I am a vegan because animals have feelings.

I am an animal and believe I should treat other animals the way I would like to be treated.

I believe I should not do to others what I do not want done to me.

I do not want to be trapped, hunted, imprisoned, slaughtered, tortured, disrespected, shot, skinned alive or eaten.

Becoming vegan has meant:

• meeting a world of intelligent people
• creating an international community of compassion
• lowering my cholesterol 100 points, while eating anything I want
• lowering the cost of groceries
• having better relationships with the animals around me
• opening my eyes to things I would have missed
• enjoying food for the first time
• loving to cook for the first time
• blogging
• new friends
• fighting for justice
• discovering animal sanctuaries
• renewed respect for the natural world
• awareness of what we are doing to ourselves, to the planet
• grief, because of what I know
• solace, because of what I can do

If anyone is interested about becoming vegan, there are lots of resources out there to help you. I am one of them; write to me.  Join with all of us vegans on this important day. Save the animals, save the planet, save other humans.