– A 15 year old girl watches through her schools computer screen and begins to feel tears welling up in her dark brown eyes. Those tears begin to streak behind her black rectangular glasses and down her cheeks. She begins to cry.
The video she is watching displays hundreds of pigs packed together so tightly that they can barely move. It reveals to her one farms brutal methods of harvesting their product. A product most Americans refuse to go a day without; meat.
But for this young woman a line had been crossed and there was no going back.
Stephanie A. Hatcher, an Intermediate Photojournalism Course Instructor at the Defense Information School here became a vegetarian due to her compassion for animals.
The video she is watching displays hundreds of pigs packed together so tightly that they can barely move. It reveals to her one farms brutal methods of harvesting their product. A product most Americans refuse to go a day without; meat.
But for this young woman a line had been crossed and there was no going back.
Stephanie A. Hatcher, an Intermediate Photojournalism Course Instructor at the Defense Information School here became a vegetarian due to her compassion for animals.