I’m actually no longer a strict vegan. I don’t hang out in the cheese section – I don’t even eat cheese. I don’t drink milk. But every once in a while I’ll have an egg. I’m going to eat eggs that come out of my next-door neighbor’s farm, that’s just the way it is.
I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it’s coming from.
I feel like most people know that I’m a vegan, and I’m a pretty vocal animal activist. Everything and anything I do, I just kind of use it as a vehicle to be able to send out the message.
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It’s proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
I’m about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.
Going vegan, I feel great!
I’m vegan in my fashion and vegetarian in my food.
I believe everything is about balance. I’m not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody.
Every person I have met who has gone vegan says it is the best decision they have ever made.
That’s one of the things that concerns me – vegan steak or whatever. It is a hard terminology thing, because what are you eating? With beef you know it’s a piece of beef.
It’s much easier for the vegan to remain at home and do their own Christmas dinner. That way, you can enjoy your food without someone making some hilarious comment about your stuffed pepper.
Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.
I’m vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It’s difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.
My biggest vice? Vegan cupcakes, which are delicious.
I do wonder if it’s my responsibility to spread a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just, like, don’t be racist or whatever, but I don’t want to be the person who’s like, ‘Everyone be vegan forever!’
Even before I went vegan, in terms of cutting out red meat, my tendinitis and recovery after games was vastly improved.
I’m all in favor of animal rights, but I’d like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you’re a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.
Well, many Blacks who are vegan are vegan for health reasons. They believe in putting the right food in their bodies. And they are reluctant to be attached to some who have been extremely aggressive in the animal rights movement.
When you’re vegan, you spend your time chasing protein, and you’re eating food that’s way too high in carbs. I could never catch up on protein.
Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
One of the things people always ask me is, isn’t it expensive to eat healthy or vegan? It can be, but isn’t it expensive to live in a nice house or drive a nice car or wear nice clothes?
I’m always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I’ve been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.
You don’t have to become a vegan. You can become a plant-passionate, plant-inspired bean lover!
Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I’m convinced that of all the changes I’ve made to my lifestyle, it’s the adoption of a vegan diet that has been best for me – physically, mentally, and certainly spiritually.
I’m not a true vegan.
I didn’t know what I was getting into when I went vegan, but so many things changed. I shed 30 pounds. I felt better. I was doing better mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I was healing myself from the inside out.
I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn’t nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.
Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
A couple of my mechanics have become vegan because I’ve done it. One of my barbers, too.
I’m a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
I’m an advocate for being full-blown vegan. That’s my ideal way that I would love people to live, but the key to it is eating as little processed foods and a more whole foods-type diet as possible.
Going vegetarian – and then vegan – has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
I’ve been vegan for over 20 years, but I started as a vegetarian and grew into veganism in between.
I try to be vegan… I really, really try. I don’t eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I’ve tried.
I don’t think you can fully call yourself a vegan if you wear leathers.
I’m a raw vegan, and I perceive pharmaceuticals to be poison.
I’m funny with food, even if it’s vegan. I like it well well, well, well done. I don’t want anything there that reminds me of blood. I get mine extra well done. That way, when I look at it, I’m like, ‘Okay, cool.’
My comedy career aside, I am a father of three, a husband, a son, a brother and a vegan.
I get a lot of hate posting vegan, environment and pollution stuff.
I have become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.
For the hip-hop community, for us to get ahead and go the vegan route or just reducing how much meat you eat, I think it’s great for hip-hop, the youth, and the future, everybody.
There’s a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They’ve got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don’t align with my values.
Being vegan keeps my body fueled and running smoothly.
When you’re changing your diet, or you’re becoming a vegan, your system will become a bit more sensitive, and you just have to deal with it.
For me, it always has to be about health. That’s why I’m a vegan. Well, I don’t even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.
I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of ‘Vogue,’ even though I won’t purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.
I’ve been vegan for over a year now, about 15 months. I changed to the vegan diet, and I feel fabulous; it’s great. I wish I’d done it earlier.
I’ve heard there are vegan corn dogs – I don’t know if that’s true but, jeez, I’d love to eat one of them.
I thought about 205 for awhile, particular when I was doing the Vegan diet and walking around at about 250lbs. I was counting calories and was serious about whether it was a possibility, but it’s just not for me.
I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don’t nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn’t that hard at all.
It’s totally natural to me to be vegan.
I think the purpose of veganism is an appreciation for plants and veggies and fruit and to just eating cleaner… If you’re going to go vegan, then really learn how to be.
I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.
I don’t go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn’t eat meat. I just don’t think that’s terribly effective. I just try to tell people how I have personally benefitted from the vegan lifestyle.
You can’t jump to vegan if you’re not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.