Today I have been living as a vegan for four years. Thanksgiving Day is my Veganniversary (vegan anniversary). It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around the number four. In so many ways it feels much longer than just four years, but time is funny that way. It also feels like it was just yesterday that I came home from a family gathering where I picked at the sparse vegan-friendly offerings and sat down to my first fully vegan meal, a Thanksgiving Dinner. In the four years since I opened my eyes to the realities of animal mistreatment in the world, I have learned a great many things. Perhaps it is because I’ve had so many new and wonderful experiences in such a relatively short period of time, that it seems hard to believe that it’s only been four years. The biggest surprise to me was that, despite what
November 28, 2013
