I don't know any other real vegetarians at my school. Forget about vegan. One said that she was a vegetarian.... but sometimes had free-range chicken. The other claims to be a vegetarian but I've seen her eat burgers from the cafeteria (which are in no way vegetarian)
Some of my overweight friends asked how I lost so much weight, and although I lost almost half of my total weight loss while still eating meat I tell them that being a vegetarian and getting rid of one big problem food (meat) was helpful. They just go wow.. that's hard... I could NEVER do that.
I also offer my food that I make to my friends, but they want nothing to do with it. I tell them I'll make a really small amount and if they don't like it after a tiny bite, they can go spit it out. They won't even do that. (So now I have to get rid of my 7ish boxes of Morningstar stuff, a lot unopened, because nobody wants to even try). I would eat them, but they're not vegan and I bought them while I was a vegetarian.
My friend got mad at me when I asked to look at the gum ingredients before taking a piece. Good thing I did though because it had some animal ingredient in it.
My best friend is probably the only supportive person of me (although she also doesn't want to try anything of mine either) but she understands and always feels bad when we go out to eat and there's only 1 vegan option if I'm lucky. I forced her to try my soy ice cream though and she liked it. (-:
I ate fast food probably 4 times a week at least in junior high. I became extremely overweight, I was constantly depressed, always tired, I hated life. Gradually I made changes and in 11th grade I finally had a huge wake up call. After reading someone's weight loss blog I was like "pffffttt if they can do it, so can I"
Unfortunately most teens, like others said, don't realize what they're doing. A big part is the parent's fault, I believe. When I see such overweight children that have trouble walking, I know they're not picking up their pay check from Sears and driving to McDonalds themselves.
I have heard the "God put animals on Earth so we can eat them" arguement more times than I can count. This coming from people who can't even name 5 of the 10 commandments.
I can't wait until reunion time when many people's eating habits will have caught up with them.
I've made arguements against the dissection we had to do in bio, but people found me annoying, picky, and weird. I did the online one and guess who did best on the test? (; Now I just keep quiet. This is my last year in high school, I'm not going to try anymore. I can't wait until college when I can meet other real veg*ns.