| Do you remember the discovery of harming dolphins | | | | way. They sent me marketing posters and brochures |
| with the practice of using nets when catching tuna? I | | | | promoting the new dolphin safe tuna. I didn't believe |
| remember when I had learned of this awful display. I | | | | them fully and kept writing and calling. Never stop |
| educated myself and witnessed videos and found it | | | | even when they say they will. Seeing is believing. |
| most disturbing. It did not help that dolphins are also | | | | Today we see the dolphin safe tuna symbol on most |
| one of my favorite animals. My passion to help them | | | | tuna fish cans and although we need to continue to |
| was strong, yet, how can one person be heard in | | | | keep watch, I know that my tiny voice was a part |
| this big dilemma? I started to hold letter-writing | | | | of a collective of voices, working on positive change |
| campaigns at my college during Earth Day festivals | | | | and with much tenacity it paid off to helping our |
| and other events. I had all ages join in, from young | | | | fellow friend, the dolphin. I believe that many tiny |
| to old. I sent petitions to the big companies, to the | | | | voices can make one booming voice and it is possible |
| CEO's, and I got braver and began calling the CEO's, | | | | to stand up, helping the environment and the people |
| leaving messages on my concerns. I never gave up, | | | | on this planet. There is much work to be done. What |
| even when it seemed impossible or others told me to | | | | are you passions? What drives you to make a |
| give up. Then one day I got a letter from a big Tuna | | | | difference? |
| company, assuring me that changes were on the | | | | |