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Vegetarian Journal, Jan-Feb, 2004 by Keith Doehover

MY NAME IS KEITH. I live in Pennsylvania. I am 6 years old and I am homeschooled. When I was a baby, my parents and I ate meat. My daddy stopped eating meat because my daddy, my mommy and I went to a place where animals got butchered and daddy saw cows in a pen waiting to be killed. He saw the big cow eyes and he thought that it was sad to have cows killed. And so my daddy didn't eat meat, but my mommy and I kept eating meat. One day my mommy was watching a show about hunters killing bears and she didn't like to see the bears getting killed. So me and my mommy didn't eat meat anymore either. I was 2 years old when we stopped eating meat. We started to eat vegetarian food. We ate eggs, milk, and cheese still. As I grew older, I didn't like seeing animals killed either. When I was 4 years old we decided to stop eating dairy foods, milk, cheese, and eggs. We started to eat vegan foods. At first I missed eating pizza, marsh-mallows, and Lucky Charms cereal. But now that I am 6 my mom makes vegan pizza, marshmallows without gelatin, and I have a new Favorite cereal. My brother is 4 years old and he never ate meat. My sisters are 2 rears old and 10 months old and they never ate meat, dairy, milk, or eggs. I have lots of energy and I like to play and I don't get sick. Animals are our friends and were not made to be killed.

Keith Dachauer, 6 yrs

Twin Rocks, PA