Revolting? You should be!

Factory farming is based on profit. Farmed animals are intensively confined to order to increase the yield of meat, eggs and milk. Money and profit are all that matters. Such procedures mean immense pain and stress for the animals as their lives are reduced to the level of objects in a factory. It is a GRAVE situation....If you don't think this is your problem, then you have a problem. If you do, then do something about it.   >>Read More Here

Chew on This - 30 Reasons to Go Veg

Common sense tells us, and we know in our hearts, that our fellow animals have the same kind of feelings and desires that we do and that we should not kill and hurt others in order to eat them.
Take a quick look at 30 of the best reasons to go vegan.

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"Free-Range" Poultry and Eggs - Not All They're Cracked Up to Be

A growing number of people are looking to "free range" as an alternative to factory farm poultry and eggs. "Free range" conveys a positive image of animals living outdoors as nature intended, but...that's not the way it is. Get the real scoop here.

Commodities to Be Exploited for Profit

Factory farming is an attitude that regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit. In animal agriculture, this attitude has led to institutionalized animal cruelty, massive environmental destruction and resource depletion, and animal and human health risks.

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Gary Francione Interview with The Believer

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as our resource, as a thing that we can use and kill for our purposes.
  - Gary Francione

There is absolutely no morally defensible distinction between flesh and other animal products, such as milk or cheese. Animals used in the dairy industry usually live longer and are treated as badly if not worse than their meat counterparts, and they all end up in the same slaughterhouse anyway. The meat and dairy industries are inextricably intertwined. As far as I am concerned, there is more suffering in a glass of milk than in a pound of steak, though I would not consume either >>MORE

Dairy's Dark Side - The Sour Truth Behind Milk

Recently born calves were dragged away from their mothers by workers. Although this is routinely done in the dairy industry, it is a source of intense anxiety and suffering for the cow and the calf. These individuals bond closely immediately after birth. >>MORE

Tainted Beef in a Supermarket Near You?

USDA Inspector General audit reveals that beef containing dangerous pesticides, antibiotics, heavy metals, and other toxins is showing up on supermarket shelves because the government has neither set limits for the chemicals nor is it routinely testing for them. >> MORE

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
  - Dian Fossey (1932 - 1985)

(Dr. Fossey was an American zoologist and leading authority of the mountain gorilla. She observed eight gorilla groups in the mountain forests of Rwanda. She was brutally murdered in 1985 most likely by poachers. The case remains open.)

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Global Deforestation

Connecting our everyday choices to the declining health of our eco-systems is as easy as 1-2-3...

1. Eating Meat is Bad for Human Health

It shouldn't shock anyone to learn that eating meat is bad for us in many ways. Based upon the higher prevalence of hypertension, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, gallstones, obesity, and food-borne illness among omnivores compared with vegetarians, the total direct medical costs in the United States attributable to meat consumption were estimated to be $30-60 billion a year. More simply: The risk of death by heart attack for average American male is 50%. For the average vegan: 4% . Moving right along...

2. Eating Meat is Bad for Rainforests

The environmental impact of the meat industry is less obvious but no less destructive. "In the Amazon the cattle sector is the largest driver of rainforest destruction, accounting for 60 to 70 percent of deforestation," writes Nikolas Kozloff , author of the forthcoming No Rain in the Amazon: How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet. "To put it in concrete terms: every eighteen seconds on average one hectare of Amazon rainforest is being lost to cattle ranchers. As if the carbon emissions resulting from cattle deforestation were not enough, consider bovine methane emissions."

Author and radio talk show host Thom Hartmann adds: "The United States imports two hundred million pounds of beef every year from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama--while the average citizen in those countries eats less meat each year than the average American house cat. This deforestation of Latin America for burgers is particularly distressing when you consider that this very fragile area contains 58% of the entire planet's rainforests. (19% are in Africa and 23% in Oceania and Southeast Asia)."

3. Rainforest Destruction is Bad for Everyone

Why should anyone chowing down on a greasy cheeseburger deluxe in Peoria worry about 200,000 acres of rainforest being destroyed every 24 hours?

• Rainforests are considered the lungs and heart of the planet.
• Rainforest loss may greatly change weather patterns
• throughout the world.
• Rainforests are essential to recycling water
• Almost half of all the world's rain falls on rainforests.
• Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals, and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.
• There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.

Doing Your Part is as Easy as 1-2-3

1. As a first step toward a plant-based diet, why not stop eating meat?
2. Identify and boycott the corporations that profit off of rainforest deforestation.
3. Educate yourself and become a vocal advocate for healthy diets, corporate responsibility, and rainforest awareness.