People have been eating animals since they were created??? Why should we stop now??? Cause they're are a lot dying everyday? That's not a farm problem that's an over production problem
Created? By who? Are you suggesting that independent, intelligent, sentient beings were created by some deity purely so that we could pack them in factory farms and slit their throats? If your argument rests on that assumption then you’re not going to convince very many people; certainly not me. We’ve been committing incest, infanticide, rape and murder since we were recognisably human as well, that doesn’t mean we should keep doing it today. It’s not an “overproduction problem”, we breed so many animals into existence because people create demand by buying animal products; people like you.
I’d hope that the fact that animals are suffering horrifically purely for purposes of taste, convenience and tradition would be enough of a reason to stop eating them, but if you really need more reasons to stop eating animals, then here, have a whole bunch:
Cows only produce milk when pregnant and after birthing
Dairy cows restrained and forcibly impregnated
Dairy calves taken from their mothers
Calf seperation causes extreme distress
Dairy calf mother’s exhibit prolonged depressive states
Dairy calves killed after birth
Dairy cows killed when production slows
22.1% of female cows sent to slaughter pregnant
Throat slitting as kill method standard industry practice
Egg hens live 12-18 months
Hens kept in constant bright light to manipulate cycles
Poultry have the end of their beaks seared off
Poultry cannibalising due to overcrowding
Chickens dragged through electrified pools
Male chicks ground up alive
Free range does not mean kept outside
Free range no requirement for number of birds, space per bird, or slaughter method
Most piglets castrated without anasthetic
Most caught fish die from suffocation and stress
Current demand for animal products can only be met by factory farming
Illegal in several states to film conditions inside slaughterhouses
Emerging diseases in managed populations of bees could be a significant cause of wild bee decline
Queen bees artificially inseminated
Beekeepers using smoke to panic and disorient bees
Beekeepers burning hives during winter to cut costs
Managed honey bees compete with wild pollinators and lower the effectiveness of their pollination
Meat consumption driving global species extinction
UN urges move to meat and dairy-free diet
UN’s report on environmental impact of animal agriculture
Animal waste causing ocean dead zones
Beef production linked to deforestation
Global meat production and consumption continue to rise
Animal agriculture water use unsustainable
1,000 gallons of water produce 1 gallon of milk
1/3 of planet’s land surface and 2/3 of available agricultural land used for grazing farmed animals
2.5 acres of land are used per cow
Between 65% and 88% of the deforestation of the Amazon is due to cattle ranching
Leather production uses harmful acids, salts, fungicides, bactericides, chromium, sulphides and sulphates
100% of water used in tanning discharged as poisonous effluent.
Animal agriculture responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions
Emissions for agriculture projected to increase 80% by 2050
7 million pounds of excrement produced by animals raised for food in US per minute
Farm with 2,500 dairy cows produces same amount of waste as city of 411,000 people.
2.7 trillion marine animals pulled from oceans each yeah
For every 1 pound of fish caught up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species caught and discarded as by-kill
2 billion pounds of bycatch pet year
300,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises caught in nets per year
37 pounds of “feeder” fish to produce 1 pound of commercially sold fish
Fishing severely damaging local ecosystems
Wild bees better pollinators than domestic honey bees
Domestic honey bees spreading diseases to wild bees
Domestic honey bees not endangered, many species of wild bees are.
Thousands of seals being shot to keep salmon industry going
Eating vegan could save 8.1 million human lives per year
Animal agriculture severely effecting local communities
Human rights abuses rife in slaughterhouses
Prevlance of PTSD and alcohol abuse in slaughterhouses
Alcohol abuse prevalent in slaughterhouse workers
Slaughterhouse workers have high rates of injury
Many slaughterhouse workers poor immigrants with no other choice
Workers at animal farms exposed to antibiotic resistant bacteria
Many workers in slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants face real risk of losing limbs
Animal agriculture industries delay compensation claims from workers and take reprisals against those who file them
Poultry workers denied breaks, forced to wear diapers
Livestock consume 70% of all grain we produce
Livestock consume 75% of all soy we produce
Livestock accounts for 1/5 of all water use
An acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, or 250 pounds of beef.
Water footprint of any animal product larger than water footprint of a wisely chosen crop product with equivalent nutritional value.
Farmed animals take in more calories than they give out in meat
4 billion people globally live on a primarily plant based diet
Animal agriculture heavily subsidised by taxpayer
Indigenous communities threatened by ranching
Counties with larger nonwhite populations home to more factory farms
Animal agriculture industries structurally are racist
Over-fishing threatens the food security of around 200 million people
Food shortages could force the world to give up meat
American Dietetic Association on vegan diets
National Health Service on vegan diets
Academy of Nutrition and Dietitics on vegan diets
US National Library of Medicine on vegan diets
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on vegan diets
UN report on impact of meat on health
Physician’s Committee on meat consumption and cancer link
Red and processed meats linked to mortality
Eating red meat may shorten lifespan
World Watch Institute health risks of rise in global meat consumption
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat
Vegans have significantly lower risk of early death
Vegans have substantially lower death rates than meat-eaters
80% of antibiotics sold in US fed to livestock
Extensive use of antibiotics in intensive livestock production major cause of the increase in antibiotic-resistant diseases in UK
Swine flu pandemic linked to factory farming
Bird flu pandemic linked to factory farming
Gut bacteria on 97% of retail chicken breasts
More e-coli deaths caused by poultry than any other commodity
Considering the only honest reason most meat eaters can give in favour of eating animals is “because they taste good,” that should be plenty.