When Vegans Cheat

When was the last time you ate something you knew wasn’t vegan? Let’s talk about it.

Leo Kirts
Published in
7 min readOct 23, 2019

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Credit: Jean Bernard

I had been vegan for one year when I cheated for the first time. It was the fall of 2011, and I was working on a political campaign in my hometown of Bedford, Indiana, not exactly known for its vegan provisions. The campaign headquarters was a revolving door of Papa John’s pizza deliveries and…

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Leo Kirts
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Writer from Indiana based in New York covering food, queer politics, ecofeminism and veganism. they/them