From: Brooke Barry (144.139.30.98)
Greeting: VEGAN FOR LIFE!
Date: April 18, 2002 at 7:57 am PST

i have never like the taste of animal products. As a child
i grew up on a dairy farm. I hated the taste of full cream
milk and the meat was from our own hand raised animals.
I was told that i was to fussy, but i just couldn't eat
the animals that we raised and cared for everyday, even
the 2 pigs which were named after my brother and myself
were killed and i have vivid memories of the whole
process.

Anyway, when i was about 11 i learnt the term vegetarian,
and commited myself to being vegetarian. then when i was
about 14, the leader of my favorite band,'silverchair's
Daniel Johns became Vegan. So i learnt about veganism, and
found my own truth in it so i commited my self to a vegan
life. So through high school people have misunderstood me,
while in their own denile, and others have seen me as a
strange leader.

i have always voiced and explained my opinion. couldn't
help it actually, i am so passionate about it!!!

i am currently 18 years old, and have a pet pig named
Astra. I saved her from a piggery in Broken Heads, near
Byron Bay, which is where i live!!!We have been feature
in the local Byron Bay Echo Newspaper 3 time,as an act
of animal liberation!!!