Go Vegan for the Animals!
- 50 billion land animals are slaughtered every year for human consumption. Include marine animals and the number rises to 95 billion.
- All of these animals feel pain and fear, just like humans do. They have the same emotions and feelings as do the animals that we love and protect, like our dogs and cats.
- 99% of all animals eaten by humans come from factory farms where they live out their brutally short lives in unbearable conditions.
- There is no such thing as ‘humane slaughter’ or ‘happy meat’. The terms ‘free-range’ or ‘cage-free’ are industry created marketing terms that have no meaning for the enslaved animals. They still spend their short lives in unnatural and cruel conditions before being sent to the same slaughter houses as conventionally raised animals.
- The dairy and egg industry are just as cruel as the meat industry. The dairy industry forcibly impregnates the dairy cows and steals their babies away at just a few hours old to be sent to veal farms. When dairy cows become unproductive they are sent to slaughter. Egg laying hens are kept in torturous conditions throughout their entire lives and the 250 million male chicks born in the US every year are killed upon hatching by being ground up alive or suffocated to death.
- 100 million animals are used in research testing in the United States every year—including monkeys, chimpanzees, beagles and other dogs, cats, rabbits, mice, birds, farm animals, and other sentient beings. When the experiments are complete, essentially all of the animals who have survived the torture are killed.
- Every year 8 million dogs and cats enter shelters, and 4 million shelter dogs and cats are killed because not enough people are willing to adopt when they are looking for a companion animal.
Go Vegan for Your Health!
A healthy vegan diet will allow you to enjoy a lifetime of good health while avoiding the Western world’s 3 biggest killers: heart disease, cancer, and strokes.
- Every major physician and nutrition organization states that a vegan diet is perfectly healthy for all stages of life, including infancy, childhood, and pregnancy.
- Vegans are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of meat-eaters.
- -Vegan diets have much lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein, and higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, and phytochemicals. Vegans tend to have much lower levels of cholesterol, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and many types of cancer compared to those following the Standard American Diet.
- On average, vegans live 6 to 10 years longer than omnivores.
“Appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.” American Dietetic Association
Go Vegan for the Planet!
- A vegan diet is so beneficial for our planet that eating vegan one day a week does more for the environment than driving a Prius or eating local 365 days a year.
- Animal agriculture uses 37% of all pesticides and 50% of all antibiotics
- Nearly 20% of all global warming emissions come from livestock -that’s more emissions than from all of the world’s transportation combined.
- Animal agriculture takes up nearly 70% of all agricultural land, and 30% of the total land surface of the planet.
- Animal agriculture is the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world’s forests.
- It takes about 300 gallons of water per day to produce food for a vegan, and more than 4,000 gallons of water per day to produce food for a meat-eater. You save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you do by not showering for an entire year.
- Eating one pound of meat emits the same amount of greenhouse gases as driving an SUV 40 miles.
- Food for a vegan can be produced on only 1/6 of an acre of land, while it takes 3 and 1/4 acres of land to produce enough food for a meat-eater. If you add up all the arable land on the planet and divided it equally, every human would get 2/3 of an acre—more than enough to sustain a vegan diet, but not nearly enough to sustain a meat-eater.
- It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of edible animal flesh. Imagine how many people could be fed if we would eat the grain directly instead of funneling it through animals first.
* All of these facts came from a variety of vegan and animal rights sources, check out my Links page to find them *
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