To not look away

The story of my veganism and the need for a movement of solidarity between vegans and non-vegans against factory farming

I first became a vegetarian when I was six years old. My family ate meat and I had been raised to eat meat, but as soon as I was old enough to really understand what meat is, I didn’t want to eat it. I was an extremely stubborn child and so my parents eventually accepted this. I lived in a small, conservative town, so other adults weren’t always so acco…