I try my best to get vegan food, which IS much easier than people think. But sometimes I eat the bread or the noodles or the yams without asking about eggs or broth or butter, especially in countries where I have no idea how to speak the language.

For me, there is value is not having the vegan be a pain in the ass. A lot of folks hear the word “vegan” and think that it is a crazy lifestyle only possible in Malibu. So I kind of try hard to make it look easy, haha.

If someone was thoughtful enough to buy veggie burgers for his BBQ just because I’m there, I am not going to read the label and look for whey; I’m going to chow down. And in my rural Georgia community, where you have to drive an hour to find organic apples, I’ll just politely move aside the pork chunks as I’m eating the collard greens prepared by a sweet octogenarian relative.

I avoid temptation by avoiding hunger — keeping nuts or dried fruit or whatever handy. For a hungry me, the smell of a cooking hamburger is incredibly tempting. For a just-snacked me, it is an artery-clogging slab of cruelty.

Anyway, thanks for your blog. Sorry I missed you at Burning Man. Hope to bump into you at Alchemy.

I miss reading about your vegan adventures. I hope you’ll post some new ones soon

Jill

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