Vegan since 2008; retired since 2011. I was a happy and devoted meat-eater all my life, until my daughter gave me the book "The Food Revolution" by John Robbins. After reading it, I had no arguments in favor of eating animal products, so I stopped. I thought I'd miss it, but I didn't. My daughter turned me on to HappyCow, as well, and I remember looking for restaurants in an unfamiliar town we'd be visiting, and was really impressed by one review I read...and when I looked closer, I saw it was written by my daughter!