YOU CAN Save The Animals! The Plant-Based Veterinarian Measures His Small Contribution.

Every little bit counts! FitOldDog is working to redress the balance – lots to do!

With some minor life-style changes, you can save the animals.

I used to wonder about what vegans eat! Now I know! Tasty food. No! Not salads all the time! There are hundreds of choices with a plant-based diet.

I’ve always been interested in nature, of which I am but a small speck on our lovely planet. I also found myself drawn to animals, especially cats, dogs and pigs. Pigs?

I especially liked pigs. As a teenager, I worked on a pig farm for several years. We raised animals for the pork market. I found myself talking to the pigs. They would come over to ‘chat,’ and I’d scratch a back or two. They loved it, OINK! OINK! OINK! Then the truck would arrive, and off they would go, to the slaughter house.

Little did I know, that a few years hence, I would have to work in such a facility as part of  my veterinary training. I even took home free scraps of meat to supplement my limited student income. I just assumed that this is what one did.

Who says vegan food is boring.

Another student in my class, Sandy, told me that he had a nightmare, during this stage of his training. He dreamed that the animals were slaughtering and bleeding out our class, one at a time. The pigs were stringing us up on meat hooks.

The tables were turned. I found this interesting. Sandy was disturbed.

I didn’t see the paradox – I loved eat to bacon for breakfast. Scratching the backs of happy young pigs, only to eat them later.

Throughout my life, I continued to kill animals unnecessarily.  Clothing from animal products, consuming meat products of all kinds, and HORROR OF HORRORS, I became a Toxicologic Pathologist, undertaking animal testing.

All the while I ‘knew’ I was doing the right thing. Don’t forget to question the obvious!

I was killing rats and mice, and even frogs, in an attempt to understand diseases, to prevent or cure them.

Make a vegetable garden and learn to share! Do you see him? Photo by FitOldDog.

I eventually found ways to avoid killing animals. I drifted into applied mathematics, where I could experiment away as much I liked on my computer. No longer “a murderer of little mice” (as my French friend, Claire, likes to say).

I’m trying to make up for all the animals I killed unnecessarily. I’m feeling good about it.

YOU CAN save the animals too. You can make a difference. The effect of changing yourself spreads to those around you.

Wishing you happy trails,

FitOldDog, neophyte Plant-Based Veterinarian, another Plant-Based Athlete.