Posted on
Might 14, 2025 by
The VRG Weblog Editor
Julia Rose Weiss photograph by Lors Pictures
At 5 years outdated, I made a decision meat wasn’t for me. My aversion to meat took a dramatic activate Thanksgiving Eve in fourth grade … Feeling just like the guiltiest ten-year-old on earth, I used to be decided to redefine my relationship with nature. I skipped vegetarianism and embraced veganism. Now, at 17, veganism has change into a pivotal basis in my life. I turned the primary teen writer to jot down for the plant-based journal Forks Over Knives.
Engaged on developing with a venture to protect our ocean ecosystems, I developed Complete Grains, Complete Oceans: A Blueprint for Farm to Hospital; a venture that seeks to attach New Jersey’s largest hospital system with native regenerative growers to revive the well-being of sufferers and the environment. I convened main stakeholders within the natural motion. I subsequently met with the managing director of a New Jersey Hospital Community to current my proposal, the place as much as 50% of the hospital’s seafood and animal protein is changed with plant-based choices of legumes and greens. I might be attending Cornell College, finding out World Growth with a focus in agriculture and meals programs.
Rosie additionally works at an natural farmer’s market, the place she educates prospects on a complete meals plant-based life-style and helps train youngsters’s lessons.
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