Why I'm A Vegan

By Hanna vB

(WARNING: PG if you're very sensitive)

I'm vegan because I love animals.

Vegan means that I don't eat any dairy products. No meat, no cheese, no butter, no milk, and no eggs. To me, eating cheese, butter, or milk is like taking the baby cow's food. First of all, most people force their cows to mate. Then, when the baby is born, they take it away from it's mother. And, most likely, they kill the baby cow and make it into some kind of meat.

Then they milk the mother (most likely with a machine) and they make the cheese, butter and milk. I don't know the full story on chickens and their eggs, so I won't say much.

And now, the pigs. I, personally, think that pigs are adorable. I don't know why anybody would eat them. They're kept in very small cages, with all their feces. They sometimes attack each other. Almost always these animals are fed hormones.

There are other things you can eat. Beans, grains, and fake meat . There are also fake cheeses and butters.

If you put one in a cage, then why not the other?

Why would you put a rodent in a small cage if you wouldn't put a human in a small cage? Is there really a difference? Is this really fair? Treat any animal the way you treat yourself, or a different human. Be compassionate to rodents and other animals, please. They need space to move around and do other things, just like us. We are animals too.
Thank you.



By Hanna, age 11