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FREE VEGAN GUIDE:
bit.ly/bSXeUu

SCIENTISTS PROVE ANIMALS ARE AS CONSCIOUS AS HUMANS, MAKING MEAT UNETHICAL:
bit.ly/NlN2to

DRS URGE PLANT BASED DIET:
vegnews.com/web/articles/page.do%3bjsessionid=118AFA843BE5A34682F356F0254BF0C2?pageId=3669&catId=8

INDUSTRY CRUELTY:
bit.ly/12DHz88

REPORT: VEGAN DIET NEEDED TO PREVENT GLOBAL FOOD/WATER CRISIS:
huff.to/SNJX4K

CANINE TEETH DO NOT MEAN YOU'RE A MEAT EATER:
freefromharm.org/photo-galleries/9-reasons-your-canine-teeth-dont-make-you-a-meat-eater

FREE RANGE MYTHS:
bit.ly/ZTUpbI

VEGAN DIET HEALTHIEST OF ALL DIETS:
vivausa.org/guides/healthiestdietofall1.htm

STUDIES PROVE VEGANS LIVE LONGER THAN MEAT EATERS:
treehugger.com/green-food/proven-vegetarians-live-longer.html
healingcancernaturally.com/vegetarians-live-longer.html

HOW FARMING MEAT USES MORE RESOURCES & LAND THAN A VEGAN DIET BUT PRODUCES LESS FOOD:
michaelpollan.com/videos/michael-pollan-on-stop-animation-video

GOING VEGAN COULD END WORLD HUNGER:
bit.ly/NDGSQH

STUDIES PROVE WE MUST GO VEGAN TO AVOID CLIMATE DISASTER:
examiner.com/green-business-in-seattle/is-meat-killing-the-planet-un-says-diet-change-will-slow-climate-change#ixzz1reXrrG2H

FARMING MEAT SPREADS DISEASE:
scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-change-boosts-lethal-hendra-virus

MEAT & THE ENVIRONMENT, U.N. report:
theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet

MEAT = DEFORESTATION:
bit.ly/NiWjyQ

EATING LESS MEAT CAN SAVE THE PLANET, SCIENTIFIC STUDY:
globalanimal.org/2012/05/19/eat-less-meat-save-the-world/74507

FACTORY FARMS:
bit.ly/aAourk

STUDIES SHOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAN MADE:
nature.com/news/three-quarters-of-climate-change-is-man-made-1.9538

CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS BLINDED BY POLITICAL IDEOLOGY:
bit.ly/NTSZtE

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY:
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THE DAIRY INDUSTRY:
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THE CRUELTY OF MILK AND CHEESE:
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Watch "If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls". Among other things it shows that "stunning" does not kill an animal or always render it unconscious prior to slaughter:
youtube.com/watch?v=ebTQXkMUqt0

There are endless reasons to become vegan. The most urgent, to humans, is the fact that meat production produces more global warming gases than all the cars, trucks, trains, ships, planes, on earth- combined (this according to the United Nations and industry statistics).

Another obvious fact is that it's horrifically cruel to the animals. And animals do feel pain, have a sense of self, feel emotions, etc, just like humans, as agreed by science. So causing them unnecessary pain is unethical.

It is also unhealthy for humans to consume meat and dairy products, and meat and dairy production waste irreplaceable natural resources and feed fewer people than if we simply raised vegan food. Plus, by going vegan, we'd be able to feed the 15,000-20,000 people who die daily due to starvation related disease. Meat production uses MORE resources and land but yields far LESS food than farming a vegan diet.

This is NOT opinion, it's all sound scientific fact, based on peer reviewed scientific research and simple math.

Farming and consuming meat is NOT a sustainable practice, therefor it cannot continue. If we do continue to farm meat then we face the destruction of our planet, literally. That's not hyperbolic. That's simply math and scientific fact. So, if you care about anything at all (like your future, your health, your children's future, or maybe even an animal's well being), do the right thing and go vegan.

A senior UN official and co-author of a UN report detailing this problem, Henning Steinfeld, said "Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems". Livestock production occupies 70% of all land used for agriculture, or 30% of the land surface of the planet. It is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases, responsible for 18% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalents. By comparison, all transportation emits 13.5% of the CO2. It produces 65% of human-related nitrous oxide (which has 296 times the global warming potential of CO2,) and 37% of all human-induced methane (which is 23 times as warming as CO2. It also generates 64% of the ammonia, which contributes to acid rain and acidification of ecosystems. Livestock expansion is cited as a key factor driving deforestation, in the Amazon basin 70% of previously forested area is now occupied by pastures and the remainder used for feedcrops. Through deforestation and land degradation, livestock is also driving reductions in biodiversity.