Imagine this, you are outside on a nice, hot summer day and you start to smell the scent of someone cooking some type of meat. Does it smell good to you? Not to me it doesn’t. I’ve been a vegetarian for about four years now and my life has changed all for the better. It was the beginning of the year in sixth grade when I made the life changing decision. I remember watching a show that presented the ways meat was produced and prepared for us humans to eat. I could not believe my eyes! All the poor chickens getting beheaded and ready for their feathers to be plucked out. Every pig shot in the head with a steel bar. The cows being slaughtered. None of this was worth it to me. Why should these animals need to suffer like that just so I
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My parents did not understand and thought I was too young to make a big decision like that. My mom kept trying to feed me chicken and when I would deny it, she would then try to sneak and hide it in my other food. I always caught her though. My aunt tried to explain to my mom that I was just going through a phrase and that I would grow out of it really soon. ( Hate to break it to you Aunt Krissy, but look who was totally wrong! ) Every once in awhile I would get a craving for some that my dad made, especially his turkey, but I always overcame those pesky …show more content…
That is, in my terms at least, when I get food that has meat products in it, next to it, or on top of it. Most people would just say to pick the meat out of it. To me that does absolutely nothing! The animal’s meat juices are already mixed in with my food! Telling a vegetarian to just pick the meat out is like telling a kid with a peanut allergy to just take the peanuts out of the food, eat the rest, and they’ll be fine. It is not practical and it is not right. Through my course of being a vegetarian, I often get asked by a lot of people if I am going to allow my children to eat meat. With all do respect, I can not rightfully say I will or I won’t. If the ways of obtaining the animal meat are changed to less harmful and more humane ways then maybe I will allow them to eat it. If the ways are not changed then I really do not know. At the end of the day, it is their decision just like it was my choice to become
My parents did not understand and thought I was too young to make a big decision like that. My mom kept trying to feed me chicken and when I would deny it, she would then try to sneak and hide it in my other food. I always caught her though. My aunt tried to explain to my mom that I was just going through a phrase and that I would grow out of it really soon. ( Hate to break it to you Aunt Krissy, but look who was totally wrong! ) Every once in awhile I would get a craving for some that my dad made, especially his turkey, but I always overcame those pesky …show more content…
That is, in my terms at least, when I get food that has meat products in it, next to it, or on top of it. Most people would just say to pick the meat out of it. To me that does absolutely nothing! The animal’s meat juices are already mixed in with my food! Telling a vegetarian to just pick the meat out is like telling a kid with a peanut allergy to just take the peanuts out of the food, eat the rest, and they’ll be fine. It is not practical and it is not right. Through my course of being a vegetarian, I often get asked by a lot of people if I am going to allow my children to eat meat. With all do respect, I can not rightfully say I will or I won’t. If the ways of obtaining the animal meat are changed to less harmful and more humane ways then maybe I will allow them to eat it. If the ways are not changed then I really do not know. At the end of the day, it is their decision just like it was my choice to become