Some stuff I learned from a show on PBS done by Frontline:
(stuff to think about for earth day and to meditate on)
1. 40% of the Chesapeake Bay is a dead zone where not a single thing can live (no fish, no little creatures, no plants, nothing)
2. When Reagan was elected, his administration gutted the EPA (environmental protection agency) and stopped it "in its tracks" for about 6 or 7 yrs.
3. Chicken manure from plants that house as many as half a million chickens, are thought to cause the mass amounts of nitrogen and phosphorous that allow the algae to live that are in turn devastating the Chesapeake Bay
4. There are only 86 Orca whales left in Puget Sound
5. There are many PCB chemicals found in the blubber of these Orca whales, thought to be caused by the Boeing factory that is near by. These chemicals cause cancer also in humans.
****** problems here: chicken farming (which i know we despise already) and Boeing that is not disposing of chemicals properly...
Being vegan is the only way I know that I am not contributing to animal cruelty. Animals are not for humans to do with as they please, and I refuse to take part in the needless torture of billions of animals.
Carolyn
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May 28th, 2008: saw a couple peta videos that blew my mind.
then i starting thinking about what if it was the oher way around?
no breathing thing deserves any kind of treatment. nothing deserves to be bruatlly beaten, plucked, skinned....just to fufill a craving.
I've been vegetarian for over 4 years now , never really liking the bloody taste of meat and then finally seeing meet your meat made me never want to put chickens or any other helpless animal on my plate , now I totally animal friendly all vegan and buy nothing that tests on animals , because they are not ours to experiment or eat !
Nancy
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston, The Outermost House. 1928
Alex
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Short answer: because there was a period where I wouldn't kill a mosquito trying to bite me, but I would sit down to eat a big slab of cow and I eventually realized how stupid the distinction was. Animals don't need to suffer for us to thrive.
Todd
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Pro Health and Fitness.
wendy
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Animals are my friends.
Jien
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I have been fighting for 6 years to be vegetarian ( raised on a meat and potato's diet) and I realized that while vegetarianism is good to help stop animal abuse to doesn't help to still eat and drink eggs and dairy if they are also coming from abused animals. so tah-dah you have the first vegan of my family!
Amanda
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I'm Vegan for a few reasons. I'm completely against any type of Cruelty to Animals. No matter if they are raised on a vegetarian diet are organic or not. They are still in pain! I also love being a vegan. I love the new diet options available. I feel better, and I'm much more healthy.
Douglas
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im vegan because after reading skinny bitch i looked up videos on youtube to see if animals were treated inhumane. turns out... they did.
karley
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im vegan because after reading skinny bitch i looked up videos on youtube to see if animals were treated inhumane. turns out... they did.
karley
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I'm a vegetarian/vegan because I love animals and its not right to slaughter what has feelings because every thing can feel pain, no matter what life being it is and I'v been one since 2007
Brittany
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I am reading a book called skinny bitch and it changed my view on eating anything that comes from animals.
hailey
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I read a book called Skinny Bitch and it completely turned me against anything made from animals.
Aloria
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I was born and raised vegetarian. Even though growing up in a city where this wasn't socially acceptable, I came to realize the importance it has not only for my health, but for humanity in general by keeping our impact on our world to a minimum.
Sebastian
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watch earthlings and you'll know why im vegan
Dylan
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Kayla
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Arete
Himmler
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I am vegan for the animals, the environment and for my health.
Katie
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I am a vegan because every life matters.
April
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I went vegetarian over 3 years ago because I saw how animals were slaughtered for food. I finally realized in January of this year that it didn't make much sense to still eat dairy products from abused animals.
I became vegan when I was five. The first reason was because I never ate my meat and cheese made me extremely sick, and then someone told me there was actually a name for that, vegan. I have always been very caring, and sympathetic towards animals. I am now 13. Throughout the years, I have seen horrid videos, heard horrible stories etc, and I had a bigger reason to be vegan. Every animal I have taken in was a rescue. I'm proud to be vegan.
