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Go veg!!

There are MANY, MANY reasons to do it. Going veg is the absolute best way to
help animals. Did you know that every second 289 animals are killed for the
United States’ meat industry? That makes 17,340 in one minute, 1,040,400 in
one hour, and 24,969,600 in one day! By just becoming vegetarian, you can save
at least 1000 animals in your lifetime. If you become vegan of course, you’ll
be saving even more. (Just in case you didn’t know, vegans don’t eat meat,
dairy, eggs, or any other product coming from an animal. We also don’t wear
anything, like leather and wool, which comes from animals.) Here are just a
few reasons for you to think about.

reasons for PEOPLE:
•If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% enough grain would be
freed (12000 tons) to feed 60,000,000 people- the population of Great Britain.
•If all Americans became vegetarian enough grain would be freed to feed
600,000,000 people- the population of India. 
•A child dies of starvation somewhere in the world, every 3 seconds.

reasons for LAND:
•If they continue to clear American forests to raise cattle at the present
rate, in 50 years there will be none left. 
•From 1966-1983, 38% of the Amazon rain forest was destroyed for cattle
grazing. •An inch of topsoil takes 200-1000 years to develop - yet in the USA
they have lost around 1/3 of their prime topsoil in 200 years (around 7
inches) due to animal farming.

reasons for the ENVIRONMENT:
•25 gallons of water is needed to make 1lb of wheat, but it takes 2500 gallons
to produce 1lb of meat. 
•The water needed to make 10 lbs of steak is equal to an average household's
consumption of water in an entire year. 
•Enough petrol is used by a family of four eating beef for a year, to run a
car for about 6 months. 
•70% of all grain is used to feed animals.

reasons for ANIMALS:
•Fishers who use drift or other modern nets, kill millions of sea animals and
disrupt the sea bed. Fishermens' nets kill about 10 times as many other
animals as the ones they are trying to catch. 
•15,000,000,000 land animals are slaughtered every year for food, and an
unknown but much larger number of sea animals (including thousands of dolphins
caught accidentally) are killed. 
•Several chickens are stuffed into battery cages together, unable to even
spread their wings and often not able to stand up. 95% of poultry suffer from
injury before being killed. 
•Every year, millions of male chicks are gassed or pulped because they can not
lay eggs, while their sisters go to the battery sheds. 
•Chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic so they won't hurt each other in the
unnaturally tight confines they're kept in. To us, this would be like having
our fingernails pulled out without anaesthetic. 
•Sows are kept crammed in stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on concrete or slatted floors,
so small they can not even turn around. 
•Cows naturally produce 5 litres of milk per day for their calves, but under
the systems of modern farming are made to produce 25-40 litres a day. This
results in swollen & inflamed udders, and they are soon worn out. Cows
naturally live up to 20 years, but are slaughtered at 5-7 years when their
milk production begins to fall. •Cows only give milk for 10 months after they
have a calf, so they are routinely artificially inseminated (or mechanically
raped) to keep them pregnant and milking. Their calves are taken away,usually
at 12 hours old, for meat or export to veal crates.

reasons for your HEALTH:
•Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (meaning they
live longer & don't get sick as often). 
•Vegetarians are 40% less likely to get cancer than meat-eaters. This is
thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E. 
•Osteoporosis (due to calcium loss from bones) is mainly due to the sulphur
content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the
urine. The countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with
the highest levels of brittle bones. 
•Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet
(meaning meat and/or dairy).