Latino and vegan in Kern County

It's hard to find a vegan restaurant, or even a vegan choice on the menu, in Bakersfield.  Going vegan is even harder growing up in a household that fed on traditional Mexican food.  "Besides cultural pressures to eating meat and other animal-derived products, there’s almost a social animosity toward vegetarians and vegans... And for Latinos, the meals that you reluctantly forced down as a child are inseparable from meat and animal products."  Two  youth reporters tell us about their experience living as vegans in their hometowns of Kern County, on South Kern Sol.