Plant-Based Spotlight

with Luke and Emilie Tan

PBNet: How long have you been plant-based?

LUKE: Both of us started in early 2012, so a bit more than eight years.

PBNet: What prompted you to change your lifestyle?

EMILIE: For me, it was just because I had a really big digestion issue. Every meal, it was really hard for me to digest, and I was starting to not like eating in a sense. So I started to try and find a way to make me feel better. And that's when I found out about a plant-based diet. So I started researching a bit and then I gave it a try—and for me, the change was pretty much overnight.

Seeing Emilie’s change inspired me, but didn't really flip the switch for me. What really flipped the switch for me was watching a documentary on animal cruelty—. And after watching that, I decided that I did

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