[orlanda]

Meat is Murder. Not just of animals who fight the knife as any human would fight the knife, but of ourselves and of the planet.
Many of the world's leading climate change scientists agree farming of meat animals contributes to one third of the world's greenhouse gasses. Most deforestation occurs to find more land for meat production. There are many websites which will show how much water is used to produce 1 kilo of meat or milk. It's beyond belief we humans allow our own destruction when it is so easily avoided. I stopped eating meat after watching the DVD Earthlings. I was appalled. I never even thought of animals and I called myself an animal lover. I was a total hypocrite.
As someone in the medical field and with several science degrees to my name I've read many studies which link animal and dairy products to cancer and heart disease. It is the major cause. In Australia the Heart Foundation is now recommending no meat on tv commercials. Only the marketing hype of the meat and dairy industry keeps alive the myth that meat and milk are healthy.
Violence to animals is linked in many studies to violence to people. I found it easy to stop eating meat. Every vegan I've met said it was easy to stop. We now have Animal Law in our Universities, the next step in ending their abuse. Acting kindly to animals instead of butchering them and abusing them in every way humans know how will be the start of a kinder world. If we can care for creatures that are so alien to us, we begin the journey to caring about those who are not so different. Many of the foremost advocates for animals were also advocating for the end of abuse to humans.
Only non-compassionate, non-caring humans or the truly ignorant and apathetic could eat meat. The information is so widely available now there is no excuse to remain ignorant and to choose not to care.
A hundred years ago slavery of negroes was acceptable. Less than 50 years ago child abuse was acceptable. Women's rights were non existent. Animal rights is the next great social justice movement. The fact that meat farming and dairy farming are so closely linked to climate change is a godsend for animals. In the current environmental awareness climate, and the awareness of cancer causes and causes of obesity and other diseases such as diabetes, animals might finally get the break they need to break the cycle of animal holocaust. Stop the animal holocaust. Go Veg. Stop the horror in which every meat eater and milk drinker is complicit.