Why everyone should become vegetarian?!
1 There are many subsidies to the meat industry, but the biggest break, by far, comes in the fact that the Animal Welfare Act does not apply to food animals. Consequently, what once at best might have been described as animal husbandry is now nothing more than factory production. With virtually no laws to protect them, cruelty and abuse of farm animals are institutional. If farmers were forced by law to give their animals spacious environments, clean surroundings, fresh air and sunlight--if it weren't legal to simply administer drugs to animals who would otherwise die from the conditions they live in--cheap fast food could never exist. Ultimately, low prices have kept demand high and allowed the industry to grow. Virtually all of the now over 8 billion animals slaughtered for food in the United States every year are the product of a
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1 There are many subsidies to the meat industry, but the biggest break, by far, comes in the fact that the Animal Welfare Act does not apply to food animals. Consequently, what once at best might have been described as animal husbandry is now nothing more than factory production. With virtually no laws to protect them, cruelty and abuse of farm animals are institutional. If farmers were forced by law to give their animals spacious environments, clean surroundings, fresh air and sunlight--if it weren't legal to simply administer drugs to animals who would otherwise die from the conditions they live in--cheap fast food could never exist. Ultimately, low prices have kept demand high and allowed the industry to grow. Virtually all of the now over 8 billion animals slaughtered for food in the United States every year are the product of a
Just to let you people know who are concerned for caring about humans more than animals, cows and pig consume so much corn and grass that the fields used to grow their food can actually be used to feed the starving people around the world.
In addition, cows and pig produce so much waste and flatulence it actually contributes to global warming and their grazing land also helps destroy the environment and humans since we are clearing out land and making them into graze land for the livestock.
Killing animals is so cruel you don't even know what they have to endure. Lives are being lost when it can be prevented. You people should watch earthlings http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/earthli... and you will know.
For those who still do not care, In a way the animals are slowly getting it's revenge by causing high cholesterol, high blood pressure and all those good stuff.
Its not going to happen any time soon.
not everyone is a rabbit and likes to eat rabbit food
any idea how many people on the poverty line would starve, we already have a situation in Britain where pensioners often have to choose between heating or food. I am not saying that much of our animal husbandry is right, but it is supply and demand and its down to the governments to bring in legislation to make it safer for animals. According to the sources recently our farmers get just 3p per chicken, so its not necessarily the farmer that's making fat profits, but supermarkets. I would love to see all animals being kept in safe environmentally friendly conditions, free range, but that is some way off. And this has nothing to do with becoming a vegetarian, i eat meat and will continue to do so.
Zzzzznkkk.. SNORE. Give it a rest.
as long as your happy.
ive cut down on my meat intake....well chicken..it just dont taste like chicken any more.
Yes why is it that if I were to keep chickens for example in the conditions 'farmers' keep theirs, Id be prosecuted but its OK for them to keep them in cramped filthy conditions then expect people to buy them and actually eat them. ugh
If for no other reason, veggies are an awful lot cheaper than meat.
I bet Da Vinci, was reared on MEAT!!!
Stop preaching spend your time worrying about how people treat each other in this world rather than animals!
You forgot that meat production is one of the major contributors to global warming. Why didn't Al Gore mention anything about that? Oh yeah b/c his family owns a cattle ranch. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?i...
I never thought the divide between the US & the UK in animal husbandry regulations was quite as big as it is. Why arent more people demanding reform in welfare conditions in the US ? I dont understand how the american public can be so complacent about eating what is obviously very low quality meat products ?
Everything comes of age, and eventually everyone must eat from that horrible tree of knowlege that ruins everybodies “innocence” no matter how much they might rebel against the knowlege of the truth. As vegetarians we must enlighten people on the dark side of their lifestyle but we should never preach. With age comes wisdom and loss of imaturity.
End of the day, there will be no space on the earth, human-tree-animal will compete each others for space, resources and oxygen, and the livestock has to go first!
“Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.”
On your bike.......................Nobody on this earth will stop ME from eating meat.
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some of those 100 "facts" are true, some are emotive opinion.
Thats a shame, i think a factual list would have been much better.
No welfare reform is going to protect animals from being murdered for dinner.
The thing that stands in the way of animal rights is the law. Humans are lawfully allowed to own nonhuman animals as if they were property. Since the law was built on property rights, a humans right to own a nonhuman will trump any concern for the animal's welfare, let alone the rights it duly deserves.
The key is to change social convention. Spread this message, everyone should be vegan. Once we have a critical mass of people directly opposed to the ownership of nonhuman animals, we can change the law or run the exploiters out of business.
who cares if it tastes good eat it settled
most animals live like 6 months anyway