vegan: person who seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.
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Ed Miller, originally from New Orleans, became vegetarian in 2002 for health. Later he made the transition to veganism and now he says that he's vegan for the animals, health, and the environment. Ed enjoys cooking, sleeping, gardening, watching soccer, and playing strategy games such as poker.
Uses of animals are so institutionalized, so normalized, in our society that it is difficult to find the critical distance needed to see them as the horrors that they are: so many forms of subjection, servitude and — in the case of killing animals for human consumption and other purposes — outright murder.
