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!

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Dariy Babies Crying :((((

Avez vous vu des veaux pleurer ? - YouTube:

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Have you ever heard calves cry? 

Below, I attached a short film showing baby calves crying ... they are baby boys ... they are hungry, afraid, helpless and deeply despairing ... they were separated from their moms just when they were a couple of days old ... they will never get to see their mom again ... in fact, these babies will be killed when they are only 5 day old. This is the only path for baby calves born on the dairy. They are killed if the veal industry and beef industry is low. The rennet in their young stomachs is used for making cheeses. Their bodies are then ground up for animal feed, which is even fed to their own mothers! And their tender skin is used for more expensive leather.

These crates you see in the picture are built small, to confine the calves so they can not move, causing their muscles to be undeveloped and their meat more tender. They are kept in darkness and fed a diet purposefully deficient in iron so their flesh will be pale. These babies desperately suck or lick any iron, like nails that happen to be within reach. Their liquid diet is laced with chemicals, drugs, and antibiotics. They endure this cruel confinement, often covered in their own excrement. Wouldn't you be crying, too?

For those who have never heard calves cry before, please, don't cover your ears, don't shut your eyes, don't block your heart. Because just as we block away from these babies cries, we will block out the cries of human babies whose mothers are killed by bombs and bullets. We will not hear the cries of human babies who are dying of starvation. Who will hear or our own cries if we don't hear the cries of innocent babies?

How should we, who desperately long for mercy, freedom, joy, and respect for ourselves, and for our planet, be the cause of such violence towards the sacredness of life?
We have violated the sacredness of the most intimate function of life, that of a new life desperately needing tenderness and nourishing from a mom!

By ignoring these baby calves cries, we injure the sacredness within ourselves, we injure our essential being, we injure our receptivity and connection to all life. And I know, that deep within us all, there is the urge of nurturing all life and protecting the vulnerable. It is time for us all to awake those beautiful principles within ourselves. It is time to hear these babies’ cries.

Please watch and open your heart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZUh31QjzY&feature=share
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