Sky
February 24, 2023
This is a story of how one hour changed my destiny. At 18 years old, I read a pocket-sized book called Arnold Ehret's Mucusless Diet Healing System. The book explained what animal...
Advocate Origin Stories Tag
Michael Webermann
February 24, 2023
At age 14, I was sitting in my high school freshman French class, learning to say the names of farmed animals (e.g. "truie"), their noises ("groin groin!"), and their cuts...
Terra Melson, Esq.
February 7, 2023
My epiphany arrived in 2019, during a back-to-back trip to Africa and Israel. In Ethiopia, my driver asked me why I stopped the cab to go over and hug the...
Ellen Adler
February 7, 2023
I took a gradual but steady path toward understanding how wrong it was, for me, to eat animals. I suppose the seed was planted when I was a very young...
Wasseem Emam
January 19, 2023
My concern for aquatic animals started towards the end of my undergraduate degree in environmental science when I was completing a work placement as a Biomonitoring Technician for the Ontario...
Light, Gentle World Co-Founder
January 10, 2023
When my wife and I met back in 1966, we already knew we were rising in love. It was a time of staying up just about all night and talking,...
Summer Kirson
January 10, 2023
I became vegan at the age of 34. That was 43 years ago, upon meeting Gentle World, a non-profit vegan educational organization. Little did I know at the time that...
Flowers Fields
January 10, 2023
My journey to veganism It was 1972 when I started my vegetarian journey. I was at WelMet summer camp at age 12. (Howard Stern was a counselor and kitchen boy there...
Dr. Brett Bard
January 5, 2023
Vet school at Onderstepoort thrust me directly into the therapeutic heart of animal exploitation, still convinced that meat was the most essential component of our diet, and that animals needed...
Megan Pereira
December 19, 2022
I've known since I was a little girl that i wanted to work with animals. I started riding horses at 7 yrs old. I've always been more comfortable around animals than...