Calvert Voices
  • Home
  • 2015-2016
  • Join Calvert Voices
  • Meet the Staff
  • Meet the Teacher Advisor
  • 2014-2015
  • Resources
    • Word of the Week

Why I Chose to be A Vegetarian - Issue 2

12/10/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
By Dilara Kamrava
I would say that being a vegetarian has definitely impacted my life in a positive way. I have been one for about 4 years now. For me, giving up meat was easy, because I did not really eat a lot of it anyway. Once I did, I realized that I was doing a good thing for my body.

Being a vegetarian has not been easy at times, such as when our family goes to a seafood or steakhouse restaurant. It is definitely harder to find options on the menu suitable for my vegetarianism. While I liked the taste of meat, there are substitutes grown from soy that taste very similar. I don't eat any fish, either. A person who does not eat red meat but instead eats fish is called a pescatarian, like my sister. As for protein, the soy in many meat-free dishes has a decent amount as well. Even though I am a vegetarian, I happen to love dairy. Cheese has been a favorite food of mine for a while.

It was probably my mother that helped me to become a vegetarian. She had always been one for healthy foods and green smoothies and all that, and she had also become vegan not that long ago. I was looking through her cookbooks one day, and I read an article on just how many animals were slaughtered for food. I decided to do my part for the planet and go vegetarian.

​For the most part, my peers don't mind me being vegetarian. Nowadays, it is becoming more and more common. I even have a few friends who share this trait. Maybe one day, you too will become vegetarian.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Calvert Voices

    A publication created by Calvert High School students for the Calvert School community.

    Archives

    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015

    Categories

    All
    Announcements
    Bird Spotlight
    Birthdays
    Contest
    Creative Writing
    Cultures-and-family
    Fashion
    Fun Facts
    International Students
    Issue 1
    Issue-2
    Issue-3
    Issue-4
    Issue-5
    Issue6
    Issue-6
    Issue 7
    Lifestyles
    Music
    Opinion
    Reviews
    School-news
    Sports
    Staff-interviews
    Student-art
    Student-spotlight
    Teacher-spotlight
    Weather-around-the-world

    RSS Feed

Calvert Voices, copyright 2014 -2016.
  • Home
  • 2015-2016
  • Join Calvert Voices
  • Meet the Staff
  • Meet the Teacher Advisor
  • 2014-2015
  • Resources
    • Word of the Week