My sister shared a video with me by Gary Yourofsky and I dropped everything the next day 😀 I'm an now 80% raw vegan and going to100%!

Vegan for the animals, the environment, & for health!

Tried a plant based diet for lent and never went back!

Vegetarian since birth (thanks to parents) and become vegan after watching documentary on Dairy Industry practices in 2006.

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.

Day after eating steak, woke up with the taste of blood in my mouth. Never ate meat again!

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.

Hello! “Vegan Community Kitchen” is a vegan restaurant located in Apex, North Carolina. For potential job offerings contact us

Can I update this later????

I've alway had a deep love for animals, but it took me way too long to make the connection about the food on my plate and the animals I claimed to love were the same. I took a long discussion and a couple of artistic photos to flip that switch. I went vegetarian in 2010, but that wasn't enough for me. In 2013 went Vegan and never looked back. I'm not perfect and have slipped up at times (mostly because I didn't read a label close enough), but this is the lifestyle that not only feeds my body, it feeds my soul.

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.

I watched the Yourofsky speech and the rest is history!

I began working on our global environmental crises in Dec 2005 after watching former Vice President Al Gore's global warming presentation on TV. By Nov 2006, I had a suspicion that if we restore forests on the land used for grazing farmed animals, that might completely reverse climate change. However, there were no peer-reviewed scientific papers reaching that conclusion and I was deeply puzzled by the scientific literature that indicated that my dairy consumption as a lacto-vegetarian was only a little bit worse than going vegan.

In Dec 2008, I was visiting the village of Karech in Rajasthan, India, where people had built a stone fence in 2002 to protect 250 acres of common land from cows and goats grazing on that land. To the left of the fence, I could see barren land with old dairy cows walking around eating anything that was growing on the ground and to the right, I could see a lush green forest. I immediately realized that the scientific literature was minimizing the impact of dairy production, while assigning the majority of the ecological burden of cattle rearing on beef production. In that village where people treated the cows as sacred and did not kill them even after their milk production had declined, the ecological devastation caused by dairy production was being fully revealed.

I went Vegan on the spot.

Within a week after I went Vegan, I felt a huge sense of guilt lift off my shoulders. I had been subconsciously carrying that guilt since the age of seven when I had first understood that I was consuming the milk intended for the baby calf and not me. Within a month after I went Vegan, I lost all my arthritic pains, sinus inflammation, acid reflux and hemorrhoids, and I felt like a sixteen year old again.

Though it began through an environmental portal, my Vegan journey encompassed the ethical and health aspects within a month or so. Today, I am committed to fulfill a pinky promise I made to my granddaughter, Kimaya, that the world will be largely Vegan before she turns 16 on Nov 19, 2026.

I’m a kitchen and bathroom remodeled in Maryland. My son went vegan when he started college and educated me soon after. I started as a vegetarian the day before thanksgiving then went full vegan one month later. Best decision of my life. It was initially all about the environment but now it’s everything.

Breast cancer survivor. Started for my health. Now ethical and an ARA

I am a cancer survivor and veganism saved my life!
I am organizer of Augusta GA Animal Save and Climate Save AGS and AV Augusta GA.
BEAR WITNESS WITH US!

Learning to be vegan again is much easier the 2nd time around. ✌? ❤️

Tullens fruit farm offers a finest quality, fresh and delicious English/British apples, apples and pears, no sugar added organic apple juice, easy apple recipes, lamb breeds. See traditional apple varieties which were always grown such as Cox Orange Pippin apple, Worcester Pearmain and Bramley apple.

None.

My super cool older cousin came home from college and dared me not to eat any meat on Thanksgiving day of 1996. I was 9, I took the dare! That night she showed me a VHS tape that she had brought back from college - it was being passed around amongst her friends. It was similar to footage from Earthlings. I never ate another animal again! I didn't learn about the rest until 19 years later, and I continue to learn more every single day. We went vegan in 2015. My son did it the same day, despite me trying to convince him to wait and let me try it first. I'm so thankful he had more sense than me at 5 years old! Now he goes by VeganEvan and speak all over the country! We do activism everywhere we go 🙂

I was a microbiologist working in the pharmaceutical industry and touring animal labs and farms as part of my work. This enabled me to realize that the normalized violence inflicted upon animals on farms and in labs was a direct result of my own personal food choices. Becoming vegan was my response to the disturbing things I witnessed.

