Go Veg!
Simone showed me that PETA video yesterday and it was really sad. It reminded me a lot of Goldfinger, because the lead singer - John Feldmann - is vegan. On the cd Open Your Eyes, it has a music video to a song "Free Me" about animals rights. In the booklet that comes with the cd, John wrote some information about being vegan and stuff which you can read here. ***You think you know, but you have no idea-This is the diary of the animals you eat and wear. The information you have been told about the food you eat are lies. Milk is good food, they say. It is, if you are a baby cow who has four stomachs and will grow to be 300 lbs in a year.
In order for a cow to produce milk, she must be pregnant. The day her baby is born, he is taken away from her and sent to a veal crate, if he is a male. He will live in this filthy wooden box until the day he dies, sixteen weeks later. If the calf is female, she is put in the vicious cycle of being forced to produce milk and having her babies yanked away until she is worn out by the time she is four years old. There is no retirement home for the enslaved dairy cows, so after her life of misery and pain she is ruthlessly slaughtered and turned into hamburgers.
You think animal products are good for you? The three biggest killers in the US are Heart Disesase, Cancer, and Stroke, all of which can almost virtually be eliminated through a vegan diet. 50% of American males will die of some sort of heart disease. Only 4% of American vegetarian men have that risk. MEAT KILLS!! But don't ask your doctor-the average time spent teaching nutrition in a 4-year medical school is 2-and-a-half hours. That's 2 episodes of "TRL" and 1 episode of "Friends". How much smarter does that make you? Please find the truth for yourself. I know some of you don't think you'll live to be old enough to die of a heart attack or colon cancer, and that's fair enough. I didn't either.
Either way, check this out: The way we raise animals for our own selfish needs is inexcusable. I believe someday we will treat animals now the way some people treated slaves 150 years ago. If the world was vegetarian, no one on the planet would have to starve, the rainforests would nearly stop being cut down, we would live longer and get sick less. The average person gets twice as much protein and way more fat than they need. That's one of the reasons why there are so many fat poeple. A piece of bacon is almost 100 percent fat. This sludge starts clogging up the arteries of kids as young as two. Please don't allow your teachers to make you dissect animals!!! Say no to them. This is your right!! There are so many killer computer programs that your teachers can use to show you the same information without having to kill animals.
I'm a vegan and I still eat rad-tasting food. For anything I used to eat, there is a vegetarian version that tastes better and involves no suffering of any animals. The food is also CHEAP!! Try White Wave's "Wheat Meat," vegan Boca Burgers, Smart Dogs are awesome and Rice Dream is rad on cereal.
You can make a difference. Every person who goes veg saves 83 animals' lives a year! That's 250 sentient beings who don't have to live grueling torturous lives and die bloody gruesome deaths because of your simple choice. Hamburgers don't grow in patches. Chickens aren't pampered. Pigs are as smart as your dog. GO VEG!!
~John Feldmann of Goldfinger~
I think even if there is no chance of you becoming vegan, or even vegetarian, you should read this anyway because you should know what you are eating. No, I'm not a vegan. I've tried, and I feel like shit eating animals. I'm trying to cut down, I really am. I don't eat red meat, haven't for years. Just...give this a chance.
Links: http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=chew_on_this http://www.peta2.com/ot/o-gfinger.html