Kaye Axon
Thinking about changing your diet?
Kaye Axon tells her story about why and how she became vegetarian
and vegan...
I'd been vegetarian for some years when I decided to work as a veterinary nurse. Whilst I loved my job I found it disturbing to see both the conditions the animals were kept in and the amount of medication they were given routinely to prevent infections. I was concerned that the medication would pass through the animal, and in cows particularly into my milk, then the BSE crisis became public knowledge and trials of BST, a particularly nasty chemical to increase milk yield that has been banned elsewhere, started locally so I decided that for my own health I wouldn't have any more dairy produce. Eggs followed shortly after I realised that most chickens at that time were also given antibiotics routinely.
Whilst I must be one of the few vegans that went vegan for my welfare and not that of the animals I now realise that it is no longer acceptable and certainly not necessary for animals to be farmed in the way we do now and I actively support many animal welfare groups.
Author: Kaye Axon
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Story posted by on 2008-02-28 16:04:26.
Story last updated by on 2008-05-16 10:39:14.
