Eat Plants/Drink Beer

Back in 2002, before we were even a twinkle in the other’s eye, we each migrated west to California – Craig from Minnesota to Santa Cruz, and Lorelei from Massachusetts to Los Angeles. He completed his doctorate in molecular biology, put out a few albums of noise experiments, and began working as a research scientist. She became a television and content producer and spent years as a touring indie musician and recording artist in the band Film School.

Eventually, we both found ourselves 30-something divorcees living in sunny San Diego – where we finally met in 2013 via Tinder. Yes, Tinder. This 6’6” bearded beer-brewing guitar-playing scientist met this 5’7” bass-playing content-producing vegan for a craft beer and French fries, she looked in disdain upon the accompanying aioli, he fetched her ketchup, and the rest is history.

So… was he or wasn’t he? Nope. Craig was a localvore, pig-roast hosting “humane” meat foodie type when we met. Did she convert him? The answer is, yes. She read him passages from the vegan Bible and forced him to watch videos of routine animal torture daily. Just kidding. She simply shared the information she had learned over time, and after a few months he decided to join her in discontinuing to pay people to unnecessarily harm animals. Today, he whips up gourmet food and fermented beverage concoctions to the delight of all who taste them using stuff that grows out of the ground/on trees, along with a bit of mad science, sparing lots of natural resources along with animals’ lives in the process.  Easy peasy. Heck, even his Minnesotan family can dig deep fried cauliflower.

In 2015, we got engaged and bought a midcentury ranch in Massachusetts’ scenic Blackstone Valley, where we have made the leap to country living, tied the knot in 2016, had a baby in 2018 and hope to eventually open a vegan gastropub where people can – you guessed it – Eat Plants / Drink Beer!

Check out Lorelei’s other projects:

• Truth or Drought

• Brain on Hugs

Lorelei’s published pieces on veganism include:

• Daily Kos: Do liberals really want to take away everyone’s meat?

• Sentient Media:

  • Is Speciesism Driving the Coronavirus Pandemic?

  • Does Soy Consumption Harm the Planet? Depends Who’s Eating It

• Eat Plants/Drink Beer:

  • Our Vegan Diet Almost Killed Us – No, Really (satire that went VIRAL!)

  Elephant Journal:

  • Dear Non-Vegan: There's Something You Won't Let Me Say

  • A Letter to Myself Before I Went Vegan

• Free From Harm:

  • They Are All Cecil

  • A Hurricane of Distortions Surrounding Animals and Veganism

• San Diego 350: Plant-Based Diet For a Healthy Planet

• Vegan Publishers: U.S. Drought or: How We Learned to Stop Eating Meat & Live Vegan

Lorelei’s videos include:

• Senior Citizens React to Vegan Food - on Facebook and Youtube

• Dairy Industry Tries to Prevent Accurate Labeling of Plant-Based Milk

• Firefighters Eat Rescued Pigs

• Our Vegan Wedding and Honeymoon

Lorelei is a 2016 Pollination Project winner of the Lisa Shapiro Award for Unsung Vegan Heroes.