I’m a pretty honest and open person, so I’ll admit it. My first week as a vegan wasn’t totally vegan.

I slipped a couple times while spending the weekend at my parent’s house, starving on a college campus that is not very vegan-friendly, and just plain stupidity. Of course, there’s milk in milk chocolate!

I definitely underestimated how difficult it would really be to make such a drastic life change. Especially before such a depressing holiday that usually leads me to indulge in tons of milk chocolate and gallons of ice cream.

I’m proud of myself, though. I’m making a change. Instead of drowning myself in sorrow and self-loathing, I went to the gym and used endorphins to boost my mood in lieu of comfort food.

Valentine’s day is commonly associated with relationships, flowers, romance and sexual intimacy. Even though the ‘v’ in V-day doesn’t refer to vegan, I find the recent connection between veganism and sexuality to be quite interesting.

  • The fairly new term “vegansexual,” a vegan who refuses to have sex with a nonvegan because his or her body has ingested meat.
  • The PETA ads that use women’s bodies as advertisement for anti-fur and meat-free lifestyles.

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I feel like these last two advertisements are aimed directly at men as a way to try and convince them that they can still feel manly without a 20 oz. steak… as long as they can stare at naked women.

Maybe it’s my feminism coming out, but aren’t there other ways of advertising a meatless diet to men? Women have been using their bodies to change male minds since Ancient Greece… can’t we be a little more creative?

No. No. Go ahead.

Ignore the fact that there would be no world hunger if everyone was vegetarian. Ignore the fact that meat clogs your arteries and causes heart disease. Ignore the fact that animals don’t have to die for you to satisfy your hunger.

Let’s just throw some naked ladies in the ad, that’s all we need. Let’s just throw some naked women on stage, and the men won’t notice that we’re not serving chicken wings or cheese pizza.

Come on. Let’s put our minds together and come up with something better than that.

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