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Before jumping in I want to address the fact that I am privileged to have the ability to take this journey on my own, as I choose, and in my own time. That being said, I believe everyone has the power to make some small changes in their daily life and should always try to be vegan and Zero Waste to the best of their ability, within reason. From humble beginnings... Growing up in Connecticut I always wanted to be a vegetarian. None of my family was, none of my friends were, but for some reason I would "try" to be vegetarian a few times a month. Eventually it stuck and there I was, deep in it for 8 years. I only began eating meat again once I got to college and that only lasted for 4 years. Since then, over the past year I began heavily exploring veganism, which is where I'm at now. To say I'm a strict vegan would be a crazy exaggeration. This new term "flexitarian" aka flexible-vegetarian, is how I like to 'label' myself, if we have to use ...