The Reality of Meat

Ga-Maleven

Meat: The flesh of a person’s body.  The parts of an animal’s body, primarily muscle, that is often consumed for food. The food source for omnivorous and carnivorous species throughout the globe. But is it actually for humans?

The short answer to that is “no.” Humans actually are not meant to consume animal flesh, just as we are not meant to consume dairy or eggs, which I discuss further in other journals. Meat is not meant for humans for several reasons: The first being that humans simply are not physically designed to consume flesh, secondly because of the immense cruelty involved, and thirdly the destruction of the planet. In this journal I will concentrate on just the meat industry and how it abuses animals and the harm meat does to our bodies. Other journals will cover the environmental issues of animal agriculture, the dairy industry, and the egg industry.

Humans are not designed to eat flesh or any animal products. Our physical built is proof of this from our short, blunt teeth, circular moving jaws, inability to swallow large chunks, weak liver secretions, long, lumpy walled intestines, lack of claws, and no prey drive. Humans are incapable of hunting prey without using tools of some short. Humans also lack the desire to hunt for prey. Children are taught to see animals as food, but even this takes time. Children cry when they learn animals are killed, and rather not eat them. If a child is placed in a room with a rabbit and apple the child will always play with the rabbit and eat the apple, never the other way around. And when children are conditioned to view animals as a food source, this brings about specieism. Specieism is when one species, such as dogs, are viewed as “friends” while other species, such as pigs, are viewed as “food.” Children grow up loving dogs and many other species, but for those few select species will see them as “food,” but even then most of the time know it’s wrong to harm them. Depending on the culture a child is raised in will change the animals they are taught to love and those they are told to hate. Which, if eating animals was natural for humans wouldn’t lead to these extreme differences. Humans would have natural prey animals that would be universal for all humans instinctively. Just as every house cat knows that the scent of a mouse, rabbit, or bird is prey, but when smelling a canine, horse, or elephant know that that is not something to seek after. Not even our ancestors ate meat or if they did it was very little.

The argument that human canines are meant to tear flesh is utterly ridiculous. Human teeth in comparison to actual carnivores such as lion teeth, shark teeth, and leopard seal teeth, which are all true carnivores. Omnivorous animals have teeth such as  bear teeth,  canine teeth,  chimpanzee teeth. While herbivorous animals have teeth such as horse teeth,   orangutan teeth, and pacu fish teeth. Human teeth are closest to herbivorous animals. Canines are found in almost all animal species who possess teeth, even bovines. And some herbivorous species possess very massive canines such as  gorillas, fanged deer, and  hippos. Nothing about human mouths is meant for meat eating.

The long, lumpy walled intestines of humans is similar to other herbivores, allowing vegetation to slowly be digested and nutrients absorbed. While carnivores and omnivores have smooth walled, and short intestines to get rotten flesh out quickly before it can begin to rot. Human livers secret weak enzymes like other herbivores since breaking down vegetation is easier than meat. Carnivores, such as cats, secrete such powerful enzymes that if they do not eat after a period of time their enzymes will begin to break down their own organs. Humans are best built for picking plants and consuming them, rather than any animal products.

To top this, science continues to show us how animal products cause several severe illnesses in humans from cardiovascular disease, various cancers, diabetes, and many other illnesses, as well as bacteria causes diseases from consuming infected flesh. Meat consumption causes numerous illnesses. Animal products have been linked to 70% of illnesses in humans. The causes of the illnesses is from the human bodies inability to properly process animal proteins, the high hormone levels, and other body chemicals found solely in flesh.  The bacteria caused diseases are also very high. The risk of developing cancer from meat consumption is almost a guaranteed promise. Dr. Greger’s presentation gives much more information on the reasons why animal products harm our bodies like this.

Humans are not made to consume meat and it harms our bodies, as well as the planet. Now, the real victims of the meat industry are the animals being eaten. Bovines, chickens, pigs, turkeys, geese, ducks, dogs, cats, rabbits, sheep, goats, fish, turtles, frogs, lobsters, crabs, octopuses, dolphins, whales,  horses, and deer are the most common species consumed by humans, but almost every animal species is at risk.

Animals are raised on factory farms, which lock them away in small pens, often chained. They are unable to turn around, living on metal grates and their own feces. Pigs are especially subjected to the life of gestation crates, where they will live for up to 6 years being constantly bred until they can’t produce anymore. While pigs can live to be up to 15 years old, they are sent to slaughter at 6 months to 6 years of age. Females are repeatedly artificially inseminated (raped) to keep them breeding, but are unable to properly care for their piglets, who most die before being old enough to ship off to slaughter. Pigs are beaten, electrocuted, shouted at, stabbed, anally and vaginally sodomized, spray painted, denied the outdoors, and injuries left untreated. Sows are bred so much and receive no exercise that their organs will even begin to be pushed out of their anus.

While dairy cows are all sent to slaughter once they are not producing enough milk, bovines raised exclusively for their flesh don’t receive better treatment. Cattle are kept in small pens, packed tightly together. Cows are raped often to keep them breeding, and all are killed at 2-3 years of age. They are fed a mixture of grains, ground up fish, and even other cows. Cattle live in their own waste, and even on large ranches the cattle are sent off to slaughter. Raising cattle also takes up much of the land and destroys the land for wildlife.

Chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese are raised in small cages or kept in barns so tightly packed they can barely move. Broiler chickens grow so quickly that at 42 days old they can’t even walk. That’s the same as a child weighing over 400 pounds. Here is a comparison photo. They are then killed at only a few weeks old.

Animals are tightly packed into trailers and shipped off to slaughter. They are so tightly crammed inside that animals are unable to move, they are on top of each other, and many don’t make it to their destination. They can be inside these trailers for a few days even, suffering through temperatures over 100 degrees, to well below freezing, receiving no food, water, or loving touches. Some animals are shipped across oceans on ships, being packed together, cruelly hoisted by their necks off the ship, and left to drown when ships collapse-side.

At the slaughterhouse the animals smell the blood and death, hear the screams of those before them, and fear the horror of the place. They are electrocuted and beaten off of the trucks, and those unable to stand are dragged off by bobcat vehicles, forklifts, and other such equipment. The animals are forced down tight walkways and into a small room where they watch each other be killed, or forced one by one into a machine that flips them over, pins down their neck, and allows a worker to cut their neck open. Once they have their necks cut, they are hung upside down by a chain tied around a back ankle and hoisted up. Some slaughterhouses use a bolt gun before cutting the animals’ necks. The bolt gun shoots a metal bolt into the animal’s head when held against it. The gun is supposed to stun the animal, rendering them unconscious, but it is not always the case. Some animals need to have it done repeatedly, some are rendered unable to move while still conscious, and in halal and kosher slaughter they are never stunned.

