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Interested in submitting your own #Vegan Testimonial?

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Are you interested in submitting your own Vegan Testimonial?

Here are the basic questions that we would like you to answer.

When did you go vegan?

What prompted your decision to make the switch?

Were there any particular books or films that influenced your decision?

How did you educate yourself on eating a proper vegan diet?

Were you vegetarian before going vegan?

How was your transition?

Did it go exactly as planned or have there been surprises along the way?

Do you think you are vegan for life?

Do you have a favorite vegan recipe that you would be willing to share?

Have you helped anyone else make the transition?

Are there any tips you would have for someone thinking about going vegan?

Are there any tips you would have for how to best handle the transition?

Do you have a blog? Are you on twitter? Would it be okay for people to reach out to you there if they have follow-up questions?  Read more... (195 words)

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 – Anjali Sareen aka @AnjaliSareen

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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!

Anjali Sareen

When I turned vegan, my whole life changed. I had been vegetarian for a long while already. That decision was based on a desire to protect animals, and I had heard snippets about veganism from various sources for a long time. I wasn’t able to go all the way until one day my best friend asked me to accompany her to Red Mango (a frozen yogurt chain). I went with her and we sat down and then I looked at the yogurt she had ordered: fully realizing now what it was, where it came from, and the animals that were harmed in getting it to her plate. That, coupled with a horrendous visit I had to an animal market in Ecuador a few months before, absolutely sealed the deal. I had been practicing veganism for a while, quietly, without telling anyone, seeing if I could do it, but that day I realized I had to complete my transition: I was done.  Read more... (886 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Kristie Middleton aka @thejustdish

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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!

Kristie Middleton

 

Life is an interesting journey and we never know where it’s going to take us. Sometimes what at the time seems like the most innocuous of situations, may change the course of your life forever.

I grew up with animals. We had three dogs when I was little and I’ve always loved dogs, even when I got too close and they bit me in the face. I cried more because the dogs were scolded than from the pain. As I grew older, I accumulated more and more animals–goldfish, the longest living being Garfield, named after my favorite cartoon cat. There was Elvira the parakeet, dubbed so by my neighbor in the Navy who realized he couldn’t care for her when his ship went to sea, and rodents like Bud the Siamese hamster. All of these animals were my family members and I was fascinated by them.  Read more... (834 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Christian Kurpiel Wakamiya aka @CKWakamiya

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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!

Christian and His Family!

Veganism is so important to me that I want everyone who is not a vegan to know: I’m a normal person and I’m vegan. My wife is a normal person and she’s vegan. Our two and half year old daughter is really normal for a two and a half year old (mine!) and is vegan. No need to be in any created category of self-described progressives, hippies or punks!

The genesis for turning to veganism for us was a concern for “animal rights.” My wife and I were both active in animal rights issues back in our college years of the late 1990s, so embracing animal ethics early in our adult lives set the course for the rest of it.  Read more... (408 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Samantha Twist aka @wtf_everything

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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!

Some of Samantha's Favorite Food!

I was first introduced to veganism by my friend who asked her friends to ‘be vegan for a week’ as a Christmas present to her. I thought this would be a perfect gift to her, as she really would appreciate it, so I did it.

I had a little trouble at first, because I’m coeliac as well (gluten free), but after researching on the Internet and looking at all the products in my supermarket, I found it so easy. After only a couple of days I felt so healthy; no bloating after meals, my skin looked clear and glowing… I thought, hey, this is doing me good!  Read more... (596 words, 1 image)

Featured on The Unintentional Vegan – Vegan Testimonials Interview

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My friend Ashley just posted an interview on The Unintentional Vegan that she did with me about the Vegan Testimonials Project on Ready for Plan B. You can check it out here! I’m so grateful to Ashley for helping with the project and to help spread the word!

You can also follow Ashley on twitter @las_dos_ashleys.

Vegan Testimonial – Diana Hnia aka @naughtyvegan

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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!

Diana & Cedre

 

I’ve always been an animal lover. When I was a kid, I had no fear. I’d walk up to the mean looking doberman who was growling and barking, without any fear, and pet him – and surprisingly not get my hand bitten off! But living in a culture where all the meals were predominantly meat-oriented, I never thought to question this practice any more than wearing a coat when it’s cold outside. In fact, I would get upset by Western cultures for not using or eating the entire animal that they killed, whereas in our culture that would be considered wasteful. My dad and I used to have discussions about how we thought slaughtering animals in Muslim countries as Halal meat was inhumane in comparison to non-Muslim countries where, we were taught to believe, animals were stunned before they were killed and thus didn’t feel any pain. We actually thought that mattered a lot!  Read more... (1139 words, 1 image)

Vegan Testimonial – Patrick McGilvray aka @patrick_mcg

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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!

Patrick McGilvray before and after

It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time in my not-so-distant past when I really didn’t care if I lived or not.

For almost all of my life, I ate the traditional western diet of meat and potatoes, I drank my milk like a good boy, and I steadily grew larger (read fatter) and unhealthier. Some years ago I had a couple of serious wakeup calls that have forever changed my life.  Read more... (898 words, 2 images)

Vegan Testimonial – Angela aka @ohemge3

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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!

Angela

In middle school, I remember receiving these little PETA stickers that said, “Chicks are not nuggets,” and I never made the connection as to what that really meant. I’ve always loved animals dearly, but I never realized what was happening to them behind closed doors.

The weekend after I turned 21, I had dinner with some of my family members. I don’t know what hit me, but there was just so much meat, meat and more meat. I was sitting there and I honestly began to feel disgusted with the way I was eating. I went to Barnes & Noble that evening to search for some health books, and I was lucky to have found such a powerful book called The China Study. This book really opened my eyes, took off the blinders, and showed me what was really going on.  Read more... (392 words, 1 image)