t like the feeling of consuming something that was once living and slaughtered only for consumption. I would fall under the “lacto-ovo-vegetarian” because I do consume eggs and dairy products. Vegetarians go against popular world decision. They realize the health benefits from not consuming meat, poultry or fish with the added animal fat, protein and cholesterol and more fibers and antioxidants. Vegetarians break away from the norm because it feels right to them.In the long-running Elian Gonzalez ordeal civil disobedience was exercised. Elian went through a horrific experience in his short 6-year life. Him and his mother left Cuban illegally being civilly disobedient because of the poor political environment in Cuba. He survived a shipwreck while his mother died literally in front of him. Common sense, tradition and law all say he should have been immediately returned to his loving father and grandparents. Yet our bizarre politic non-relationship with Castro’s Cuba, one of the world’s last battles with communism, twisted what should have been a simple custody case into an absolute revival of the Cold War. The politicians, the attorneys, the Cuban-American activists, religious leaders, the hundreds of thousands demonstrating in Havana, and last but certainly not least, Fidel Castro himself were civilly disobedient in not taking into consideration Elians best interest and rather arguing with past grudges still held. Thoreau believed “under a government which imprisons any unjustly place for a just man is also imprisoned. This quote goes along with the idea that philosophically Elian and his mother felt imprisoned in Cuba. They left to find a better life because it felt right (non-conformity). There fight for a better life went terribly wrong with Elian fate at stake. When they left Cuba they must have known what could have happened though they knew it was something that they had to do for themselves....
