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Vegan Testimonial – Jessica Shay aka @veggiefy

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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!

Jessica Shay

A two-year wedding anniversary trip. Sea World. An innocent enough “encounter with the dolphins.”  Who knew that these three things would combine to bring about the most amazing experience I’ve ever embarked upon?

What transpired on March 28, 2011, is nothing short of being in the right place at the right time. My encounter with these beautiful creatures – with their eyes that seemed to look into my soul, their kind and gentle demeanors, their “smiles” – sent me home on such a high from being able to share “kisses,” “handshakes,” and pictures that it was all I could talk about.  Read more... (770 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Carrie aka @plant_fueled

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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!

Carrie Before

I struggled with being overweight for most of my life. Most of my family was overweight and we led a pretty sedentary lifestyle.

When I was 14, I decided that I was going to be vegetarian. I had always loved animals and it just didn’t make much sense to me to eat them, so I stopped. At this point I hadn’t really learned how to cook and we didn’t really eat very many vegetables, so my diet mostly consisted of starch and cheese and ranch dressing.

Carrie After  Read more... (525 words, 2 images)

Vegan Testimonial – Cynthia McGiverin aka @VeganIsSexier

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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!

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After

“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”

A quick search on the internet lead me to this definition: something that you say which means you cannot make a good quality product using bad quality materials. That describes my journey over the past couple years. I could not get a good result in my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health if I was using bad materials.  Read more... (651 words, 3 images)

Vegan Testimonial – Bettina aka @veganbetty

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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!

Vegan Betty

When I was 19 years old and in college, I picked up an animal rights magazine at my local environmental group, of which I was a part.  That night, on the hard and uncomfortable cot that passed as a bed in my dorm room, tears and sobs flowed out of me as I read the wretched and twisted fate that beget pigs used for food production.  The images and descriptions of beatings, draggings, torture and mutilations that occurred regularly to these intelligent and sweet creatures left me with the unflappable belief that I would never touch another meat product again.  I wish I could say that I was so valiant in this difficult struggle, but it was easy.  So easy.  If I ever longed for a hamburger or steak again, it was very fleeting.  Read more... (814 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Carme Weissbrodt aka @karme23

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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!

Carme

My name is Carme, I am from Barcelona (Catalunya), and when I grow up I want to be an
artist. I live in England with my beautiful family, my dogs and my cats.

Many years ago, I became aware of the cruelty to animals involved in the food chain and
decided not to be part of it, becoming vegetarian. Unfortunately, Spain is not very
vegetarian friendly and when I became pregnant the doctors persuaded me to leave my
diet for the wellbeing of my baby. I know now the arguments they used were completely
wrong.  Read more... (811 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonials – Kitty (aka @veganchiq) and Her 12 Year Old Daughter April

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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!

Kitty

Hi  readers! Kitty here. I am a 39-year-old ethical vegan and a mum of three. Some of you may know me already as @veganchiq. If you are a twitter friend, you will know I am a very passionate campaigner for the equality of animals and I love educating those who would like to listen on the values of a vegan lifestyle.

I have been asked to share my journey into veganism, so we will begin.

I grew up in London in a working class family. We lived in a morbid grey high rise on the 11th floor. I am the eldest of three girls (my two sisters are vegetarian).  Read more... (2817 words, 1 image)

Must Read Post on Ultrarunning Vegan Jerry Armstrong – aka @endurancejer

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Jerry Armstrong

Most of you already know Jerry Armstrong from his vegan testimonial and on twitter (@endurancejer). He has written a great post over at Trail and Ultrarunning. He talks about his food routine and how he fuels his body for ultra efforts.

Money quote (when discussing the oldest question of all for vegans, “where do you get your protein?”) —–

“The biggest misconceptions about vegan nutrition come from people who know nothing about it. It’s like asking your grandmother for her opinion about Twitter…”

You can read the post here.

Are Human’s Natural Carnivores?

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Kathy Freston over at Huffington Post wrote a great article Shattering the Meat Myth: Humans are Natural Vegetarians. She does a great job highlighting features of human physiology that make the case that we are not made to eat meat.

Money quote:

Says Dr. William C. Roberts, editor of the American Journal of Cardiology, “Although we think we are, and we act as if we are, human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us, because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores.”

Read the full article here.

A Real Carnivore Eating

Vegan Testimonial – Neil Williams aka @cornwallcats

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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!

Neil Williams

In the early 1980′s, I decided that I could no longer eat animals, so I cut out the flesh and fish and gradually stopped eating eggs as often.

On Boxing Day in 1983, I went on my first Hunt Sab (this means sabotaging a fox hunt by spraying the area they’d hunt for foxes in with a strong smelling scent and trying to prevent them from getting a kill). On the way back in the van after a long, cold and wet day, I asked if anyone wanted one of my sandwiches. “What’s in them?” “Cheese and tomato.” “No thanks, we’re vegans.” This was my introduction to veganism. Yes, the cheese was vegetarian but WHY wouldn’t they eat it. I asked, and as I found out, there was more to compassion than just giving up eating animals. Within a few weeks I’d gone vegan.  Read more... (721 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Yonni Wattenmaker aka @vegandthecity

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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!

Yonni - The Trendy Vegan

I am a vegan.  Those are four words I never thought I’d say.  I grew up on Long Island with Peter Luger’s as a favored destination and looked forward to lobster and steamer dinners at my grandparents’ house.  We ate so much lasagna, stuffed manicotti and chicken parmesan at our house, I often wondered if we had a hidden Italian past!

Yet today, I am a vegan. But it wasn’t simply a choice ~ it was out of respect for my body, and in strong connection, my mind.  After years of digestive issues that began in college and significantly increased over time, I sought the help of a specialist nearly four years ago.  Thousands of dollars and more than a dozen tests later, we learned something that changed the course of my life ~ I had lost the ability to metabolize animal protein.  Read more... (509 words, 1 image)