Famous Vegans - Anu Garg

Anu Garg

Born April 5, 1967. He is an Indian-American author, speaker and engineer. He was born in rural India speaking only Hindi and learned English as a second language. He currently lives in Seattle. He is best known as the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community of more than one million readers from all over the world, who share a love for words, wordplay, language and literature. He founded Wordsmith in 1994, while he was a graduate student in computer science. He is the author of the books a word a day, another word a day and the Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two. You can find his website at this link.

Organizations he supports include the American Civil Liberties Union, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Natural Resources Defense Council, Amnesty International, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Vegan Outreach, The Nature Institute, Greenpeace, The Humane Society of the United States and the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Quotes by Anu Garg:

In 2011, I asked him whether he is vegan and why. He answered:

"Yes, I am vegan. I was raised as a vegetarian. Then about 16 years ago I came across some literature from Vegan Outreach and it made sense to me and made me aware of cruelty behind dairy, and I decided to go vegan."

He was raised vegetarian, but stopped eating all animal products in 1995. About this decision he said:

"What really struck me was that animals are also sentient beings ..., I realized that they are made for their own purposes -- whether you believe in God or nature -- not for us to consume."

The day before Barack Obama became president, Anu Garg said:

"We’ve come a long way in this country. But we still have far to go before we can call ourselves truly unbiased. Real progress will be when any capable person can have a fair chance at winning the highest office, even someone who happens to be, say, a black gay vegan atheist woman."

Quotes are from his 2008 interview with Seattle Pi and a 2009 entry from his A.Word.A.Day.