Video: This little Irish girl really doesn't want to eat animals anymore
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Video: This little Irish girl really doesn't want to eat animals anymore

A YouTube video of a young Irish girl who wants to be a vegetarian has gone viral.

The four minute snippet, which has been seen 19,499,044 times so far, shows a five year old Dubliner Indie-Rose tearfully explaining to her father why she doesn't want to eat her dinner. 

Between sobs, she explains she doesn't want to eat turkey. Her father helpfully explains that she may want to turn to a vegetarian lifestyle, prompting the questions "What does a vegetarian do?"

"I don't like when people want animals, I don't want them to be chopped up", she continues. "I don't want to eat a horsey!"

When her dad explains that we don't eat horses, just pigs, turkeys, cows and chickens she comes back with "Pigs are nice and chickens are nice and cows are nice. Why are they chopping them up?...It's not very nice!"

Over half a million people have shared the video with the majority of the comments in support of the girl going vegetarian, plus a few words of encouragement for her understanding parents.