From the AANews comes this: “Student parlays illness into publicity.”
Barry Sheppard, a 21-year-old EMU student, said some meat he ate on campus made him sick, so he decided to become a vegetarian in the fall of 2006. He eventually parlayed it into becoming a semifinalist in PETA’s Cutest Vegetarian Alive contest.
Sheppard is competing against Jess Bourke, 18, of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., in the semifinals.
Voting continues until Monday. The champion will be announced June 8.
Kinda goofy of course, but if you want to vote for Barry (and of course, why wouldn’t you?), go to the PETA Cutest Vegetarian Alive, click on Male contestants, and vote away!
