Vegan Testimonial – Jamessina Hille aka @parttimevegan

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

Jamessina Hille

The body is the best damn machine one will ever encounter. It is also the only lasting thing with you for the time you are here on this earth. That is why I am vegan. To ensure that this physical self I use during my journey is the strongest, most thoughtful, most compassionate, most inspiring self it could possibly be.

I am the mother to two of the most incredible little people I have ever met. Two bright eyed, brilliant, funny people. They inspire me each and every day- instilling a burning desire to be a shining example.  It is my responsibility to raise them with a respect for all life – the lives of others as well as themselves – and this will be a foundation upon which they can make educated and thoughtful decisions later on.  Read more... (635 words, 2 images)

Vegan Testimonial – Lola Lemaster aka @stereonoire

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

Lola

I had been a vegetarian for about 16 years, but I thought I couldn’t give up cheese.  I have a totally badass friend named Morris, who used to be the only vegan I knew.  We were both criminal defense attorneys at the time and sitting in jail waiting to meet with our clients when Morris told me that I should just give up cheese.  He had been vegan for a long time, but I didn’t listen.  We would eat together and he’d order everything cheese-free and I’d pile on the cheese.  It wasn’t until I discovered what Alicia Silverstone was doing that I made the commitment to be vegan.  Then I started my vegan blog and following vegans on Twitter, and I instantly had a supportive community.  Read more... (771 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Ben Covington aka @1Vegan

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

Ben Covington

I am Dad to three beautiful kids, 50+ years young, happily married, a trail runner, a stand-up-paddler, and eating and loving as a vegan!

I became a vegan after reading a book that literally fell into my lap.  My wife (Dawn) inadvertently purchased Skinny Bastard, which was bundled with the book Skinny Bitch. After perusing the intro, I couldn’t put it down. I was shocked, especially by the fact that I was feeding my three children (ages 7, 5, 3) food full of chemicals, carcinogens, and genetically modified crap. Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman did an outstanding job spelling out the facts, studies, references and other sources in the book.  In my studies I was shocked to learn that a lot of food actually causes cancer and contributes to the effects of autism and mental illnesses.  Read more... (819 words, 2 images)

Vegan Testimonial – Dee Di Memmo aka @craftychicky

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

Dee and Her Son

In September 2006, my husband and I began the journey to become foster parents. Several months later, we became licensed and were told about a little boy who was in foster care and in need of an adoptive family. His parents had given him up voluntarily due to his autism and their inability to meet his needs. In that moment, I knew my life would irrevocably change and I was ready.

The autism I was able to prepare myself for. The fact that he had been raised vegan was a different story. I have been an on and off vegetarian since my teens, but due to the fact I didn’t want to cook different meals, I followed my husband’s culinary tastes. It was easier to make the same thing for both of us, and he is definitely not going vegetarian any time soon. When our son came to live with us during the Spring of 2007, we at first tried to get him to eat the same foods we were eating, with no success.  Read more... (660 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Bonnie Cameron Wells aka @veganflash

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

Sleeping Pig

Like so many of you who are reading this, I’ve always been an animal lover. When I was a kid, I didn’t like dolls, but I adored stuffed animals.  Still do.  My poor 8 year-old son probably has more than he’d like.  And we always had pets when I was growing up – now we have two dogs and three cats, all rescues.  I thought I was doing everything I could for the animals.  But I still ate meat.  I still consumed dairy.  And I loved anything leather.  Humans need to consume animals for health, right?  That’s what I had been told.

Four years ago I heard about a book provocatively titled Skinny Bitch and I read it.  I immediately decided I would no longer eat meat.  I didn’t feel like I could justify the death of a sentient being to satisfy my desire for a certain taste profile.  And while I admired vegans, I didn’t think it was something I could realistically do.  So I continued to eat fish and dairy.  Being pescatarian was absurdly easy – I didn’t miss meat and I felt so much healthier.  Read more... (643 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Gregory Barnes aka @GregBarnes44

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

Greg Barnes

My journey to becoming a vegan is far less dramatic than others; however it is a process and has been a satisfying journey.I am 47 years young.  I have been a vegetarian multiple times throughout my life. If there is such a thing as carnivore relapses, then I would be the poster child. As a young child, my parents would punish the kids who did not clean their plates.  I know your first thought is, most kids do not like vegetables.  To the contrary, I refused to eat the meat. Raised in a low income family, meat was a privilege, not a birth right, therefore punishment for not eating it was inevitable.Not making much sense of it at that time, I continued this behavior throughout my teen and early adult years. Many times I would be asked, “Are you a vegetarian?” Clueless, I would simply reply, “I don’t like meat.”

In my early 30′s, like many people, I became lactose intolerant. I deliberately changed my diet by cutting out dairy products and eggs, unaware at the time it was my body informally denouncing these items.  Many years would follow with short and long intervals without eating meat, hence the relapses.  At BBQ functions, my meals would routinely consist of baked bean (without pork) sandwiches.  Read more... (610 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Jaimela Dulaney aka @runnerforgood

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

Runner for Good!

I became vegan for good last June. I had dabbled in it before, but could not stand the heat from family and caved. Last spring my Mom developed lymphoma and I became the cook for our combined family. After reading, Anticancer, A New Way of Life, I knew I had to get everyone on board with me to become vegan.

I started simply with just altering our regular meals to be vegan – add a vegetable and take out the meat, or add tofu crumbles for chili, and mushroom meatballs in pasta.  Read more... (341 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Vicky Taylor aka @VickyTaylor

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

Vicky Taylor

I am 49 years old, married, and have two adult children.  I love the Canucks, motorcycles, plant-based food, and my job.  I am a brain tumor and motorcycle accident survivor.  I am a vegan, and this is my vegan story.

Veganism came into my life completely by accident – I wasn’t looking for it.  I didn’t even know what “it” was – I had to Google it.  Read more... (644 words, 2 images)

Vegan Testimonial – Stephen Young aka @meatlessly

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Early in 2012 I started reaching out to vegan friends on twitter to ask them to share their testimonials. My hope was that by getting vegans to share their stories we could educate and inspire others and give people first hand accounts to replace perceptions or stereotypes. I’m incredibly grateful to those that have participated. Their stories speak for themselves! If you enjoy the series please let us know!

All my life, I’ve loved to cook and eat all kinds of food including meat, dairy and eggs. For friends and family that really know me, the idea of my giving up meat, dairy and eggs, seems unbelievable. I was the kid that got that huge mood swing and hungry look in his eyes if he didn’t have his protein. Not to say that I was a meat and potatoes guy, I enjoyed food of all kinds, veggies included. Especially ones from the garden! But I used get physically, mentally, and maybe even emotionally agitated if I didn’t have protein, which growing up like for many of you, the word protein was synonymous with meat.  Read more... (1887 words, 3 images)