The animals always struggle to live, trying to flee, trying to hide, and sometimes are just too terrified to move. Just like humans, animals are able to cry tears, and it is often they do so. As the bleeding animals are taken through the slaughterhouse, suffocating as they bleed out, many are still alive and conscious. They are then dumped in boiling water, the live ones screaming from the searing, agonizing pain. If they survive that, they are then gutted and have their legs removed. The head is cut off, they are skinned, and their bodies sent off to have more done to them in preparation to be sold. The slaughterhouse is always filled with the hellish screams of the dying, their fear, and the horrendous pain they suffer as they are killed and beaten. “Humane” slaughter simply doesn’t exist for there is NO humane way to kill someone who doesn’t want to die. Animals can’t be euthanized for that leaves the euthanasia chemicals inside of their flesh, and as discussed in my journal on hunting, shooting in the head doesn’t always guarantee an instant death, or even death. To add to this, whenever someone dies feces, urine, and blood is released throughout the body, so all flesh consumed is filled with these as well.

The corpses are sent off to be changed even more so that consumers won’t associate the packages of meat bought with the killed animals. Carbon monoxide is pumped onto flesh to turn it bright red when in reality dead flesh is a dark, brownish color which starts to turn green in a couple of days. Liquids are added to chicken bodies to make them appear larger, and the corpses are purposely cut to not resemble bodies.

Fish are sentient and feel pain. They are caught by the billions every year, emptying the oceans, and killing millions of other sea life that gets caught in the nets, and starving from their prey being taken away. Scientists predict that in the year 2048 all ocean life will be gone. Most fish are fed to livestock, oddly enough, and even more are accidental catches, so are dumped back into the ocean often dead. Even fish caught with hooks don’t fair better for they feel the pain in their mouth similar to how a human would if they had a hook put through it.

In some countries domesticated cats and dogs are consumed. They are either bred on farms, but usually are stolen off the streets or from people’s back yards. In China, it is believed that the more a dog and cat are tortured the “better” their flesh will taste. They are boiled alive, burned with torches, beaten, hung to death, and skinned alive. The Yulin Dog Meat Festival is held once a year in China where thousands of dogs are brutally killed in a matter of days. Dogs and cats have their paws tied together, often behind their backs, stuffed into tiny cages, and treated worse than trash. These animals are also eaten in the United States and other countries.

To add to this the meat industry uses up so many resources and so much money trying to lie about their cruel product that government bailouts are needed to keep them running. The chicken industry also needs bailouts. And here.

To top this all off, non-human animals are sentient, intelligent, feel pain such as we do, and simply want to be loved. Animals feel and it doesn’t take studies to see that in action. Animals befriend each other regardless of species as we see here, they protect and love their offspring, they solve puzzles, communicate in their own languages, and adapt to new challenges. Animals will even sacrifice themselves to save their young, use sex for pleasure as well as breeding, and even learn the routines of humans to better steal from trash cans. To deny non-human animals can think is simply foolish. Humans are animals after all, so why would other animals not also think, love, and suffer? Simply, animals feel and think, period.

While eating animals may have been a necessity in extreme survival situations, in today’s time with modern technology it is not. The amount of meat eaten in a day by the average person is the same amount of meat eaten in several months’ time by those hundreds of years ago. Meat has always been the food of the rich, with peasants relying only on crops for survival. Gladiators were vegetarians, and Japan actually never ate red meat, or really any meat, until after white men begun to trade. Yes, ninjas and samurais were vegetarians. Only with modern refrigeration has consuming animal products become so commonplace.

In fact, some of the most brilliant minds were vegans and vegetarians such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Confucius, Van Gogh, George Berndard Shaw, Voltaire, Pascal, and many, many others. Here are some vegan celebrities as well as some vegan athletes. Here is also vegan bodybuilder Frank Medrano showing how you don’t need animal products to be strong and fit.

If you can live a healthy lifestyle without harming anyone and still eat delicious food, why wouldn’t you? And, no religion doesn’t support eating animals, either. And as for Lab Grown Meat see here.

Lucent (2014) – full documentary from Farm Transparency Project on Vimeo.

EARTHLINGS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION from NATIONEARTH on Vimeo.

https://youtu.be/BrlBSuuy50Y

https://youtu.be/qUQnMvigcdQ

The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4


UK Animal Agriculture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvtVkNofcq8

Cameras in Slaughterhouses: https://vimeo.com/farmtransparency

Animal Kill Counter: http://www.occupyforanimals.net/animal-kill-counter2.html

Earthlings: http://www.nationearth.com/earthlings-1/

Meat.org: http://www.meat.org/default.aspx

Latest Information on Diets and Health. MANY Great and Informative Articles: https://nutritionfacts.org/

All About Health and Research From Doctors: https://www.forksoverknives.com/

What the Health: http://www.whatthehealthfilm.com/

Eating You Alive: https://www.eatingyoualive.com/

Natural Human Diet: https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/11/15/the-natural-human-diet/

Meat the Truth: http://www.occupyforanimals.net/meat-the-truth.html

Are Humans Designed to Eat Meat: http://www.occupyforanimals.net/are-humans-designed-to-eat-meat.html

Meat is Murder? More Like Suicide: http://www.occupyforanimals.net/meat-is-murder-more-like-suicide1.html

Mad Cow Disease: http://www.occupyforanimals.net/mad-cow-disease-has-hit-the-us-april-25-2012.html

Increased Consumption of Plant Protein Reduces Risk of Death: http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/08/01/Increased-plant-protein-in-diet-reduces-risk-of-death-study-says/9501470067005/

Harvard Condemns Eating Animals: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2540540

Factory Farms: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/factory-farms.html

Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/rivers-of-waste-the-hazardous-truth-about-factory-farms.html

What are Factory Farms Hiding: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/what-are-factory-farms-hiding-see-for-yourself1.html

Make the Connection: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/making-the-connection.html

FDA Admits Chicken Contains Arsenic: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/fda-admits-chicken-meat-contains-cancer-causing-arsenic.html  and  http://www.tekpapa.com/2016/03/fda-finally-admits-chicken-meat.html

Quarter of All Burgers Tainted With drug Resistant Bacteria: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/a-quarter-of-all-burgers-tainted-with-drug-resistant-bacteria.html

You, Your Cat, and Mad Cow Disease: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/you-and-your-cat-and-mad-cow-disease.html

Hurt an Animal Hurt a Child: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/hurt-an-animal-hurt-a-child.html

