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The ethics of eating meat is an argument that is
filled with many points of debate
But whether people agree with eating meat or not,
there's no denying that farm animals on factory
farms and slaughterhouses suffer and are victims
of some very upsetting abuses towards them.
The decision to be vegetarian is a personal choice
in the world today by people and I wont force
anybody to become vegetarian or hate if you if you
aren't. But part of my role as an advocate of
animal rights and welfare is to inform people of
the things that happen to animals.
I like many people just had no idea about what
happens to these farm animals in the process of
raising and killing them for food and because I
found out, I decided to become vegan as a result.
But one thing that makes me laugh is people who
assume vegetarians and vegans are somehow weak
hippies who look like death, have no energy, would
blow over in a strong breeze, aren't able to pick
up a bowling ball or don't wanna be friends with
meat eaters, when this isn't the case at all! You
can be very fit and healthy on a vegetarian or
vegan diet.
I even worked at a meat storage place as a vegan
once because I needed some quick cash, and I have
lots of meat eating friends. I listen to heavy
metal, love playing sport and am fit and healthy.
But while we do kill animals for food, it's
important that we do it with the highest code of
ethics as possible and as humanely as possible,
whilst we educate people as to where their food
comes from; and I know and understand the
difference between animal rights and animal
welfare concerns.
So if you do eat meat, then please consider making
compassionate food choices and support organic
free range farming such as buying free range eggs
from the grocery store.
It really is just a case of 'out of sight out of
mind' for so many people. But if slaughterhouses
did daily tours many people would be vegetarians /
vegans instantly, and one life doesn't have to end
in order for yours to continue.
For more information on vegetarianism and how
adopting a cruelty free lifestyle not only
benefits you, the earth, and most importantly the
terrific animals. Please visit my blog on my
profile.
This video was uploaded with permission from Mercy
for Animals.
Thank You
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Reasons to be vegetarian. A video for vegetarians
from a vegetarian. Maybe an insight for meat
eaters, but please no abusive comments about my
views. No horrific images are included. Some facts
and quotes some may find interesting.
I actually dislike this video to some extent now,
as it was the first one i did, but i'm still
getting people saying they like it, so it's
staying up.
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| Be Vegetarian |
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Dr. Acharya Yogeesh speaks on Vegetarianism. We
are not born as meat-eaters and our human body was
not meant to digest meat. He talks about the first
animal rights movement in history alongside animal
cruelty. 3 part series.
Be Vegetarian
There is currently great awareness about
vegetarianism especially among celebrities. Truly,
we are born vegetarian. The most obvious factor is
that our teeth don't match those of meat eating
animals. We lack claws to prey on our food source.
Animals can digest raw meat without cleansing.
Humans cannot do that. All our foods have to be
washed of dirt and insects. Our intestines are
very long in comparison to animals. Animals can
digest meat very fast because of it. In humans
digesting meat takes about three days, which means
that food spoils in the intestines causing
sickness and disease. Meat also clogs our
arteries.
In Hindu culture our ancestors who were hunters
ate meat. Unfortunately, their blood is still
running in our veins. We need to purify it.
Thousands of years ago however, out of realization
that eating beef was harmful they declared the cow
a sacred animal. When people considered the cow
sacred they could no longer kill it. The cow is
also considered like a mother because we are
raised on her milk. The animal rights movement
started in order to protect the life of animals.
Krishna's cousin, a Jain tirthankar, had this
vision. Krishna arranged for his wedding in a city
in an area where many animals were caged in. His
cousin inquired of his charioteer why they were
there. The charioteer informed him that they were
there for the wedding waiting to be slaughtered.
He immediately ordered the charioteer to free all
the animals from the cage. That was the origin of
animal rights awareness. He then asked his
charioteer to take him up the hill and there he
became a monk and later became enlightened. He was
the 22nd Jain Tirthankar. Krishna followed his
example and now you see Krishna's pictures always
with animals around him. While he plays the flute
the animals are in trance next to him. Even
animals can go into trance around peaceful people.
Krishna loved his cousin and so he left his
kingdom and became enlightened.
*tags* spiritual, spirituality, spiritual teacher,
spiritual guru, spiritual master, seeker, truth,
enlightenment, peace, self-realization,
meditation, awareness
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| Jesus was a Vegetarian ~ MUST SEE! |
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The Greek word for "fish weed" (a dried seaweed)
has been mistranslated in stories as "fish".
Furthermore, the Bible was altered at The Council
of Nicea.
Original Gospels:
http://thenazareneway.com
http://essene.com
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
http://www.all-creatures.org/cva/honoring.htm
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/vegetarianism_support
ed_in_the_bible.htm
http://www.thenazareneway.com/index_vegetarian.htm
http://members.aol.com/feloflife/feloflife.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_vegetariani
sm
http://www.jesusveg.com/
10 billion animals are killed each year in the US
alone for food.
Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than
driving cars. - 2006 UN Report warning.
Even Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth did not mention
that consuming meat and dairy is worse for the
environment than all emissions from the automotive
industry.
1) Factory farms produce massive amounts of dust
and other contamination that pollutes our air. A
study in Texas found that animal feedlots in the
state produce more than 14 million pounds of
particulate dust every year and that the dust
'contains biologically active organisms such as
bacteria, mold, and fungi from the feces and the
feed'.
