"Last November, while I was struggling with the question of spending Thanksgiving with my family or not, my soulmate made the comparison of having a roasted turkey on the dinner table to having the cooked, headless body of one of our cats on the table. It simply isn’t food; it’s a corpse. He was right, and I realized I felt that way about all animal products. They truly aren’t food (or materials) to me any more. They’re no more edible to me than a piece of a human body. If you stick with veganism, you will also have this epiphany."