Perhaps, I was born with curiosity., Why are you vegan?

Why are you vegan?

Because the difference between my consciousness and the consciousness of a farm animal is not as different as once believed.
Because I wouldn’t want to be confined to a filthy, small, hot cage for my entire life only to be painfully slaughtered at the end of it.
Because animals prove their intelligence more and more every day in scientific studies. They make tough decisions, solve problems, play games and form long lasting relationships. They are conscious creatures and they deserve rights.
Because every living thing deserves to see the sun.
Because eating factory farmed meat isn’t healthy or natural. Eating beef means that you have a 22% chance of eating a cow with “cancer eye.”
Because I wouldn’t kill something to satisfy any of my other senses. The taste of animals is not an excuse for factory farming.
Because farm animals are pumped full of antibiotics, rendering them useless to our bodies.
Because no baby deserves to be ripped from its mother.
Because tossing male chicks into a grinder and feeding them to other animals is disgusting.
Because the dairy industry can’t even live up to their own standards.
Because I could never kill an animal myself and I realize that there is no difference between killing it myself and paying someone else to do it.
Because the factory farming industry doesn’t want anyone to see what goes on in their facilities.
Because the egg industry would rather make money selling maggot and poop covered eggs than protect and respect their own customers.
Because millions of factory farmed animals produce billions of pounds of toxic poop. The industry digs massive holes to dump the fecal matter into. These dumps have resulted in 230 oxygen deprived dead zones in the U.S alone that destroy habitats and effect the health of any humans that may come into contact with it.
Because empathy and apathy don’t mix.
Because it takes 7lbs of grain to produce 1lb of animal protein. Feeding food to food while humans starve is wrong.
Because eating meat is a major factor in global warming, an imminent problem that will affect every living creature on the planet.
Because we are rapidly approaching a water crisis and a vegan diet uses over 50% less water then a omnivores.
Because I love my life and as a societies meat consumption grows so do rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and many other life threatening diseases.
Because being vegan is fun and can inspire you to try foods you never would have dreamed of trying.
Because being vegan can inspire you to lead a healthier lifestyle, causing you to live longer and happier!
Because you wouldn’t eat poop out of a toilet and shouldn’t have it on a hamburger either.
Because there are so many amazing meat alternatives that it is simultaneously selfish and self sabotaging to eat meat.
Because raping animals is disturbing and wrong.
Because working in a factory farm in harmful to employees physical and mental health. The industry treats their workers worse than any other industry.
Because humans don’t have the right to enslave entire species.
Because corporations are driving small farmers to their financial demise and sometimes, suicide.
Because mercury is on the rise once again.
Because shrimping destroys the coral reef.
Because each pound of seafood caught results in the death of over 20lbs of bycatch.
Because an animal that is genetically modified to grow so quickly that it can’t even support its own weight doesn’t sound very tasty.
Because chickens share cages the size of one piece of notebook paper with up to six other animals. The cages are stacked on top of each other and fecal matter falls through the cages and covers the birds. They also grow their feet and wings around the cages bars and have to be painfully pulled out, ripping their bodies apart.
Because “thumping” piglets is considered common practice and humane.
Because chopping off beaks, testicles, and tails without anesthetic causes terrible pain and it happen to every chicken, cow, and pig that you eat.
Because I refuse to support an industry that doesn’t care about how its practices harm living creatures, its own customers included.
Poultry farms are the starting points for many new strains of bacteria and viruses. Pandemic flu viruses are arising more and more frequently as a result of factory farming.
Scientific studies continually show that a balanced vegan diet is much healthier than the diet of an omnivore and that vegans live up to 15 years longer. They have lower risks for cancer, obesity, and heart disease.
As meat consumption increases, so does the need for space. Livestock production is a key factor in deforestation.
Because wildlife is killed to protect farmed animals.
Because it’s just the right thing to do.