vegan columbus: vegan living in central ohio

Current area: Downtown Columbus
Hometown: Gahanna
Occupation: Bike Messenger
Other interests: Bicycle touring and racing, hiking and backpacking, cooking/ baking, reading.

How long have you been vegan?
I've been vegan for 9 years. I had been vegetarian for five years before that. I went vegan for the same reasons I originally became a vegetarian: ethical concerns regarding cruelty and the killing of animals, as well as environmental/ ecological considerations. A vegan diet is more sustainable than a vegetarian diet, which in turn is more sustainable than an omnivorous diet.

Just a moment of pause in our interviews with vegan humans to bring you an interview with a pair of vegan cats, who live with two humans named Beth and Steve:

(Yes, Sam Adams Octoberfest is vegan)

Current area: Northwest Columbus
Hometown: Upper Arlington, Ohio
Occupation: Magician
Other interests: Martial arts, reading, good television shows.

How long have you been vegan? I have been vegan 5 or 6 years. I can't keep track any more.

Current area: Old Town East
Hometown: Northside Columbus/Westerville
Occupation: Promoter, Instigator, Problem Manchild, Sweatin' presents
Other interests: hardcore/punk/DIY shows, design, cooking, bike rides, djing, screen printing

How long have you been vegan? I went vegan at 18. I'm 36. I had a couple meat and vegetarian lapses (minus a year or two) so....we'll say about 15 years.

Current Area: German Village, Columbus, Ohio. It's a nice area, aside from being within rock-throwing distance from that mecca of vegan-ness, Schmidt's.

Hometown: Marysville. That's Ohio, too. Grew up and grew out just before the Honda dynasty moved in and tripled the population.

(Eating dairy-free ice cream at Lulu's Sweet Apothecary in NYC)

Current Area: Columbus, Northwest? I don't think where I live has a cool name.
Hometown: I come from divorced parents, sooo it's Santa Barbara, CA AND Elk Grove, CA. But I mostly identify with Berkeley, CA, where I went to college.
Occupation: As of now, a receptionist at a Grandview-based accounting firm and author of www.columbusvegan.com. Also, aspiring vegan chef, artist, etc. I'm not really sure what I will be doing next.
Other interests: Practicing kung fu and yoga, cooking vegan food, throwing pottery, photography, planning crazy stunts for my magician husband, etc. I do many things.

Current Area South Campus
Occupation I work at Magnolia Thunderpussy, I write for donewaiting.com and The Other Paper, and I started writing graffiti a long time ago but stopped.
How long have you been vegan?
I can't remember. At least 6 or 7 years.