Welcome one and all to the Vegan/Vegetarian connect. This is an open minded forum from anything ranging from vegetarian recipes, a vegan lifestyle, and broad animal rights issues. This group is dedicated to a late friend of mine Jen. She was the most compassionate and motivated vegan/rawist and environmentalist I have ever known. She forever changed my life in the period of time I had had the privledge of knowing her for and for this words do little justice. I had been tempted to scrap this group[what it has become], but I know in my heart its not what she would have wanted. To give up a fight for animal rights on any level is unacceptable. I ask all people considering joining to please give patience as I have hundreds of request pages to sort through and a group of this size and magnitude is quite hard to keep civilized all the time. I ask only that you keep an open mind and not let someones' negative and immature comments dictate how you live your life. Live and let live.