I married Joe and we had two healthy vegan pregnancies. The parenting journey has been the highlight of my life. Wanting to give our children the best possible odds for a healthy and good life inspired me to do a lot of research and some of my views about what is best for our health changed as a result.

But the bedrock of our family has been being vegan, which provided an ethical framework and has been an incredible blessing in other ways too, including helping me to see that the same kinds of conflicts-of-interest and biased science that have supported big ag have also misled the public about many other important "choices" we have and what we believe to be "true."

Our born-vegan daughters not only survived our pioneering vegan parenting -- but made it all the way into adulthood without ever taking antibiotics and never having broken any bones (in spite of one being a gymnast who did back handsprings on the balance beam -- and was the only member of her competitive team to have never broken a bone.) Our older daughter Sarina now does vegan education and blogs on YouTube as "Born Vegan."

My vegan transition was very quick. Around halloween 2013 my daughter asked me to watch a video with her...sneaky. It was the documentary Vegecated. After watching it she asked me if I would do the 6 week challenge with her. I agreed and we watched more videos on nutrition and food preparation. After about 2 weeks we decided that this was a sustainable of living. While it was challenging at first to read all the labels in the grocery store, little by little it became easier. While initially I chose veganism for my health, my conviction to stay on this path is for the animals and for the environment. I truly believe that the future health of our planet is dependent on a total transition to plant based lifestyle for all humans. And as a byproduct of compassionate living we will eradicate all forms of oppression and hate.

Vegan

I'll add my story later

I became plant based after reading Eat To Live by Joel Fuhrman. An online friend asked me why I wascalled myself plant-based. After some discussion, I committed to veganism.

Please don't make me fill out anything that is not completely necessary- makes the process longer!

I watched Gary Yourofsky's Best Speech Ever video and knew I could never eat animals again 🙂

My vegan story is unusual. The abridged version is: I experienced secondary trauma when I was 23, and something about that opened my mindheart to the connection between meat and violence. I never ate animals again.

We were vegetarians for about 25 years and went vegan about 3 years ago. We only wish we did it sooner. We learned about the dairy industry and the terrible suffering of the cows and wanted nothing to do with it. We also learned the truth about the egg industry and it made us sick. Vegan for life!

I am from Indiana, every meal is based around meat. I never thought I would ever become Vegan. Last May I went on a trip with a friend and she pointed out how I had went a whole 5 days without meat. I felt great. I decided to eliminate meat from my diet. A month later I watched Dr Rao’s ‘What the Health’, it changed the game for me. I decided at that moment that I was done with animal products. I realize how deep the program runs. I am now Vegan for the Animals and I feel a deep connection to their pain. I am a guardian of the Earth. We are all part of this gift.

Call me! 818-203-4736, email me paigepr@msn.com

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

The day I decided to become vegan was the day when I went to the emergency room. I had already been a vegetarian for six years prior and swore I wouldn't give up cheese. Prior to going to the ER, I had eaten my mom's mac and cheese, her banging sour cream mashed potatoes, and a whole lot of sweets loaded in dairy. Two days later I ended up in the ER from eating too much of the dairy products amd they said they might have to remove my gall bladder. Luckily, I passed call stones in doctors care amd decided from that day forward that I will not eat dairy again! Since then, it has been interesting creating new and uniquely different meals. Becoming vegan has opened my eating pallet a totally different way!

Joined a petition against a church's pig rassle, then saw undercover vidoes of animal ag. Devastated, but it woke me up, realized it was wrong to eat animals. Did tons of research, learned about agriculture, who the animals are, what sentience means, what vegan means, ahimsa; learned about health, resources, and wild lives. All are thoroughly, negatively impacted by raising animals, fowl, fish, and insects for food. Continue to research and advocate for the many reasons to go vegan.

Once you know better, you do better!

