Why I went veggie... part 3

"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)

"I've only been vegetarian for a few years but I'm very serious about it. A friend of mine did a book report on the content of Bologna processed meat and it made me look at the slaughter of animals in a new light. I had always turned my head when I heard vegetarians speak, but after that it made me think how right they are. People might have needed meat for protein in the past, that's plausible, but now, with all the different foods and meat substitutes available, why should animals have to suffer at our greedy hands? Are they not just as entitled to life on this planet as we are? Eating other living creatures just isn't natural."- Laura

"I went vegetarian because at the age of two my mum and and dad decided that it was the right choice to make. I think maybe if they hadn't made the decision for me to become a vegetarian I would have become one anyway. I hate the thought of animals suffering. It is very, very cruel and how would we like it if an animal came and ate us. If you care about animals why eat them?" - Sophie (15)

"Growing up I never liked fish or seafood. Eventually I stopped eating red meat and then later I stopped eating poultry. I watched an episode of "The Ellen Show" where she had the author Jonathan Safran Foer as a guest. He wrote a book called "Eating Animals". I went out, bought it right away and after learning how the United States slaughters their animals I decide to commit to a vegetarian diet." - Danielle (19)

“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)

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