No Child Left Behind? We need a No Vegetable Left Behind program for our schools. Sometimes when I try to explain the concept of vegetarian - or in my case, a vegan - wait staff look at me like I am speaking in tongues. - Ben Shaberman, The Vegan Monologues

I LOVE being vegan..I love the food, I love the fact that I am making compassionate choices, I love the new experiences it brings, but Seriously. It’s always so awkward trying to explain to people that “no, I don’t eat anything that comes from an animal, for example, meat, eggs, or dairy, but I eat everything else!” and they go, “oh..salad”. And then, I’m like “no..everything else…but salad!” Then they look at me like I am crazy. Great. LOL

I make it a point to say I don’t eat salad because I don’t just eat lettuce and a tomato three times a day…my diet is so varied. It is so pleasurable as well. I wish I could carry food samples with me everywhere I go and be like, “see..isn’t this AMAZING? And, it’s VEGAN and it’s not salad!”

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