June 26, 2025

The sound of the tv wakes me up. It’s seven in the morning. My off day is already ruined by having to get up early now. I look at the tv to see the news reporter, Sharon Westwood, giving breaking news. What’s so important that it has to wake me up so early? I don’t hear much of it, just snip its of her voice. I look up once again and see some sort of red circle, almost like a forbidden sign. I clear my vision, put my glasses on. I look towards the screen to see that meat is being forbidden from being eaten. What? This can’t be real. How could this possibly be allowed?

I get ready for the day thinking this is a bunch of baloney, but as soon as I step outside I begin to realize that this wasn’t the case. People everywhere were eating plant based meals. Veggie sandwich, spaghetti without meatballs, and as I walk to work I see my favorite steakhouse, Jerry lions, throwing out tons of meat. This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. I walk into work and find Luke, who’s just as confused as I am. We talk for a little before we clock into work.

Lunch comes around and I get mine out. I hadn’t realized how serious this whole no meat thing was, next thing I know I’m in the bosses office. Apparently all bosses were told to fire those who eat meat. So now not only am I forbidden to eat the only thing that makes food good, but I’m also out of a job. Without my job I couldn’t possibly live in the city. I go on Zillow and start looking for houses till I found something that sparked an idea in my head. Maybe I didn’t have to get rid of meat, I mean how could I get in trouble if no one can find me?

August 7, 2060

It’s been thirty five years since the banning of meat, but that hasn’t stopped me from eating what I want. See weeks after the banning, I had found a place over in the south, has around 3-5 acres of land, all the room you could ask for. That gave me an idea. I purchase the land and right away get to work. Within a year i had a whole farm. Tons and tons of buildings in order to store animals and food, as well and houses for me and two of my friends. Each morning was filled with a smile and the smell of the freshly cut grass and crops. The sounds of animals as well as the wind flowing through the open fields, listening to the crops sway back and forward. This was the perfect life. Who needed to live a high paying job in order to be happy when? This was my life, and I was happy with it. Each day I’d feed my animals and make sure they were nice and healthy. Then Id take care of the crops, making sure they were getting fed and growing as they should. At the end of the day I finish off a hard day of work by eating some of the amazing food we have grown ourselves at the barn. The best part of all of this, no body will ever know. I opened my own shop to sell tools and crops, just so I can make money to keep my land. But the meat and animals were all for me. te