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"It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication and digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust."                                - Percy Bysshe Shelley 

Advice from Students for Students 

For the first time SAGA is asking students to write in with their own personal experiences.  We want students involved with animal welfare clubs to email us a description of how their club makes a difference for animals in their schools and communities.

Have you gotten your school to serve more veg food, get a dissection choice policy introduced, educated your community on factory farming or puppy mills? Perhaps something else?  Let other students know how you have made a difference.  What worked and didn't work?  What advice do you have? And even what you would do differently.  We want to hear from you to know exactly how you've made a difference.  And by doing so, you'll help other students follow in your footsteps.

Please limit your mini essay to 500 words and send it either in an email or word doc. You can email them to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Read below to see individual student's stories...

Andrea Brought Veg Foods into the cafeteria. 

My name is Andrea R and I'm a sophomore at Lake Stevens  High School in Washington State. I have been a vegetarian for  3 years now and I'm extremely proud of my progress. The thing I'm most proud of, was to ensure that the vegetarians and vegans at my school have options to choose from in my high school cafeteria. A couple months ago I talked to the principal who forwarded my message to the food supervisor of our school and I spoke with her assistant regarding my concerns. I told her that at our school we can only look forward to a sandwich, rice bowl or at least cheese pizza 2 days a week and salads. Maybe to them they thought that was enough but not to me. I think more options are wonderful, you never know what someone might like. After a discussion with her about what foods would be good, what I'm looking forward to and all that, we came up with a good amount of options. Now at my school we have Boca Burgers, bean burrito instead of beef and bean, meats served on side of meals such as soft tacos, hummus platter, vegetarian soup, and they even have soy milk for drinks in our cafe.

I'm very proud that I was able to change this. Maybe not everyone is going to order things but I did this for me, my school, friends and everyone else. I've realized that if I want something done I have to do something about it and that's exactly what I'm doing and what I've done. I hope this can help all of you out there searching for a way. All I did was e-mail the principal about how I wanted vegetarian foods, go to PETA2 (http://www.peta2.com/TAKECHARGE/t-cafeteria.asp) and get information about what you can do for adding vegetarian foods, they have wonderful details.