{"id":17471,"date":"2021-06-01T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17471"},"modified":"2021-05-19T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:49:25","slug":"florida-student-marlie-adams-wins-500-vrg-college-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/01\/florida-student-marlie-adams-wins-500-vrg-college-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"FLORIDA STUDENT MARLIE ADAMS WINS $500 VRG COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Marlie said, \u201cI was born vegan, so I really had no option.\nHowever, many of my friends that were also vegan since birth are no longer\nvegan which deeply saddens me \u2026 I chose to stay vegan because my grandma is a\nholocaust survivor and the images she has described parallels with what happens\nto animals for \u201cfood.\u201d I see the sadness in my grandmother\u2019s eyes when she\ntells the stories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Growing up Marlie\nattended dozens of protests. At 6-years-old, she brought vegan snacks to a\nschool events for the kids to try. Marlie was The Ravens Corps first \u201cLead\nRaven\u201d in Florida. Following the onset of the pandemic, and activities were\nforced online, Marlie stepped up to be a guiding force for their virtual\ncommunity, launching \u2018The Animal Protection Corner,\u2019 a space for youth to\nconvene collaborate, and organize over a shared interest in animal rights and\nactivism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marlie used her video skills to produce videos for Jonathan Balcombe (author of What A Fish Knows), Crustacean Liberation, and promotion for vegan restaurant Umami Gorilla. She\u2019s a mentor for Vegan Outreach, brings students to stores, shows them vegan options, and gives them ideas for meals. She has written a book about fish for young children, and is now working on the illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     In the future\nMarlie hopes to use a degree in film to make people more aware of the horrors\nthat billions of animals go through for people to eat. Her perfect life in 5\nyears would be \u2026 to start working on expose film of the animal agriculture\nindustry and where everyone is kind, compassionate, and vegan (of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For information on other winners and applying for the next\nVegetarian Resource Group college scholarship contest with $20,000 in awards,\nsee: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next year\u2019s deadline is February 20, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To support additional VRG scholarships and internships,\ndonate at vrg.org\/donate<\/a>, call (410) 366-8343, or mail\ncontribution to The Vegetarian Resource Group, P.O. Box 1463, Baltimore, MD\n21203.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marlie said, \u201cI was born vegan, so I really had no option. However, many of my friends that were also vegan since birth are no longer vegan which deeply saddens me \u2026 I chose to stay vegan because my grandma is a holocaust survivor and the images she has described parallels with what happens to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17474,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions\/17474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}