Love, love, love! There are many ways vegans rationalize the choice to give up animal foods yet for most vegans, the common thread that stitches all of their reasons together is love. Love of thyself, other living things, the environment, and in many cases, a reverence for the Creator of all things. When one is duly committed to veganism, the intense and deeply benevolent feelings that develop can be described as a great love affair with the foods that come from the earth and a love of the vegan journey of discovery!
Books, Films & Other Noteworthy Vegan Things
Ageless Vegan by Tracye McQuirter, MPH, Hachette Books 2018
Vegetable Kingdom by Bryant Terry, Chef-in-residence at the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) San Francisco, Penguin Random House 2020
Skinny B*tch by Kim Barnouin, Running Press 2005. “A vegan manifesto”
Where Does Dinner Come From?: A Plant Based Children’s Book by Kawani AJ Brown, Illustrated by Edward Basil 2016
Chilis on Wheels 501 (c)(3) Plant-Based Soup Kitchen NYC founded 2014
NYC’s oldest operating vegan eatery, Scoops Ital Smoothie and Ice Cream Shop
The Nile Café, Philadelphia’s longest running vegan restaurant est. 1994
Soul Vegetarian, the largest chain of vegan restaurants with 14 locations
Vegucated, Documentary Film 2011
H.O.P.E.:What You Eat Matters, Documentary Film 2018 https://youtu.be/pDg7tlEJD64
Youth to the People.com, vegan skincare
Vegan Sidekick, Cartoonist. “Creating new vegans, one comic at a time” @vegan sidekick
Vegan character (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon from The Simpsons animated series)
www.Vegan Publishers.com ™ 2013. “Growing vegan awareness one book at a time”
www.VeganSmart.com, nutritional vegan protein powders by Naturade
www.AmericanVeganSociety.com 501 (c)(3), www.Americanvegan.org “Tools for the journey”
www.VeganRestaurantWeek.com (Philly, D.C., Denver, Baltimore, Fort Wayne IN, L.A.)
Dr. Ietef “Dj Cavem” Vita (PhD urban ecology), debut music single: “Wheatgrass” 2007, latest EP: BIOMIMICZ. “Garden for Justice” www.chefietef.com
Converting to a plant-based diet is a monumental change with a snowball effect. Find the support you need! -Les