Introducing myself as vegan already

I went through many changes through life. After giving up other things before, I gave up getting meat, that was about sixteen and a half years ago. After being online for awhile, I found communication with other vegetarians in an email communication group, through it I found bases for being vegan communicated with the real issues there were with animals used for any products, to animals and to environments with more resources used. I knew I should be vegan. I have now been effectively vegan ten years.