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October 21st, 2011
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Why this 10-year-old is a vegetarianDevyn Pangyanszki is the daughter of Jennifer Seitz, a senior editor at CNN.com.
My whole family eats meat, and my favorite meat used to be ham. All that changed in first grade. I was a narrator in the play “Charlotte’s Web,” which is the story of a pig named Wilbur, a spider and a girl who wants to keep Wilbur alive on her dad’s farm. The part that made me really want to become a vegetarian is when the dad wanted to make the pig into bacon. 
October 21st, 2011
09:35 AM ET
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I’m 10 years old, and for almost half of my life I’ve been a vegetarian.