Tia Blanco

“When I was 11 or 12 I started to get the questions — ‘Why are you vegetarian? Meat is good for you!’ ” she says. “And all I could say was, ‘Shoot, I have no idea.’ Then when I was 15, I watched the documentary Glass Walls and read The China Study, and then it became quite clear to me why I wanted to be vegetarian and why I wanted to adopt a vegan lifestyle. After doing my research, I chose to go vegan and have been dedicated to a vegan diet for four years now.”