The Power to Change

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Written By Melissa Rooney

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The following was published as a Letter to the Editor in the News and Observer in January, 2017:

One of my friends was traumatized when she saw a truckload of pigs, piled on top of one another, going off to slaughter a few days ago. We meat (and egg/milk/cheese, etc.) eaters need to hold ourselves accountable for making what was once called “animal hubandry” such a heinous corporate practice. If you BUY the product, then you SUPPORT the practices used to produce it, plain and simple. There are plenty of locally owned businesses that sell “happy meat,” as my family calls it. You can buy 1 lb. or you can buy half a cow. Not only do we need to treat our fellow earthlings with humanity, we need to support local businesses instead of (or at least as well as) Amazon and Harris Teeter. Trump isn’t going to change America. Hillary certainly wouldn’t have changed it either. The only thing that is going to change America is for Americans to change.

Melissa Rooney

Melissa Bunin Rooney writes picture books, poetry and freelance; reviews picture books for New York Journal of Books and live performances for Triangle Theater Review; provides literary and scientific editing services for American Journal Experts, scientific researchers and students; and writes and manages grants for 501c3 nonprofit Urban Sustainability Solutions. She also provides STEM and literary workshops and residencies for schools and organizations through the Durham Arts Council’s Creative Arts in Public and Private Schools (CAPS) program.

https://www.MelissaRooneyWriting.com
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