It was rather a long and lonely journey in a not so conducive envirnment. By the end of the year I was 90% off it. The next 10% took considerable amount of time. In Aug 2016 I visited the only Vegan Groery Store of Seattle, to volunteer and that day onwards I can say I was offcially a Vegan. Over the last 3.5 years I have come to realization that Vegan junk food can also be as unhealth as animal products. So, I mostly try to follow a Whole Food Plant Based diet. Some day, I hope to develop as strong a repulsion for oil, refined sugar and refined grains as I have for dairy today.

I am the Executive Director of the oldest faith-based vegan org in the U.S., All-Creatures.org, founded in 1998 by the Mary T and Frank L Hoffman Family Foundation. My ethical vegan journey began in 2008 after watching Earthlings. It has been a remarkable journey where I've met so many other like-minded souls and veganism just keeps growing every year! So glad to be vegan.

Research after Breast Cancer led me to transition to a primarily WFPB diet.

Raised veggie, now vegan

Hi I'm Tamara, I've been vegan for 3 years. I never liked eating meat, eggs, drinking milk. My parents and people always told me that if I didn't eat that food I would get sick, I ate it but with disgust. In the village where I lived, a lamb was born on the day I was born. I loved that lamb. It's not been a year since they killed that lamb. I was angry and sad, I didn't want to eat meat anymore. When I grew up and found out that I had been wrong all my life and that vegan was the best thing you could do in my life, I decided to become vegan.

I am vegan for health and ideological reasons

I have ibs and colitis so when certain foods were triggering my body I knew I had to make a lifestyle change and for the past year I cut out beef and fried foods and just recently I cut out all meat and I feel better and less tired and my flare ups aren’t that bad so I’m excited to learn more about the vegan lifestyle and eat better.

I’ve been vegetarian for almost a year. Still trying to convert to vegan. When I shop I look at the ingredients, I’m sure I still sometimes mess up but I’m still trying.

I came to veganism through The World Peace Diet and truly believe that world peace is both achievable and inevitable with veganism. And I am so grateful for and inspired by everyone I meet in this movement.

I went to food as medicine in VABCH.

Not at this time, thank you.

I was taken to a hatchery at 9 and saw all the chicks being gassed and suffocated. I went vegetarian in 1980 but didn’t put the full story of animal suffering together until around 1985. I was at a vegan picnic when I said "I don’t eat animals" but I was drinking milk in my English tea and someone said “You don’t kill animals to eat you just abuse and exploit them”. As soon as I was alone in my car driving away from the event my conscience knew and wouldn’t allow me to continue to financially support egregious cruelty I had not “ seen “ until his comment. He became my best friend really and we are still friends to this day and fellow activists 38 years later.

Like everyone else, was brainwashed to believe animals were here to eat, until I started watching docos, opened my eyes to the truth, vegan for life now

I grew up on a small farm in the midwest, we had cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, lots of cats, and a dog. I knew all about the process of raising animals that eventually were loaded up on a truck and...we know the rest.
I was the county fair queen and champion beef showman, but on the flip side, I remember the sadness I felt when that champion steer was loaded onto a truck.
In my college years, I announced I was a vegetarian to my family, that didn't go over well. It was like I had just denounced our way of life. However, my father - a hard working fit man who never drank alcohol or smoked, died of a massive heart attack at the age of 51. He looked so healthy, but we ate meat, eggs, and dairy at nearly every meal. Fast foward five decades and I watch The Game Changers. My next meal was vegan and I never looked back. I know most people can't change that quickly, but I did. I've witnessed several family members and loved ones struggle with heart bypass operations, the fear, the pain. I want to spare others (and yes, myself).

Concerned for my 22 year old daughters change to a vegan diet I looked into it and changed within 3 days. Health Planet Animal Rights. I have to be a part of this movement

Took a food test when the labs came back I was allergic to dairy and eggs what a shock. Stopped it all and stopped catching colds!

Learning

I started juicing recently.

Trying to get healthy

Inspired by a fellow runner's weight loss, and Bill Clinton going plant based. Read The China Study and How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease. Decided to kick the tires on a plant based diet for one day, and never looked back. Effortlessly, lost nearly 90 lbs over the course of year.

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I ate the standard American diet my whole life, I have been having surgeries since the age of 8 and I now know it was all from eating animal products. At the age of 41 I found out that I had colon cancer and had surgery to remove the tumors. I had a chemo port placed and before I started with the therapy I watched "what the Health" and immediately I went on a whole food plant based diet. I am almost 45 now and I feel better than I did in my 20s. I am now fascinated with the human system and learn as much as I can everyday and started working at a gym and am able to help others learn about the detrimental effects of the standard American diet and the benefits of a vegan diet by listening to my story

I saw factory farmed undercover investigation footage many years ago and thought it was horrific how we treat animals. I went vegetarian a few times, then went vegan a few times, then slowly started getting into activism—and now my life is devoted to helping end factory farming and help animals in other ways. Going vegan and getting into the movement was one of the best things I've done with my life!

Interested in sustainability through the vegan culture and market.

I became a vegetarian around 15. There were limited health food stores or vegan options back then. I am so grateful to have continued to pursue a plantbased lifestyle and eventually become vegan.

I have always been a dedicated carnivore. I gained a lot of weight and attained 400 lbs, with an insulin pump, a1c of 12.4, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, restricted breathing due to the weight, couldn't move without effort and pain, couldn't walk more than 25 ft or stand for more than 2 min. So I had gastric bypass. I lost 160 lbs in one year because I couldn't hold any food down at all. It's been 3 yrs and I still can't hold down meat or drink cows milk without getting sick. I've come to realize that I can't depend on my old diet to live. I had lost a total of 200 lbs then I gained 50 back due to extreme sweet cravings. I started looking into alternative ways of eating while still getting my protein and meeting more of my nutrient needs. I was leaning towards Mediterranean, pescatarian, flexitarian but I started to look deeper and found youtube videos by Dr. Furhman, Dr. Colin Campbell, Forks over Knives, The Game Changers, etc and my thinking changed. I couldn't stand to hear the pigs screaming in pain or the thought of the emotional devastation of the separation of cows and their calves, the pain that chickens now live through because of overcrowding and hormones that make them grow too much and too fast. I found out I can get my protein from other sources without putting an animal in pain to do it. I am still on the journey and working on my diet with the goal of being fully vegan. I'm not eating meat at all, but I am still eating cheese and cooking with milk or cream when needed. I know there are alternatives to that and am researching product by product. I'm trying not to depend on processed vegan foods but concentrating on whole foods.

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Going vegan is one of the best decisions in my life....

Vegetarian since 96/97, no meat and no fish. I gave up wearing leather, silk, down, wool and fur before I became vegetarian. I've been reading labels on products since I turned vegetarian and don't buy products tested on animals.

I want to rise my kid as Vegan

We are two passionate women who both believe in compassion to all beings. Not only do we advocate respect and kindness to those around us, but we believe this compassion should also extend to those that we do not see day to day.

We have been a voice for the animals for many years and practice what we preach by both enjoying and thriving on a vegan diet. While some people start and stop with what is on their plate we also do not buy or wear any animal products. Where possible we are strictly cruelty free and this includes in the brands we buy and support.

I became vegan last year, when I started getting informed about the harm that not being produces to the earth

If I´d just known before, what I know now, I could have saved so much suffering by me, my patients and other earthlings. Better late than never!

We offer beautiful, high-quality vegan leather bags that make your life easier.