Each individual with a commitment to Veganism has her own motivation rooted in love. Love of her health, love of animals, love of justice, love of our earth. Here are my reasons:
I am Vegan because it is how I live my commitment to non-violence. Being Vegan, I make myself part of the solution, one delicious and healthful meal at a time.
I am Vegan because I am a woman and a Vegan kitchen is inherently a female kitchen. It is a kitchen made of inventiveness, resourcefulness and imagination. A kitchen that does not rely on products generated from a massive, soul-sickening and immoral industrial machine built for systematic commodification, enslavement, torture and slaughter of another sentient being.
I am Vegan because I believe de-sensitization to and denial of the extreme violence in animal factories and other common inhumane animal treatments makes it possible for us to visit unspeakable atrocities on our human sisters and brothers.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902 – 1991), Yiddish author, Nobel prize winner and vegetarian, stated it better than I ever could: "Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals."
I am Vegan because with this knowledge, I could not live with myself otherwise.
