Vegetarian/Vegan
Facts
· Forests are being destroyed so that there are more pastures to raise beef cattle
· If all Americans became vegetarians there would be enough grain to feed all the starving people in the world.
· If animal suffering benefits us, and if we don’t have to see the suffering, then it’s okay.
· Organizations like the ASPCA and various humane societies work to get stray dogs and cats off the street and to improve conditions for laboratory animals and animals used in circuses or other performances
· Much of the groundwork for the animal rights movement had been laid by the ecology or environmental movement
· People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - total vegetarianism, abolition of all laboratory tests on animals. Tactics have included boycotts, picketing, and direct confrontation with those they consider exploiters of animals, such as hunters or people who buy fur coats.
· Hindus refuse to meat for religious reasons
· There was even a small vegetarian political party
· It was the growth of factory farming and all its attendant horrors that really inspired the growth of vegetarianism in the West
· It takes about 2500 gallons of fresh water to produce a single pound of beef
· Livestock manure may be the greatest source of water pollution in the United States
· It takes about 16 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef
· One acre of pasture produces 165 pounds of beef. The same can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes
· Celebrities such as Madonna and Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek’s Mr. Spock are well known vegetarians
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· Forests are being destroyed so that there are more pastures to raise beef cattle
· If all Americans became vegetarians there would be enough grain to feed all the starving people in the world.
· If animal suffering benefits us, and if we don’t have to see the suffering, then it’s okay.
· Organizations like the ASPCA and various humane societies work to get stray dogs and cats off the street and to improve conditions for laboratory animals and animals used in circuses or other performances
· Much of the groundwork for the animal rights movement had been laid by the ecology or environmental movement
· People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - total vegetarianism, abolition of all laboratory tests on animals. Tactics have included boycotts, picketing, and direct confrontation with those they consider exploiters of animals, such as hunters or people who buy fur coats.
· Hindus refuse to meat for religious reasons
· There was even a small vegetarian political party
· It was the growth of factory farming and all its attendant horrors that really inspired the growth of vegetarianism in the West
· It takes about 2500 gallons of fresh water to produce a single pound of beef
· Livestock manure may be the greatest source of water pollution in the United States
· It takes about 16 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef
· One acre of pasture produces 165 pounds of beef. The same can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes
· Celebrities such as Madonna and Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek’s Mr. Spock are well known vegetarians
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