A. Experiential (change diet, change shopping, change how you prepare food, how you eat). Note, if you select a change in how you do food that includes your family or would be weird to your family, please get parental/guardian consent and support!


After reading the book and watching the movie Food Inc. I honestly felt like eating meat would be a challenge for me. The animals are treated horribly, I can't stand eating meat knowing how its processed. I would like to become a vegetarian, but slowly. I'm at the beginning of my project of becoming a vegetarian so I started out slow. I stopped eating beef first, since the condition cows go through is the saddest to me. Not eating beef will be strange, my family eats I guess what most people would call traditional American food. I can't imagine the forth of July without eating a hamburger or a hot dog. But even if I wanted to eat beef again I think I would only be able to in moderation. I tried eating beef last night as a test to see if I could even eat it the same. It took me a while to even start eating, I was hesitating. I finally took a bite and was very surprised. Beef had tasted different. All I could think of was the poor cows being covered in their own feces, and how each pack of ground meet is made of hundreds of other cows not just one. The beef tasted like a bunch of different flavors, a bunch of bad ones. I felt bad eating the food and afterwords I had felt sick. I would give up beef but something that's holding me back is that its seen in my family as weird. My dad thinks vegetarianism is weird but i think for the same reason most people do, its just normal now to eat whatever is convenient. I've decided that beef is not only cruel but it also makes me sick. Beef is something I probably shouldn't come back to.


Next experiment would be to give up chicken. This unfortunately is probably going to be a temporary challenge. I know cows and chickens are both treated cruelly but I enjoy chicken more then I do cow.


This experiment of vegetarianism is a small step in my plan on eating healthy. My family is trying to each healthy too, without dropping meet. Hopefully my sister Sahara can help me eat healthy. As a vegetarian and a former vegan, she had to research which foods she could eat and knows what ingredients are unhealthy so she can help me pick out healthy foods to eat.  She can also help me stay on track, it will be a lot easier to stop eating unhealthy is someone else is doing it with me.