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According to the Harvard Public School of Health, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can help prevent heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure and cholesterol, some types of cancer, and even vision loss. I am sure that the majority of people who read this site, at least knows someone who has high cholesterol and who is on medication for it as well. Instead of taking medication that may or may not help, why not try a complete vegan diet for one month? There is no cholesterol whatsoever in a vegan diet, and the fruits and veggies help lower cholesterol on top of that.
For now my website is dedicated to the animals, and why you should be vegan solely for them. But if animals do not hold a special place in your heart, then I urge you to look into the dangers of the Standard American Diet, and how much you can benefit from a vegan and also a vegetarian diet. To each his own…
Many people believe that this is how a chicken lives out its life. Walking around in the grass, under the sun, going into the chicken coop when its gets cold or rainy, and having complete access to food and water at all times. After all, this is what the books we read as children showed us.
This is how almost all chickens live out their entire lives. The cages they are kept in offer each chicken no more room than the size of a piece notebook paper. They cannot turn around and they cannot spread their wings. They stay here until they are taken to the slaughterhouse. Where everything gets worse.
This is how most "free-range" chickens live out their lives. Inside massive sheds. Many die from disease due to all the waste matter on the floor. The only fresh air they get, come from larges fans in the sheds. They never see sunlight.
"On the first day of the tour, all the farmers piled into one school bus and toured through the countryside of Iowa. Unfortunately, it was not a nice view. Corporate hog farms are taking over. These farms pock the landscape with large barns compacted with hundreds of pigs, unable to move, touch grass or see the sun. This intensive farming also brings problems to the environment and consumers. The manure of over a thousand hogs pollutes the farms and the air, making local residents gasp for a breath of fresh air. The hogs are fed feed that contains antibiotics and genetically modified organisms, with unknown health impacts to the consumer who eventually buys the bacon in the supermarket."
One if these farms is only about 20 miles away from my town. I pass it over 5 times a week. Inside of these sheds pigs are crammed into crates so small they do not have room to move or walk around. They live their entire lives here.When female pigs get pregnant, they are moved into a seperate crate. (bottom-right corner) The tranfer between crates is the only time they will ever walk. The new crate is just big enough for the mother to lay down.
Millions of animals die every year to make fur coats for humans to wear. We take off THEIR SKIN and put it on OURS! The first fur video I ever watched, literally stuck in my mind for weeks. It terrified me. You can see a small raccoon being hung upside down by his ankles. A man makes two cuts near the raccoons ankles and peels the skin and fur off around his legs. The animal is screaming and squirming. The man continues and eventually has the fur peeled off up to the raccoons front arms. By this time the animal has stopped screaming but is still moving. The man grabs onto the coat, gets on his knees and tugs violently at the skin, trying to peel it off over the animals arms and head. When he is finally done, he tosses the animal onto a huge rotting pile of other animal corpses. The camera zooms into the raccoons face, he looks at the camera dazed and confused. He blinks one last time and dies. I watched that video over two years ago, and can still remember everything about it. The only thing left on his body were his eyelashes that I saw when he blinked. It haunted me for weeks.
Some animals are killed before they are skinned. An electric rod is inserted up to three inches or more into their behinds, as well as into their mouths. It is turned on and they are electrocuted, this way it does not harm their coats. Many times it doesn't kill them though, and they are alive for the skinning process as well.
And for the people out there that care so much about global warming, it takes three times as much energy to make a fur coat from trapped animals, and 40 times as much energy to make a coat from ranch raised animals, then it does to make a FAKE fur coat....and the fur industry is nowhere near as large as the meat and dairy production industry. Imagine the energy we use there.
Foie Gras is known as a delicacy in France, and comes from the fattened, or enlarged liver of a duck or goose. In the picture you can see the animals are kept in cages, and they cannot turn around. Their heads are kept outside of these cages so that the workers are able to feed them quicker. They are fed more than three times a day, but in the most inhumane way possible. Metal tubes are shoved down their throats and they are pumped full of feed. Often times the tubes are put into their mouths so quickly, that their throats are skinned,the tube is poked through their throats completely, or their beaks are broken.This picture shows a normal healthy duck/goose liver on the right. On the left is a picture of the livers of these force fed birds.
"People around the world have spoken out against the cruelty of foie gras. In 2004, California passed a law banning the sale and production of foie gras effective in 2012, and Chicago banned the sale of this cruel product in 2006. His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI denounced force-feeding as being in violation of Biblical principles, and foie gras production has been outlawed in the U.K., Germany, the Czech Republic, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, and Israel."
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