#whyiamvegan

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#whyiamvegan #vegan these people have been fighting for decades. They don't have clean water, the side of their houses are covered in feces and the smell they can't get out (at Durham, North Carolina)

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"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body."

Mahatma Gandhi

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"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."

Peter Singer

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Because they are not food.

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“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”

Jonathan Safron Foer, Eating Animals

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“Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?”

Jonathan Safron Foer, Eating Animals