There’s a vegan running for president, and nobody is talking about it — not even the man himself. Senator Cory Booker is quietly making history as the first practicing vegan to make a credible run at the Presidency, and he doesn’t want you to bring it up.
Booker’s vegan bona fides are solid: Gandhi-inspired vegetarian since 1992, vegan since 2014. He isn’t a politician on a “plant-based diet” (e.g., Bill Clinton) but a genuine environmentalist and animal lover. When he saw my friends staging an animal rights demonstration in New Hampshire, he went out to them and stopped to meet everyone, grinning all the while. He’s gone beyond the call of duty for animals: He’s known to drive around outside and save dogs from freezing to death in the winter. He even has a veggie burger named after him. From a vegan perspective, the Senator’s resume is unrivaled in politics.
The competition for this honor is thin, seeing as most of the other Democratic candidates are hypocritical on this topic. Julián Castro is stridently against shelters euthanizing dogs and cats, and yet he is okay with killing cows, pigs, and chickens. On climate change, Andrew Yang has said that “we’re going to be OK if…
