Vegetarianism: a way to end animal cruelty By Kamalini Seevaratnam

Our topic was animal cruelty linked to vegetarianism, the way I contributed was I demonstrated my ideas through my art skills instead of just putting pictures and texts. The point of making our poster this way was to draw more attention especially adding cartoon characters and then make them think about what our poster meant. We provide information to their thoughts and even add on. We give them detailed information about how animals, these days, are getting tortured to become our food, and it's inhumane. You can get enough vitamins and proteins by just becoming vegetarian and get a satisfaction of being filled without killing animlals.
Many people were drawn towards our poster, especially because of our characters, and the colors we have used which made them think.
I was very surprised that our college spent a week talking about environmental issues and it gives us hope that change can happen for our world to become a better place. They informed us a lot and this all added to our knowledge.
The one booth that caught my attention was the one on animal cruelty towards cats and dogs. I learned that it is better to adopt from the SPCA rather than buy from the pet store. The pet stores are very cruel to the animals, they do not take good care of them and many animals are endangered these days. This made me feel bad and I lost respect for the people who do this upon the animals.

For further information go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_animals
http://community.adn.com/node/151336