*I'm also very interesting in this world veg day fest that may or may not be taking place in Maryland, and would be willing to get a crew together from NY and head down there!*

Awesome Idea Camillus!  If this veg day goes down, the New Yorkers should totally go down Maryland together!  I like your way of thinking btw  ;)

I know where Rosemead is too!   :)

I know where Rosemead it is too, too! :)
I live in San Diego, but I grew up in La Crescenta.
I bet you don't know where in LA County that is!!! ;D

I do! I'm from Burbank. We're like neighbors. ;)

  My name is Kevin. I'm 46 years old as of a few days ago. I live in New England. I run a supply operation in a huge factory that makes really amazing jet engines. I get to work with some very smart people and I enjoy my job.

  Last year I was married for the second time to my lovely wife Laura who is 23. We are very happy together. We both became vegan a few months ago. We love to cook and are constantly experimenting with recipes we find here and other places. We are endless "tweakers" in the kitchen. We love to drink wine.

  I enjoy a million different things. I have been a big reader all my life. I read about everything under the sun, which is all I want to know. I also love to write. I really love to think. I wish that would catch on with more people around the world and especially here in America.

  I have noticed that a few people have mentioned their political leanings. I used to be a republican. Since the eighties. I apologize. GWB and his henchmen have ruined that for me forever. I'm a democrat now. I wish Al Gore would run. If he doesn't I'll probably vote for Dennis Kucinich in the primary.

  My original motivation for becoming vegan was that I had a minor heart attack at the end of last November. I've learned a lot of things since then. I don't ever want to have another one. I'm convinced that I don't have to, that my heart disease can be reversed. Thank you, Firefightress for telling me about The China Study. I learned a great deal there.

  I have other motivations now as well. I've always loved animals but I never knew anything about the degree of suffering they were enduring, especially in factory farms. I've seen some videos put out by PETA and others. They moved me deeply. I never want to contribute another red cent to the economic engine that drives the hellish meat, dairy and egg industries. There are other hellish industries I try not to contribute to as well but I won't list them all here.

  I try to live as "green" as I can. I hope we can save the planet but frankly, I don't hold out much hope for that. I think the majority of the human race is greedy, stupid and selfish and will burn this place up rather than change their behavior. What a pity, this planet is so beautiful and incomprehensibly amazing. I suspect that human civilization is circling the drain. If you're an optimist I'm sorry to bring you down.

  So now you know about .00000000000000000000000001% of what makes me tick. Glad to be here among you.

Hi Taneveb, good idea. Sorry I started the new post! There goes my hope for a rep as a searcher rather than impulse poster!

http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=18220.0;topicseen <--post where I say Hello All!

The dinkfeet reference is because I didn't hit five feet tall until I was 15 or so. Also, I hung with a crowd that enjoyed the movie Spaceballs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/. Within the movie, there's a chirpy little tune that goes "dink da dink dink dink...." Since Rick Moranis and I apparently shared a losing battle against gravity, "dinkfeet" ended up my nom de plume.

Oh, great! I'm a newbie here, too!

I love purple. Love it. If I ever forget to make my text purple, you can bet I'll go back and modify it when I realize I didn't do it. Purple is the most splendiforous color ever, in any shade or tone.  :)

Ahhh I loooooove Purple too!!!!  It's the best :D

Oh Hi!  I wanted to introduce myself too!
I'm 30 years old and I grew up in Philadelphia.  I've been a vegetarian for 10 years now.  My screen name comes from my double major in college (Biology and Dance).  I could never choose between art and science and it's given me a chance to work in many different fields (theater production, hand therapy, and now environmental consulting).  I loooove cooking and I'm on vegweb multiple times a day.  I love theater, dance, reading and hanging out with my cat.  ;D

Sure why not.

My name is Amanda, and I was born and bred in New Jersey until I came to Europe nearly 8 years ago, and have been happily residing here since then, with no plans to go back.  I spent 5 years in Brussels, and nearly 3 here in Amsterdam.  I work from home, so life is pretty effin sweet right about now.

I am just getting started on my animal rights crusade, and am planning on many protests around Europe.  There are certainly enough to choose from!  After nearly 13 years of vegetarianism, I have finally gone back to veganism, and this looks like I'll be staying here from now on, thankyouverymuch.  I don't know what I did wrong the first time, but it was such an effort and my energy was shot.  This time, I'm doing it proper, and it couldn't be any easier!  I don't even have to think about it, I just do it.

I live with my 2 dogs- Lola and Mylo- and my Irish boyfriend, who has quietly gone from omnivore to pescatarian on me!  I can't take credit for that, though.  He must have seen something amongst my books and videos to make him think twice, and next thing you know he's buying tofu products in the supermarket!  You can rant and rave at people all you want, but they move at their own pace.

I've been a member of vegweb since 2003 or 2004, but remember when they made some changes and erased all of our profiles in about 2005?  Yeah, thats about when I dropped the ball on vegweb.  I found my old profile recently, from when I made a half-hearted attempt to get back into it in 2005: http://vegweb.com/index.php?action=profile;u=47544  How's that for a cheese smile!!!

I still have loads of things on my 'To Do with My Life' list, but for right now, this looks like it's it for the moment, and that's OK by me.

You won't see me too often on the forums, but I'll be watching you people!  Oh YES!  I WILL be watching you....(Wayne's world)

You can watch me too:  myspace.com/dabeesknees

Hey everybody.
My name's Lindsey. I come from Upstate New York originally, but have been all over the place in my 25 years of life. I am a straight, married female. I was a vegetarian for 2 years, and I was so good that I was almost vegan, but I don't know what happened- maybe bacon- that i went back to eating meat. I don't eat much meat and would like to go back to my almost vegan diet.  I am pretty healthy, with the exception of chronic respiratory infections, migraines and stomach aches- the last two are a food problem and I should know to control that. Don't know why I get respiratory infections, I got bronchitis from not treating the last one- bad idea. I like this site because it makes it easy for me to get vegetarian recipes and ideas, so that when I finally do get back to where I started, it won't be that hard to keep it up PERMANENTLY.

As for the rest of me: I work at a daycare. I don't have kids, but I'd like to and I also don't have any furbabies, but I'd like to. I had a cat for 16 years, but unfortunately she had a stroke and I had to put her to sleep :( 
I like reading, poetry (writing it, collecting, reading), nature, stuff that is odd or funny and I collect cookbooks, lots of them, it's scary how many I have. I also like doing boring stuff like watch tv and surf the Internet.  That's me in a nutshell.