About Meat: http://occupyforanimals.wixsite.com/meat/about-his-page—please-read

Assembly Line of Death: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/holocaust-on-a-conveyor-belt—assembly-line-of-death-samsara.html

Killing Plants: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/killing-plants.html

Factory Farms Definition: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/factory-farms—definition.html

Livestock Auctions: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/livestock-auctions.html

Transportation of Animals: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/transportation.html

Live Export Cruelty: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/australia–shocking-new-evidence-of-live-export-breaches.html

Live Export in Indonesia: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/indonesia—cattle-being-lifted-by-a-crane-from-ropes-tied-to-their-heads.html

Killing for a Living: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/killing-for-a-living.html

Slaughter: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/slaughter.html

Halal and Kosher Slaughter: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/ritual-slaughter-for-halal-and-kosher-meat—all-you-need-to-know.html

Ritual Slaughter: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/ritual-slaughter-exemptions-cause-animal-suffering-and-put-consumers-at-risks.html

Vet Slams Ritual Slaughter: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/top-uk-vet-slams-unacceptable-slaughter-of-animals-without-prior-stunning.html

The Last Moments of Their Lives: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/the-last-moments-of-their-life–an-investigation-by-elige-veganismo.html

Rendering: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/rendering-the-grotesque-and-disrespectful-way-we-continue-to-exploit-animals-objectify-them-and-commodify-them-even-in-death1.html

Bushmeat: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/bushmeat.html

Cattle: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/cattle-and-cows.html

Belgian Blue: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/belgian-blue.html

Indian Cow Slaughter: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/india–cow-slaughter-and-the-illegal-cattle-mafia.html

Dog Meat: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/dog-meat.html

Dog Meat in China: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/dog-meat-trade-in-china.html

Yulin Dog Meat Festival: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/yulin-dog-meat-festival-in-china.html

Pressed Dog: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/the-truth-about-pressed-dog-actually-known-as-waxed-meat-in-mandarin.html

Dog Meat of Bali: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/dog-meat-trade-in-bali.html

Dog Meat in Nigeria: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/dog-meat-consumption-in-nigeria.html

Dog Meat in South Korea: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/dog-meat-trade-in-south-korea.html

Dog Meat Trafficking: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/-dog-meat-trafficking.html

Elephant Meat: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/elephant-meat.html

Fish: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/fish.html

Bluefin Slaughter: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/bluefin-tunas-brutally-slaughtered-in-italy.html

Overfishing: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/over-fishing.html

Horse Meat: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/horse.html

Lambs and Sheep: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/lambs–sheep.html  and  http://www.occupyforanimals.net/lambs–born-to-die-for-easter.html

Live Sushi: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/live-sushi.html

Pigs: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/pigs.html

Pig Business: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/pig-business.html

Poultry: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/poultry.html

Chickens: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/chickens.html

Turkeys: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/turkeys1.html

Foie Gras: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/foie-gras.html

Rabbits: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/rabbits.html

Reindeer: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/reindeer1.html

Sea Turtles: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/green-turtles-are-considered-a-delicacy-in-bali-and-are-being-smuggled-and-slaughtered-under-the-disguise-of-ritual-and-religious-purposes.html

Animals Should be Off the Menu: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/animals-should-be-off-the-menu.html



Burying the “Humans Need Meat” Argument: http://freefromharm.org/health-nutrition/catching-up-with-science-burying-the-humans-need-meat-argument/

The Hypocritical Outrage Over Yulin: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-hypocritical-outrage-over-the-yulin-dog-meat-festival_us_593035a4e4b042ffa289e7f4

Why the Paleo Diet Doesn’t Make Sense: https://www.forksoverknives.com/why-the-paleo-diet-doesnt-make-sense/

9 Medical Reasons to Never Eat Meat: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=9409&catId=5

Booklyn Borough President Goes Vegan and Reverses Diabetes: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/brooklyn-borough-president-goes-vegan-reverses

UN Urges Global Move From Meat and Dairy: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet

Why Millions Will Be Ditching Meat for Pea Protein: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/why-millions-will-be-ditching-meat-in-favor-of-pea-protein/

What If Meat Was Illegal: https://www.vegantravel.com/what-if-meat-was-illegal/

Former Meat and Dairy Farmers Who Became Vegans: http://freefromharm.org/animal-products-and-ethics/former-meat-dairy-farmers-became-vegan-activists/

Fish Are Sentient: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fish-sentient-animals-friends-positive-emotions-study-study-source-ethics-eating-pescaterians-vegans-a7660756.html

Bloody Veggie Burger: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpellmanrowland/2017/03/28/impossible-foods/#3d9086b4467c

It’s Still Legal to Eat Dogs in USA: http://dogtime.com/advocacy/49933-still-legal-eat-dogs-united-states-yes-happens

Teen Vegans: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/teen-vegan-network-no-meat-dairy-products-before-20-social-media-network-summer-camp-vegetarians-a7639916.html

Horses Sold for Meat: https://tuesdayshorse.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/kill-buyers-still-making-a-killing-selling-horses-to-be-killed-for-their-meat/

Hundreds of Birds Frozen to Death: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hundreds-of-birds-frozen-to-death-again-at

Study Finds Vegan Blood is 8 Times Stronger at Fighting Cancer: http://www.prohealthytips.com/2016/08/study-finds-blood-from-vegans-is-more-protective-against-cancer/

Neanderthals Were Vegetarians: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/neanderthals-vegetarians-natural-penicillin-aspirin-medicine-prehistoric-homo-sapiens-a7619081.html

Man Saves Dogs From Meat Farms (video): [link]

True Cost of Eating Meat (video): [link]

Sniper Goes Vegan (video): [link]

Animals Killed (video): [link]

A Life of Torture (video): [link]

Neal Barnard on Bad Diets (video): [link]

Live Exports Reality (video): [link]

Horrific Animal Abuse in India (video): [link]

We Don’t Need Meat, We’re Just Addicted to It: https://truedisclosure.org/news/meat-we-dont-need-it-were-just-addicted-to-it.html

Meat Consumption Raises Mortality Rates: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160505140057.htm

Brits Spending Less on Meat: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8788&catId=1

World to Post Meat Starts With China: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/the-road-to-a-post-meat-world-starts-in-china

Do You Eat Meat: http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science/Do-you-eat-meat-What-about-animals-Scientists-slice-open-a-carnivore-s-paradox

8 Terrifying Reasons to Cut Meat: http://inourishgently.com/8-terrifying-reasons-to-quit-meat/

Humans Are Meat Hooked But Not Designed for Meat Eating: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/05/19/478645426/humans-are-meathooked-but-not-designed-for-meat-eating