2) According to the nonprofit group Greenpeace,
all the wild animals and trees in more than 2.9
million acres of rainforest were destroyed in the
2004-2005 crop season in order to grow crops that
are used to feed chickens and other animals in
factory farms.
3) According to a 2006 UN report, the livestock
sector causes more greenhouse gases worldwide than
the entire transportation sector.
4) Nitrous oxide is about 300 times more potent as
a global warming gas than carbon dioxide.
According to the U.N., the meat, egg, and dairy
industries account for a staggering 65 percent of
worldwide nitrous oxide emissions.
5) According to the Environmental Protection
Agency, the run-off from factory farms pollutes
our waterways more than all other industrial
sources combined. The EPA reports that chicken,
hog, and cattle excrement have polluted 35,000
miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated
groundwater in 17 states.
6) It takes 16 pounds of grain and 2,500 gallons
of water to produce 1 pound of meat. One average
meat eater could consume that pound of meat during
a meal, while 16 people could have been fed on the
grain it takes to produce that pound of meat.
7) The meat industry causes more water pollution
in the US than all other industries combined
because the animals raised for food produce 130
times more excrement than the entire human
population--86,000 lbs per second. A typical pig
factory farm generates a quantity of raw waste
equal to that of a city of 12,000 people.
8) Every 2 seconds, a child starves to death
somewhere in the world. Countries such as Ethiopia
and some Central American countries use their
farmland to supply the United States with cheap
burgers instead of growing healthful grain foods
for their own starving people.
9) The livestock population of the US consumes
enough grain and soybeans to feed more than 5
times its human population. 90% of all corn and
80% of all grains and beans grown in the US are
used to feed livestock animals.
10) 75 percent of U.S. topsoil has been lost to
date, 85 percent of that loss is due to livestock
rearing. Meat is murder on the environment A
kilogram of beef is responsible for more
greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than
driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights
on back home.
Fortunately there is something you can do --
switch to a plant-based diet, or at the very least
reduce your meat and dairy consumption.
Go vegan for all sentient beings & for the
environment. From www.woodstockFAS.org Many
leading environmental organizations, including the
National Audubon Society, the WorldWatch
Institute, the Sierra Club, and the Union of
Concerned Scientists, have recognized that raising
animals for food damages the environment more than
just about anything else that we do.
The meat industry is one of the most destructive
ecological industries on the planet.
Sites (many include recipes):
http://www.FactoryFarming.com
http://www.PCRM.org
http://www.Veg4Lent.org
http://www.VeganOutreach.org
http://www.VegetarianTeen.com
http://www.VegSource.com
http://www.VRG.org
Vegetarian Starter Kits
http://www.veganoutreach.org/starterpack
http://www.TryVeg.com
Free Booklet:
http://www.goveg.com/feat/christianveg/
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to
do anything else that will cause any man to
stumble. [Romans 14:21]
Meats for the belly, and belly for meats; but God
shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is
not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord
for the body. [Corinthians 6:13]
Jesus said, Blessed is the lion which the man
shall eat, and the lion become man; and cursed is
the man whom the lion shall eat, and the lion
become man. [Gospel of Thomas 7]
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| Choose Life! Save Animals! Go Vegetarian! |
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This is a fantastic video produced by the U.K
animal rights organization Animal Aid encouraging
people to adopt a cruelty free vegetarian / vegan
lifestyle.
Many people who consume meat love animals greatly
and are compassionate individuals.
But as this video depicts, if you eat meat, you're
more then likely unaware of the actions your
contributing to, and the inherent cruelty involved
in the processes of raising rendering and killing
farm animals for food.
The collective factory farm, slaughterhouse, and
meat industry is responsible for some of the worst
abuses toward animals anywhere in the world.
The factory farming attitude is one that regards
animals as purely commodities to be exploited for
maximized profit; and because these gentle non
threatening farm animals aren't held in as higher
regard as our companion animals cats and dogs. The
abuses committed toward them often go without much
understanding or sympathy from people, because
they simply see them as a food source and nothing
else.
This attitude of industrialized factory farming
operations has led to shocking and very upsetting
acts of animal cruelty, animal and human health
risks and environmental damage.
As this video highlights, the acts committed
towards farm animals by uncompassionate
individuals are very upsetting, and the welfare of
animals isn't always at the highest priority, if
any? Particularly in the world's economically
poorer regions which leads to more suffering for
them.
By considering adopting a cruelty vegetarian /
vegan lifestyle, you'll be saving animals,
improving your health and reducing environmental
damage.
We have a conscious choice to save animals from
this unnecessary cruelty and suffering, and the
human race can survive and be fit healthy and
happy without consuming animal products; and the
unfortunate stereotype of vegetarians / vegans
being weak, void of energy, or unfit is bogus; you
can be very fit and healthy on a vegetarian /
vegan diet.
So please consider adopting a cruelty vegetarian /
vegan lifestyle, and help to reduce and stop the
unnecessary, cruel, and upsetting abuses committed
toward the great misunderstood farm animals.
This video was uploaded with permission from
Animal Aid www.animalaid.org.uk
Thank You
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