I'm not going to rewrite the script on vegan tricks or hacks or guides or whatever. Amazing folks have already done that and some of them are listed to your right »

Instead... I'll share my vegan story with you. Everyone's is different. There are the people who went vegan overnight (kudos to them), and then there are some of us who transitioned a bit slower.  

At the time, I was dating a guy who was getting his PhD in agriculture. One day, he said to me, "I'm surprised you're not vegetarian." A pretty legitimate observation, since all my office mates were vegetarian. Not to mention, I tend to like all other animals far more than human animals.

I thought maybe I could try it out by seeing if I could make my lunches vegan. If I could make food for work vegan, any other meal at home would be easier. It was a great tactic, because I didn't feel pressured to change overnight and learned a lot along the way. That Thanksgiving I went vegan plus honey and eggs (back off, vegans, I know that's not vegan—but it's a fast way to explain it). No meat, fish, or dairy. One year later I was reading Alicia Silverstone's book, The Kind Diet, and finally allowed the information on eggs to sink in. That was when I went entirely vegan and never looked back.

Honestly, I think it's far easier to go vegan for the animals, because there's a life being affected by your decisions. I've seen people eat plant-based for the environment or their health, and I'm happy they're doing it. It still helps in all the other causes, but often those folks go back to their old ways. I could never imagine flipping that systemically taught switch back on that detaches me from another soul who has no say in their life. The truth is, there's no such thing as humane slaughter... The fear these animals experience watching and/or listening to their friends being slaughtered and not wanting to be next is real. How can killing someone be humane if they don't want to die? It's not. It's murder.