Shocking Consequences of World’s Meat Addiction: https://www.ecowatch.com/the-shocking-consequences-of-the-worlds-meat-addiction-1882187607.html

Red Meat Linked to Inflamed Gut Disease: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8876&catId=1

Meat Raises Risk for Breast Cancer: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/315085.php

Why Do We Eat Meat (video): [link]

Cancer Warnings Needed For Meat Packages: https://cspinet.org/news/cancer-warning-label-urged-processed-meat-poultry-20161201

Rise of Meat Consumption Wiping Out Blue Zones: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8688&catId=1

Carbon Monoxide Keeps Meat Red: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8675&catId=1  and  http://www.insideedition.com/investigative/20016-is-some-store-bought-meat-blasted-with-carbon-monoxide-to-keep-it-red-and-juicy

Meat Causes Cancer (video): [link]

Canadian Government Tells Meat Industry to Back Off: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/canadian-government-tells-meat-industry-to

Heart Failure Higher in Meat Eaters: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8648&catId=1

Why Meat is a Risk Factor for Diabetes: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-is-meat-a-risk-factor-for-diabetes/

Animals Killed for Kosher (video): [link]

If Serial Killers Said What Carnists Said: [link]

Eat Plant-Based and Off Meds: https://www.forksoverknives.com/failed-lapband-surgery-went-plant-based-diet-got-off-meds/#gs.rAs3Wpg

Meat Eating Connected to Migraines: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8533&catId=1

Meat Eaters See Slaughterhouse Footage (video): [link]

Investors Pulling Funds From Factory Farms: http://www.foodnavigator.com/Business/Meat-industry-could-ditch-factory-farming-as-investors-start-to-pull-funds

NHS Needs to Ban Meat: https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2016/sep/03/nhs-ban-cigarettes-yet-promote-meat-cause-cancer

Message From Ohad (video): [link]

Meat Eaters Should Have Been Listening to Vegetarians All Along: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/meat-waste_us_5787f821e4b03fc3ee500dfb

We Can’t Sustain Meat Eating Lifestyle: http://www.omaha.com/opinion/the-public-pulse-july-we-can-t-sustain-a-meat/article_8342c8db-8d65-56ce-bc0a-192bf900461d.html

Protest Yulin and Other Animals Being Killed: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/protest-against-the-yulin-dog-meat-festival-but-dont-forget-the-19m-animals-who-are-brutally-10336898.html

Why Vegan: http://freefromharm.org/why-vegan/

Personalities on the Plate: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo19085093.html

Plant Protein Better for Muscle Building: https://www.riseofthevegan.com/blog/plant-protein-best-for-building-muscle

Humans Not Physically Built for Eating Meat: http://www.celestialhealing.net/physicalveg3.htm

Why Meat Eaters Get Angry With Vegans: https://www.veganmotivation.com/why-meat-eaters-get-angry-with-vegans/

Washington Times Says Meat is Terrible: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/sign-of-the-times-washington-post-says-meat

Is This the Beginning of the End of Meat: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/17/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-meat/?utm_term=.80a26f10c3b2

Evolved to Eat Meat? Maybe Not: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/evolved-to-eat-meat-maybe-not_us_58bc7e4be4b02eac8876d020

Tyson CEO: The Future is Meatless: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/03/07/tysons-new-ceo-future-food-isnt-meat.html  and  http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=9151&catId=1  and  http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/tyson-ceo-thinks-plant-based-is-future-of-protein/

UK Meat Sales Decline Further: https://www.animalaid.org.uk/uk-meat-sales-decline-new-government-report-shows/

My First Day at a Slaughterhouse: http://www.veganaustralia.org.au/my_first_day_at_work_at_the_slaughterhouse

UN Plans to Tax Meat Until No One is Eating It: http://yournewswire.com/un-plan-to-tax-meat-until-no-one-eats-it-anymore/

Baby Ducks Ground Up Alive (video): [link]

7 Things That Happen When You Cut Meat: http://inourishgently.com/stop-eating-meat/

Culinary Institute Asks Chefs to Reconsider Meat: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7855&catId=1

Meat Eaters Twice As Likely to Have Rage Disorder: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7715&catId=1

Dutch Government Places Limit on Meat: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7650&catId=1

Inspiration to go Vegan: [link]

Plant-Based Foods Are Cheaper: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8828&catId=1

Meat Worsens Asthma: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8796&catId=1  and  http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38370057

Cutting Meat Eases Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8754&catId=1

10 Reasons People Find it Hard to Give up Meat: https://www.forksoverknives.com/top-10-reasons-people-find-hard-give-meat/#gs.FeSg2Zc

How Chef Saved His Life by Going Vegan: https://www.forksoverknives.com/how-this-meat-and-cheese-loving-chef-lost-100-pounds-and-saved-his-health-on-a-plant-based-diet/#gs.Xy5VKpw

Going Plant-Based Heals: https://www.forksoverknives.com/overcame-life-meat-junk-food-sickness-adopting-plant-based-diet/#gs.fBKLSjo

The Animals We Will Never Know (video): [link]

Meat Tax Will Save Lives and Environment: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/11/28/meat-tax_n_13291506.html  and  https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/experts-say-a-meat-tax-would-save-half-a-million-lives

Turkey Meat (video): [link]

People See Slaughterhouse Footage (video): [link]

Gladiators Were Vegetarians: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/surprise-gladiators-were-vegetarians/

The Exact Foods to Eat to Get All Your Nutrients: http://inourishgently.com/every-single-nutrient-vegan/

Vegetables Will Replace Meat By 2020: http://observer.com/2016/10/vegetables-will-replace-meat-by-2020-and-millennials-are-driving-the-shift/

Why We’re OK With Eating Pigs But Not Dogs: http://www.alternet.org/food/selective-vegetarianism-why-were-ok-eating-pigs-not-dogs

Tyson Invests in Vegan Company: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8489&catId=1

The Fight Over Transparency in the Meat Industry: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/meat-industry-transparency-fight.html?_r=0

Lamb Slaughter (video): [link]

Pork Linked to Kidney Disease: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8416&catId=1

Half Measures Don’t Save Animals: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-singer-dawn-vegetarian-half-measures-20161016-snap-story.html

Horses and Cows Dumped in Grinder (video): [link]

I Don’t Eat Meat Because I’m Feminist: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/real-life/i-dont-eat-meat-because-im-a-feminist-20160830-gr4nmi.html

Eating Beef? Then You’re Probably Eating Horse Too: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/eating-beef-then-youre-probably-eating-horse

If You Care About Wildlife Then Don’t East Meat: http://www.cowspiracy.com/blog/2016/9/1/if-you-care-about-wildlife-you-have-to-stop-eating-meat

