... not always doing something as drastic as a protest. On any given day, I live a typical life. That is, if typical includes refusing to participate in a school project because it involves dissection, changing school menus to accommodate vegan lifestyles, boycotting stores and products until the company abides by the request to be cruelty-free, and converting people I've never met, who live in states I've never visited, to go vegetarian. You can say I'm not content with the ways things work in this world. Why should I? 27 billion animals die every year because of humans and people expect me to be content with it? I believe in questioning authority, questioning everything. Just because it is normal, does that mean it's okay? (I can't help but wonder if an elephant standing on his head is normal though). It wasn't always a smooth ride. People have criticized me, teased me, ...

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