When I was of age ten, I remember logging on to the internet and checking out http://www.peta.com/ every week. I wanted so badly to be LIKE those Peta activist. Other kids joined 4-H, cheerleading squads, soccer, baseball you name it. Yet, I yearned to join animal rights meetings to discuss resolving certain issues or a join protest. Unfortunately, that did not work out! Because, what parent would want there eleven/ten year old daughter to attend a protest? L At the time, I would always tell my mom, I’m going vegetarian and I don’t think she thought I would stay consistent, because she would always buy meats for me. But one day I said, “NO more MEAT I’m going vegetarian” and if my parents brought home meat, I ate everything but that. When my mom went to the grocery store I tagged along and would go grab Boca burgers from the case. I think after a month of this they got the picture. Hell, my mom even went vegetarian.
However, after a couple years of vegetarianism, I happened to become anorexic since I believed I was fat. My doctors, of course blamed the weight loss on my vegetarian ways, even though the other years I had been a normal weight and had gained height. I lost weight, because I simply did not eat all day. So, in order to not be pumped full off drugs and hospitalized, I went back to meat eating to satisfy them, and convince them I don’t want to be anorexic!
Now, I’m no longer a Jr. High aged anorexic and am now a healthy seventeen year old that finally decided to adopt my old ways of eating back, as well as start to do those other activism things I always dreamed of doing.
Cows are cool
When they are calves they are burned with hot irons (Branding). Also, there horns are cut off without painkillers. Slaughter cows are transported from one state to another and many die on the way to their next location. For more info on cattle factory farming go tohttp://goveg.com/factoryFarming_cows.asp
Pigs Rule
These animals are supposed to be smarter then a three year old child. But, are confined to small pens there entire life.
http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_pigs.asp
And chickens & turkeys are adorable
And are probably one of the most abused animals. There beaks are cut off and they are cramed into tiny cages that they can barly move around in.
For info on chickens & turkets being raised on factory farms
http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp
http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_turkeys.asp
