For years, I have said over and again that, “Dogs are a gateway drug to veganism.” This is true of cats, gerbils, guinea pigs and all other companion animals, too. I’m just speaking of dogs because that was my personal experience. I didn’t grow up in a home with a companion animal and hardly any of my friends had companion animals either. So it wasn’t until I was living on my own in college that I started to interact with dogs and cats and the idea of having one became appealing to me. I graduated college in January 1993 and four weeks later adopted my first companion animal, a dog named Blackie. I adopted him from one of the New York City kill shelters. They estimated his age as being around five years old. He was rescued from a situation of abuse and neglect. Apparently he had been living with an
January 11, 2015
