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Recently I went out and had dinner with a good friend of mine who changed her eating habits once she became a Penn-State student and now she is a devoted vegetarian. As an unapologetic meat eater eating beside a vegetarian it was a tad bit uncomfortable, so to start up a conversation, I asked her, “Why did you become a vegetarian?” and like most vegetarians that I know that go to Penn state, she says that it was because she how animals were processed in an animal science class. A follow up question that I asked her was, “Do you still like the taste of meat?” and amazingly she replied, “yes”. Coming from Jamaica, my childhood was a bit unique and different from other children, I killed chickens, goats, and pigs when I was young and thought little of it. To hear that someone would be vegetarian because they saw a chicken’s head being cut of inhumanely, just reminds me of how I was the person cutting off the heads of those delicious chickens. It is not just her who changed her eating habits once she got to Penn State, many college freshman change their eating habits because of the same reason.
There are “vegetarians” out there who do not eat meat for reasons I completely understand and approve of. For example, Muslims and practicing Jews do not eat pork because of biblical reasons. Another reason a person may not eat meat is because of food allergies; where eating meat makes you sick and break you out in hives. These are reason I respect and approve of even though I love meat. However, when the reason you do not eat meat is because you are scared of the way the animal died, I find that to be a problem and is a reason for me not to be sympathetic. Eating meat is healthy, we have been eating meat for thousands of years, our digestive...

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...ng it for thousands of years, so why stop now? Just because you have arrived to Penn State does not mean that you must be converted into an herbivore because an animal science class brought you to a slaughtering house and scared you.

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