Why don’t people like eating meat? In the story, “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant the girl in the story doesn’t like eating meat, doesn’t like to kill animals, and never had a pet of her own to take care of. My first claim is that I think the author is a vegan is because when she was going to go hunting she didn’t want to kill any animals. I say this because she wanted to go hunting, like her brothers, but in the end of the story she changes because of the dog experience Furthermore I think the dog changes her, her mom, and her dad’s life. I say this because when the dog first came into the house the parents didn’t want to keep the dog, and then when the dad was taking the dog to the pound he didn’t leave the dog there, and the mom didn’t want to