What People Say

When I told my family I was going veg, they thought i was going crazy..my mum even started calling me vegetable for a while! :) 

You're probably thinking about how hard it will be for you to be the only vegetarian in your family, but trust me, it really is NOT THAT HARD!

 People will always have an opinion on your choice that they feel they must express but if you don't take things too seriously you'll learn to brush away stupid comments.

 Here are some things that my friends and family have said, you might be able to relate:

"You do know that animals don't have a soul right?"


"Don't you miss chicken wings and spare ribs and sausages?"



"God made animals for us to eat and do whatever we want with"


"You're not really making a difference, animals will still get killed!"


"You're going to die of hunger"


"Where are you going to get your protein from? You're going to stay the same height forever"


"Are you sure that's possible?"


"If you don't eat the cows, they're going to keep farting which causes global warming!"                  


And there are dozens more!


What I'm trying to say is, people can be REALLY unsuportive at times, and it's easy to tell yourself that they're right, but whenever you're thinking about caving in just because of other people think, remember the reason why YOU chose to change.
One of the reasons why I changed?

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.  ~George Bernard Shaw









                                                     

Going Veg = Going Green

Cos vegetables are green so that should be right, right? :) I didn't even think about the meat industry and global warming (except the thing about cows farts :) but here are some kinda crazy facts about the meat industries contribution to the big GW

"According to Environmental Defense, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off U.S. roads." -  awesome right?

Livestock production leaves a hefty carbon footprint, accounting for 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all the world’s cars & SUVs combined.

- Thats a lot of bad air!

Animal agriculture consumes 1/3 of fossil fuels produced in the United States. According to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the production of one calorie of animal protein requires more than 10 times the fossil fuel input as a calorie of plant protein.

 According to scientists at the Smithsonian Institution, seven football fields' worth of land is bulldozed every minute to create more room for farmed animals and the crops that feed them - Deforastation of billions of acres every year to feed the agricultural industry is increasing CO2 emissions and using up vital land




Each day, factory farms produce billions of pounds of manure, which ends up in lakes, rivers, and drinking water. Farmed animals produce about 130 times as much excrement as does the entire human population of the United States—87,000 pounds of waste per second! - Thats the true BULLSHIT right there!


In Conclusion, MEAT'S NOT GREEN

A recent United Nations report concluded that a global shift toward a vegan diet is necessary to combat the worst effects of climate change. Going Green is something we all need to do, so instead of buying a hybrid or solar panels, why dont we all just leave meat off our plates? 

Save the animals.

Save the planet.
Save ourselves.

Meet your Meat

What a clever name :) And that is exactly what this video does..It shows you where your pork chops and chicken wings come from..This video is what motivated me to become a vegetarian and change my carnivorous ways. It shows the lives of the animals before and during their slaughter...it shows their sad lives in cramped cages and filthy conditions and the routine cruelty imposed on billions of animals yearly. This video made me cry, it made me angry it almost made me vomit but most importantly, it made me change :)

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