What is a vegan? Here is a better question: who is a vegan? A vegan is a person who does not eat meat, fish, chicken, eggs, cheese or other dairy foods such as ice-cream or milk. Also a vegan does not use animal products like leather. Here is another question: what does a vegan eat? A vegan eats foods like fruits and vegetables, beans, bread, and pasta (a “vegetarian” doesn’t eat meat but sometimes eats cheese and dairy foods). Recently, more and more people are vegans. In the U.K. there are now more than one million vegans. In the U.S.A. there are now more than four million vegans. In the world, there may be fifteen million vegans. Maybe you know about these famous6 vegans and vegetarians: Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Da Vinci and Venus Williams. Why are so many people changing the food they eat? There are many answers to this question. Here are two very important answers. First, they think meat is not healthy. Second, many people say it is not a good idea to kill animals and eat them. Farm animals can think and feel the same as the pets8 in our homes. “Most people don’t eat cats and dogs,” vegans say, “so it is also not a good idea for

people to eat pigs, cows and chickens”.