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VEGAN A vegan excludes animal flesh (meat, poultry, fish and seafood) Animal products (eggs and dairy)And usually excludes honey Also the wearing and use of animal products(leather, silk, wool, lanolin, gelatin) Produced in intensive factory farms, where animals suffer from confinement at the age of 6 months. Cows barely see their first birthday. Chickens and turkeys raised for meat are kept in huge, overcrowded, putrid sheds. Chickens have their beaks sliced off with a hot knife. Egg-laying hens are packed so tightly into cages that they can't even stretch one wing. Pigs get their teeth cut in half and their tails cut off. Pigs on factory farms spend their lives on concrete floors in crowded pens. Like chickens and turkeys, pigs are drugged and bread to grow so fast and so big that many can barely walk. 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. 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. Got Pus? Milk does. In the U.S. we have the highest permitted upper limit of milk pus cell concentration in the world. Baby cows are separated from their mothers within 24 hours of birth. Fish fell 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. More than half the water consumed in the U.S. is used to raise animals for food. A vegetarian/vegan diet requires 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat-eating diet requires more than 4,000 gallons.It is also good for your body. Vegetarians and vegans live on average 6 to 10 years longer then meat-eaters. Up to 33% of teens are obese and about two-thirds of all Americans are overweight or obese. Only 2% of vegans are obese.