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Brent:  Why  did  you  choose  to  become  a

             vegan?
             Jodi:  When  I  was  little  l  fell  in  love
             with  pigs,  so  I  stopped  eating  them.

             Then,  freshman  year,  I  saw  2  birds
             fighting  so  I  gave  up  chicken  and  ]
             turkey.  Then,  Junior  year  I  saw  a

             movie  called Meet your Meat  which
             helped  me  to  decide  on  becoming  a                                  don'%  even  let  my  mom
             vegan.                                              cook  for me  until  1  cheek the ingredients.

             Rachel:  Remember the  lobster?                     R:  Does it bother you  when  other people eat
             J:  How  could  1  forget?  It  was  this  past  meat in  front of you?
             summer—I went to Publix and got a little  J:  No,  but  ideally,  everyone  would  be
             emotional when I saw the lobsters in the  vegetarian

             seafood tank so I decided to  give up my  B:  What’s your favorite meal?
             food money for the night to buy a lobster.  J:  Tofu  Mozzarella  Sticks  from  Sublime.

             We brought it to Sea Ranch and put it in  Soooo  good
             the water, but it just sat there. Rachel got  Mrs.  C:  What  do  you  think  of meat  eating
             one rubber band off its claw, but we were  animals?
             all  too  afraid  to  touch  the  other.  But  it  J:  I  think  that  it’s  a  completely  different

             never really  swam out to  sea any way... I  situation  because  they  can’t  choose  to  eat
             like to think it survived, but inside I know  vegetables  or  meat.  It’s  their  instinct  to  be
             it  was  a  Maine  lobster  in  the  Florida  carnivores.

             ocean.                                              M:  Tell  us  about your car
              B:  How  to  you  feel  about  buying  a loaf  J:  The  Eurovan  is  sitting  in  the  driveway
             of bread  for 4  dollars  when  us  common  because  it’s  having  some  problems.  There’s
             folk  only  pay  $1?                                no power steering. You have to put your body

             J:  I don’t.                                        into  steering.  When  I  take  a hard right  turn,
             B:  Oh.                                             there’s a lot of effort into making the steering

             M:  What’s  your favorite  food  when  you  wheel go back left again. But it was made in
             go  out?                                            ’76— a  classic.  Sometimes  it  seems
             J:  I  don’t  eat  anything  when  I  go  to  dangerous, maybe impractical for one person
             restaurants except the occasional  salad.  I to  ride  alone  in  such  a  huge  car,  but  in  the

                                                                 end its fun.
                                                                 Brian:  Does  it  go  0  to  60  in  10  minutes
                                                                 (laughs)

                                                                 A:  So  have  you  converted  anyone  to
                                                                 veganism?
                                                                 J:  I converted Kate  Beckett to  vegetarianism
                                                                 and  my  mom  was  vegan  for  a  few  months,

                                                                 but then gave  up.  Except those  two,  no.  But
                                                                 the  evangelism  will  continue.  One day...
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