Category Archives: becoming vegan
How to Enhance your Vegan Life
Veganism allows us to experience improved health, void of the ill-effects of eating meat and meat by-products. Since we have made such an important commitment to improve our health and wellbeing, we must be vigilant to align ourselves with practices that will safeguard our health from serious illnesses that befall vegans and non vegans [...]
Vegans, Please Tell Your Story
“If it were not so blindly accepted as a part of our customs and traditions, how could any sensitive person accept the thought that in order to feed ourselves we should kill such a huge number of animals, in spite of the fact that our earth gives us so many different treasures from plants” — [...]
You’re not missing anything – Eat, Drink, be a Vegan
When I dove head first into the wondrous world of veganism (on June 13th, 2005 – I’ll never forget it!), I thought I’d never eat anything palatable again. I climbed the volcanic mountain of morality and tossed my taste buds into the bubbling lava, considering this ultimate sacrifice as a necessary right of passage in [...]
When, How, and Why I Became Vegan (Part 3)
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The school semester of Winter 2004 was officially over and it was now nearing the end of the summer. Up to that point, I was a full-blown vegetarian consuming fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereal, and only one dairy product – cheese.
Since becoming a vegetarian [...]
When, How, and Why I Became Vegan (part 2)
If you just started this series, catch-up with part 1
So as I stated in part one of the series, my fraternity brothers were quite confused as to why I weighed only 180 pounds that weekend while visiting University of Hartford. They said things like: “dude, you look a bit smaller. What’s going on, man?”
At the [...]
When, How, and Why I Became Vegan (part 1)
In this series I’ll take you through my journey of being a person who — lovingly — ate 8 servings of meat per day, took body building supplements, and weighed 220 pounds to becoming a vegan. The journey was long, beginning in February 2004 ‘til this day. It’s my hope to inspire, educate, and motivate [...]
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