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AnnaLynne
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Aug 02, 2009 08:12PM
Oh. I haven't had one of those in years...
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same here i haven't had any meat products in like forever!!!
Really? I wanted to go vegetarian a couple of months ago but I never got to it...
Meat is so tasty...how can you turn your back on that?
you should read http://www.veggie123.com/veggie/chapt...
it has everything you need to know in a short little synopsis and you will never want to go back :)
Hmm...too longggg...I like meat. Yumyumyum.
Marley wrote: "Hmm...too longggg...I like meat. Yumyumyum."Haha, nice.
I went on a vegan website, but i STILL ate meat afterwards.
it is the ethical way to liveYou’re helping to conserve water. Water is the earth’s most precious resource, and currently about 50 percent of the water in the United States is used to grow crops for grain-fed animals – as opposed to 35 percent that’s used to grow food crops for humans to eat. It takes roughly 15 times as much water to produce the same amount of protein from an animal that we can get from plant sources. Switching to a vegetarian diet is the single biggest thing that you can do to cut down on your consumption of water.
You’re helping to protect the land. Livestock grazing erodes topsoil, drying out the land and making it unusable for other farming. This is one reason why forests are clear-cut at an alarming rate to make room for more cattle grazing – agriculture accounts for nearly 90 percent of the 30 million acres of rainforest that are destroyed each year. Nearly 25 percent of all prescription drugs have a basis in rainforest plants – destroying the rainforest may mean destroying our chances of curing cancer or AIDS.
You’re helping to conserve fossil fuels. In this supply-and-demand world, less demand means less production, which means less consumption of fossil fuels. More than a third of the fossil fuels used in the United States are used by animal agriculture – a calorie of animal protein requires ten times as much fuel as needed to produce a calorie of plant protein. Researchers at the University of Chicago compared the amount of fossil fuel needed to cultivate and process various foods, fuel that’s used to operate agricultural machinery, provide food for livestock and irrigate crops. They also factored in emissions of methane and nitrous oxide produced by cows, sheep and manure treatment. According to the findings, the average American diet that consists of about 28 percent animal foods generates the equivalent of 1.5 tons more carbon dioxide each year than a comparable vegan diet. The researchers pointed out that driving a hybrid car rather than an average vehicle would conserve a little over one ton of carbon dioxide per year – meaning that living a vegan lifestyle reduces more emissions than driving a hybrid car!
You’re making a more compassionate choice. Now that you’ve read about the horrors of factory farming, is that slice of bacon really worth it? There’s a famous quote from George Bernard Shaw: "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity." Many people believe that we have a natural right to kill and eat animals, but think of it this way – imagine a time when an alien species visits our planet. They’re smarter than we are, and have technology far more advanced of our own. And they like to eat meat. So humans become the factory-farmed animals, taken to slaughterhouses – as we cry and scream and fight to no avail – and we’re shoved into pens until such time as we’re marched onto the killing floor, bashed in the head and stripped of our flesh, which is then neatly packaged up for market. It’s a horrible thought – yet that’s what humans do to animals every day. St. Francis of Assisi said, "If you have men who will exclude any of god’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." Choosing a vegetarian lifestyle is choosing the path of compassion.
a little section of the website that explains it all
What? Oh, I didn't read it all, because like I said, I like meat, and I'm gonn aeat it anyway, I'd like to be able to eat without guilt...so, yes, I am choosing to be ignorant, but, oh well.BTW, the Rawr, was just my irritation showing.
Meat is dead, inanimate, has no feelings. Sorry, survival of the fittest, haha, you've probably heard that arguement before.
my grandma loathes that i am vegetarian. it is kinda weird. like i was trying to explain it to her last weekend and she was glaring at me the whole time.....but just before you kill the poor animals they have feelings///
I am NOT reading all 318 new comments :)
Awww :)Oh well! By the way I'm feeling much better ^-^
oh shit.lmfao i'm sure it was terrible!
LOL!!! I am going to Junes house tomorrow, and june is BAD. June is very very bad and very very fun lol
Bye Paige!Pshh who DOESN'T like puppies??
Emily wrote: "Why is June so bad? lol"June does bad things lol, and shes dating a 16 year old, shes 13, and she is fwb with her ex lol i love her.
lmfao! wow she's not bad at all hahai know people in my school exactly like her :) but worse
No she gets worse, she smokes around a pack a week, a blunt every day or so and is borderline alcoholic and unschooled!! I still loves her though.
Oh ok so she's exactly like people I know in my school :D
I leave for two seconds and there's like, 50 new comments.
omg my schedule is going to kill me....
Hey AnnaLynne! *cuts one of your ears off* That's for killing me in the middle of my BLT!!!
Oh man. Now I look like Van Gogh. And sorry about that, no hard feelings though, right?
Cool. Wait, are you sure you've forgiven me? Because it looks like your planning something mischievous. And let me remind you that I didn't kill you, that was all Marley. I just celebrated with her.
Yes you are forgiven. *throws knife into a fire*
Oh no! *runs far far away so Sheeky can't find me*
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