If you’re thinking of going veggie and are keen to know why other young people made the same choice, read on… If you are already veggie and would like to add your views to this page please click here to contact us. We can’t guarantee to use everything that we are sent but will always reply to your messages!

“At home I have 2 guinea pigs, a cat and a hamster and they are like little kids to me. I just hate the thought of how stressful it is for the mother animals to have their babies taken away to be slaughtered and never seen again. I can't imagine eating my guinea pigs or any other animals.”
Rose Linihan (10)

“I have two guinea pigs and a dog and I love them to bits. I also share a horse with my sister which she rescued from a slaughter house. This is the reason I became a veggie! I couldn't imagine any of my animals on someone’s plate…”
Ruth (13)

“Because I realised that you don’t have to eat meat and then I saw how the animals were killed, I felt really sad and guilty that I used to eat them.”
Caitlin Golding (11)

“At first I was a veggie because my mum only gave me vegetarian foods, but now it is because I don’t want to eat any animals. People don’t need to eat meat as there are plenty of other foods we can enjoy. Vegetarian food is better for you, and I like being fit and healthy.”
Michael Cumming (11)

“Because I don’t like the fact that it is animals being killed for food! How would we like it if a chicken killed us for dinner?”
Eanna Bedser (11)

“Mum has been a veggie since she was my age. My dad has not eaten meat since being with my mum!”
Lucy Fellows (aged 12)

“My mum and dad were vegan long before I was born, I’ve always been vegan, all my life. It’s just normal.”
Aidan Jeavons (8)

“I was born a vegetarian.”
Elliott Humphreys (13)

“My mum is a vegetarian. I want to keep on being a vegetarian because I don’t want to eat animals. There are loads of other things we can eat instead.”
John Cumming (8)

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