Alternative diets are popping up everywhere, and there is an overwhelming list of restrictions – meat, eggs, dairy, and fish are the most apparent.
Nikolas Solem, Community High School junior and pescetarian
Each individual has their own motivations for why they take up an alternative diet. “My conscious influence was watching documentaries and my sub-conscious influence was my girlfriend being vegetarian,” says Nikolas Solem, a Community High School junior. Colleen Chavis, a CHS junior, was similarly influenced.
Chavis discovered a video showing animal slaughter in the meat industry. “They were shooting cows in the head with nail guns”. This traumatic image was what drove Chavis to become a pescatarian, someone who is a vegetarian with the exception of eating fish.
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