![]() In comments reportedly made during a press briefing for her new movie SALT, Angelina Jolie discussed her bad experiences with a vegan diet. Investigating Raw Vegan and Other Diet Gurus: Can You Trust Them? Hello Organic25yrs, If you must know, (I should update my About page with this info) I went vegan in 1999. Since then I founded the longest running vegan message. The most common questions a vegan gets, upon sharing that he or she follows a plant-based diet, are: Where do you get your protein? How do you get enough? More reasons to be VEGAN. What we eat is a learned process or habit. Since the day we are born we are forced into the habits of our parents or those who raise us. ![]() A Vegan Diet is Not Healthy. The Top Reasons. 1. Animals Want to Live; They Love Life and Fear Death. We’re taught to think of animals raised for food — if we think of them at all — as an abstract category— “farm animals”— nameless, faceless herds and flocks whose generic characteristics are merely recycled through an endless stream of indistinct entities. But farmed animals are individuals with unique personalities and emotions, just like cats and dogs. Author’s note: It’s important to recognize that veganism isn’t just a diet. Our society is literally built on animal exploitation, from clothing and cosmetics. My recent analysis of Harley Johnston’s (30 Bananas a day) aka Durianrider A vegan diet is often touted as being the ultimate healthiest way to eat then why is that some people who go vegan still get acne? Or worse, develop acne that they. Director’s Note: The science and research done on the true impacts of animal agriculture is always growing. The statistics used in the film were based on the best. They feel joy, affection, and pleasure, as well as fear, grief, and pain. Like us, they form deep friendships and emotional bonds and like us they seek to preserve their lives. The above footage is not graphic; it shows the experience of a cow who is waiting in line to die. Contrast with this footage of possibly the world’s happiest cow. The Egg and Dairy Industries Also Cause Immense Suffering and Death. ![]() It is a common misconception that animals are not harmed in the production of eggs and dairy. In fact, the egg and dairy industries cause enormous suffering and kill billions of hens and baby chicks, and millions of cows and calves, every year. Hens used for eggs are slaughtered at 1. In nature, wild hens lay only 1. But domesticated chickens have been genetically manipulated to produce between 2. More than 9. 5% of chickens used for eggs are confined in cages so small they cannot even spread their wings, and the majority of “cage- free” and “free range” eggs come from miserable hens packed inside filthy warehouses by the thousands. Most hens used for eggs have a portion of their beaks painfully cut off to prevent nervous pecking in overcrowded conditions, and at the hatcheries where new hens are hatched to be sent to egg farms — including humane label farms, small farms, and backyard hen operations — 6 billion male chicks are destroyed every year by being suffocated or ground up alive. The female calves on this small dairy farm have been taken from their mothers and are being raised in typical calf hutches. See video. Similarly, all dairy farming depends on the exploitation of female reproduction, and on the destruction of motherhood. Like all mammals, cows only make milk to feed their babies. On dairy farms, including small and humane label farms, calves are permanently removed from their mothers within hours of birth so that humans can take the milk intended for them. Male calves are slaughtered for veal or raised for cheap beef. Female calves spend their first 2 to 3 months of life isolated in lonely hutches, with no maternal nurturing during the time they seek it most. Hens used for eggs and cows used for milk are also slaughtered when their production declines, at only a fraction of their natural lifespans. Learn more about the hidden harms of eggs and dairy, even on so- called humane farms, at our features, Eggs: What Are you Really Eating? Science Confirms: We Have No Need to Consume Animal Products. A well balanced vegan diet can easily provide all the nutrients we need to thrive. Government health experts worldwide are finally catching up with the large body of scientific evidence demonstrating that a vegan diet is not only a viable option for people of any age, but that eating plant foods instead of animal- based foods can confer significant health benefits, including reduction in incidence of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attack, stroke, and some types of cancer. In their official position paper on vegetarian and vegan diets, the American Dietetic Association— the U. S.’s oldest, largest and foremost authority on diet and nutrition— states that well- balanced vegan diets “are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases,” and that they are “appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.”Learn more at our features, Catching Up With Science: Burying the “Humans Need Meat” Argument and Vegan Diets: Sorting Through the Nutritional Myths. Animal Agriculture’s War on Wildlife. A raccoon left to die in a foot- hold trap. While many people are aware that more than 1. U. S., far fewer know that in the last decade alone, more than 3. USDA that is primarily employed to destroy wildlife deemed a threat to animal agriculture. The USDA’s Animal Damage Control (ADC) program was established in 1. The government later changed the program’s name to “Wildlife Services” on the