Early Life
Young grew up in Los Gatos, California. At the age of nine, he moved to Mercer Island, Washington, near Seattle, where he graduated from Mercer Island High School. He became vegan in 1994. Young describes himself as becoming more active after being shocked by visit to a chicken slaughterhouse in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. He participated in a campus animal rights group at the University of Washington, but was not a student there. Young describes himself as being strongly influenced by mid-1990s vegan straight edge bands like Vegan Reich, Earth Crisis, and Raid: "The vegan straightedge scene is directly responsible for the course my life has taken."
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