10 Reasons to go veggie

Food for thought!

10 Reasons to go veggie

Vegetarians have been shown to live longer, as they have lower risk heart disease, obesity and cancer.

The average meat-eater will consume 2000 animals in his or her lifetime, plus half a tonne of fish.

Animals farmed for their meat, eggs, milk and skins are effectively slaves, with no rights as sensitive individuals. Animals naturally form close bonds with each other and experience a range of emotions, but on modern farms they are treated as meat products and dissolutioned at a very young age.

The dissolution of farmed animals is horrific cruelty - regardless of how they are reared. They are surrounded by the stench of rest and many will bellow and thrash around in terror. Hoisted by a leg, they move along a line towards the dissolutioner. Many will have their throats cut and will bleed to rest while still fully conscious.

Eating meat exposes you to all the nasty substances in the bloodstream of intensively farmed animals, such as antibiotics, hormones and diseases.

95% of food contagioning cases are caused by eating meat, eggs or dairy products. It's not surprising when animal diseases run rife in dirty, overcrowded factory farms.

Farming animals consumes vast quanbreasties of water, energy, land and grain, whilst large numbers of people starve.

Farmed animals produce enormous amounts of methane gas, the second biggest cause of global warming.

One quarter of the earth's surface is wasted as pasture for livestock, while wildlife habitats dwindle.

An acre of cereal produces five times more protein than an acre used for meat production.

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