Randal Ball – Founder of “Paradise Found” local organic produce distribution service, USA, Vegan (M): My family historically have been pig farmers right here in Ohio. My father died when I was two years old and he died of a heart attack. We were pig farmers, and every single one of his siblings also died of a heart attack. It made me really wonder you know about that connection.

When I look at the factory farms, they can only be described as an abomination to me, both health-wise and from an environmental standpoint. It's a virtual breeding ground for all diseases. Swine flu, bird flu, all these really aren't inherent in pigs. The pig is actually one of the cleanest animals on the planet, if given a choice.

Personally, I've been vegan for coming on two years. I've gained something that's really hard to describe in our English vocabulary, but it's a greater connection with life, and just a feeling of being more alive and a warmer environment. This idea that, with our meals, we cause this suffering and create this destruction, it's just like a ceremony that we carry into every aspect of our life. Are we going to celebrate life or are we going to celebrate death and destruction? That's really the choice.