Vegans for World Peace

Our food system is inefficient, cruel and we are wasting our resources. We will run out of clean water, deplete the soil of nutrients and collapse the ecosystem. We are destroying the tropical rainforest, the lungs of the planet, and home to millions (if not trillions) of species of life forms that took millions of years of evolution to create. We are growing food on this land to feed the animals we eat (for the most part.) We are creating mass extinction and we are not immune to extinction ourselves as we are dealing in a land of finite resources. Humans are starving right now because we choose to feed their food to the animals we eat. Approx. 50,000 litres of drinking water goes into producing 1 kilo of beef or a gallon of milk. It takes approximately 10 times more grain to feed a "food" animal to eat it than it does to just feed the grain directly to the human being. We can feed 7 billion humans much more efficiently than 100 billion or more land animals. And we are ignoring our moral obligation to protect innocent animals and people who cannot protect themselves. Yes animals in the wild eat flesh but they do not breed in captivity and confine their prey to spaces indoors without space enough to turn around or be comfortable at all during the entire life. These animals are living a life of torture. No wild animal is so cruel to abuse, torture, confine, neglect, overcrowd, beat, cram in cages so small they never move, allow them no exercise, no sunshine, EVER, no movement even! Cut up into pieces while conscious, skin them alive, boil alive, etc etc etc This is common the world over. 100 billion a year we slaughter!!!!! and we kill another 1-3 trillion in the oceans. Non human animals are not capable of cultivating plant crops, however we are. We do not need animal products to survive. Some animals do need other animals to survive we are not one of them - many have proven this. Our intestines are long like herbivores and we have a back up emergency system we are abusing. Animal protein and fat creates disease in our body where plant food does not. We can derive all we need from plants and bacteria, rather than have the animals process this for us. If we focus on feeding the people directly we stop the torture and slaughter. If you eat meat dairy or eggs and you watch how the pigs, cows, chickens, farmed fish etc live you, will see they suffer immensely. When we take from the oceans we risk the lives of the sharks and whales who are essential to the ocean ecosystem. We need to keep it in balance. And the taste for flesh is not worth mass suffering beyond comprehension. We can learn to eat the plants. If you don't have the stomach to watch these videos on how the "food" animals live - it is because you already know it is creating suffering for them. Please stop supporting animal cruelty immediately! We can eat if we grow food for us rather than the animals we breed into existence to consume. We threaten the wildlife when we farm the land to grow the animal food. There is enough food for everyone but not enough to feed and care properly for so many animals! Every social issue is solved by going to a plant based diet and provides a tangible way of knowing who is cruel and who believes all life is sacred. The torture can stop but it takes each and every one of us to make it happen. Violence is a choice. Please stop contributing to lifetimes of starvation, torture, confinement, abuse, and slaughter. Please stop! Let us instead worship all life, not just our own. Let's love and worship instead of destroy, torture, and exploit ok?! Please! We can do this! And we will be better for it!

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Dairy Farmers in Canada Separate Babies from Mothers permanently and raise them babies for veal


Separating a mother from its baby at birth permanently is cruel beyond any comprehension.  Mothers feed machines, babies are fed by machines

see below email i personally received from Dairy Farmers of Canada

Hi,
We agree. The calves need milk – and they get about 10 litres a day for the first 2-4 weeks, then their stomach can gradually start digesting hay /grass.
A cow produces about 28-30 litres – sometimes more, sometimes less- of milk a day – for about 9-10 months, so there is enough for calves and humans.
As time goes on, they decrease their milk consumption and increase solids.

And this is where there starts to be a difference between “milk-fed veal” and “grain-fed veal” – how long the animal is given milk vs grain – and how long they will live.
Beef cattle will obviously live longer and become bigger.

On typical cattle farms, no animals are tied. They roam freely – whether inside or outside.
A number of older barns for dairy and veal still have mixed housing – meaning some animals are tied in their individual stall – which must be big enough for them to move a few feet, but not enough to turn around: the reason is simple, the space in front of them is where they eat and drink – it must stay rigorously clean so if the animal was allowed to turn around and defecate there, there would be huge health risk for the calves.

Moreover, the veal industry has already decided to be proactive and move towards “group housing” – no more single pens over the next 10 years. On group housing, the pens are bigger with 4-6 calves to a pen where they can run, socialize and frolic. All food and water (and milk) is outside the pen to avoid contamination.

There are a lot of interesting technological advances that ensure the calves get the proper nutrition they need – there are even robotic feeders now that will give milk on demand and records how much each calf eats – so farmers can track the feed intake and ensure that all calves have enough to drink and eat. (this helps ensure that any bullying by another animal is detected early so that if a farmer needs to remove a calf that is being “picked on”, they can do it before the animal’s health is at risk.)

The same principle applies to managing cows.
If you want to learn more or see how this is applied, I’d encourage you to see if there is a farm near you that you could visit.
Check this page of provincial dairy organizations http://www.dairyfarmers.ca/contact  if you want to visit a dairy farm; look for the cattlemen’s organizations if you want to visit a beef farm.

And have a great holidays!
Dairy Farmers of Canada

Hi,

Cows have 9-month pregnancies, like humans; and their pregnancies and “calving” are a lot more easy than what women live. They don’t usually need help, but farmers make sure to monitor cows that are about to “freshen” very closely, move them to the maternity pen and get up at night to check on them.

Cows like being milked. If a farmer is 15-30 minutes late for milking, we can hear the cows protest. (I know, I grew up on a dairy farm). No sleeping in or staying at the supper table too long! I heard the cows protest!
As a mother who has breastfed 2 babies, I can assure you that I understand this – the feeling of being engorged is the reason why there are breast pumps for humans.

Modern milkers are amazingly gentle on cows – a lot more than milking by hand.
It takes 5 minutes twice a day to milk a cow. Some cows are milked 3 times a day. Farms where there are robots - and cows decide themselves when to be milked – cows are typically milked 2.8 times a day. Some cows prefer to get milked 4 times a day.

Thanks!
Therese
Dairy Farmers of Canada

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