Adorable 5-year-old tearfully explains why she’s becoming a vegetarian

A 5-year-old’s emotional speech on why she will no longer eat meat will definitely melt your heart and maybe even convince meat lovers to give it up themselves.

Poor Indie-Rose learned one of life’s cruel truths — that turkeys and other animals have to die before they end up on a dinner plate.

“I really don’t want to eat animals — they’re so nice. Why do people chop them up? I don’t want them to be chopped up,” she sobbed.

Indie, from Dublin, couldn’t stop crying and declared that she was becoming a vegetarian.

“Farmers shouldn’t chop people up. I don’t want to eat a horsey,” she cried.

“But pigs are nice too, and chickens and cows,” she added when learning that people don’t typically eat horses.

Her emotional reaction was filmed and posted on Facebook and has gone viral, with millions of views.

Indie learned the hard facts of life while she was helping to prepare dinner.

“My partner was preparing dinner and Indie wanted to help. He had gotten some turkey from the butcher’s, she asked who had chopped it up and that’s how it all started,” Indie’s mother, Nicola Moore, told Independent.ie. “He only recorded the conversation then so he could send it to me while I was in work and make sure he was saying the right thing.”

According to her mom, Indie loves all creatures.

“She’s always had a soft heart towards animals, she wouldn’t even let me kill a fly or a spider in the house.”

It’s been three months since Indie formally became a vegetarian, and she’s held strongly to her no-meat stance.