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According to Top Trends in Prepared Foods in 2017, six percent of the U.S. population now identifies as vegan, a 600% increase from the 2014 report. A vegan artist herself, Camille DeAngelis lets us know that If you want to unstick yourself artistically, you must do something differently; and what does anyone have to lose by eating more plants instead of animals?
List of contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
An Epiphany in Slow Motion
What’s in This Book
What Is Veganism?
How to Use Google to Learn about Veganism
Common Stereotypes and Misconceptions about Vegans and Veganism
This Book Is for You
Part I: Sticking Points
Halcyon On and On
This Life of Verve & Loathing
Imperfectionism
Lighting the Lamps in the Mind and Heart
Rendezvous with Fate
New Channels of Thought
Ordinary Cruelty
Wallpaper Girl
The Well at World’s End
A Small and Certain Thing
FOMO or Faux Moo?
To Learn Something Is to Lose Something
Part II: Experiments and Explorations + Conversations with Vegan Artists
A Conversation with Yitzy Holton-Hinshaw and Colin Weeks
Libri et Brassica
A Q&A with Nicola McLean
Pulling a One-Eighty
A Q&A with Henry Lien
All This Power, How Can I Be Afraid?
A Conversation with Josephine Skapare
Soft Animal Bodies, Yours and Mine and Theirs
A Q&A with Fiber Artist Heidi Braacx
The Handmade Wardrobe
A Conversation with Nava Atlas
A Mirror Facing a Mirror
A Conversation with Cynthia King
Where’s Wilbur?
A Conversation with Janyce Denise Glasper
Twilight Zone Redux
A Conversation with Alec Thibodeau
The Edible Woods
A Q&A with Tanya O’Callaghan
Straight-Edge Cinderella
A Conversation with Lacresha Berry
The Gold in the Shadow
A Conversation with Melanie Light
Scuba Diving as a Spiritual Practice
A Conversation with Debra Diane
Life in Technicolor
A Conversation with Maya Gottfried
Vegan for the Future
A Conversation with Donald Vincent
Part III: Tips & Resources
This Is Not an “Impossible Dream”
If You Can Move, You Can Dance
Endnotes
Further Reading, Resources, and Inspiration
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the author
Camille DeAngelis is the author of several novels, a travel guide to Ireland, and Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People. Her young adult novel Bones & All won an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2016. Camille is a certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator through Main Street Vegan® Academy, and she lives in New England. Visit her online at www.cometparty.com.
Summary
According to Top Trends in Prepared Foods in 2017, six percent of the U.S. population now identifies as vegan, a 600% increase from the 2014 report. A vegan artist herself, Camille DeAngelis lets us know that If you want to unstick yourself artistically, you must do something differently; and what does anyone have to lose by eating more plants instead of animals?
Foreword
According to Top Trends in Prepared Foods in 2017, six percent of the U.S. population now identifies as vegan, a 600% increase from the 2014 report
Google reported in 2017 that searches for the word “vegan” increased by 33 percent from 2015 to 2016, searches for “non-dairy” going up 222 percent.
