Did you know that:
Vegetarians
can save up to 15% on their life insurance because
a vegetarian diet results in a longer, healthier life.
Vegetarians
and vegans (vegans eat no dairy or eggs, as well as not eating
meat)
have a significantly lower risk of heart attacks, strokes,
and cancer.
98%
of the grain grown in the world is fed to the animals that are
used to feed just 2% of the world's population.
Think how many hungry people could be fed if we stopped raising
pigs, cows, and chickens for food.
Every
hamburger you buy costs the US economy approximately $100.
The pollution from, food for, and cost of running factory farms
is staggering.
Animals
experience terror, worry, panic, and pain -- and with no verbal
ability to express their emotions
and physical sensations, these things are even more traumatic
for them than they are for humans.
Rats
giggle when tickled.
Pigs
are smarter than dogs, and they love their babies.
They experience
intense emotional anguish when their babies are taken away.
Piglets are torn from their
mothers early -- so they can enter the chain of horror
that is life for an animal raised to become food.
Chimps
share 98% of our DNA.
Even knowing this fact, organizations like the March
of Dimes continue to torture them,
using their similarity to humans against them in pointless, repetitive,
horrendous medical experiments.
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Despite
the current attempts by those who profit from the abuse of animals
-- pharmaceutical and household product companies, factory "farmers",
big agricultural companies, etc... -- to portray them as such,
animal rights activists are NOT crazy "tree-huggers"
or eco-terrorists. We're people who see animals as important,
valuable beings who deserve much better treatment than what we
give them. No animal deserves to be tortured mentally,
emotionally , or physically. No animal was put on this earth to
serve us. No animal was put on this earth to test our toothpaste,
hair spray, or medical procedures. It is human arrogance that
puts animals on factory farms, in slaughterhouses, medical and
product testing labs, in alleged "fashion", and in circuses,
petting zoos, and aquariums.
Become
a compassionate consumer and a compassionate human --
by eliminating animal products from your life. It's easier than
you think. Click any of our links to find out about delicious
(really, we swear!) vegetarian foods, animal friendly products
and clothing, non-animal circuses, and ways to get involved that
anyone can add to their already busy life.
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