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When and if anyone is ever ready to consider becoming vegan, I promise you the KoolAid is easy to find... yup, even KoolAid is vegan.

Here's why you won't get that here:

After deciding to eat vegan, I started looking for vegan cookbooks and recipe sites.  Unfortunately, I had to wade through scads of "propaganda" to find just a few recipes.

I am a foodie.  I love to feed other people.   I think long dinners with multiple courses and great company are as good as it gets.

Lectures on the environmental impact of your meat- or, better yet, on livestock living conditions- ruin dinner parties.  That's the intention.  If you're guilty and/or grossed out, you'll see the error of your ways, right? 

Of course, you've already ordered a steak so the ideal outcome is that you won't eat it.  It's like replacing a functioning car with a hybrid or swapping a perfectly serviceable washing machine with a high efficiency front-loader.  Rather than being eco-friendly, it's just a new form of good ol' planned obsolescence. 

At the very least, that you'll be miserable while you eat your steak.  As an added bonus, so will everyone else at the table, including the other vegans!

So the right place to deliver the message is when we're not eating, right?  

I've never  understood how "delivering the message" under any set of circumstances is different from people who just have to tell you all about their religion because it is superior to yours and you are going to Hell with a capital "h." 

Let's just enjoy some good food!