Please explain why people are vegan?!
Answers: i understand vegitarian because they dont want to kill the animal but like eggs milk that doesnt harm the animal??
Eggs and milk do harm that animal. Laying hens and dairy cattle are kept in deplorable conditions and live drastically shortened lives because of it. Cows don't produce milk unless they produce young, so dairy cattle are repeatedly artificially inseminated in order to keep them pregnant and producing (google the term "rape rack.") Their young are taken from them within the first 24 hours of life so they don't drink up the profits. Male calves have no value in a dairy operation so they are sold to the veal crates to live their short miserable lives cramped into the box they can't turn around it. Females follow their mothers into milk production and end up slaughtered for cheap beef when they "wear out" at 5 or 6 (as opposed to 15 or 20, which would be the normal life span of a cow.) In the meantime, because they have been bred to have grossly oversized udders and are milked by machine, most dairy cattle have chronic mastitis and are kept on massive doses of antibiotics to curtail it (the end result? pus in your milk.) Laying hens are kept confined 6 or 8 to a cage for their entire lives. Each bird has space about the size of a sheet of notebook paper, meaning they cannot even open their wings. They have their beaks sliced off with a hot knife so that they cannot peck each other to death from the stress of the conditions they are kept in. Many see their feet grow deformed from living their life on wire. Male chicks have no value to a laying operation so they are killed as soon as they are sexed. They are either ground up alive or they are piled into a dumpster to suffocate. Again, once their "useful life" is over, laying hens are sent to slaughter, most likely to end up as dog food. The dairy and egg industries are industries of torture and death as surely as the beef industry is.
I was vegetarian for 14 years before I became vegan and I became vegan because animals are hurt by the production of milk and eggs and when I realised this, I could no longer sustain just being a vegetarian.
When a cow gives birth she produces milk to grow her calf. With natural behaviour the mother would look after her calf for month's. In the dairy industry the calf is dragged away as it is depriving the milk industry of the chance to get at the milk. Cattle are very sensitive creatures and the mother and calf grieve when torn apart. In order to keep the cow producing milk, this has to be done annually as without that, the milk would dry up. Cattle are milked till they are exhausted with cows often being slaughtered after five or six years. If left to their own devices cattle will live for much longer. Calves that are female enter the production line like their mothers, males are shipped to veal crates or destroyed because they cannot produce milk.
Their is a similar tale of woe for eggs, but just the cages or overcrowded barns in the case of (supposedly) free-range hens and intensive production says it all.
The meat and dairy industries are so inter-related that to say animals are not hurt just is not accurate. In my view, there is no such thing as a by-product in animal production, just ever more creative ways to gain more revenue from the same animal/carcus
I hope that helps you.
It's stealing from animals and it's not what nature intended.
Also, in dairy factories, animals are abused to produce any product :dairy, eggs, and meat.
Cows are abused no matter if they make milk or eggs.
watch some videos on it and you'll see.
They are extremists and woefully uninformed, and they always have a pallor and dark circles under their eyes..
I will put it in as few words as possible.
Calf is born, evil farmer wants mums milk, calf is killed.
Chicken lays egg, chicks in egg, male chick killed, female chick put in a battery cage unable to move.
Animals go through ALOT to produce other products for us! Like milk (cows have to be kept pregnant their WHOLE lives to make milk!) Think about how tough that would be on their bodies. Poor chickens are kept in tiny cages and have their beaks cut off, all so that we can eat their eggs. It's nice to think that all animals live on this wonderful farm and roam free and when they get around to it, lay an egg now and again. But that's just not how it works.
Actually, it usually does.
http://www.factoryfarming.org/gallery/ph...