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You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out. Not just go out there and shoot Bambi. - Gov. Jesse Ventura
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Why Kick the Meat Habit?
Why Kick the Meat Habit?
For the Earth
- Animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gases than automobiles.
- Livestock farming pollutes the water more than all other activities combined.
- Meat-based diets require 10-20 times as much land as plant-based diets.
For Your Health
Kicking the meat habit will reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other chronic diseases that kill 1.3 million Americans annually.
For the Animals
More than one million animals are slaughtered every hour to supply Americans with meat. Going veg will save innocent, sensitive animals from crowding, drugging, mutilation, and other factory farm and slaughterhouse atrocities.
Did You Know...?
Animals raised for food are just as intelligent, lovable, and sensitive as the animals we call pets. Yet, they never have "a nice day." From birth, most are caged, crowded, deprived, drugged, mutilated, and manhandled in factory farms.
Attempts to improve the treatment of animals have not worked. Our best option to end these atrocities is to stop subsidizing them at the market checkout counter.
Dropping meat and other animal products from our diet is more than an act of compassion. It also reduces our risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other diseases that cripple then kill 1.3 million Americans every year. It reduces pollution of our waterways by animal waste and destruction of wildlife habitats.
Source: Farm Animal Reform Movement
Are you ready to kick the meat habit? Free Veg Starter Kit at www.VegKit.org or 888-ASK-FARM.
Edu-Stats
- humans are the only animals who drink milk past infancy or who drink the milk of another species!?
- Louisa May Alcott, Clara Barton, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Krishnamurti, Sir Isaac Newton, Ovid, Plato, Plutarch, Pythagoras, Rousseau, Albert Schweitzer, Seneca, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Upton Sinclair, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Socrates, Tolstoy, and Voltaire are just a few of the famous vegetarians throughout history?
- in 1990, cancer was the 10th leading cause of death in the US, and it was responsible for only 3% of all deaths. Today it ranks 2nd, and causes about 20% of all deaths. More Americans died of cancer in 1987 than died in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined!?
- calves fed on pasteurized milk died within six months!?
- 5% of the world (US) uses 1/3 of the world’s resources and produces ˝ of its waste!?
- affordable health care begins with breastfeeding?!
- there’s a reason why they call it junk food!?
- that by attaching a low-flow faucet aerator, you can reduce the normal faucet flow of 3 to 5 gallons of water per minute by 50%? Incredibly, although the flow is reduced, it will seem stronger because air is mixed into the water as it leaves the tap?
- manufacturers can place the word "nontoxic" on their label simply by meeting the federal regulatory definition that says if fewer than 50% of lab animals die within two weeks when being exposed to the product through ingestion or inhalation, then the product can be called "nontoxic"!? (Yikes! Cocktail, anyone?)
- In the classic research study conducted by Dean Ornish, M.D., 82% of individuals who switched to a low-fat, vegetarian diet, along with exercise and stress management, actually reversed their heart disease. This is especially important, given that most people in Western countries have the beginnings of artery blockages before they finish high school. (Breaking the Food Seduction, Dr. Neal Barnard)
- Americans consume a million animals an hour. Every second, 300 living beings are slaughtered for food. (Orange County People for Animals)
- More than 100 million animals are reported killed by hunters each year. That number does not include the millions of animals for which kill figures are not maintained by state wildlife agencies. Each year, more than 40 million animals are killed for their fur…(Delaware Action for Animals)
- Duke is the ONLY top ten medical school in the United States where students still train with and kill live animals-even though cheaper, more useful, and more humane alternatives exist. (PCRM)
- To view a film clip about why people become vegan, go to www.veganpeace.com/veganism/vegan.htm or www.meetyourmeat.com. These videos offer insights that, somewhere along the line, we have all forgotten.
- Amount spent annually in U.S. to treat cancer: $70 Billion (1990) (John Robbins, Diet for a New America)
- The average American consumes 17 lbs. of turkey meat per year. To satisfy this appetite, 252 million turkeys have to be killed annually. Most turkey meat found in grocery stores and restaurants comes from turkeys intensively confined on "factory farms." Standard practices on the farm, during transport, and at slaughter, cause these turkeys to suffer significant pain. (www.cok.net/lit/turkey/main.php)
- Turkeys are genetically engineered to grow very big, very fast, and generally are slaughtered at 12 weeks. If allowed to live, their breasts grow huge, literally forcing their legs out of their sockets.
- Factory farms produce more than 1.3 billion tons of waste annually -- 5 tons for every US citizen. Animal farm waste is the top polluter of the US's rivers and streams. (Diet for a Dead Planet, New Press)
- Chickens killed for their flesh in the US are bred and drugged to grow so quickly that their hearts, lungs, and limbs often can't keep up.
- Hens used for eggs live 6 or 7 to a battery cage the size of a file drawer, thousands of which are stacked tier upon tier in huge, filthy warehouses.
- Cattle are castrated, their horns are ripped out of their heads, and third-degree burns (branding) are inflicted on them, all without any pain relief.
- Cows used for their milk are drugged and bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk; they have their babies stolen from them shortly after birth and sent to notoriously cruel veal farms so that humans can drink the calves' milk.
- Mother pigs on factory farms are confined to crates so small that they are unable to turn around or even lie down comfortably.
- Fish on aquafarms spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy enclosures, and many suffer from parasitic infections, diseases, and debilitating injuries. Conditions on some farms are so horrendous that 40% of the fish may die before farmers can kill and package them for food.
- Turkeys' beaks and toes are burned off with a hot blade. Many suffer heart failure or debilitating leg pain, often becoming crippled under the weight of their genetically manipulated, drugged bodies. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
- Every second, one football field of rainforest is destroyed in order to produce 257 hamburgers. (www.happycow.net/why_vegetarian.html)
- Eating one pound of hamburger does the same damage as driving your car for three weeks! (www.happycow.net/why_vegetarian.html)