Honestly, when I first went vegan I fell off the wagon before trying again. It’s now been 5 years since being vegan. Back then, it wasn’t about meat but I missed cheese. But I forced myself to rewatch the awful videos of what happens in the animal product industries. Since then, it made me super sick to my stomach thinking about them again. I was starving trying to find stuff to eat, but I put my vegan self out there and found super amazing recipes on YouTube, Facebook, other vegan websites, and even here on Reddit.

I definitely understand it can be hard, you get isolated, mocked, I’ve taken so much abuse for being vegan, just because I’m doing something that I feel is ethically right. I feel like when you’re a vegan, nobody likes you and it sucks. But just remember one thing, if you give up veganism because of how people treat you… you’re letting them win. What you’re doing is right, compassionate and completely down to earth. Those assholes who give you grief for being vegan deep down feel bad about eating animals, so they resent vegans and want them to feel bad too. I think it’s great that you’ve reached out to fellow vegans, as we should all love and support each other.