advice of public relations strategists, and changed their motto to the benign sounding, “Living with Wildlife.”A coyote hangs dead in a government neck snare. Photo by former Wildlife Services employee. In reality, Wildlife Services spends millions of tax- payer dollars each year to kill native carnivores and predators — coyotes, wolves, bears, mountain lions, and many others — on behalf of the livestock industry. These animals are destroyed by the most violent and gruesome methods imaginable: gunned down from helicopters; poisoned; gassed; torn apart by trained dogs; strangled to death in neck snares; and caught in torturous leg- hold traps in which they languish and slowly die. Of the millions of animals destroyed by Wildlife Services each year, coyotes are perhaps the most viciously targeted. Every year, tens of thousands of coyotes die slow, agonizing deaths in traps simply because Wildlife Services is not required to check their traps, and personnel frequently do not return to traps for weeks. Workers also “unintentionally” kill tens of thousands of “non- target” animals each year via indiscriminate and excessive trapping and poisoning. Collateral victims include federally protected golden and bald eagles (who frequently die in leg and neck snares), beavers, armadillos, badgers, great- horned owls, hog- nosed skunks, javelina, pronghorn antelope, porcupines, great blue herons, ruddy ducks, snapping turtles, turkey vultures, long- tailed weasels, marmots, mourning doves, red- tailed hawks, black bears, sandhill cranes and ringtails; as well as swift foxes, kit foxes and river otters, all the focus of conservation and restoration efforts. Thousands of domestic dogs and cats are also killed each year when they stumble upon traps or poisoned baits. Bald eagle in a leg- hold trap. Photo: wyominguntrapped. The millions of animals being targeted and destroyed by Wildlife Services eat other animals to survive. Humans have no biological need to consume animal products and most of us have access to plant- based foods. Killing animals for food when we have other options, and killing innocent wild animals who have no other options, are equally indefensible practices. It should be noted that a shift away from factory farming to more so- called humane, pasture- based farming would only increase the targeting and destruction of wild animals. As John Robbins has noted, “The price that western lands and wildlife are paying for grazing cattle is hard to exaggerate. Photo: creative commons. Animal Agriculture’s Impact on World Hunger. Of the planet’s nearly 7 billion humans, roughly 1 billion people are malnourished and 6 million children starve to death every year. Farming animals is notoriously inefficient and wasteful when compared to growing plants to feed humans directly, with the end result that “livestock” animals take drastically more food from the global food supply than they provide. This is because in order to eat farmed animals, we have to grow the crops necessary to feed them, which amounts to vastly more crops than it would take to feed humans directly. To give one example, it takes thirteen pounds of grain to yield just one pound of beef (USDA) — while crops such as soy and lentils produce, pound for pound, as much protein as beef, and sometimes more. Compounding this inefficiency is the fact that only a small percentage of the plant energy consumed by an animal is converted into edible protein. Most of the energy from crops fed to farmed animals is used to fuel their own metabolism, with only a fraction of those grains and other plants being turned into meat. Feeding half the world’s edible grain crop to farmed animals is not only a grossly inefficient use of protein, it is also a staggering waste of natural resources, requiring far more land, water and energy than cultivating plant foods for direct human consumption. One acre of land can yield between twelve and twenty times more plant food than animal- based foods. Writes Richard Oppenlander, “We are essentially using twenty times the amount of land and crops, and hundreds of times the water, as well as polluting our waterways and air and destroying rainforests, to produce animals to kill and eat . Reallocating croplands in this way could increase available global food calories by as much as 7. To learn more about the ways animal farming contributes to global food insecurity and hunger, visit A Well- Fed World. Animal Agriculture’s Impact on Climate and Environment. Animal agriculture is the single greatest human- caused source of greenhouse gases, land use, and land degradation; the number one source of freshwater pollution, and the leading driver of rainforest destruction. It is also a major cause of air pollution, habitat loss and species extinction, and is a highly inefficient use of limited natural resources. The United Nations has called for a global shift to a vegan diet wherever possible as the most effective way to combat climate change, world hunger, and ecological devastation. The area around a single hog slaughterhouse can contain hundreds of waste lagoons. The interactions between the bacteria, blood, afterbirths, stillborn piglets, urine, excrement, chemicals and drugs frequently turn the lagoons pink. Even with intensive confinement factory farming methods currently dominating global animal farming, farmed animals still use 3. If we attempted to pasture all 1. United States on grass, as humane/sustainable farming advocates suggest, cattle would require (using the conservative estimate of 1.
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