Hi, my name's marguerite. I've been veg since birth cus my parents, im sorry your family isn't very supportive, that sucks. Umm, maybe giving them info on how bad meat and stuff is would help? this site has a lot of good stuff like that and there is a great book i know, Eat to Live, by joel fuhrman that explains a lot of health stuff. Maybe learning about that will help because being veg is quite good for your health, even if they don't understand the ethical issues. Also, there is a sweet site, happy cow.net that lists vegan/vegetarian restaurants in your area. That might help, you could meet some more veg ppl. Anyways, hope that helps. I always get crap about being vegan from ppl, i ust think of it as cultural intolerance and have learned to respond in somewhat the same manner. For example, if some guy says "i could not LIVE without meat" i say " omg, i would die if i ate meat, it's disgusting", then they understand how incredibly rude they are being. PS get the book from the library, it's free bye!
