Animals are not ours to consume.

They are living, breathing, feeling creatures who didnot volunteer themselves to become another item on

your plate! But shockingly, over 25 billion animals arekilled every year for just that.

But YOU can help stop it.

Go Vegan!

A vegan is someone who doesn’t consume any animal-derived products such as meat, poultry, seafood, eggs,dairy products or honey.

It would also go without saying that vegans don’t wear anyclothing made from animals, don’t buy any products thatare tested on animals, don’t support any bloodsports anddon’t attend any ‘shows’ (e.g. circuses) that use animals.

Meat is murder! 17,000 animals are killed every second,globally, for the meat industry. You wouldn’t dream ofconsuming another human, so why do think it is morallyacceptable to eat an animal?

Animals raised for food are kept in overcrowded,confined, filthy conditions where disease is rampant. Dueto the stress and psychosis associated with this, fightingand even cannibalism is common on such ‘farms’.

Their lives are short, chickens are killed after only a fewweeks, pigs after 6 months, sheep 2 years and cattle 4years. All of whom would live for many years naturally inthe wild.

Then they are brought to the slaughterhouse where theyare tied upside-down, and are then either shot, stunned,or have their throats slit.

Many are still fully conscious while they are being boiledor skinned. Can you even begin to imagine the fear andpain they must feel?

Fish suffer just as much. After being hauled from thewater they experience an excruciatingly painfuldecompression, followed by a slow, distressing death bysuffocation.

Within hours of the calf being born, he/she is taken awayfrom their mother, and put in a veal crate - which is sosmall they can’t even turn around. All this, just sohumans can consume the breast milk of another species!

Buying eggs (which are the menstrual waste of chickens),whether labelled ‘free range’ or not is just as bad. Onlyfemale chicks are useful to the egg industry, so males arethrown into live grinding machines upon hatching.

Many people think that by simply becoming avegetarian, that they are eliminating cruelty from theirdiet. Unfortunately, this just isn’t enough.

By drinking milk, not only are you supporting thedairy industry, but the veal industry too. For cows toproduce milk, they are kept in a constant state ofpregnancy.

Female chicks have their beaks seared off with a hot bladeand are shoved into a cage with about 10 others. After 18months - in which they produce about 400 eggs - they arekilled and made into dog food.

Foie gras is made from the enlarged livers of ducks andgeese. Metal pipes are shoved down their throats and theyare force-fed 7 pounds of food per day, which causes liverdisease. Only males are used because they produce largerlivers - female hatchlings are drowned or crushed to death.

Think honey is ok? Think again! Honey production is abig industry, and bees are subjected to conditions andprocedures similar to those used in factory farming.

Queen bees have their wings clipped and are artificiallyinseminated, males are decapitated when they are nolonger of value, and even whole colonies are killed off atwinter to avoid the cost of feeding them!

But apart from all the animal-cruelty related reasons to adopt a vegan diet, the pointis that it is not ethically or morally right to eat or farm another living creature, nomatter how big or small their enclosures are. What’s needed isn’t bigger cages, itsempty ones.

Open your eyes, see the truth. If you continue to buy meat and other animal-derived‘products’, you are just as responsible for the misery and deaths of these animals asthe ‘people’ who murdered them.

It has never been more important to become a vegan, and it’s never been easier too! Ifyou would like more information, have any questions, or would like a free Go Vegan!pack, just contact us and we would be happy to help you in any way we can.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, GO VEGAN NOW!

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