Why go vegan?
It's easy to turn a blind eye, but it feels so much better to do the right thing.
Ethical Animals live much shorter lives than their expected life span. Cows live just 3-4 years of their 15-20 years and chickens live 6-8 weeks or 1 year for a dairy chicken, much shorter than their 8-10 year life span. More than this, they are kept in dirty, horrific living conditions, with little space to move. Chickens have their beaks cut off so they don't 'cannabalise' each other in their microwave-oven sized home. They are forced to lay 300 eggs a year, in comparison to their natural 60 a year.
Like humans, cows are pregnant for 9 months and produce milk for up to 3 years afterwards. In order to provide humans with milk, the baby calf is brutally taken from his mother at just days old to be slaughtered, leaving the mother pining for them. Male calves are seen as useless and sold for meat. What's sadder is that the mother is repeatedly impregnated throughout her short life and when the milk 'ages' she is sold for soups or dog meat. |
EnvironmentalThe meat industry has a great deal to answer for where environmetal issues are concerned. Due to human food demands, factory farming becoming more and more used, creating more greenhouse gas emmisions and more pollution for transporting animals. Going vegan could be the easiest and greatest thing you ever do to help protect the environment.
Actress Sophia Bush went "70% vegan" to reduce her carbon footprint. |
Health Vegetarians and vegans have longer life expectancy and have less chance of the following:
♥ heart disease ♥ stroke ♥ certain cancers- particularly stomach and bowel cancer. Some women diagnosed with breast cancer are often advised to follow a vegetarian diet. A vegan diet has also been known to lower blood pressure.Log onto Alicia Silverstone's The Kind Life to read many success stories from people who have over come recurring migraines, stomach, stress, skin or weight problems by living the vegan life. It really is the Superhero diet! |
World Hunger In order to fatten animals up to make them more "meaty", they are fed farm crops, instead of having a simple grass diet, like cows need. Often, it is unnatural, the animals are very often force-fed through tubes in order for this to happen. These are crops which could go to third world countries, who really need it. If this isn't enough to open your minds, the same amount of vegetable land can feed far more land than the same amount of animal land.
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