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Why you should celebrate your vegan anniversary
Hello, and welcome to Eight Years In! And if you’re a returning reader, welcome back, and thank you! Now, if you’ve been reading my posts recently, you’ll know that I celebrated my nine year vegan anniversary not too long ago. And I wanted to talk about the practice of having and celebrating your vegan anniversary. Because there is a significance to it, if you ask me. So let’s get into it, shall we?
Continue reading Why you should celebrate your vegan anniversaryDoes veganism make you depressed?
Hello and welcome to Eight Years In! Today we’re talking about veganism and depression. This is a very important topic that I don’t think gets talked about often enough in the vegan community, and I wanted to change that today. So let’s get real and talk about all of these depressed vegans!
Continue reading Does veganism make you depressed?What I’ve learned as a long-term vegan
Hello, and welcome back to Eight Years In! As the name of the site suggests, I’ve been vegan for years now. And recently, I celebrated my nine year vegan anniversary! I’ve very much enjoyed my vegan journey, as well as creating this website for you all to follow along and learn with me.
And today, I wanted to look back at some of the lessons that I’ve learned along the way. Because as much as being vegan is simple in theory, it is what I would consider a learning experience.
Continue reading What I’ve learned as a long-term veganHow to Create a Vegan World: A Review
Hello and welcome to Eight Years In! There’s a book called, “How to Create a Vegan World: a Pragmatic Approach” by Tobias Leenaert. And believe me when I tell you that with a title like that, I had been itching to read it for quite some time. So I finally got my hands on it and I read it. Voraciously. Here’s what I thought.
Continue reading How to Create a Vegan World: A ReviewI’m not ready to be vegan yet! (How to get closer to veganism)
You hear all about vegans and how going vegan will help the animals and you and the planet. And the arguments sound good. You wish you could go vegan. But right now, it seems so out of reach. Here are some different approaches that you can take to get closer to veganism or vegetarianism even if you don’t think you can get quite there yet.
Continue reading I’m not ready to be vegan yet! (How to get closer to veganism)The best parts about being vegan
Hello, and welcome back to Eight Years In! We’ve been on a bit of a kick lately. We talked about the worst parts about veganism and why going vegan isn’t as bad as you think (which you can find here and here, respectively). But after all of those concerns and complaints, I bet you’re wondering what the good parts about being vegan are.
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When people find out that I’m vegan, one of the first things they tend to say is that they could never do that.
Continue reading The worst parts about being veganThere’s no such thing as a perfect vegan
If you’re someone who has recently gone vegan, you might have a sort of perception that once you go vegan, everything’s going to be great and you’ll never contribute to animal cruelty again. Unfortunately, being vegan is a little more complicated than that.
Continue reading There’s no such thing as a perfect veganHow to tell your parents you want to be vegan
Hello and welcome to Eight Years In! You’re probably here reading this because you want to go vegan and you’re not sure how to tell your parents. I was in this same situation back when I was 15. I was nervous and frustrated, but I knew what I wanted to do. But I was worried about what my mom might say. Would she be angry with me? Tell me that I wasn’t allowed to? But I knew I needed to have this conversation.
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