Vegan woman strives to balance food ethics and cultural values
Out in the Open | Posted: May 17, 2019 6:01 PM | Last Updated: May 17, 2019
Rawan Hassan grew up eating a traditional Palestinian diet, which involved a lot of meat
Growing up in Vancouver, Rawan Hassan and her family often ate a traditional Palestinian diet, which involved lot of meat. But as a teenager, she decided to become a vegetarian and eventually a vegan... which her family didn't initially understand. She talks about reconciling her moral values around food with her cultural values, which celebrate eating meat.
This story appears in the Out in the Open episode, "Feeling Full".