I transferred to a school with a nutrition degree. I wanted to be a dietician, but then I decided I wanted nothing to do with the ADA, plus they make you get vaccines, and you really don't have a "fun" job, etc.

So I realized I wanted to start a bakery/cafe (all vegan) and went the Nutrition - Food Service & Administration route. However, one of my labs required preparing, tasting, analyzing "foods" that I refuse to do, so I had to drop the course cause my participation would be 0 and I would just be learning a lot of stuff I would never use (but isn't that 95% of college?) plus be really behind on what the class was doing. They did tell me I did not have to "eat" the foods, but I still had to learn how to cook them. They advised me to switch majors, cause this was a required course. They told me that vegans had taken the course but "sucked it up" and worked with the animal products.

For me, it's not just the fact that I don't want to touch/cook meat. It's more the principle, like the school does not want to have more vegan dieticians/nutritionists in the world. They say they do not discourage veganism but they sure as hell don't encourage it, not even support it.  I get that they want their graduates to have a well-rounded food education, but I think I should have the choice to say no to what goes against my values. One of my professors told me that after I finish my degree I will have more knowledge on nutrition and will not disagree with their teachings anymore.

What are your thoughts on this? Does becoming a "vegan dietician" give us more credibility about nutrition knowledge, even though they are funded by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Dairy Council, Proctor & Gamble, American Egg Board/Egg Nutrition Center? Is this "selling out" or helping promote veganism in an non-vegan environment?

(There's a saying describing this that is on the tip of my tongue, when you work inside something you are against with plans of rising to the top and changing it?)