Sam I Am

[Sam Hillyer]

I do not eat green eggs and ham.

 

Or any eggs and ham for that matter. I've been a vegetarian for the majority of my teenage years and am now 20. I have just finished reading Animal Liberation by Peter Singer and have decided how can I get upset about the dolphins in Taiji, the black bears kept for their bile in Vietnam and China or even the minks farmed in Denmark and other nations for their fur if I continue to support the suffering of just as equal animals in my own country for their milk and eggs. I toyed with the idea of becoming vegan many a times, but my heart was never really in it and cheese was the one thing I could never avoid.

 

But I woke up, I was being speciest, choosing to ignore that mothers and babies are separated just so I could please my palette. I needn't say this because I am sure you will, but I hope you will all be supportive in helping me maintain a vegan diet and lifestyle.

 

A couple of other things you should know about me are I go to university, in the UK, Bournemouth to be exact and am studying a degree in Animal Welfare and Behaviour. I've come to understand that animal welfare isn't a term some animal rights folk are happy with because of the belief it's aiming and accepting below what should be aimed for, animal liberation. Although I agree, I believe it achieves more good than harm, and is a step at least. 
I've worked on a couple of farms, a dairy farm a few summers ago, and this year during the summer I was at a veal farm (and before people chuck me out, it wasn't the traditional European veal, but English rose veal, no crates, no milk only diet, and the calves live for quite a long time, they are the males the dairy farms don't want), as well as attending to agriculture colleges with farmed animals. I always enjoyed having the contact with the animals, it's my favourite thing in the world, and for a long time I have thought that I wanted to be a farmer. But now I don't know what I want to do, raising animals for their meat as if it were my right to do so just doesn't sit with me, I wouldn't do it with my dogs, they're my sisters and children, and that is how I view all animals now. This is something I may start another topic on, because people ask me what I want to do when I tell them what course I am on, and I never know what to tell them.

 

I've spoken to a couple of you already, and you've made me feel very welcome, you are lovely people I can tell, and already your posts have inspired and educated me.

 

Thank you,

from Sam :) x

[blackpanther]

YOU just click on "reply" under the answer you want to comment.......if I understood your question well........

[Lisa Qualls]

In another thread I saw someone say that the "reply" button was not there on a particular part of the conversation, so I guess sometimes it is glitchy.  Do you see the blue "reply" button below the post you want to comment on, emma?

[emma dilemma]

Yeah i used that blue button but the comment still came up right at the bottom? Think i should just refrain from trying to post anything after a nightshift ha i`ve probably done something stoopid :)

[Lisa Qualls]

I don't think it is you. :)  I think it is the software.