Why I want to become a vegetarian
Jayda has decided to become a vegetarian in 2012. I asked her to write up her reasons for doing so, so she could look back at her younger self sometime in the future.
- I think it is wrong to eat animals. I could not kill an animal for food unless I was starving.
- When you eat meat it takes more than ten times the feed for one pound of meat … and that’s food that we could be eating instead, or giving to people who don’t have enough so that fewer people would starve.
- Animals are’t very different than you and I and have done nothing wrong: so why should we eat them?
- Why should we eat animals when they are things we could replace meat with when we don’t have a reason for eating them other than they taste good (that’s not a good reason at all!).
- Any animal that eats meat doesn’t actually need it. Besides, most foods taste far better without meat!