Vegan Diet Helps You Live Longer: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3718326/Why-vegan-diet-help-live-longer-Ditching-meat-lentils-nuts-quinoa-lowers-risk-early-death.html

Vegans Have Healthier Gut Bacteria: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8181&catId=1

Vegetarian City in Italy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/21/turin-mayor-italys-first-vegetarian-city-five-star

How Animal Rights Activists Are Taking on the Meat Industry and Winning: http://www.alternet.org/food/pragmatism-vs-purity-how-animal-advocates-are-taking-meat-lobby-and-winning

We Need to Eat Less Meat. Should Government Step in: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/07/20/we-need-to-eat-less-meat-should-the-government-step-in/?utm_term=.3a3ba83dd759

Are We Any Better Than Yulin Festival Goers: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-meier/post_12370_b_10592682.html

China’s Plan to Cut Meat by 50%: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/20/chinas-meat-consumption-climate-change

Condemning Yulin is Easy, But Facing Your Own Animal Cruelty Is Not: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/condemning-yulins-horrific-dog-meat-festival-is-easy-examining-our-own-animal-cruelty-is-harder/article30538357/

Rise of Veganims in Promise Land: http://www.goingveganhealthbenefits.com/the-rise-of-veganism-in-the-promised-land-seems-unstoppable/

Rise of Vegan Teenagers: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/27/the-rise-of-vegan-teenagers-more-people-are-into-it-because-of-instagram

How Much Longer You’ll Live if You Ditch Meat: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/this-is-how-much-longer-youll-live-if-you-stop-eating-meat

Himalayan Tribe on Plant-Based Diet for 5,000 Years: http://inourishgently.com/himalayan-tribe-vegan-5000-years/

If People Knew How Chickens Were Raised They Would Never Eat Them: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/24/real-cost-of-roast-chicken-animal-welfare-farms

Does Saying Humans Are Omnivores Justify Eating Animals: http://freefromharm.org/common-justifications-for-eating-animals/a-common-sense-vegan-response-to-the-statement-humans-are-omnivores/

Going Vegan Could Save 8 Million Lives: http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2016/03/24/global-adoption-vegan-diet-could-save-8-million-lives-by-2050-says-study.html

25 Vegan Recipes for Those Who Think There’s No Life Without Meat: http://www.ferocesmente.com/health/25-vegan-recipes-for-people-who-think-theres-no-life-without-meat-and-cheese/

Meat Eaters Driving Species Extinction: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/meat-eaters-may-speed-worldwide-species-extinction-study-warns

Cow Cancer Tumors Use Meat to Grow: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/02/11/how-cancer-tumors-use-meat-to-fuel-their-growth/

The Psychological Damage of Slaughterhouse Work: http://www.ptsdjournal.com/posts/the-psychological-damage-of-slaughterhouse-work/

Saddest Slaughterhouse Footage Shows No Blood: http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/saddest-slaughterhouse-video-ever-shows-no-blood-or-slaughter/

Canadian Horse Slaughter: http://newsofthehorse.com/2017/canadian-horse-slaughter-regulations-changing/

Buffalo Slaughter: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/bfc-news/yellowstone-buffalo-slaughter-begins-our-national-mammal-dead-or-domesticated  and  http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2017/01/yellowstone-national-park-will.html

Slaughtered While Pregnant (video): [link]

On The Way to Slaughter (video): [link]

Former Slaughterhouse Worker Who Became Activist: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-pippus/meet-the-former-slaughter_b_10199262.html

Cruel Pig Slaughter: http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/not-so-humane-slaughter/

Horses Shipped to Canada for Slaughter: https://www.thedodo.com/us-horses-canada-slaughter-2261096346.html

Frances Passes Bill to Place Cameras in Slaughterhouses: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/france-passes-historic-bill-ordering-cameras-in-all-slaughterhouses-3b983d53517a

Moments Before (video): [link]

Chickens Conscious When Slaughtered: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chickens-slaughtered-conscious_us_580e3d35e4b000d0b157bf98

Hidden Horrors at Hormel (video): [link]

Chicken Producers Kill Chickens to Inflate Prices: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8352&catId=1

Sheep Slaughterhouse: https://www.animalaid.org.uk/inside-uk-slaughterhouse-sheep-throats-hacked-animals-thrown/

Halal Slaughterhouse Investigated: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4391914/Halal-slaughterhouse-investigated-animal-cruelty.html

Killing Wild Horses: https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/interior-department-seeks-slaughter-america%E2%80%99s-iconic-wild-horses  and  http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/trump-to-slaughter-americas-wild-horses/

Tortured to Death: http://mxslaughter.mercyforanimals.org/

Are Animals Killed for Growing Plants: http://www.theflamingvegan.com/view-post/Vegan-Mythbusting-1-Are-wild-animals-killed-when-grain-is-harvested-for-vegans

Belgium Bans Halal and Kosher Slaughter: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4484456/Belgium-bans-halal-kosher-slaughter-Walloon.html

Virtual View of Slaughterhouse: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/02/04/465530255/a-virtual-view-of-a-slaughterhouse

Taiwan Bans Slaughter of Cats and Dogs: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39573426

BLM Rounds up Horses for Slaughter: https://rtfitchauthor.com/2014/04/05/cnn-video-blm-illegally-rounds-up-wild-horses-for-sale-to-slaughter/

Cattle Who Escaped St. Louis Slaughterhouse Headed to Sanctuary: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/cattle-that-escaped-from-st-louis-slaughterhouse-are-headed-to/article_fde14374-866c-54da-a96a-c9363ba1cc31.html

Vegan Cattle Ranchers: http://cw39.com/2017/03/28/beef-its-not-whats-for-dinner-for-a-pair-of-vegan-cattle-ranchers-from-angleton/

Woman Acted in Public Good for Giving Pigs Water: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/03/09/burlington-trial-of-woman-who-gave-water-to-pigs-moves-to-closing-arguments.html

Animal Holocaust (video): [link]

Dogs Kept in Boxes Under Trucks (video): [link]

Pigs Comfort Dying Brother (video): [link]

Pigs are Friends (video): [link]

Pig Feces Approved for Consumption: https://healthyfoodusa.com/asian-seafood-raised-on-pig-feces-approved-for-u-s-consumers/

Pigs Dying in Heat (video): [link]

Piglet Saved from Slaughter: https://www.thedodo.com/rescue-piglet-albert-blankets-2201757785.html

No Matter How Humane Eating Animals Means Treating Them Like Trash: http://freefromharm.org/animal-products-and-culture/eating-animals/

