Transportation issue and vegan beliefs?!
Answers: So, I'm a junior in a clinical laboratory science program (the issue with my career and animal testing is yet another thing I'm trying to resolve) but anyway...next year, my senior year, I have to do clinical rotations at various sites in the Austin/San Antonio corridor. There's no commuter/transit system in place for us since we have to be at our sites so early or otherwise I'd just take the carpool/tram system that goes from my school to these cities. Basically my professor said that we have to drive individually. I don't own a car, and don't WANT to own a car. What can I do?
Greyhound or other bus.
Get on your bicycle and do some major miles.
There's always someone to carpool with; just have to find them.
Where there's a will there's a way.
Start looking for a car pool or share-a-ride program.
If you don't want to own a car, then you could always rent a car for the days that you need to drive. If you don't want to do that then the only other thing would be to look into carpooling for that particular area and see if it is possible to join one on an as needed basis, or you could ask a buddy to borrow a car.
If you do not want to ever own a car then you need to look at living in a big city where you can get everything you need from public transportation, it is much harder to do that in secondary cities.
Good luck!
personally, I do not beleive that ny professor would require his students to drive since not all students have access to their own vehicles. What abut thsoe students who want to drive but cannot fford a car or motorcycle?
In the meantime, if that is the case, then you have to decide which is more important: what you must do (get some sort of transportation) to be able to continue with the program or what you want to do (not get any transportation due to a belief system) and perhaps lose your place in the program.
Sorry but adults face such similar hard choices everyday and you and you alone can decide what is best.
A friend of mine has this to say every time he has to make a tough choice: "..to hell with it, a hundred years form now, it won't make a difference"....
OK if your gonna live like that then turn off the computer cause their are animal byproducts in it.
Then you need to "walk" to the jungle and live in a cave and eat berries all day because their is no way in an industrialized nation to be 100% animal free.
While in San Antonio and Austin, take public transportation. San Antonio's bus system is really good.
To get between the two, take a bus, or find someone to carpool with. You can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up over it.
And while your in SA- check out The Cove! Great Portabella Burgers!
Like Trace said, rent a car. That or invent the teleporter in your spare time. Maybe a motorcycle instead of a car?
"She drives a car and considers herself vegan? Is she not aware that gasoline comes from animals?"
You are either a troll, have a very poor understanding of what veganism is or both.
What does this have to do with vegan/vegetarianism? Last I checked, I don't ingest gasoline.