Pro-Vegan

PRO: In favor of a proposition, opinion, etc.
VEGAN: A strict vegetarian; someone who eats no animal or dairy products at all.
This is just a page to inform people about all the cruelty that goes on and all the suffering that animals have to go through just so you can eat them, wear them, or find new cures/medicines etc. and also to help animals by sharing petitions etc.
It's a page for animal lovers, vegetarians, vegans, people against animal cruelty etc. So don't bother adding this if you're not one of them.
Here you can speak to each other about issues and add other people who share the same views about these things.
Plus, I will post bulletins each time I hear about some kind of petition etc. to help animals so that you can choose to sign it.
Here you can also ask whether something is vegetarian/vegan or tested on animals and I will try to find out for you. =)
Or if you're not yet a vegetarian/vegan but you want to be, just ask for some tips.
Feel free to copy the information/pictures on here and use it on your page.
TYPES OF VEGETARIAN:

- Lacto-ovo-vegetarian:
Eats no meat but eats both dairy products and eggs.
- Lacto-vegetarian:
Eats no meat or eggs but eats dairy products.
- Ovo-vegetarian:
Eats no meat or dairy products but eats eggs.
- Vegan:
Does not eat meat, dairy products, eggs or any other animal product, does not wear fur or leather and does not use any products which contain any kind of animal product.
REASONS TO BECOME VEGETARIAN/VEGAN:
- For the animals, against animal cruelty.
- Don't like the thought of eating dead animals flesh.
- For your health.
- Diet, lose weight.
- Religion.
- Can be Cheaper.
- Just don't like the taste.
- For your karma.
- For the Environment.
CHECK OUT THESE SITES:
- Mercy's Law.
- Peta.
- Peta UK.
- Peta2.
- Defenders Of Wildlife.
- Viva.
- WSPA.
- RSPCA.
- ASPCA.
- Vegetarian Society.
- Vegan Society.
- GoVeg.
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
- "Animals Matter To Me" Petition
- Dogs Trust.
- Blue Cross.
- Fur Is Dead.
- KFC Cruelty.
- Iams Cruelty.
- Mars Cruelty.
- Covance Cruelty.
- Ringling Circus Cruelty.
- Protect Seals.
- Seal Massacre.
- "Stop The Seal Massacre" Petition.
- Fishing Hurts.
- IFAW.
- Medical Research Charity Without Using Animals.
- MilkSucks.
- Truth About British Heart Foundation.
More coming soon...
If you have/know of a vegetarian/vegan/animal rights site, let me know and I'll add it to the list.
VEGETARIAN QUOTES
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." Paul McCartney.
"I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot." Kate Bush.
A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything." Slaughterhouse 1997.
"A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children." David Brenner.
"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." Harvey Diamond.
"How can you eat anything with eyes?" Will Kellogg.
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." Neal Barnard, M.D.
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends." George Bernard Shaw.
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own." Robert Louis Stevenson.
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens." Isaac Bashevis Singer.
"Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends." Author Unknown.
"Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
"If you're not vegan, you're not vegetarian." V.L. Allineare.
"The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk." Michael Klaper.
"Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal." Ingrid Newkirk.
"We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"" k.d. lang.
"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses." George Bernard Shaw.
"It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust." Percy Bysshe Shelley.
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein.
"I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb." Vaslav Nijinsky.
"Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice?" Anonymous.
"I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals." George Bernard Shaw.
"Animals were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." Alice Walker.
"The time will come when people such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of people." Leonardo da Vinci.
"Animals raised for food endure great suffering in their housing, transport, feeding and slaughter." J Motavalli.
"I can imagine myself going through exactly what they're going through, and I want to stop it." Ingrid Newkirk.
"I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings." Cesar Chavez.
"The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future: deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities, and the spread of disease." World Watch.
"Nothing will benefit health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein.
"If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do." Paul McCartney.
Illnesses/Diseases Caused/Affected by Meat and Dairy Consumption:
- Allergies
- Breast Cancer
- Colon Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Cancer in general
- Colic
- Crohn's Disease
- Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
- Diabetes
- Diverticular Disease
- Ear Infections
- Eczema
- Food Poisoning
- Fibromyalgia
- Gallstones
- Gastrointestinal Problems
- Hypertension
- Infertility
- Kidney Problems
- Migraines
- Osteoporosis
- Obesity
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Strokes
- SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
and more...
- Vegetarians and vegans live, on average, six to ten years longer than meat-eaters.
- The risk of developing heart disease amoung meat-eaters is 50 percent higher than amoung vegetarians.
