“Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“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 D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

“People who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for
meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by their cruelty . . .
that is God at work.”
- Fleur Wiorkowski

“The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

“Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, ‘I think I’ll
drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze ‘em!’?”
- Calvin & Hobbes

“About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in order to
produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person
for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a
person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will
feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by
humans in the form of livestock products.”
- M.E. Ensminger, Ph.D.

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
- James A. Froude (1818-1894)

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We
feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we’re
not contributing to their pain.”
- Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney

“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can
be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and
justice cannot dwell together.”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Heather Mills has donated $1 million worth of vegan food to the Hunts Point Alliance for Children. The food will be distributed to impoverished children in Hunts Point, Bronx. Mills kicked off the donation with a vegan barbecue over the weekend, and was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition by Congressman Jose Serrano.

Sure, it’s cynical ploy for good publicity, but if only all celebrities
would rehabilitate their reputations through such vegan-friendly
methods! You can’t deny the real benefit to the animals and the school
children.

This video was taken by Mercy For Animals investigators at Ohio Fresh Eggs (formerly Buckeye Egg Farm), one of the largest egg factory farms in the country.

Unfortunately, these incidents are not isolated. Animal cruelty is widespread in factory farms and slaughterhouses across the country.

1) Vegans on average live 6 years longer than non-vegans.
2) The average vegan total cholesterol level is 128. The lowest level for a heart attack is 150.
3) Milk consuption has been linked to cholic, ear infections, asthma, and a whole slew of other diseases.
4) Cholesterol can cause impotence
5) Vegans dont consume any cholesterol
6) Vegans dont smoke, and smoking is one of the leading causes of death
7) 33% percent of Americans are OBESE, while only 2% of vegans are
Tofu is a lot cheaper than steak
9) Fur has formeldahyde in it, which has been known to cause cancers and etc
10) Charred meats contain carcinogens that can cause cancers
11)
Fast food meats like those at McDonald’s have thousands of additives
that are not only addictive, they can cause you to gain weight and mess
up your whole body
12) The USFDA recognizes vegetarian and vegan diets as the healthiest diets.
13) Veal calves are often stillborn or unborn.
14)
Veal calves that are born are raises in crates where they cant even
turn around, and are fed only a diet of milk for 16 weeks before they
are slaughtered.
15) Dairy cows on average live for 5-7 years, where as they are able to live to 20 years or more!
16) Pigs are more intelligent than dogs, and have the intelligence of a 3-year old.
17) Egg-laying hens are kept without water and food for 14 days at a time to force their bodies into another egg-laying cycle
18) It takes 7 cows to furnish a leather interior Mercedes-Benz
19) Milk is known to cause acne breakouts
20) MEAT IS DEAD FLESH

How many more reasons do you need?