America has become addicted to meat consumption. Thanks to the fraudulent claims continually presented to us…sponsored by the organizations which make their fortunes in the meat production industry, we have become victims to a way of eating, thus a way of life, that is likely to one day cost us our own.

Central Idea: A vegetarian diet is an ideal diet because it does NOT require inhumane treatment of animals, it does not cause anywhere near the amount of environmental damage as a meat-based diet, and it is far superior nutritionally. Unfortunately, we have been deceived into believing otherwise.

Preview Statement: I am going to set the record straight and tell all of you the truth about the way we have been taught to eat.

You deserve to be given the proper knowledge necessary for making the best possible decisions for yourselves.

1. While it may not be commonly recognized, much of the information that is easily available to us reg

h. Calves raised for veal—the male offspring of cows—are the most cruelly confined and deprived of all factory animals. Taken from their mothers only a few days after birth, which causes severe emotional trauma to both the calves and their mothers, they are chained in stalls only 22 inches wide with slatted floors that cause severe leg and joint pain. Since their mothers’ milk is used for human consumption, they are fed a milk substitute laced with hormones but deprived of iron. Anemia makes their flesh pale and tender but makes the calves very weak. The tender quality considered so desirable in veal is also due to the calves’ atrophied muscles, a result of their inability to even move inside their stalls. When they are slaughtered at about 16 weeks, they are usually too sick or crippled to even walk. 1 in every 10 die in confinement.

c. Much of the excrement from animals used for food production, which amounts to 20 times more than that of humans, flows unfiltered into our lakes and streams.

d. The production of one pound of beef requires 2,500 gallons of water. It takes less water to produce a year’s worth of food for a vegan than to produce one month’s food for a meat-eater.

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