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Why Vegan?

Every year, more than five billion farm animals are murdered in the United States, usually in modern day "factory farms", where the animals are treated like disposable machines. Like any other factory, factory farms are geared for mass production and use machinery and assembly line-type techniques to achieve it. This means disregarding any of the animals natural needs and tendencies, including genetics, diet, digestion, sexual behavior, and the ability to move about. In this system, animals have been reduced to tools, slaves, and commodities, that can be bought, sold, and simply tossed aside to rot when not profitable. The choice of consuming animals is of consequence: a miserablle life and terrifyinng death for animals, poisioning of the Earth and her inhabinants and the continuation of world hunger. Consuming "meat" is condoning the death of an innocent life for which there is no excuse.

The meat industry thrives off the world's hunger for a bloody, cruel diet while 90% of oats, 85% of corn, and 80% of soybeans grown in the U.S. are fed to livestock. Let's not forget about all the grains that are imported from poor and starving third world nations. If everyone consumed non-animal foods there would be enough food to feed the entire world several times over. Raising animals for food consumes one-third of all raw materials, causes more water pollution in the U.S. than any other industry, consumes more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S. and consumes 87% of agricultural land.

When you consume the flesh of an animal carcass, you are consuming the drugs and hormones fed to the animal during its miserable life, as well as the adrenaline that surged through the body of the animal in its last moments of life before the slaugther. When you pick up a package of "meat", think of the cruely and suffering that comes along with it. That steak is not just another peice of food, it is a chunk of bloody flesh and muscle. It is edible suffering, pain, struggle, and misery of another being. We each have the capability to choose a vegan diet and life-style and end the misery and suffering of countless animal beings raised in a miserable environment only to be ultimately murdered.

Choosing a vegan lifestyle, thus, rejecting all animal flesh and any products derived from animals is the only ethical, natural, and humane way to live.