Showcasing the Voices of Veganism

I was raised in a small Texas town where ranching was the biggest business—almost the only business. I always felt out of place. Animal husbandry was a constant reality, and I was surrounded by the misery of “food” animals. I experienced everything from the tortured sounds of distressed cattle bellowing at the auction barn (“just […]

When I was in high school, I read a book called Diet for a Small Planet by Francis Moore Lappe’.  The book made a lot of sense.  In a nutshell, this is what I took from the book (keep in mind that I was a 16 year-old girl in high school so my mind was probably not entirely […]

This post has been a long time in the works. Veganism is such an integral part of my life, and yet, every time I think about writing a post to address why I choose this lifestyle, I find myself too overwhelmed to write. I actually think it’s because it’s so important to me, I worry […]

I was born in 1955 on an island in the middle of the Atlantic in the Azores, a beautiful archipelago of nine islands that is part of the Portuguese government. Life on the island was very quiet and isolated from the rest of the world. Our diet consisted of grains, legumes, vegetables, fish and pork. […]

Since the age of 15 I have been working in professional kitchens. I began working at a local pub and was thrown immediately into the life of the restaurant industry. Working in food service is not easy. You are in your feet anywhere from 12-15 hours a day, the pay is very little and you […]

I am a vegan. I love being a vegan. I feel evolved and grounded. If it weren’t for the pesky fact that billions of animals are dying in the worst possible manner on a daily basis for the bulk of humanity, I would be living in complete bliss. How I arrived here is a tale […]

I had been semi-vegetarian for years, always for *health* reasons, always fell right off the wagon. In December 2008, one of my beloved Rhodesian Ridgebacks became seriously ill. Two days later we had him put to sleep, he’d suffered major organ failure and the vets told us their efforts had failed. Knowing if we took […]

At the age of 36 I quit eating meat. Almost. I was in Kenya for work. We were in a small village in the Rift Valley. There was a celebration held in for an auspicious occasion and my colleagues and I were guests of honor. Early in the day an elder from the community brought […]

I have been an animal lover all my life and Pagan. My sisters nicknamed me “Save the Whales Kerry” at a very young age. I was always bringing animals home and cried if I saw a dead animal that had been hit by a car and I always fed my meat to the dog after […]