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  1. 30 - 40

  2. 21 years

  3. Empathy for animals, I don't want them to be killed or treated with cruelty just because it's something that's done

  4. Intellectual pursuits. For example, I mostly focused on social psychology in school and one of the reasons I was drawn to that field was because of my experiences and observations as a vegan (the double standards between a majority and minority, logical fallacies, normativity, etc).

  5. Heh. I don't know.

  6. That it's about diet or that it's part of a package. It's not about diet anymore than entertainment or fashion or science, and it's not part of a package of ways to think about food systems/social change/health/etc. Vegans often speak of it as such because they still default to the dominant norms and veganism remains something exceptional. Instead, it's about shifting paradigms in our relationship to other animals, which changes the parameters of diet/agriculture/fashion/etc, but it isn't a model of those things. This is important because no matter how passionate people are about their views and their models, opinions sometimes change. What I've noticed about people who stop being vegan is that even when they were most passionate, they saw veganism as part of one model or one line of thought, but their underlying norms and parameters were those of the majority. Fundamentally, they still considered cows to be food, a food they chose to eschew, while dogs weren't. They never really internalized a change in that regard. When their opinions change, veganism goes by the wayside as well, because it was only part of one model instead of being the person's default. I'm not expressing my thoughts clearly so I'll stop writing now.

  7. Dunno. Maybe Vega electrolytes, though there are also electrolytes that are vegan by default. In any case they help prevent heat exhaustion when I'm out hiking or biking. Another one is Persian vegan ice cream. I've been vegan for so many years that it was really cool to have an ice cream flavor from my childhood.

  8. "Creamy pasta": my partner's recipe, sort of our "national dish". Creamy sauce made with soymilk, miso, nooch, chipotle, peas, etc, and topped with a hedonistic dose of truffle oil.

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