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1. Because a vegan diet reverses heart disease.
On the American Heart Association (AHA) diet, which includes meat, patients’ arteries continue to clog, while Dr. Dean Ornish’s vegan diet unclogs arteries. In one study, AHA dieters experienced a 28 percent average worsening of clogged arteries, while dieters on Ornish’s program experienced an 8 percent improvement in their arteries.



2 Because eating meat and dairy products makes you fat.

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As a nation, we’re getting fatter, and the Atkins diet has only made matters worse because it only works in the short term. Only 2 percent of pure vegetarians are obese, which is about one-ninth the figure for meat-eating Americans.



3. Because in every package of chicken, there’s a little poop.[/color]
A USDA study found that 98 percent of broiler chicken carcasses had detectable levels of E. coli, indicating fecal contamination.



4. Because you wouldn’t eat your dog.[/color]
Most people are horrified that some cultures eat dogs or whales, but these animals suffer no more than animals commonly consumed in the U.S. The difference is only cultural, not moral.



5. Because mad cow disease is in the U.S.
Any animal with a brain could contract a version of mad cow disease, yet millions of pigs and chickens are still being fed the remains of diseased animals—in violation of World Health Organization recommendations and the laws of Europe and Japan.



6. Because it takes a small person to beat a defenseless animal ... and an even smaller person to eat one.[/color]
If you’re eating meat, you are paying others to commit acts so cruel that if committed against dogs or cats, they would warrant felony cruelty charges in most U.S. states.



7. Because the grain used to feed animals could be used to feed hungry people.
A full 80 percent of U.S. agricultural land is used to raise chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals; 70 percent of grains produced are used to feed them. If the massive quantities of grain, soy, and corn now fed to factory-farmed animals were freed up, there would be plenty of food for the world’s starving people.



8. Because more than half of all water used in the U.S. is used to raise animals for food.[/color]
A totally vegetarian diet requires 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat-eating diet requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day. Time magazine reports, “Around the world, as more water is diverted to raising [cattle], pigs, and chickens, instead of producing crops for direct consumption, millions of wells are going dry.”

9. Because when animals feel pain, they scream, too.[/color]
If you burn them, they feel it. If you give them electric shocks, they feel it. Other animals feel pain in the same way and to the same degree that we humans do.



10. Because it isn’t fair.[/color]
Killing other animals is an act of exploitation and violence, and we do it only because we have the power to.



You wouldn't eat your friends and family, so why eat someone elses?[/center]

These are only ten out of thirty reasons to go vegitarian. The truth may be shocking.

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[Sarah]

Duuuuuuuude..

Very good reasons. I don't know if I could do it, though. I've tried, but only lasted a day.

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I tried and it lasted .....well it will be two years this october...

I found some more interesting facts......

[americanpsycho]

hahahaha. Interesting..


I like the last picture.




and I have seriously considered becoming vegetarian, but then I would be living off peanut butter and that.. isn't a good thing.

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• Chickens and turkeys raised for meat are kept in huge, overcrowded, putrid seds. They're bred to grow so big, so fast that they can hardly move, thanks to painful joint and bone conditions. Some drop dead just from the strain that such rapid growth places on their hearts. The birds suffer chronic pain, filthy conditions, and any number of diseases. The industry brags, "If a 7 pound baby grew at the same rate that today's turkeys (and broiler chickens) grow, when the baby reached 18 weeks of age it would weigh 1,500 pounds."
  
• Egg-laying hens are packed so tightly into cages that they can't stretch even one wing. Their feet never touch the ground. They never get to peck for food in grass or build a nest but, instead, spend their lives on painful wire. Frustrated hens peck at their cagements, so in order to prevent them from killing eachother, farmers use hot blades to slice off their beaks--and sometimes parts of their tongues or faces get cut off too.
  
• Cattle who are being fattened for slaughter are branded, and their horns and testicles are cut out--all without pain killers. They often don't get appropriate veterinary care, since they are just going to be slaughtered anyway. So things like lameness, which affects almost half of dairy cows, and chronic itchiness, which affects nearly one-third of pigs, are often left untreated. Afterall, lameness and itching don't affect the meat.
  
• Up three times a day, dairy cows get electric machines hooked up to their massively swollen udders. Cuts and injuries to their udders are common -- and so is mastitis, a painful infection. The pus blood and scabs, plus hormones and antibiotics, all end up in that milk mustache.
  
• After birth, male calves are torn from their moms, causing fear and stress. Then they're shipped to veal farms, where they spend their lives on short chains in filthy, narrow stalls where they can never turn around or lie comfortably. They're unable to move around, kept in isolation, and fed nutrient--deficient food so that their flesh will be pale and tender when served to enlightened 'gourmets"
  
• Pigs in factory farms spend their lives on concrete floors in crowded pens. Like chickens and turkeys, pigs are drugged and bred to grow so fast and so big that many can barely walk. The baby boys get their testicles cut out. All the babies get their teeth cut in half and their talls cut off. See, teh factory farms have to do that because the pigs are so stressed out and miserable that they will fight and bite each other while being raised to die.
  
• Scientist know that fish, like all animals, feel pain and experience fear. So it's no picnic for them when they're hooked through the mouth or dragged out of the ocean in nets to die slow, excruciating deaths by crushing, suffocation, or having their inards sliced out of them. Unless, of course, they are farm raised. Then they live in overcrowded, feces filled, oxygen-depleted, parastie-ridden confinement. For animals like salmon, who travel thousands of miles under natural conditions, this is tragic existence.
  

Think that fuzzy yellow chick or pink baby pig is just the cutest thing? Chickens are killed when they are less than 2 months old, pigs are slaughtered before the age of 6 months, and cows barely see their first birthday.

I got all of this info from Question Autority...a pamlet from Peta2.com...

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Bunny. I'm down with you, I mean, really, but must you spread this around? seriously if people are interested they'll go to peta.com and check things out. or they'll be caught unawares at a concert where people will give them a tape and say it's music videos, or someone will see an icon on the internet that ruins their hunger for meat completely.


but I tell you pictures can't turn me vegetarian. and I don't know. just sometimes when you have to say something about in every pack of chicken there's a little poop, it feels like you're a peta robot sending the message.. it just doesn't sound right coming from you...

[americanpsycho]

..and you do realize that Peta are extremist, so they not only focus on the negative, but make everything seem a million and one times worse than it actually is? I'm not doubting that some farmers may do that, but like... 80-95% of farms treat their animals with respect..

Most of the stuff Peta feeds you is a bunch of baloney..

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Yes...I must do it...

The poor little animals...

They can't tell you themselves.....

And yes PETA people are kind of crazy....I don't much like them...but they send you some nice little stickers and loads of info....

I can't help it...I gotta share the info....

Really it was the last pisture.....I saw it in someones photobucket...and I liked it.....and I knew that I had to share the info....

[Sarah]

That last picture....*shudder*....I don't like it.

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I heart the last picture...

[Sarah]

It frightens me.

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Why?

It shouldn't bother you anymore than seeing a cow sliced up in a package....

And amazingly I am completely backwards.....

That picture doesn't bother me.....but the sliced up cows in packages does...

Maybe it's because I don't like people....

Anyway...

[americanpsycho]

Haha..


I think that picture is just awesome.. seriously.

[Sarah]

*shrug* I don't know.

I just don't know.

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I thought it was awesome too..

It inspired me...