Thought about it for a long time and finally took the step. Cannot believe that I was missing out on this for so long. Anyone who says I’m missing out on flavors, etc. are misled!

A lifelong vegetarian, I made the upgrade to vegan when I watched vegucated! Once you know, you cannot un-know, and that is how it started for me.

It has been an amazing experience, with positive health benefits as well.

I was very ill in 2015, and I could barely walk. Within 6 weeks, I had lost 30 lbs and inflammation had disappeared.

Studying to become a yoga teacher in 2000, I became vegetarian for ahimsa reasons. Finally met my vegan sweetheart in 2010 and went vegan immediately, making all my dreams come true 🙂 Founded the first Central Coast (CA) Veg Fest in 2018.

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.

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.

Refused to accept my Type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Changed my diet cold turkey after reading about a vegan diet. Reversed my diabetes in 3 months, never looked back. Never took any medication since 2010. I run Durhamveg since 2016, created Durhamveg Fest last year and just opened a vegan restaurant in my city.

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.

Been veg*n a long time.

Been vegetarian since almost ever then became vegan for the animals. I will fight for animals rights for ever and wish to open an animals sanctuary.

I became vegan after participating in a 30 day vegan pledge program.

Was vegetarian started vegan in January

I went vegan after meeting a woman at a wedding that was being catered by a BBQ place. She wasn't eating anything so I inquired why. Over the next couple hours, she introduced me to veganism and I went vegetarian the next day. Over the following month, I researched, purchased cookbooks and generally became informed. That was 4 years ago and it was the best decision I've ever made.

I became vegan essentially when I moved out of my parents house! I stopped eating meat in 1993 after reading Diet for a New America by John Robbins.

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

I am a vegan girl who decided to start a Vegfest in my city for 2018. It went amazing, we had 89 vendors and 10k visitors and we are gearing up for our next Vegfest May 11th 2019.

I was vegetarian for about a year because I became aware, and saw how animals were treated whether that be the food system, testing, or in products. I had heard animals were also treated like crap in the production of milk, eggs, cheese etc. And around this point I had not seen videos but decided to go vegan because animal exploitation is wrong, my mom and dad looked at me like a was crazy, and the only way I could prove to her that this was valid was through showing her validated statistics regarding the food system, and videos of the animal abuse, by the point I had watched one video it was enough to convince me to become straight vegan, it was hard at first but thankfully to the bounteous options Publix and Kroger have I was more than fine. And vegan lifestyle fits me well, for about a year it was hard however now I no longer crave meat or dairy products and my horrible allergies have disappeared, thanks for reading (:

Joyful vegan since 2012 after one year a vegetarian and most of my life an omnivore.

In the summer of 2017 I was encouraged by my mom to start a candy company. At the same time my sister began a plant based journey and asked that I craft treats that she could also enjoy. From there I tested several recipes to find just the right combination of ingredients to craft delicious confections without any animal products.

I firmly believe in being a vegan and therefore I am here.

Awakened in 2015, having been a slumbering vegetarian for 34 years! Planning with my partner, Martin, to set up a vegan B&B/Retreat/Activist Centre in England in 2019 - watch this space!

I am the founder of Veenofs and an all-natural vegan bodybuilder. My mission now is to promote a vegan lifestyle and great vegan products that I truly believe in, which excludes exploitation of - and cruelty to - animals for the purpose of clothing, food, and experimentation.

Check us out at: https://vegfestoahu.com

I'm not vegan but I enjoy learning new ways to cook.

My wife had been vegan for many years and I was starting to feel sick so I decided to give it a try. I started to feel better and lost between 50-60lbs. I noticed that I did not miss having meat and other animal products so I have continued. I am now a vegan as I believe that we are supposed to take care of the earth and all of its inhabitants and that animals are not food but they are here for their own purpose not to be food for us.

Always an animal rights advocate, the light went on about who and what I was eating and to what I was contributing.

I was off & on vegetarian most of my adult life but it wasn't until I discovered the dairy industry that I become vegan overnight. I am a mother so Veganism was a simple choice for me. I am vegan for love.

