uj/ i’ve actually influenced nearly my entire family to be vegetarian or vegan. we used to be a family that ate meat at least once, usually twice a day and consumed a ton of animal products. now my mom is vegan (she all but stopped eating animal products after she developed a dairy allergy shortly after i went vegan and she started liking my food. she stopped eating meat and only ate animal products that were baked into things, but never used them or cooked them herself) after seeing a documentary that made her decide to completely cut out all animal products. my little brother was incredibly resistant to veganism for the first year and a half or two that i was vegan, and he slowly came around to it and decided he would stop eating animal products but have 1 cheat day a month as he was doing it for health rather than ethics. but the more we talked about it, the more he realized it was wrong and he’s been fully vegan since i think around march of this year. my dad (big meat eater, even used to hunt when he was younger) saw the same documentary my mom did and decided to be vegetarian (he could obviously do more, but he’s over 50 and his parents have always kind of shamed him and my mom for letting me be vegan. and i also truly believe that the longer he’s vegetarian and sees how easy it is, the more likely he is to go vegan as he has three other vegans in the family). my older brother, who was also really resistant and rude about me being vegan, frequently has days that are totally vegan without even trying to abstain from animal products, he just doesn’t want them. he tries to do at least one day a week without animal products and he now prefers almond milk in his coffee and always has it instead of milk when it’s an option.

i know this is really long, but my point is that it’s entirely likely she won’t always be that way. my family was not happy when i went vegan (i was 15 at the time) and we’d always been a family that ate animal products excessively. i never ever would have thought that anyone in my family would even be vegetarian, let alone half of us being vegan. guiding them and showing them that it’s easy and possible to be vegan, and making them question their beliefs about where their food comes from absolutely does have an effect.