Tako/FlickrIt can't be easy to turn away from meat these days, when even marshmallows -- marshmallows! -- are excuses for consuming bacon. But convert the reasons behind your love of tempeh and millet pilaf into gripping prose, and you just might win swag nice enough to distract you from that very unfashionable aversion to chicharrones.
The Marin Vegetarian Educational Group is sponsoring a writing competition this summer: Why I Am a Vegetarian (or Vegan, if that's how you roll). Your essay's g