I have not had meat since 1968 Became vegan in 1998

Went Vegan cold turkey because I was curious and wanted to see whether I could live healthier without consuming animal products. Never looked back.

Love being vegan and love how healthy I feel!

I became vegan in 2011 after watching "Best Speech Ever" by Gary Yourofsky! Right before I went vegan I had my blood work done and my total cholesterol was high, 168. I was also getting sick like allergies twice a year. It was causing drainage accompanied with weazing and infections which was why I got my blood work done.

6 years after going vegan I had to know my bloodwork. It was down to 125! I wasn't sick that entire time. And I had only removed animals and their secretions. I did nothing else.

For that first 6 years I only knew what not to eat but really didn't know how to eat until 2017. I started studying nutrition a little and learned about a whole-food, plant based diet and how it's the healthiest.

When I realized no one needed to eat animals at all (unless they're in extreme desperate circumstances of course) I also realized it was likely hurting everyone; the slaughterhouse worker, the consumer, the health care system, zoonotic disease, on and on....
I became very intrigued by nutrition most notably. If the healthiest way to be is vegan then why kill animals at all?
So, now I have devoted my entire life to learning what I can about nutrition, advocating, and capturing other people's vegan stories for vegan linked. ❤

In Des Moines, IA, I plan monthly dine outs for a group of vegans, vegetarians or want-to be's. Everyone is invited, as long as they order plant food for that evening's dinner.

I became vegetarian ten years prior to becoming vegan. I became vegan for ethical reasons.

I became a vegetarian as a child, then was educated about the dairy industry, and went vegan.

Hello, my name is Jeff. This is an evolving story—here’s the foundation.

I went vegan in 2011 after watching "Gary Yourofsky’s Best Speech Ever". At the time, I made no deliberate attempt to “eat healthier.” I simply stopped consuming animals and replaced them with more of what I was already eating—including French fries.

In 2016, while completing bloodwork to save money on my health insurance, I was stunned to see my total cholesterol was 121. That prompted me to dig up earlier labs from late 2010, just before going vegan. Back then, my total cholesterol was 168. Six years of not eating animals—with no other lifestyle changes—had significantly lowered my LDL and triglycerides, raised my HDL, and eliminated the visceral fat that had been steadily accumulating around my waist, just as it had for my father and both grandfathers.

At 42 years old in 2017, I was essentially the same physically as I had been in my late 20s. I also noticed something else: I stopped getting sick. Prior to going vegan, I typically got sick twice a year with seasonal changes—one of the reasons I had bloodwork done in 2010 in the first place.

All of this deeply intrigued me. Around that time in 2016/2017 I began listening to doctors on YouTube and started taking long walks in my neighborhood—something I had never done before. On those walks, I absorbed everything I could. That curiosity led me deeper into whole plant foods, nutrition, science, biochemistry, anatomy, evolution, and logic. I compared my trajectory with that of my extended family, many of whom were already struggling with health issues in their 30s. Meanwhile, here I was in my 40s—mostly sedentary due to editing work—and still physically healthier.

Although I went vegan for ethical reasons in 2011, by 2017 I realized something profound: almost everyone can be vegan—and most would likely be significantly healthier on a well-planned vegan diet. Understanding the potential impact of this way of eating on human health, I felt an obligation to learn more, explore further, and help others along the way.

I repeatedly asked myself a simple question: Is there any reason to eat animals? I researched, asked others around me and on the public via social media. I could find no justification beyond social conformity—essentially an inherited habit.

When it became clear to me there was really no reason to eat animals I began to organize my efforts and contribute more meaningfully. That was when I launched VeganLinked.com as a directory for vegan businesses, events, and services in 2017. With no budget and no help, progress was slow. After a few months, I put the site on autopilot and shifted my focus to building the companion channel, YouTube.com/VeganLinked.

From 2017 to 2019, I offered free video, website, and marketing services to vegan businesses while traveling to events, networking, and filming talks by doctors and advocates. In 2019, I produced a documentary for Jane Velez-Mitchell. By March 2020, momentum was at an all-time high—I had shoots scheduled with Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Joanne Kong, and the Minister of Wellness Nathaniel Jorden. But COVID shut everything down.

