If I can live happily and healthily without hurting an animal to the age of 95, why would I want to do otherwise?

It is becoming all the more evident that a nutrient-dense, high-fiber diet can not only tame obesity, but it can prevent and reverse the killer diseases of our time: heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and even some kinds of cancer.

Some anti-vegan rhetoric is delivered with so much conviction that, at times, I still have difficulty separating fact from fiction.

After years of struggling with heart disease, former President Bill Clinton has recently begun to follow an almost exclusively vegan diet. People b...

Bill Clinton is a vegan -- or is, at least, very close to being one. The former U.S. president told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta this week that he doesn...

Are you addicted to meat? I see it all the time -- people who want to break the meat habit, but who just keep eating those nuggets, burgers and hot dogs.

Vegetables hold the key to life and robust health. They beckon and intrigue us, in ways that no animal food ever could, with their seductive beauty.

Though I believed that by making the change to become vegan I was saving the lives of many animals, I remained in the dark about how this new diet might impact my health.

This gentle movement that promotes the consumption of a plant-based diet, living a healthier life and leaving a lighter footprint on the planet evokes rage like I have never seen.

So how should you react when your child announces one day, "Mom/Dad, that's it -- no more meat, dairy, or eggs for me!"?

It's time for all those who live compassionate lives to show our fellow humans the same compassion we vegans show to cows, pigs, chickens, fish, puppies and kittens. Compassion opens the door for understanding.