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Animal rights activist Peter Singer once said, “if we had
to kill our own meat, we would all be vegetarians”. While that may not be 100% true, it is probably 99% true. While meat eaters sit down to their plates
full of rotting animal carcasses, they tend to “conveniently” forget about the
pain, suffering, fear, and ultimate murder that is required to produce
them. Forgetting about it does not make
it go away, though. Read on for some
soul-searching reasons why you should not be consuming anything that had a
face.
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MASS MURDER ---
ONE BITE AT A TIME
It has been estimated that the
average American meat-eater typically consumes the following over their
lifetime:
·
1 calf
·
3 lambs and sheep
·
11 cows
·
23 hogs
·
45 turkeys
·
861 pounds of fish
·
1097 chickens (1)
The following tidbits were gleaned from the Pulitzer Prize
nominated book Diet For A New America, by John Robbins.
This will start you thinking.
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Average wingspan of a Leghorn chicken:
26 inches
Average space given to a leghorn chicken in the typical
egg factory:
6 inches
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Number of 700+ pound pigs confined to a space the size of
a twin bed on a typical factory farm:
3
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Reason that today’s veal is so tender:
Calves never allowed to take a single step
Reason that today’s veal is so whitish-pink:
Calves force-fed on anemia producing diet
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McDonald’s brags:
60 billion sold
McDonald’s doesn’t brag:
50 million slaughtered
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McDonald’s clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children:
Hamburgers grow in patches and love to be eaten
McDonald’s clown, Ronald McDonald, doesn’t
tell children:
Hamburgers are ground up cows that have had their throats
slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by sledgehammers.
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Speaking of Ronnie…
The original actor to play Ronald McDonald:
Jeff Juliano
Diet now followed by actor Jell Juliano:
Vegetarian
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Number of defenseless animals slaughtered for food in the
United States every hour:
500,000
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Occupation with highest turnover rate in the U.S.:
Slaughterhouse worker
Occupation with highest employee injury rate in the U.S.:
Slaughterhouse worker
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Cost to render an animal unconscious prior to slaughter
with captive bolt pistol so that process is done humanely:
1 penny
Reason given by meat industry for not utilizing captive
bolt pistol:
Too expensive
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(1) Altman N The spiritual side of vegetarianism Vegetarian Times Nov / Dec. 36-38, 1977.