Drone Flies Over Pig Farm: http://www.upworthy.com/a-drone-flew-over-a-pig-farm-to-discover-its-not-really-a-farm-its-something-much-more-disturbing

Pork Causes Deadly Disease to Jump to Humans: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/02/25/515258818/a-taste-for-pork-helped-a-deadly-virus-jump-to-humans

Beef Supplier Going Plant-Based: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/cargill-sold-u-s-feedlots-to-invest-in-plant-based-proteins/

Chickens Might be As Smart as Dolphins: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/04/chickens-might-have-machiavellian-tendencies/

Life of Factory Farm Chickens: [link]

Superbowl Sunday (video): [link]

Chik-Fil-A Owner Goes Vegan and Cures Diabetes: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8664&catId=1

Eating Chicken Gives Your Son a Small Penis (video): [link]

A Chick’s Life (video): [link]

Chickens Punched and Kicked: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/kfc-mcdonalds-chicken-supplier-workers-8620791

70% of Chicken Contains Arsenic: https://www.minds.com/blog/view/554692425218535424

Terrible News For Anyone Who Eats Chicken: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/06/salmonella-chicken-usda-supermarket-inspection-flawed/

Abuse of Slaughterhouse Workers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/11/i-had-to-wear-pampers-many-poultry-industry-workers-allegedly-cant-even-take-bathroom-breaks/?utm_term=.27e1ab8563dd   and    https://news.vice.com/article/chicken-industry-workers-wear-diapers-because-bosses-allow-no-breaks-ngo-says

Chickens in “Concentration Camp” Farms: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4289880/Footage-shows-chickens-concentration-camp-style-farms.html

Vegans and Protein: [link]

Plant Protein Raises Makes You Live Longer: https://www.vegansociety.com/whats-new/news/eat-more-plant-proteins-live-longer-say-harvard-scientists

Vegan Athletes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/these-athletes-went-vegan–and-stayed-strong/2016/11/22/58c2e674-865c-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html?utm_term=.7e8962ab128b

Harvard Condemns Animal Protein: http://www.goingveganhealthbenefits.com/harvard-scientists-condemn-animal-protein-in-the-strongest-possible-terms/

Factory Farms: http://www.lcanimal.org/index.php/campaigns/other-issues/factory-farming

Factory Farm and Slaughterhouse Videos: [link]   [link]   [link]   [link] [link] [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]  [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]    [link]  [link]   [link]   [link]   [link]  [link] 

Sexual Abuse (video): [link]

Dangers of Eating Meat (video): [link]

Scary Truth on Meat (video): [link]

Truth on Eating Fish (video): [link]

Our Ancestors Ate Meat so Should We (video): [link]   

Universal Declaration That Animals Are Sentient: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201306/universal-declaration-animal-sentience-no-pretending

Animals Are Proven sentient: http://www.livescience.com/39481-time-to-declare-animal-sentience.html

Animal Sentience: https://www.voiceless.org.au/the-issues/animal-sentience

Animal Sentience: http://www.animal-ethics.org/animal-sentience-why-should-it-concern-me/

Journal Focusing on Animal Sentience: http://www.hsvma.org/animal_sentience_journal

Animal Minds: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text

11 Famous Vegans/Vegetarians: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-14507/11-famous-vegetarians-in-history-what-we-can-learn-from-them.html

World’s Greatest Geniuses Were Vegetarians: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/02/the-worlds-greatest-geniuses-are-vegetarians/

Famous Vegetarians: https://www.geni.com/projects/Famous-Vegetarians/14487

Vegan and Vegetarian Celebrities: https://www.viva.org.uk/vegan-vegetarian-historical-figures
    
Healthiest Diet in the World (video): [link]  

https://youtu.be/7rNY7xKyGCQ

Big Brains Need Carbs, Not Protein: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/08/11/sorry-paleo-dieters-big-human-brain-needs-carbs-to-evolve/

Meat is Animal Abuse: http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists

Factory Farming is Misery for Animals: https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/

Beef Industry: https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/cows/beef-industry/

Organic and Free Range Myth: https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/free-range-organic-meat-myths/

ASPCA on Animal Welfare: https://www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/farm-animal-welfare

Factory Farms Bad for Us and Animals: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/opinion/velez-mitchell-animal-cruelty/index.html

Eating Meat is Animal Abuse: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/10/01/enforcing-the-legal-rights-of-animals/eating-meat-is-also-animal-abuse

Holocaust Survivor Says Factory Farms Are Just Like Holocaust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNV26q89zYg

Superbug Found in British Milk: http://www.occupyforanimals.net/mrsa-found-in-british-milk-superbug-strain-can-cause-serious-infections-in-humans-and-is-resistant-to-antibiotics.html

GMO Pig Development: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/gmo-pig-development-gets-500000-from-usda.html

Report Animal Abuse: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/europe-watches-as-a-nations-psychological-health-erodes-on-a-hitherto-unimaginable-scale.html

Vegan Restaurants Get More Aggressive: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/vegan-doomies-toronto-1.3589687

Meat Banned at Official Functions in Germany: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/germany-meat-ban-environment-ministry_us_58ae1b24e4b01406012f962b

Market Makes it Easier to Shop Meat Free: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4145298/Sainsbury-s-plans-help-customers-cut-meat.html

Social Media is Nightmare for Meat Industry: https://qz.com/837981/the-meat-industry-is-taking-a-beating-on-twitter-and-facebook/

Coping With Animal Cruelty as a Vegan: http://www.sydneyveganclub.com.au/health/coping-animal-cruelty-induced-trauma-vegan/

Civet Coffee: http://www.occupyforanimals.weebly.com/kopi-luwak-or-civet-coffee.html

Largest Meat Producer Mixing Animal Heads in Meat: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/worlds-largest-meat-producer-caught-mixing

Jason Cillespie Says It’s Not Macho to Eat Meat: https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/cricketer-jason-gillespie-says-theres-nothing-macho-about-eating-meat?utm_source=Plant+Based+News+Email+List&utm_campaign=348fc561f1-may20th2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3b0e03bbb8-348fc561f1-186951449

Mother and Daughter talk Veganism (video): [link]

Doctors Want Meat Banned (video): [link]

Bleeding Veggie Burgers (video): [link]

Feeding Kids Vegan Meats (video): [link]

Google Confirms Plant Revolution is Coming: https://www.riseofthevegan.com/blog/google-confirms-the-plant-based-revolution-is-coming

Veganism is Solution for a Host of Problems: https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/veganism-elegant-solution-host-global-problems

Meat Industry Abuse (video): https://www.facebook.com/thehumaneleague/videos/1778498182165846/?pnref=story

Burger King Cruelty (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRud1IrCnJk&list=HL1375211750&feature=mh_lolz

