Vegan Food is Just Food: A Few of My Favorite Recipes for Vegan Beginners

_ We've been taught that baking requires an egg. So we purchase them without question. They've sold us convenient, inexpensive food, and convinced us it's part of a "well-balanced diet." We buy the "cheap" food, but subsidize it's production with our health and our tax dollars. We've accepted that milk, and cheese, and butter are… Continue reading Vegan Food is Just Food: A Few of My Favorite Recipes for Vegan Beginners

Why I’m Vegan Part 2: Change The Things You Cannot Accept

Everyone's "Aha!" moment is different. I had been vegetarian for eleven years because I believe that animals are sentient beings. According to Merriam-Webster this means that animals are "aware, responsive," and "finely sensitive in perception or feeling." I decided to take that information and translate it into action by not eating animals, while simultaneously shifting… Continue reading Why I’m Vegan Part 2: Change The Things You Cannot Accept

Why I’m Vegan Part 1: Vegetarian for 11 Years

It's 2005-ish. I'm a straight-A student and I'm on the varsity tennis team. I go to church even though I'm an atheist and I've known it since elementary school. My mom insists it's important to be born-again. For some reason the stories they tell just sound like stories to me. They hold little weight, and… Continue reading Why I’m Vegan Part 1: Vegetarian for 11 Years