NOTE: ALU posts a lot of bulletins, if you don't like it then don't add me. Thank you. GET YOUR BANNERS HERE; ADD ONE TO YOUR PAGE AND SUPPORT ALU!Thank you, H a n n a for making such a beautiful graphic!This site is run and designed for animal lovers/rights activists/vegans and vegetarians to come together and talk about our love for these beautiful creatures. I will NOT accept any slander about ANY creature on this earth, understood? This is an absolutely hate-free zone. If you want to make quips about animals or the activists trying to help save innocent victims, take it somwhere else!Reasons to GO VEG- Ending Cruelty: Factory farmed animals are crammed by the thousands into windowless sheds, wire cages, and other confinement systems. Cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and other animals are kept in small cages, in over-crowded sheds. They are deprived of exercise so all their energy can go towards producing eggs, milk or flesh for human consumption. The bird’s legs are constantly broken from being thrown in the shackles. Their beaks removed on arrival, and their wings are clipped back, so they can’t use them. They are fed drugs to fatten them and keep them alive through the most unbearable of conditions. Many die inches from water or food, because they are made so heavy they can’t hold their weight. Most animals are still alive and conscious when they are hung up to be maimed and murdered. Birds are boiled alive, after being shocked nearly, but not to death. Helping the Environment: A major 2006 report by the United Nations summarized the devastation caused by the meat industry. Raising animals for food, the report said, is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity. Livestock’s contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale…†Since factory farms don’t have sewage treatment like our cities do, their feces end up polluting our water. Farmed animals execrate nearly 130 times as much as the entire human population of the U.S. Many leading environmental organizations such as National Audubon Society, the World Watch Institute, the Union of Concerned Scientists, among others, have said that raising animals for food damages our environment more than just about anything else we do. “The most important step you can take to save the planet is to go vegetarian.†- taken from the website www.goveg.com Health Benifits: Studies have proven the vegetarian and vegan diet to be beneficial to your health. Vegetarians in the U.S. have a lower risk of heart disease than the general U.S. population. The low-fat content of vegetarian foods may be the reason for this. Vegetarians, especially vegans, have less association with obesity. This may be because they eat less calories and fat, add more fiber and increase physical activity. Although inconclusive, some evidence shows that vegetarians have lower rates of osteoporosis, kidney stones and gallstones.The next time you choose to bite into a big juicy hamburger remember what that burger used to be, and what the world could be if you could just put it aside and picked up a fabulous Veggie burger instead!
