When I attended vegan culinary courses, the chef explained veganism as a room with three doors. The three doors he cited are pretty easy to guess:
- Health
- Environmental
- Animal welfare
The chef then added that once you’ve entered the vegan room, it’s a win-win-win.
It’s a lovely room
Having drunk the vegan Kool-Aid back in 2016, I’m entirely here in the vegan room. I have become a better version of myself as a result of this lifestyle change. I’m all-in. I cannot imagine living any other way.
I’m so vain
Sure, the three doors the chef spoke about are significant, but part of my reason for finding myself in this vegan room is vanity, the secret door number 4. I am vain. It’s important to me to be fit, have great skin, and embrace (not fear) getting older. At this point, my acts of vanity include vegan food, exercise, expensive face creams, occasional use of mascara, eyeliner and lipstick, being picky about clothing, wearing sunscreen, avoiding booze, avoiding smoking, and using hair dye. No surgery, no botox.
A self-proclaimed vain 29-year-old once told me she was interested in trying a vegan lifestyle because “this world is a better place when you’re…
