One of the perils of being raised vegetarian or vegan from birth is that — so long as you aren’t a total health disaster — your parents and other animal activists might have a mind to use you as a mascot for the cause, trotting you out as a counter-example to stories of dead vegan babies and sick vegan adults.

When they’re older, the veg*an-from-birth kids who are put on display must give testimonials about how athletic they are, how they’ve easily maintained their ideal body weight, how rarely they get sick, how short their colds are, how they’ve never been to the hospital except to comfort a meat eating relative dying of cancer, how they never had acne break-outs, how much they enjoy food and how they have no desire to eat meat.

This is only a problem for those who don’t want to be human fodder for an ideological manifesto. If parental influence triumphs and ethical veg*anism becomes an important part of the veg*an child’s identity, they might enjoy their life as a talking point. Alina, the 28 year-old vegetarian from birth in this video, seems to relish being exhibit number seven in pro-veggie author Larry Cook’s parade of vegetarian success stories.