Actually, the opposite is more probably true … Lusk & Norwood performed an economic study in 2009 that showed that not only does a shift towards plant-based foods lower production prices and save consumers money (thereby freeing up capital to be re-invested in local economies), but that it is also much less costly for farmers […]
If you accept the official figures*, about 40,000 meatpacking workers are killed or injured on the job every year in the United States alone. And yet those figures are probably significantly low — due to the meat industry having a well-documented history of discouraging injury reports, falsifying injury data, and putting injured workers back on […]
While going vegan does pull the plug on supporting an industry that primarily employs poor people of color, and while the principle of veganism would indeed be difficult to immediately employ in the very few regions of the world where people are actually starving due to inadequate agriculture, this in no way means that vegans […]
Actually, once again the opposite is true. Not only will a transition from corporate factory farms to vegan farms provide the farming community with more jobs and individual farmers with more money, it will provide them with a far superior work environment to boot! And this says nothing of the peace of mind that would […]
The truth of the matter is — over 99% of all the meat & eggs & dairy products in stores today come from animals who were not only enslaved and murdered in their youth, but who were also treated absolutely horrifically before their terrible end. Indeed, the vast majority of farmed animals today are castrated, […]
First & foremost my Friends, there is absolutely no such thing as “cruelty-free meat” – and there most certainly is no such thing as “humane slaughter” … Leaving aside the fact that many of the most egregious cases of animal cruelty have been documented on “cage-free” &/or “small-family” &/or “animal friendly” farms, every single farmed […]
This might be news to you, but your powerful meat-cravings are not a reason to continue eating meat, they are actually a sign that you need to STOP … It is true that most meat-eaters end up feeling a bit “down” &/or low on energy if they don’t eat meat for a significant period of […]
Well, if you don’t eat much meat to begin with, then it won’t be very difficult at all to give it up entirely for one full month, which is the amount of time it normally takes to wean one’s self from any physical addiction. And remember, while you are weaning yourself of this unhealthy habit, […]
Actually, this rationalization rests on a complete falsehood; a myth of mere convenience as hollow as it is delusional. Research is now consistently showing that fish most certainly do feel pain when they are hooked, and that they most certainly do suffer immensely when pulled out of the water to suffocate to death on dry […]
Ummmmm … NO — you really don’t. It is actually completely unnecessary to eat any fish (or any other sentient form of sea life) to obtain more than enough Omega-3 fatty acids in one’s diet. Current status of this Myth: Deleted Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE
As it turns out, I am more sympathetic to this particular argument than most others, if for no other reason than I myself was an “ethical vegetarian” (an oxymoron, of course, as I ultimately came to understand) for over nine years before finally going vegan. I too was unaware of the sordid Truths that the […]
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