Veganism has many different levels of involvement. Every person on earth could participate in some sort of capacity to better our Earth. Something so simple as cutting back on red meat could help further the path to a more sustainable future. It's important to our survival as a planet to cut back and eventually give up animal products for the planet and the animals. My own experience with this process has been a trecious road with seemingly endless obstacles. Coming from a midwestern family with so called traditional values dairy and meat have always been a huge part of my diet. My mother instilled in me and my brother's mind that we had to drink milk to be tall and grow strong. Eating fried chicken and beef stew would help us to become healthy. As a child I refused to eat much meat because I just didn’t like it. It wasn't until my freshman year in an agricultural science class where I discovered activism surrounding the food industry. Of course in an ag. class the videos we watched were to put animal treatment in a good light and make activists seem unreasonable. As a member of the FFA I raised my own broiler chickens, and it was my responsibility to take them to the processing center. My chickens were raised knowing love, they liked chin scratches and getting their backs patted. Seeing how the employees at the center treated them was horrible. They were put in tiny crates, thrown around, and brutalized. Blood flying in the air alongside terrified screams of my precious chickens I had raised from hatchlings. I was traumatized, so much so that I got therapy recommendations from school counselors and I started to refuse to eat any kind of chicken and eggs. After this horrible experience I began to dig deeper and uncover more of the truth behind the agriculture world. Everything I discovered was more shocking than the last, screaming cows, distressed piglets, disfigured animals, and filthy hens. Gross slaughter houses and nasty barns amazed me. It would be plausible that farmers would keep their products in nicer facilities but they simply don't care enough about their products, because that's what they are not even considered living beings. Not to mention the environmental impact of raising, slaughtering, and allocating the carcass. Billions of gallons of water, billions of pounds in feed, and acres of land that could be used more efficiently for crops or natural forest to raise the animals. Plus all the tons of plastic and fuel needed to package and ship the meat and other animal products. Leading to further destruction of the environment.Soon there won't be a way to reverse the effects of the climate crisis that's being furthered partially by the agriculture business. While it's unrealistic to simply stop these practices just like how its hard to give up cheese or cake, there is always reduction. I now consume no animal products at all. That's millions of gallons of water and fuel, tons of grain and plastic, and animal lives saved from a simple action of slowly cutting back. Farmers will have the hardest time adapting to this switch but with action and hope this can be done. We as a society can save our animals and out planet.