50 Reasons to Go Vegan
- Animal rights
- Animals are intelligent, empathetic beings
- Veganism isn’t expensive
- You’re less likely to develop heart disease and cancer
- It’s easy, there are hundreds of resources for making the switch
- Animals love life, and are known to run away from factory farms
- 91% of Amazon rain forest deforestation is due to animal agriculture
- Majority of plastics in the ocean are from fishing
- Fish are sentient and feel pain
- Cows, pigs, and other animals forced into agriculture feel pain
- Animals are beaten into submission so they perform “tricks” at circuses
- Rodeos will hurt bulls so they become “aggressive”
- Animals aren’t here for your entertainment
- Cows produce milk for their children, not humans
- Chickens have been biologically manipulated in order to mass produce eggs
- Animals suffer in factory farms
- It’s scientifically proven that veganism is healthier than carnism or vegetarianism
- A new study states “diets that are better for the planet are better for you”
- Pigs are as intelligent as a three year old
- Octopi have started using tools to help gather food (their own stone-age)
- Mother cows cry when their babies are taken away from them
- Vegan food isn’t weird, it’s weird to eat a dead animals secretions
- No one owns the right to another beings life
- Animal consumption is linked to diabetes
- Animal agriculture is a main reason of antibiotic resistance
- Animal agriculture causes more greenhouse gas emissions than transport
- Majority of the population is lactose intolerant
- Plenty of societies have thrived without eating animals
- Vegan businesses are expanding
- Not eating meat protects endangered species
- Pigs are killed six months after birth
- Male chicks are killed on their first day of life
- Calves used for veal never see sunlight
- Mother cows are forcefully impregnated
- Animal testing poisons, shocks, harms, and kills animals
- 100 million animals are used for testing annually
- 92% of animal tested drugs fail in humans
- Even backyard hens are killed after two to five years
- Bees are hurt when collecting honey
- Bees use their honey to survive winter
- Honey bees are invasive, and harming our natural polinators
- Animal agriculture spreads disease
- Using our crops for humans could end world hunger
- Animal products contain harmful dioxins, antibiotics, and hormones
- There’s over 500 vegan restaurants in the US
- There’s an entire vegan neighborhood in Toronto, Canada
- Workers in slaughter houses have the highest rates of PTSD and suicide of any field
- Pigs are trapped in crates that are only 2 feet wide
- Male cows are castrated
- You’ll live more ethically
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