Please Don't Eat the Animals

While the slaughter itself is horrifying, at least their joyless lives are over—the only mercy humans have shown them.

There is no moral distinction between bringing suffering and death upon an animal with your own hands and perpetrating it by paying someone to do it for you.

Vegetarians do not participate in the abuse and inhumane killing of the cows, pigs, sheep, goats, or chickens that are raised and slaughtered every year. This is the great blessing of being a vegetarian, and the very best reason to become one.

The vegetarian philosophy regarding animals is both profound and simple: It is wrong to make animals suffer and to kill them inhumanely.

over 70 percent of the world’s fish species are either fully exploited or depleted

Over half of acid rain is caused by ammonia emissions from factory farms.

Famous vegetarian writers and artists include:
Scott Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Clive Barker, Berkeley Breathed, Charlotte Bronte, Lord Byron, J. M. Coetzee, Alberto Chavez, Ted Hughs, Arianna Huffington, Franz Kafka, Frances Moore Lappe, Hans Christian Anderson, V. S. Naipaul, John Robbins, Anthony Robbins, Henry Salt, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Tyron, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood.

The more you go vegetarian, the healthier your heart will be. On a spectrum with daily meat eating at one end, vegetarianism in the middle and veganism at the other end, the closer we move toward vegan, the less cardiovascular disease we have

Many scientists have concluded that the major risk factor in heart disease is cholesterol. The only foods that contain cholesterol are animal products, and so vegetarians have fewer cholesterol worries.

We’ve been vegetarians for two years now. At first I thought it would be real hard, but well, I guess that was the big surprise…and how much better I feel—lighter and healthier. Oh, sure, every once in a while I’ll get a hankerin’ for a burger, but I just think back to the months of pain and recovery, and that cravin’ goes by real quick.