Becoming More Vegan
I like to think of veganism as a process rather than a destination. Even organic vegetables are produced using herbicides and trucked to their destinations in insect-spattered, CO2-spewing vehicles. All any of us can do is keep working toward the goal of non-participation in any form of animal exploitation or environmental despoliation, remembering that people are animals and that vegan also means green.
So I’m only half-joking when I say that the recent visit of Isa Chandra Moskowitz to the Eastern Shore Sanctuary made me “even more vegan.”
Here’s how Isa made me more vegan:
- taught me to love — or, um, like — nutritional yeast
- discovered vegan butterscotch chips at my local grocery store
- showed me how to skew chili in the barbecue direction
- gave me some tips that will help me coax the most out of local, in-season produce and the vegetables from my own garden
and, most importantly,
Isa posted a lovely account of her visit on her blog and also posted some photos on Flickr. If we lean on her a little bit, I bet we can get her to post the second round of photos she took while she was here, which include a series shot at sunset as the roosters and hens who elect to sleep in the trees rather than in the coops were making their way up into the branches.