My Love Of Food, Eating And Animals

I hope to gain work experience, to grow in my love for the outdoors and my passion for protecting the environment, and to meet new people who share my passions. I look forward to seeing Yellowstone for the first time and gaining skills that will prepare me for my future occupation in Conservation. Likewise, I seek to earn the tools needed to be successful with my career goals. With this preparation, I will continue fueling my passion for Conservation by involving myself with various programs that further my education and drive me to further my work in the field. By testing out a career in Conservation, I will have a clearer idea of whether or not I wish to pursue a similar occupation.

The deeper I dig into animal abuse , the more I want to become a vegetarian. But it is not easy as it seems. The things that I have seen and read makes me sick to my stomach. To watch a hopeless cow, get whipped , is sickening. Watching baby Chicklets die in a big machine , brings tears to my eyes. Millions of animals every day die cruel deaths , and I no longer want to be an accomplice to the crimes. While it may be hard to retrain myself , I should and intend to just stop eating meat.

At the beginning of 2017 I made a new year’s resolution that changed my life and how I view the world. I decided that I would only eat a plant based diet. I heard about veganism through Facebook and PETA, all the cruel videos and research I was seeing made me look further into the issue. My curiosity stems from my love and passion for animals, which I have had since I was a little girl. I began my vegan journey for the ethics, but after watching documentaries like Forks over Knives and Cowspiracy I wanted to help with the economical aspect to, and the health benefits are definitely a plus. Since I went cold turkey (how ironic, huh?) and decided to go vegan I’ve gained appreciation for animals that are viewed as food and I have educated myself on the terrible things about the food industry.

About a year ago, I made the choice to transition into a vegan lifestyle, initially based on ethics. Since then, I’ve learned about the heavy burden the meat and dairy industry has on the environment, which not only affects me but everyone around the world. But before that transition, I intuitively had a predisposed idea that animals were being killed for the people’s taste buds, yet

I researched the topic heavily after the frog incident. Doing this, I discovered the horrific conditions that innocent animals must endure in the meat and dairy industries. This instantly outraged me. One of the first documentaries I observed was called Farm to Fridge: 12 Minutes to Change Your Life. In this documentary, I learned of the horrors that the most popularly abused animals must undergo. For example, no human in their right mind could resist a baby animal. However, I learned that millions upon billions of male chicks are deemed “disposable” and released into a grinder while they are still alive. Others are placed in plastic bags and suffocated. While still horrific, this is only one of the millions of wrongdoings animals face. I was in disbelief. As someone who has always tried to believe that humans are generally good, I couldn’t fathom that so many of us supported murder, rape, and torture. So I researched some more. I read that consuming animal product has proven to be detrimental to our health. When cooking meat, chemicals called HCAs (heterocyclic amines) and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) form. Each of these have been shown to cause cancer. Once I stopped eating meat, I began to feel so much healthier. Looking toward my own pets, I just cannot see a difference between my dog and a pig. Pigs are just as playful as a puppy and they adore belly rubs. Each animal feels fear and only

All my life I have called myself an animal lover, but I used to eat them. My decision for me to go vegan was for the animals. I didn’t wake up one day and decided that I wasn’t going to eat

As a young child, I became a vegetarian due to one single, overwhelming reason: animals and I are the same. We breathe the same air, we walk among the same ground, we have complex and very real feelings and we have families. I realized this whilst spending an afternoon in my favorite creek-spot in my hometown. I watched frogs, jump from rock to rock, crawfish scatter around the creek

My step sister and I were down In the basement , looking to find something on netflix. We couldn’t find anything good so I asked her “ Want to watch some documentaries about the animal Industry? ”She replied saying “ No?” sounding very shocked that I had asked her that. So I said “ Why not ? “ She replied saying “ Because that’ll make me not want to eat meat and I can’t watch that. I love meat too much especially cows “ I turned my head towards the t.v and laughed. Laughing at the fact If they couldn’t bear to watch an animal get slaughtered then why eat them? Little did she know eating meat doesn’t only just hurt animals , but our planet too. This Is my story on how my life changed forever.

