The vegan with the bacon tattoo: confessions of a temporary vegan

• Chef Matt Rock
• No, this isn’t Payton’s tattoo, but it’s from the same source material.

Note: Recently, Pitch employee Payton Hatfield — an unabashed meat lover with a bacon tattoo — completed a culinary experiment: He became a vegan. For a month. This is his story, in his own words.

My routine had been simple: Stay out late drinking whiskey and water, smoke too many cigarettes, eat deep-fried meats daily. When I decided that maybe I could live a little healthier, someone recommended that I watch the documentary Forks Over Knives. So I put it on one night, a plate of fried eggs and bacon in front of me. In one hand, I held a beer. I figured the movie would offer me a few tips I could take or leave.

What it did was fuck up my life.