The video she is watching displays hundreds of pigs packed together so tightly that they can barely move. It reveals to her one farms brutal methods of harvesting their product. A product most Americans refuse to go a day without; meat.
But for this young woman a line had been crossed and there was no going back.
Stephanie A. Hatcher, an Intermediate Photojournalism Course Instructor at the Defense Information School here became a vegetarian due to her compassion for animals.