From Veggie Girl 7/21/2009

 

Hi, my story started when I was a kid... I never really knew or understood what the meat was on my plate.  I knew corn grew, and carrots and other vegetables.  It's just that the meat never really came from any place I understood.  Anyway when I asked - no one ever gave me a straight answer either - I guess as a kid I became suspicious.  I never trusted meat afterwards.

 

When I became a teenager - we went to a farm for a class outting.  Some of the other kids knew about (and even saw) how chickens were killed.  They told me about it - I guess I was 13 or 14... and it just hit me that the animals were actually killed for the meat - I really don't know what I was thinking before that. I just was never really told about it.  No wonder.

 

From then on I refused to eat the meat - sometimes my mother would refuse to feed me anything unless I ate the meat.  I'd go to bed hungry instead.  After a while, she just let me eat what I wanted to.

 

So I was a vegetarian till 4 years ago or so, when a friend gave me a website to look at how they kill animals.  And it told about how chickens are kept and cows - to make milk and eggs.  I didn't want to make animals go through that either.  Besides, milk and cheese usually got me sick anyway.  So I became vegan, except for wearing the leather things I already had... being that I don't have a job yet, and can't afford to replace them.

 

And that's how my vegan story happened. Thanks