But, I have been taught to care about animals because they have feelings and emotions just like us. So I don’t mind the challenges that come with being vegan. We do not have the right to raise one animal on a higher pedestal than another based solely on the way we were conditioned. A dog is no different from a pig or a cow in terms of their emotions and behavior. Being a vegan also says that I am steadfast in my beliefs and that I have an empathetic soul. I am able to discern right from wrong and follow my heart in regards to veganism, as well as other aspects of my life. I care so deeply about other living beings and share a special bond with anyone going through formidable times because I always want to help those in need. Although the way I eat is somewhat unconventional, it has aided me in expanding my beliefs and views by becoming more receptive to the

I am beginning to fear that I have lost my grasp on what I am consuming or I should say whom I have been eating. I grew up on a farm that represents the 1% that is not the factory farms. Both of my parents grew up on farms, my Father’s side operated a dairy, hogs, and poultry before I was born and my mother came from a beef and hog operation. The dairy was let go a few years before I was born and my Father and Uncle raised beef, hogs, chickens, and turkeys. The first career that I ever wanted was to be a Veterinarian. I grew up surrounded by animals which I deeply cared for. While reading the first excerpt from Foer, I found myself emotionally distressed as I thought about my beliefs and life surrounding animals

A good percentage of people are conscious of the actions done to animals that lead people to change their life style. For example, a seventeen-year old high school girl gave her insight on how she came to be a vegetarian after reading an article about food system-genetic modification as an assignment. In the article, she explains how the U.S. food system harms animals and people. The government subsidizes corn to feed the cows instead of grass because corn is cheap and makes cows grow faster. This in turn harms the cows because of their digestive system; their livers cannot process corn. This causes the cows to get ill often due to bacterial infections combined with them wading in their own feces while living in their closed quarters. Therefore,

For as long as I can remember, I loved to read. There was never a distinct moment that clicked. Never did I see reading as a requirement; more so a desire. My desire to read paved the way for my need to tell my own stories. Aside from the stories I read, the ones I created brought a sense of satisfaction that I could never find elsewhere. My love for reading and writing is like the need for one to consume food and liquids to keep their body both nourished and hydrated. It’s a necessity! When I read or wrote, I craved peace and the need to escape into the world of endless possibilities. A place I can venture with no responsibilities and no worries. As I got older, my need to open a book and read, or write a story came natural. I was free!

A lot of people are literate in Reading and Writing, however, I am literate in other things such as Guitar, Fencing, Bowling, Metal-Detecting, Reading, Writing, and tons of other things. But I really have a passion for Reading and Writing. When I start writing, I really get into it and I do not want to stop, but sometimes when I do not get into it, I just write a small amount amount and don't really have a passion for what I am writing. But when it is good I put a lot of feeling into it. The same goes for reading, I love to read a book if it fits into my interest, I usually like books with more action and surprising moments. It can be realistic fiction, it does not matter to me. There are always weaknesses to everyone's strengths.

My initial inspiration in becoming a vegetarian was simple: eating animals is not essential to living a healthy life and I would prefer to avoid engaging in a discordant relationship with nonhuman animals and the natural world. Theretofore, I had been an eager, indiscriminate consumer of nonhuman animals, often outfitted in leather footwear and annually swathed in my winter wool. Thenceforth, family anticipated and dreaded my finicky dietary demands and envisaged the emaciated shell of a once healthy son toiling over paltry tasks. Friends taunted me with kabobs and sushi. Others kept a close eye on my behavior lest I step on a bug or unwittingly ingest carnal victuals. While I was largely unperturbed by such petty adversity, I was

Throughout most of my life I have had one consistent goal; to become a veterinarian. I have had a continuous and solid passion for animals in all respects. This passion and love has fueled my in striving to achieve the dreams I have for myself after high school. The beginning of this story begins long before high school though.