Stephanie McGuire aka Chefanie, Vegan Chef, Sweet Farm Sanctuary. Half Moon Bay, CA.

I look at this world through eyes that cannot help but see truth. It’s a deep unwavering, and often overwhelming thought, that we as a species find ourselves somehow at the “top” of some sort of “food chain” that has been built out for us by a society that has done much damage to this precious planet. That we somehow find unacceptable excuses to act with behaviors that do nothing less than harm and somehow as a whole these actions are readily accepted as “normal” by the greater population. The truth is, is that we are only as great as our weakest link. And when the weakest link is pushing agenda’s that ooze with deception, unspeakable torture, rape, and kidnapping, of our most precious assets (our children and our animal kingdom) then we sadly have been and are failing to evolve as the greatest species that has ever graced this planet's surface. I find it my human duty, as a woman and as a mother, to position myself within the unbearable truth, that there is much work to be done to raise our level of awareness and to reach the minds of those who cannot yet see. I find myself leading the blind through their palates as a vegan chef. As we are so often lead through our senses. If I can show you a better way through my love of food than that is my life work. I do this work for them, for you, and for the greater good. Mother Earth deserves no less than the most ultimate of love. Love, being the ONLY answer to our world's problems.