That same month, I met with Dr. Garth Davis in Asheville, North Carolina, to discuss an ongoing collaboration. He was fully on board. I purchased a nearby property, renovated it, rented it out for income, and converted an accessory building into a studio. By fall 2020, we had completed five projects together—before he and his family unexpectedly moved back to Texas.

Like many others, I was deemed “non-essential” in 2020 and became financially dependent on rental income. Around that time, Dr. Joanne Kong approached me about her book "Vegan Voices", featuring stories from 50 authors. I offered to interview contributors in exchange for help with travel and coordination. Those first twenty plus interviews set everything in motion.

Within the first three interviews on that initial run, I knew I needed to make a documentary—not someone else’s vision, but my own. One that unfolded organically through the stories I was capturing as I navigated the vegan movement myself.

Over the years, as time allowed, I returned to developing VeganLinked.com. From late 2022 through early 2023, I overcame long-standing technical barriers related to listings and events. In 2024, I finally resolved persistent user profile issues and added new features. In 2025, I began passively promoting the site in every video I released.

In 2025, while maintaining weekly uploads, I helped Alex Hershaft—now in his 90s—with a six-part docuseries. I traveled across the country, shooting more than 90% of the footage and editing multiple versions. Alex ultimately scaled it down for his immediate needs, leaving me with a more expansive version to release in 2026.

I also collaborated again with Jane Velez-Mitchell on a project alongside Anne Dinshah of the American Vegan Society and Seth Tibbott of Tofurky, shooting approximately six hours of interviews, b-roll, and event coverage over three days. This project pushed me fully into using new cinematic camera gear I had invested in during 2024—gear I’ve since used for projects like filming tours of Dr. Ron Weiss’s Ethos Farm to Health.

My goal moving forward is deeper storytelling—true documentary work. I’ve invested significant time and resources into upgrading my skills and equipment. Several major projects, captured before 2026 and still unreleased, are now coming into focus.

These projects center on four key themes: Omega-3s, chronic disease, ahimsa & dairy, and raising children vegan—with the latter two potentially merging.

In December 2025, I purchased 192 terabytes of hard drives to build a RAID-10 system, finally consolidating eight years of footage scattered across 20 external drives. This marks a turning point—allowing me to fully organize, reflect, and create with everything I’ve captured.

Since 2017, this work has been my full-time focus. As of early 2026, the channel is approaching 100,000 subscribers. I’ve filmed hundreds of interviews across the country—solo. Over the years I've come to realize growing vegan food, raising children vegan, and the pillars of lifestyle medicine are—without exaggeration—the most important topics in the world.

In 2025, I completed a year-long weekly series on Raising Children Vegan, and launched RaisingChildrenVegan.com to support that initiative. In 2026, I will continue amplifying the voices of lifelong vegans while also focusing heavily on lifestyle medicine, raising children vegan, professional health services, food cultivation, and normalizing veganism.

I’ve made connections I never imagined possible, including with many of my heroes. As I refine my focus and work through years of unreleased material, my hope is that VeganLinked evolves to reflect all of this—perhaps with a redesigned homepage that better tells the story.

To make that redesign happen, I need more practitioners who *get it*: physicians, dietitians, nutritionists, health coaches, and professionals practicing lifestyle medicine in meaningful ways. Showcasing these voices is one of the most powerful ways to help people transition to veganism in the healthiest way possible.

So please—join, connect, add listings, add events, and help me build a truly vegan world.

This is how my vegan life evolved: from ethics, to health, to everything—and now, this is what I do. I still dream of making a major documentary. For now, it’s just me, with no budget. If it becomes a compilation rather than a traditionally produced film, so be it. The story still matters.

As I continue this work, I hope to eventually settle down and purchase some land—somewhere conducive to a like-minded community. A place where food can be grown, where people can gather to learn how to eat and live this way, and where educators, advocates, and creators can come to share ideas, give talks, or simply find respite. A place that allows me to slow down, travel less, stress less, continue learning, and teach more—while living in alignment with the values that brought me here in the first place.