20 Reasons For Going Vegan

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(PLEASE........ forward widely!!! ~ Jo)

 

Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat

consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase

profits. Eating fatty meats increases your chances of having a heart attack

or developing cancer.

 

Every minute of every working day thousands of animals are killed in

slaughter-houses. Many animals are bled to death. Pain and misery are common.

In the US alone 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.

 

There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast

majority are caused by eating meat.

 

Meat contains absolutely nothing - proteins, vitamins or minerals - that the

human body cannot obtain perfectly well from a vegetarian diet.

 

African countries - where millions are starving to death - export grain to

the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.

 

‘Meat’ can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord. A sausage

may contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure that the intestines

are empty when they are ground up?

 

If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world’s

food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of

land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240

people.

 

Everyday tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they

will not be able to lay eggs. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many

are used for fertiliser or fed to other animals.

 

Animals who die for your dinner table die alone in terror, in sadness and in

pain. The killing merciless and inhumane.

 

It's much easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian (by 'slim'

i do not mean abnormally 'sleder' or 'underweight' but, rather an absence of

excess weight). 

 

Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to

graze cattle to make beef burgers.

 

Roughly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the

rainforests. Approximately 260 million acres of US forest have been cleared

to grow crops to feed cattle.

 

Every year 440 million tons of grain are fed to livestock. Approximately 60

million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved

because those people could eat the grain used to fatten cattle and other farm

animals - if Americans ate 10% less meat.

 

The world’s fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And

meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of

water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn’t supported

by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger

meat would cost£35 a pound.

 

If you eat meat you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No

one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts

of the world as many as one in four hamburgers contain growth hormones that

were originally given to cattle.

 

The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anemia, appendicitis,

arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostate,

constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion,

obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins.

 

Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for

shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholesterol level than meat

eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.

 

Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Others routinely use

antibiotics to stave off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those

drugs.

 

In a lifetime the average meat eater will consume 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750

chickens and turkeys. Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you

do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed

into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animals and then cruelly pushed

into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports

the way these animals are treated.

 

Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters. Many of the world’s most successful

athletes are vegetarian.

 

 

(Vernon Coleman (MB ChB DSc) is a doctor who campaigns endlessly for the end

of vivisection. He has written over 50 books which are sold in more than 50

countries. He has received a number of awards for his work on behalf of

animals. “Fighting for Animalsâ€, “Betrayal of Trustâ€, “Why Animal

Experiments Must Stop†are just some of his many books which go towards the

fight against vivisection.)

 

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Educated people question what they are told "

 

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