A Pigs Tale (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr7jqcVRA94&index=2&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpOfqGLTTGlQ-yEKUiYWtOyf

Pigs Abused (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T48yOYjz5sk&index=9&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpOfqGLTTGlQ-yEKUiYWtOyf

Bull Dances With Joy at Being Freed (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNtStsw3rMo&index=31&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpOfqGLTTGlQ-yEKUiYWtOyf

Israeli “Humane” Meat (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-UIeRGI_H4&index=4&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpPf2U22NeRnysHYToCnF4g4

Kids Watch Slaughterhouse Footage (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veqdm5zbggQ&index=11&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpPf2U22NeRnysHYToCnF4g4

Fresh Meat (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQ6Z1RQSAA&index=18&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpPf2U22NeRnysHYToCnF4g4

Soi Dog the Movie (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIaceLcOZAc&index=20&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpPf2U22NeRnysHYToCnF4g4

Humans vs Carnivores (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7e_Ye6Yu6I&index=21&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpPf2U22NeRnysHYToCnF4g4

KFC Chicken Abuse (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hahvx_qvwzw&index=23&list=PLl6sKUyz4mpPf2U22NeRnysHYToCnF4g4

Eskimos and Meat (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N7Sk1ZRohU&index=16&list=WL&t=68s

“Turkey Day” (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7_fN7LFJZk&index=63&list=WL

Chicken (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OedpoxrNH6M&index=66&list=WL

Earthlings on Poulty (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T41ZU69-veM

Beef Farmer Gives Cows to Sanctuary and Goes Vegan: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/vegetarian-beef-farmer-sending-cows-to-sanctuary/

Meat in 6 Minutes (video): https://www.facebook.com/554178414627483/videos/vb.554178414627483/741072019271454/?type=2&theater

Chickens Ripped Apart and Sexually Abused: http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-spca-chilliwack-chicken-farm-abuse

Still Legal to Eat Dogs in US: http://dogtime.com/advocacy/49933-still-legal-eat-dogs-united-states-yes-happens

Woman Dies From Resilient Bacteria Due to Factory Farms: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-in-the-us-dies-after-infection-from-bacteria-resistant-to-26-antibiotic-drugs/

Child Knows Eating Animals is Wrong (video): https://www.facebook.com/alon.golan.16/videos/488865027851406/

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is Pro Animal Rights: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/07/30/texas_chain_saw_massacre_and_vegetarianism_animal_rights_themes_in_the_original.html

Humane Myths: https://veganrabbit.com/2014/03/31/humane-meat-local-free-range-eggs-backyard-chickens/

Ancient Egyptians Were Vegetarians: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/10/egyptians-vegetarian-mummy-study_n_5297691.html

Pig Abuse (video): https://www.facebook.com/AnimalEquality/videos/699186720099625/

Tick Gives Meat Allergies: https://www.wired.com/story/lone-star-tick-that-gives-people-meat-allergies-may-be-spreading?mbid=social_fb_sci

Man With 500 Cats for Slaughter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/13/chinese-man-caught-with-500-imprisoned-cats-destined-for-restaurants/?utm_term=.c3613be1023a

Global Movement Away From Meat: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/new-report-shows-global-movement-away-from

Bill Nye Says Plant-Based is Future: http://www.clearlyveg.com/blog/2017/04/19/bill-nye-the-science-guy-plant-based-diets-are-the-future

Flooded Pig Farm: https://www.facebook.com/garytvcom/videos/1297372423651336/

Girl Sees the Truth: https://www.facebook.com/garytvcom/videos/1352006851521226/

1,200 Pigs in Manure Flooded Stalls: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/pig-farm-deaths-1.4171529

Yulin Dog Meat: https://www.facebook.com/garytvcom/videos/1355956127792965/

Ducks Dying of Heat: https://www.facebook.com/EastLondonChickenSave/videos/324400774657931/

The Secret Reason We Eat Meat: https://www.facebook.com/livekindlyco/videos/550357601979485/

Duck Abuse (video): https://www.facebook.com/EastLondonChickenSave/videos/324400774657931/

Soi Dog Rescues Over 600 Dogs: https://www.facebook.com/SoiDogPageInEnglish/videos/1585260564849006/

What if You Woke to This (video): https://www.facebook.com/TorontoPigSave/videos/1588679021150828/

VR Headsets (video): https://www.facebook.com/AnimalEquality/videos/10154840764209077/

Suffering Pigs (video): https://www.facebook.com/garytvcom/videos/1365891420132769/

This Needs to End (video): https://www.facebook.com/veganoutreach/videos/10155132452651508/

Ducks are Amazing (video): https://www.facebook.com/thehumaneleague/videos/1737862352896096/

Killing Animals: https://www.facebook.com/lightmoveme/videos/1378863908901953/

Slaughterhouse: https://www.facebook.com/TorontoCowSave/videos/1766651490016016/

5 Reasons Not to Eat Bacon: https://www.facebook.com/plantbasednews/videos/1860232087563220/

Think About Them: https://www.facebook.com/thehumaneleague/videos/1649801641702168/

Lobsters Feel Pain (video: https://www.facebook.com/official.peta/videos/10155456479129586/

Pigs in Texas Slaughterhouse: https://www.facebook.com/lightmoveme/videos/1365795226875488/

Cow Slaughter: https://www.facebook.com/lightmoveme/videos/1377630712358606/

Bearing Witness: https://www.facebook.com/TorontoCowSave/videos/1763260800355085/

Their Final Moments: https://www.facebook.com/TorontoPigSave/videos/1586505084701555/

Turkey Hell (video): https://www.facebook.com/1656635714569806/videos/1970489449851096/ and https://www.facebook.com/1656635714569806/videos/1970936286473079/

Protein Myth Debunked: https://www.facebook.com/VeganViewTV/videos/491294564547883/

From Farm to Fridge: https://www.facebook.com/1656635714569806/videos/1860182240881818/

Why Eating Animals is a Social Justice Issue: https://www.facebook.com/PBN.EthicsandActivism/videos/1356019057824507/

Industrial Farming is Worst Crime in History: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/25/industrial-farming-one-worst-crimes-history-ethical-question

Piglet Never Gives up: https://www.facebook.com/directactioneverywhere/videos/1611338832229793/

Beef Farmer Sends Cattle to Sanctuary: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/10155209559715659/

Baby Stays with Dead Mother: https://www.facebook.com/official.peta/videos/10155482096104586/

Dog Cooked in Wok: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4646200/Horrifying-moment-dog-cooked-wok-China.html

Texas Freeway Closed After Truck Overturns: https://www.facebook.com/Local4/videos/10156022591881002/

