{"id":26512,"date":"2026-04-14T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26512"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:38:30","slug":"augustus-farrell-from-missouri-wins-5000-vegetarian-resource-group-2026-college-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/14\/augustus-farrell-from-missouri-wins-5000-vegetarian-resource-group-2026-college-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"AUGUSTUS FARRELL FROM MISSOURI WINS $5,000 VEGETARIAN RESOURCE GROUP 2026 COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Augustus said, \u201cBecause I live in a rural area, most of my school is connected to the animal agricultural industry \u2013 many students and faculty members are a part of FHA, 4-H, fifth-generation animal farmers, and oftentimes all three. I, too, come from a family that used to raise animals as livestock. Despite these circumstances, I still chose to be vegan. Right now, the morality discussions are in full swing at my school because I just recently had a paper about speciesism that was published in a Harvard undergraduate journal, The Harvard Brain<\/i>. My paper, \u201cFrom Pig to Pork: How Society Rewires Our Empathy\u201d explores biological and social themes amongst the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, and many more \u2026 Additionally, I write for a student newspaper for the St. Louis metropolitan area, and I have written articles specifically about veganism \u2026 I would say the social isolation caused by this large portion of America that knows next to nothing about both vegans and the animal agriculture industry is the hardest challenge I face. When I have a discussion with my German teacher who has lots of experience working in slaughterhouses, we have common ground because we know the reality \u2026 Why is it that the vegan and the slaughterhouse worker have the most common ground? \u2026 Because veganism also applies to other humans, I hope to become an ophthalmologist, which would allow me to provide life-and vision- saving services to those suffering from extreme poverty.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The deadline for the VRG scholarship contest for high school seniors is February 20th<\/sup> of each year. For details, and to see other winners, go to\u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

To support VRG\u2019s outreach to young people, donate at <\/span>vrg.org\/donate<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Join VRG at <\/span>https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Augustus said, \u201cBecause I live in a rural area, most of my school is connected to the animal agricultural industry \u2013 many students and faculty members are a part of FHA, 4-H, fifth-generation animal farmers, and oftentimes all three. I, too, come from a family that used to raise animals as livestock. Despite these circumstances, […]<\/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-26512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512","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=26512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26514,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512\/revisions\/26514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}