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An appropriate day for raising a meat-eater’s awareness.
“On one hand…being vegan is about saying no. It’s about saying no to suffering, exploitation, and violence. It’s about saying no to unhealthful and unnecessary food. It’s about saying no to the wasteful abuse of natural resources and the destruction of the remaining wild places in the world.

But at its core, being began is about saying yes. It’s about saying yes to our values; after all, what’s the use in having values if they don’t manifest themselves in our behavior? It’s nice to say that we’re against violence and cruelty. Most of us are. But how many of us actually take these abstract values and put them into concrete action? For me, being vegan, which extends to every area of my life, is an opportunity to do just that: to put my abstract values into concrete action.”

-The 30 Day Vegan Challenge, by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

“[T]hose who claim to care about the well-being of human beings and the preservation of our environment should become vegetarians for that reason alone. They would thereby increase the amount of grain available to feed people elsewhere, reduce pollution, save water and energy, and cease contributing to the clearing of forests.…

“[W]hen nonvegetarians say that ‘human problems come first’ I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.”

- Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer

Other Food for Thought:

On top of the obvious moral and ethical concerns for animal rights, it is also important to observe the environmental reasons to eat more consciously.
- Replacing red meat just one day a week could cut an individual’s annual emissions by the equivalent of a 1,160-mile car trip.
- If everyone in the U.S. ate no meat or cheese just one day a week, over a year, the effect on emissions would be the equivalent of taking 7.6 million cars off the road.
- The major sources of pollution of clean water sources are from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feedcrops, and sediments from eroded pastures.
For more environmental reasons, please visit http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/environment.html
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