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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...

