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An Interview With Guadalupe Sepulveda

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Life of a vegan: An Interview with Guadalupe Sepulveda. Many people tend to ask how vegans are. Those who have decided not to eat any type of animal products including eggs, milk and cheese. Why does this happen? How do they become when they decide to change their way to eat? How it is their routine, what do they eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Guadalupe Sepulveda, a vegan Mexican student at the University of Tampa, helped to answer these and other question. Being an international student as her helped me to decide that she was the perfect person to interview. We met at a friend’s house couple weeks ago, specifically on Wednesday 28th and couple days later, we had a pleasant and long conversation and she answered all of my questions. …show more content…

When I asked her, she started to say a lot of typical Mexican plates such as “quesadillas with mushrooms, potato or pumpkins” and “chilaquiles without cream and cheese”. She also said that she becomes really happy when she goes to her country because her family prepares for her all the dishes she wants and they learn how a vegan is. After all these questions, I started to wonder about the vitamins that the body needs that comes from animal products. Do vegan people feel weaker than people who eat meat? Guadalupe explained that you just have to know what to eat. That these things that people say about feeling weak are not true because she feels much better without animal products. The only vitamin she doesn’t receive correctly is the vitamin B12, which she takes via oral so there’s no problem with …show more content…

The majority of people that become vegan are because of these videos that shows how animals are threatened and because they are against cattle raising. Also, I learned that in other countries, being vegan is not common. For example, South American countries like Venezuela, that is the one where I am from, and Mexico that is the one that Guadalupe is from. In addition, with this interview I want to let know others how vegans are because I know that there’s a lot of people that doesn’t know what does this

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