I am a vegan, so I don't eat meat or any animal products. 
thats interesting, im a pescatarian
That's interesting. I'm a vegan due to my religious beliefs as a Christian.
how do your beliefs contribute to you being a vegan?
Well I think the unethical treatment of animals and a vegan philosophy parallels with many christian beliefs.
i recently found out Approximately 5% of the US is vegetarian (close to 16 million people), and about half of those are vegan, about 7.5 million Americans abstain from all animal products.
Animal rights
Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own existence and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.
Its advocates oppose the assignment of moral value and fundamental protections on the basis of species membership alone—an idea known since 1970 as speciesism, when the term was coined by Richard D. Ryder—arguing that it is a prejudice
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Activism.
Moskowitz is a vocal opponent of "humane meat", promoting animal rights through what she calls "Culinary Activism" or "Baketivism":
I think that activism isn't what you decide to do but how it affects people. So if someone says, I'm going to become an activist! I'm going to stand on a street corner and preach about veganism! And then they go ahead and do that but no one listens and no one becomes vegan, then is that