Comment of the Day: From a 10-Year-Old

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-01-14 15:27:00 UTC
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A rather smart and compassionate young woman left the following comment on the page for the idea regarding healthy vegan school lunch options (for which you need to vote ASAP if you haven't already--5 PM EST tomorrow is the deadline!):

I am ten years old and have never eaten a dead animal in my life.  My parents do not buy dead animals and I am so happy that they don't because I love all animals and I am sad to know that people eat animals that have been killed for meat.  When I see classmates eating animals, I feel so bad that these little kids don't understand the problem with eating a sweet cow, pig or chicken.  If they did understand that animal's short scary life, only to be killed, they for sure would never eat meat.  Meat is a confusing word that hides the fact that an animal was killed after a very scary and painful short life.  I feel very glad that my body has never known the taste of a murdered animal.  Thank you mom and dad and thank you to all people who care about my friends the animals.  You have the power to protect my friends and I hope that more people will realize that animals deserve protection just like a baby human deserves protection.  I wish that this world was not so violent.  Fruits and vegetables are the best foods on this planet and it seems weird that people would want to eat a bloody piece of meat at any part of their life.  Please protect our animal friends.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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