18/05/2019
HOW I BECAME VEGAN
PART 1
January 2018
I was babysitting in a family, who had their own mini-farm with calves, bulls and pigs. Despite the fact that I love animals, I never went inside of the barn, because it was much easier for me to live with my eyes shut on the terrible lives of these animals, as well as the reason why they are kept there.😑 Of course I always understood where all this meat, that we eat, comes from, but tried not to think about it.�One day kids asked me to go to the barn with them. “Please nooo”, I thought, but couldn’t do anything, but go there, since their mom was still home. �Firstly, we went to the calves, that were standing side by side to each other, having no centimeter to move. In the corner was lying a hug bull, obviously exhausted from such a life.�Passing the calves, every single one was reaching for a stroke, watching you with their miserable but beautiful big eyes with loooong fluffy eyelashes. 🐂�Already then I knew I was doing something wrong in this life. 🤷♀️�.�After that, we went to a bigger barn with pigs. 🐷�Yes, they had more room to run in…but I doubt they were enjoying it there.
The first thing that jumps out at you there is – the smell!🤢 No, it does not smell like pigs. It would be heaven if it did. It was horribly stinking of chemicals.😥It was stinking so much, that after spending 5 minutes inside, I have spent couple of days removing this smell from my jacket. Apart from that, the pigs were behaving very aggressively, abnormally aggressively. In this same barn, in a designated area, there were sick pigs lying, whose fate you don’t want even to think about. They are either going to die suffering, or they are going to be slaughtered and fed to people.
Yes, I am talking about these sick animals.�We didn’t stay long there, because I couldn’t watch it any longer.�And the worst part of this whole story for me is, that those little kids think, that torturing and killing animals is a part of a normal life. IT IS FAR AWAY FROM BEING NORMAL. 😪
If you want to know how my story of becoming vegan developed further, please don’t forget to ♥️ this post and leave a comment 😘
