Having been on the vegan block for over half of my life, I have seen it turn from weird, wacky, off the wall and ‘oh my god, what I am meant to eat if I go to a restaurant‘ to being totally cool, accepted, easily available and dare I say… normal! I  must admit that lately I’ve seen an amazing surge in people eating vegan. It seems that everyone I know is saying ‘oh, I haven’t eaten any animal products for the last few months’, like it’s no big deal! I am still catching up to this fact and am always pleased to this compassionate, loving, evolutionary way of being receiving positive press. Bring it on!
Enjoy this article in the Guardian this week – it’s official – being vegan is no longer wierd!

“Vegan used to be one of those insults thrown around with the same mainstream anti-beard incomprehension as “socks and sandals” or “Guardian reader”. Unfortunately, since the latter two became cool – and beards did too – the former’s prospects are also looking up. So it’s time to revise our ideas of who’s a weirdo and who isn’t.

You can’t swing a nut roast right now without hitting something to do with veganism – whether it’s the arrival from Germany of the first all-vegan supermarket chain, Veganz, or the 22-day no meat, no dairy diet that Beyoncé and Jay-Z have just celebrated the end of (well you would, wouldn’t you?).

Then there’s the vegan couple in their 60s who have just completed a year of running marathons every day, eating only bananas; the trendy vegan blogger and chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz, who has a new book out and 30,000 Twitter followers, not to mention Tal Ronnen, the guru behind Oprah’s vegan cleanse, Ellen DeGeneres’ vegan wedding, and the first vegan dinner at the US Senate.

And that’s just the famous ones. There was a recent vegan festival where I live – north London, sure, but quite a grotty part of it – and it was well attended despite the lashing rain. How those participants in socks and sandals stayed dry, I’ll never know…”
Read on here:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/04/vegan-fad-meat-dairy-health-option?CMP=twt_gu