How To Become Vegan

to help me find vegan food. Even when I could use technology to help me, I
prefer asking new friends for help. So if we’re buying food together, I might
show them a few packages of different muesli varieties and ask them to
help me figure out which ones are vegan. This is very easy for them to do,
and it usually makes them feel good when they see that I’m grateful for
their assistance. Also, quite often, they end up buying more vegan foods
and fewer animal products for themselves as a result.
The same goes for eating out at a restaurant where I don’t speak the
language. If I’m eating with other vegans (such as my girlfriend), we’ll
usually go to a veg-friendly place where vegan options are clearly marked
on the menu or at least where the staff is knowledgeable about vegan
options, such as Le Pain Quotidien in Paris. And if I’m out with non-vegan
friends and end up eating wherever, I can enlist their help to figure out
what’s vegan that I could order.
When it comes to eating vegan on an airplane, my overall experience
with airlines has given me the impression that they’re systemically
incompetent when it comes to providing vegan meals on flights. Even when
I request a vegan meal in advance , they usually get it wrong. Their “vegan”
meals often include animal products like butter (sometimes listed right on
the labeling when they list ingredients), or they forget to put my meal on the
plane altogether, and the stewardess tries to apologize on behalf of whoever