1. A vegan requires 1/6 of an acre for food per year. A lacto-ovo vegetarian 3 times that. A meat-eater 20 times that.
2. A vegan’s food uses 300 gallons of water a day. A lacto-ovo vegetarian 4 times as much. A meat-eater 14 times as much.
3. In the U.S. animals raised for food create 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population.
4. This pollutes the waterways and kills aquatic life.
5. Farming animals requires more than 1/3 of all greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels in the U.S.
6. And has detroyed 3/4 of the topsoil.
7. Even prisons aren’t as crowded as factory farms.
8. Everyone wants to be free.
9. Animals feel fear and don’t want to die.
10. When animals feel pain they scream too.
11.It takes a small person to kill a defenceless animal and a even smaller one to eat one.
12. Speciesism is the ‘most extreme’ form of racism.
13. No animal deserves to die for your taste buds.
14. You wouldn’t eat your pets.
15. No living creature wants to see their family slaughtered. Animals love their young and mourn their loss.
16. ‘Might doesn’t make right’ eventually people recognised that abuse of other humans is wrong, it’s time other species got some consideration.
17. Every year 40 million people die of starvation related causes. They could be fed by the crops exported to feed farm animals.
18. Nobody should have to kill for a living. Working in a slaughter house has the highest rate of injury and illness.
19. Eating animal products causes heart disease. A vegan diet can reverse this.
20. In every package of chicken there’s a little poop. 98% of chicken carcasses had detectable levels of E.coli.
21. Eating meat and dairy products makes you fat. 18% of Americans are obese, only 2% of vegetarians are.
22. You shouldn’t have to lie to your children about the food they eat. The violence involved would horrify a lot of them.
23. Commerce is no excuse for killing. The slave trade used to be profitable too.
24. ‘Meat’ is just a euphemism for a decomposing corpse used as food.
25. If you wouldn’t be able to kill the animal yourself, why should someone have to do it for you?