Facts About What Is In Meat:
- Researchers estimate that an ordinary glass of milk contains up to seven drops of pus. This isn’t just disgusting, it can also be dangerous. Pus can contain paratuberculosis bacteria, which are believed to cause Crohn’s disease in human beings.
- In every package of chicken, there's a little poop. A USDA study found that 98 percent of broiler chicken carcasses had detectable levels of E. coli, indicating fecal contamination.
- Most animal products are packed full of antibiotics, dioxins, and foodborne pathogens like E-coli, salmonella and campylobacter. Millions of people get sick each year from eating contaminated meat, especially chicken and fish, and thousands die.
Facts About Animals:
- Pigs are smarter than dogs and 3-year-old children.
- Hens and chickens talk to each other... even while the chick is still in the egg.
- If you give an apple or a small ball to a group of turkeys, they'll play with it together, kind of like they're on a football or soccer team.
- Cows are excellent mothers - they even take turns babysitting for each other!
- Fish use their mouths and tongues in pretty much the same way that we use our hands. They use their mouths to build nests, to catch food, and to hide their babies.
- Chickens are as smart as Cats and Dogs.
Facts About How Meat Is Made:
- The meat, eggs and dairy products that you consume no longer come from the small family farms that you see in children's books. They're produced in intensive factory farms, where animals suffer from confinement, routine bodily mutilations, and painful slaughter techniques.
- Chickens have their beaks sliced off with a hot blade, Baby cows are seperated from their mothers within 24 hours of birth, Pigs get their teeth cut in half and their tails cut off.
- In order for a cow to produce milk, she must first have a calf. Female cows are artificially inseminated shortly after their first birthday. After giving birth, they lactate for 10 months, then they are reinseminated, and the cycle starts again.
- Chickens are kept in extremely crowded, filthy sheds. They have been bred and drugged to the point where they can barely walk. One recent PETA investigation found workers ripping live birds' heads off to write graffiti with their blood and squeezing them so hard that they expelled feces onto other birds.
- Egg-laying hens are packed so tightly into cages that they can't even stretch one wing. The birds' bones and muscles waste away from lack of use, and by the time they're slaughtered, their bodies have to be turned into soup or cat food because they're too worn out for anything else. Male chicks hatched on egg farms are thrown into a mechanical grinder while they are still alive, "rendered," made into feed, and fed back to other factory-farmed animals - Including hens.
- Cattle raised for beef have their horns and testicles cut out and third-degree burns inflicted on them (branding) - all without painkillers.
- Dairy cows have electric machines hooked up to their huge, swollen udders, causing cuts and injuries - and the resulting pus, blood, and scabs all end up in that milk mustache. The stress caused by factory-farm conditions leads to disease, lameness, and reproductive problems, so by age 4 or 5 they are slaughtered.
- After birth, male calves are torn from their mothers and shipped to veal farms, where they spend their lives on short chains in filthy, narrow stalls. They're unable to move around and fed nutrient-deficient food so that their flesh will be pale and soft when served.
- Pigs in factory farms spend their lives on concrete floors in extremely cramped pens. The male piglets get their testicles yanked out without painkillers.
- Fish feel pain as do all animals, especially when they're hooked through the mouth or dragged out of the ocean in nets to die slow, agonizing deaths by crushing, suffocation, or disemboweling.
- Chickens are killed when they are less than 2 months old, pigs are slaughtered at the age of 6 months, and cows barely see their first birthday.
- Animals are shoved, kicked and tossed into crowded trucks for long, often crippling rides through sweltering heat or freezing rain to the slaughterhouse. Food, water and veterinary care aren't "wasted" on animals who are going to be killed. Countless animals arrive at the slaughterhouse with broken bones or other injuries - or dead.
- Workers hoist them upside-down and slit their throats. Some animals get stunned, but many animals are completely conscious, kicking and crying out, as they are skinned and cut to pieces.
- There are no regulations whatsoever for "free-range" meat, dairy products and eggs. Most "free-range" animals are still mutilated and forced to endure long trips to slaughterhouses without food or water. All of them are denied most of their natural behaviors, and all have their lives violently cut short.
Meet Your Meat
Coming Soon...
Information about the following:
- Animal Testing.
- Fur/Leather.
- Hunting/Fishing/Extinction.
- Spaying/Neutering.
- Pit Bulls/Dog Fighting.
- Animals Used For Entertainment.
- Animal Cruelty.
- Peta.
[If you want me to put information about a certain topic, just ask me.]