Alpaca Rescued From Meat Industry: https://www.facebook.com/thedodosite/videos/1202609949873678/

Cat Burned for Meat as People Laugh: https://fightdogmeat.com/2017/06/28/china-cat-burned-meat-people-laugh/

If You Love Animals and Free Speech be Worried About Ag-Gag: https://mic.com/articles/135291/if-you-love-animals-and-free-speech-you-should-be-worried-about-ag-gag-laws#.Tg5VYLzXT

Meat Consumption Per Capita: https://www.facebook.com/AnimalEquality/videos/10154929289904077/

Plant-Based Meats By Impossible Foods: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/videos/1753270718035536/

Plant-Based Meats: https://www.facebook.com/garytvcom/videos/1390913450963899/

Pig Slaughter: https://www.facebook.com/lightmoveme/videos/1399547473500263/

Manny’s Story: https://www.facebook.com/AnimalEquality/videos/10154908187224077/

If Lions Eat Meat, Why Shouldn’t We? https://www.facebook.com/livekindlyco/videos/580598098955435/

Their Screams Will Haunt You: https://www.facebook.com/official.peta/videos/10155641709834586/

Slaughterhouse Worker Loves Killing: https://www.facebook.com/WestMidlandsAnimalSave/videos/283500345390379/

Pig Beaten to Death: https://www.facebook.com/animalfreedomfighter/videos/2014232395462288/

Animals Killed When Babies: https://www.facebook.com/official.peta/videos/10154305759024586/

Factory Farming Truths: https://www.facebook.com/AnimalEquality/videos/10154887285649077/

What “Farms” Look Like Today: https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1608000482564769/

Slaughter: https://www.facebook.com/1656635714569806/videos/1975753525991355/

Pig Farm Exposed: https://www.facebook.com/ManchesterChickenSave/videos/1041649802638154/

Piglets Mutated: https://www.facebook.com/AnimalEquality/videos/10154850299204077/

Pigs on Factory Farm: https://www.facebook.com/lightmoveme/videos/1382246925230318/

When You Eat Bacon: https://www.facebook.com/directactioneverywhere/videos/1622117344485275/

Pig Life: https://www.facebook.com/TorontoPigSave/videos/1592261127459284/

Cow Slaughter: https://www.facebook.com/1656635714569806/videos/1975390772694297/

Animals Do Not See the Sun: https://www.facebook.com/thehumaneleague/videos/1737848742897457/

Everyone Needs to Go Vegan Now: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/meat-dairy-vegan-slaughterhouses-vegetarian-a7891046.html

American Medical Association Tells Hospitals to Go Vegan: http://thatveganrecipe.com/high_protein_pages/american-medical-association-say-hospital-should-go-vegan.html

During the Holocaust of the late 1930’s and early 1940’s around 6 million people died in concentration camps. Over 4 times that many animals will be killed today alone for food in the U.S.

The Buffalo standing still, sad and frightened to tears According to the news release from China’s People’s News, whether people believe it or not, this incident actually happened in Hong Kong. The Weekly World News reported that a group of workers were bringing a water buffalo into a packaging factory, ready to slaughter it to make steak and beef stew. When they approached the front door of the slaughterhouse, the sorrowful buffalo suddenly stood still, refusing to move forward, kneeling on its two front knees, and with tears streaming from its eyes. How could the buffalo have already been aware that it was going to be slaughtered, before entering the slaughterhouse? This shows that it was even more alert than many a person. “When I saw what is believed to be a stupid animal actually crying, and when I noticed that its eyes were full of fear and sadness, I could not help but shiver.” Extremely shocked by this, butcher Shiu Tat-Nin recalled: “I quickly called other people to come see, and they were as surprised as I was! We pushed and pulled the water buffalo, but it would not move; it just sat there crying constantly.” Billy Fong, the boss of the Hong Kong packaging plant said, “Mankind has always thought that animals are not like people who can cry, but this buffalo is really sobbing like a baby!” At that time there were at least a dozen strong, burly men present, but their hearts were softened by the buffalo’s crying, and those who were responsible for killing water buffaloes were even more touched by this, tears welling out of their eyes. Buffalo weeping non-stop When workers from other slaughterhouses heard the news, they also ran to the crying and kneeling buffalo, and the site was soon crowded with people who were astonished at what they saw. Three of them were so shocked that they said that from now on, even when they slaughter other kinds of animals, they will never forget that buffalo tears. At the point when a buffalo is crying and people are crying as well, we can all be sure that none of them will kill the buffalo now. Then the question was how to take care of this matter. Finally, they decided to buy the water buffalo with cash, and then they sent it to a Buddhist temple, for the monastic to take good care of it, so that it could be assured of living out its life peacefully. When this decision was made, an amazing thing happened again: “When there was an assurance that the buffalo would not be killed, it finally agreed to move, got up, and it is here with us.” How could a water buffalo understand human words? Shiu said: “Whether you believe it or not, this is really true, although it sounds really incredible.” Undoubtedly, this buffalo has changed the lives of these butchers.

Cows are sometimes skinned, gutted, or dismembered while they’re still alive.

”You notice cows are alive because they’re making noises and they try to kick a lot. And when workers try to stick the knife in the cow, they’re trying to kick and sometimes they have to stick the knife in between their legs to cut their nerves so they won’t be moving, they won’t be trying to kick. Roughly 10 to perhaps 30 percent of the animals proceed through the skinning and dismemberment process in a fully conscious state.” (Julio Rodriguez)

Another worker, who has been at the plant for more than a decade, said that because of the chain speed, workers cut “the legs, the stomach, the neck, [and] cut off the feet while the cow is breathing.”

That, in turn has enabled them to work more quickly, fueling a race to turn cattle, chicken and pigs into meat at an unprecedented clip. Some meat packers are making record profits without raising prices at the supermarket.

Even with chemical sterilization, according to Felicia Nestor of the Government Accountability Project, allowing the meat to be exposed to feces makes it much more likely that consumers will get sick. “It’s an age old concept that you control contamination during the butchering of the animal,” she says. But instead, we allow meat to become contaminated “because it’s much faster, you can slaughter more animals. But it’s a net loss for food safety. It means either more deadly contamination or more chemically sterilized contamination – which has its own drawbacks – in the food.”

The bottom line, according to Randy Wurtle of the inspectors’ union, is that fewer people are getting sick because of what the USDA refers to as “interventions.” He says “the plants are producing much filthier, dirtier meat, but they’re using a greater mass of chemicals. If consumers knew what they were doing-if they knew they were eating sanitized feces-they wouldn’t be happy.” (v)

Formerly Ga-Maleven