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Cruelty to Animals
More than 27 billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S. alone. Animals in factory farms have no legal protection from cruelty that would be illegal if it were inflicted on dogs or cats, including neglect, mutilations, genetic manipulation, drug regimens that cause chronic pain and crippling, transport through all weather extremes, and gruesome and violent slaughter. Read more.


Amazing Animals
Farmed animals are no less intelligent or capable of feeling pain than are the dogs and cats we cherish as our companions. They are inquisitive, interesting individuals...
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Here's how I wanted to become a Veg. It started when I was 12 yrs. old. One day I was wondering about vegetarianism. What it was, what was the reason, etc. So I looked up what it was and I found out that a diet was not only something to lose weight, but that it was something that meant what you ate (or something like that) a lifestyle. I looked up more and found out that vegetarians ate tofu, which was a soy product made out of soybeans. I found some words that I wasn't familiar with: Vegan, Fruitarian, and Pescetarian. I looked up these words and found out what each of these meant. A Vegan...
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posted by avatar2012
Hey! This is my first article on here and I thought I would make it count. You see I'm only 14 and I've been a vegetarian for a year now. So I thought i'd reach out to those looking to become vegetarian and just need some help.
My first tip would be to look up the video,"Meet your Meat." This video had a strong influence on me when I first started to think about becoming vegetarian. It showed the horrible ways of slaughter and the ways these animals become a hotdog on your plate. And yes it went into the slaughter house!!!! It made me cry and showed me that we were just murdering an animal...
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posted by glelsey
Here is some *hopefully* helpful information for those new to or considering a vegetarian lifestyle. Courtesy of the Vegetarian Society UK.

What don't vegetarians eat?
A vegetarian does not eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, or the by-products of slaughter.

Statistics
Department of Health and Food Standards Agency (FSA) – National Diet and Nutrition Survey. In a UK-wide survey of 1,491 adults and 1,582 children between 2008 - 2011 2% of both adults and children reported that they were vegetarian.

The number of committed vegetarians has actually remained fairly stable over...
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posted by vider69
I've been a vegetarian for over twelve years now because meat and poultry make me really ill (maybe I'm allergic) I can and do eat seafood sometimes, I'm not overly keen on cows milk, so I drink soya milk and use coffee whitener for coffee.
Having said that I do like flavored milk and will have regular milk in coffee when I'm out, I still like foods such as cheese and eggs and I could never imagine being totally vegan, I would have to give up ice cream (soya ice cream is nice but very expensive) I just have to wonder how do vegans handle such a diet? no cream, ice cream, cheese, eggs, etc.
I'm...
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posted by MerlinLemon
Why I'll never eat 'chicken' again...!
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Who would really want to eat a crippled 5-week-old baby bird?
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Drumsticks are for beating, not eating!
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Free the birds!
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CREULTY TO ANIMALS. SAY NO!

chickens aren't just things that can be bred, killed and eaten. they have souls, they feel pain. if you disagree with the way they are kept and treated, too, then join my club.
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posted by blisslikethis
Think again!
Think again!
so, i had posted this awhile ago over at the Debate spot and it got hardly any response at all. i had tailored it a bit over there, so i'm posting my original essay here. hopefully it'll get a better reception from more like-minded people :).


"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet..."
- Albert Einstein

Raising livestock for human consumption has innumerable ramifications on the environment and to human health. Livestock is responsible for the consumption huge amounts of land, water, and resources, as...
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posted by SouthParkSmart
It seems like vegan is becoming the new vegetarian. And I cannot adapt.

From websites to magazines targeted at the non-meat eating audience, pressure to become vegan is on the rise. Stories of cruelty in egg-laying farms and dairy cows being hurt can put you on quite a guilt trip. Some people choose to avoid animal products altogether and become vegan.

But wait, what about those of us who do not eat meat but choose to eat eggs and/or dairy? Aren't we just as good? It isn't looking that way. From what I read and see, more and more people are trying to push veganism over vegetarianism. Well, I...
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posted by blisslikethis
Last year, there was a big scandal when US Vice President Dick Cheney shot a 78 year-old lawyer in the face while hunting canned birds in Texas. Characteristicly, most newscasts blabbered on about the lawyer getting shot and no one seemed to focus much on the fact that Dick and his buddies killed over 400 practically domesticated birds.

The definition of canned hunting is "the hunting of captive animals in a confined area". Canned hunting generally occurs on private land where laws protecting wildlife are either inapplicable or difficult to enforce. Hunters pay to kill native or exotic (and...
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posted by KandiGhostcat
Here's some things that I thought were nice to do when going Veg.

1. Get into a healthy eating habit.
If you're going to do a veg diet then do it the RIGHT way, not the WRONG way. The right way of a veg diet is important (especially if you're wanting to live longer). This way will be good for you and your health. All you need to do is adapt a healthy habit and not eat too much junk food (that's how some vegs don't live longer). Doing this will surely decrease having any health problems of eating too much unhealthy food. The same goes for drinks as well.

2. Grow plants.
Growing plants is a great...
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She calls it Franken-food, genocide.

Strawberries grown from seeds injected with DNA from arctic flounder fish to make them frost resistant. Seeds pumped with suicide genes that yield an infertile harvest so corporations can profit from a patent placed on the plant’s genetic code. Rice injected with traits that make it more nutritious so those in parts of the world where vitamin deficiencies are often fatal have a dependable source of vitamins. Wheat injected with bacteria that renders its grain resistant to pesticides and insecticides. Cows injected with artificial sex hormones so they produce more milk.

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posted by POYNETTEHATERZ
OKAY EATING MEAT IS LIKE HAVING SOME1 SHOOT YOU AND THEN COOK YOU UP AND THEN SEARVE YOU. ANMAILS SOULD NOT GET HUANTED DOWN IT'S HORRIBLE TO KILL AN POOR HELPLESS ANIMAL. HOW WOULD YOU MEAT EATERS LIKE TO BE HUANTED DOWN BECUASE SOME1 IS HUNGERY AND THEY NEED FOOD.TRY A VEGGIE BURGER OK. KILLING ANMAILS IS RUDE AND HEARLESS. IF YOU KILL AND ANMIAL LOOK INTO IT'S EYES IN THEIR SAD EYES IS PAIN AND SADNESS.I HAVE JUST TURNED INTO A VEGATIAN BECAUSE I SAW HOW IT HAPPENS I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST FAST AND NOT PAINFUL. I WAS WRONG AND WHEN I SAW I CRYED AND CRYED ALL THE PEOPLE WATCH WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IT WILL SHCOCK YOU TO YOUR CORE
posted by bobalosmonkey
I have a lot of friends that aren't a vegetarians, but i do have two that are, and we have similar ideas that i'd like to share, to see if anyone shares these ideas. Many non-vegetarians think that being one is like a religion, you never eat meat or anything with meat in it, or produced by an animal. This is NOT true. Vegetarianism is a way of life, a moral code, if you will. You choose what you are and are not comfortable with. I cannot stand to eat meat, fish, anything that was alive and could move with its own free will. I find it gross that any human could eat another creature, its almost like cannibalism, which is also gross. I know vegetarians that eat gelatin, and i have another friend who claims that she is not, because she eats gelatin, and this is not true. I eat gelatin every once in a while, and that's usually three times a year, and i am totally calm when i do this. Vegetarianism should be viewed as different for everyone, not a strict code of rules. Please comment!