Why People Choose

Veganism?

Why People Choose Veganism?

Animal Cruelty
Animals are sentient beings that feel pain and distress in the
same way humans do.
They also understand kindness and respond to it.
Excluding fish and other sea creatures, over 56 billion farmed
animals are killed every year by humans.
Examples of cruelty:
In the milk industry, baby male cows are considered as waste
and are either killed or suffocated after birth.
In the egg industry, male chicks are also seen as waste and are
thrown away in plastic bags or ground alive.
Animals are objectified by humans. They are only brought into
life to be killed or exploited. Though the Earth is for every
being, they cannot enjoy it.
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Why People Choose Veganism?

Animal Cruelty

Egg-laying hens spend every minute

packed in feces-filled cages. The cages
are so small, hens can barely turn
around and cannot spread their wings.

Debeaking hens

Male chicks are killed by being

dropped into a giant grinding machine.
Male baby cows are
treated as waste and
killed after birth.

Why People Choose Veganism?

Global Warming
Greenhouse gases absorb the heat from the sun and then radiate
it. As a result they make the Earths average temperature rise.
Consequences:
Increased sea level
Stogner storms
Insect Population Boom
(disease outbreak)
More droughts and wildfires
Flood
Farm animals emit methane and nitrogen dioxide that are far
more detrimental than CO2. Methane, for example can absorb
23 times more heat than CO2.
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Why People Choose Veganism?

Global Warming
This graph by NASA shows how drastically greenhouse levels
have increased during the last decades.

CO2 in
ppm

Why People Choose Veganism?

Global Warming
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
in a complete report, estimated that 14.5-18% of all the
greenhouse gases come from farm animals. This is more than all
means of transportation combined.
65% of nitrogen dioxide produced by human are emitted by
farm animals.

Raising animals for food is the leading cause of climate change.

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Water Usage
Meat and dairy production has a huge water footprint.
For 1 Kg of
each

1 burger = 2 months showering: based on taking a 4-minute

daily shower with a normal shower head.
20% of deaths among children under 5 worldwide is due to lack
of access to clean water.
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Why People Choose Veganism?

Land Use
Livestock or livestock feed occupies 1/3 of the Earths ice-free
land.
To grow food for farm animals, the industry destroys
rainforests.
Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 91% of Amazon
destruction.
1-2 acres of rainforest are cleared every second.

Why People Choose Veganism?

Global Hunger
Worldwide, at least 50% of grain is fed to livestock.
Animals are inefficient food convertors.
For example it takes 7 Kgs of
grains to produce 1 Kg of
beef. At the same time grains
provide a lot more calories.

Ratios, grain:
meat

For every 100 calories fed to

animals in the form of humanedible crops, we receive just
17-30 calories in the form of
meat and milk.
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Why People Choose Veganism?

Global Hunger
Nutritious and high-calorie grains and seeds like soy and
corn can be given to people suffering from hunger instead
of farm animals.
Cornell University have done a research and calculated that
if we gave the grains and seeds to humans instead of farm
animals:
We would have 70% increase in our global food stock and
4 billion extra people could be sufficiently fed.

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Slaughterhouse Workers Mental problems
People who work in slaughterhouses choose their job out of
desperation and poverty.
They often lose their sense of
sympathy due to high amounts of
killing per day.
As a result ,they go mentally ill and
sometimes enjoy torturing animals.
Oftentimes they suffer from posttraumatic stress-disorder (PTSD)
since they have to suppress their
natural compassion for the suffering
animals.
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Why People Choose Veganism?

Slaughterhouse Workers Physical problems
Due to constant exposure to animal flesh, these workers are at
higher risk of microbial and viral diseases and cancer
(bronchial and hematologic).
Killing and handling animals is very labor-intensive. This
causes physical problems for these workers such as
continuous muscle pain and numbness.
Some slaughterers have to kill an animal every 12 seconds.

Every Twelve Seconds is the name of a

very controversial book about
slaughterhouses.
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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
Our digestive anatomy is very much like chimpanzees. We
share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees.

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
Ischemic heart diseases are caused by clotting of arteries
(with harmful fats) are number one reason of death in the
world.
Chimpanzees do not develop any ischemic heart diseases as
they only eat fruits and vegetables.

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
There is no cholesterol in fruits and vegetables.
We need no extra cholesterol in our body as it can build the
necessary amount itself.

100 gram Lamb

100 gram Beef
85 mg cholesterol 500 mg cholesterol
4.35 g saturated fat 3.42 g saturated fat
1 egg
211 mg cholesterol
1.54 g saturated fat

100 gram Chicken

85 mg cholesterol
1 g saturated fat
100 fish
62 mg cholesterol
2.52 g saturated fat
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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
In 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) after a 10-year
study by the collaboration of 25 scientists announced that red
meat is highly likely carcinogenic (2a) and processed meat
is carcinogenic (1) to humans.

The media didnt

cover this important
news well.

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
Milk is full of hormones that are intended by the nature for
baby cows to grow very fast.
No mammal in the nature drinks milk after infancy.
66% of milk-producing cows have Mastitis or the painful
inflammationofudder.
Thisconditioncausesahugeamountofpustoenterthemilk.

pus

Duringpasteurizationthepus
getscooked.
Heatresistant
microbes
such as MAP and bacillus
continue to live in milk and
causeillnessesforhumans.
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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
In a large study*, contrary to common belief, it was found
that:
High milk intake was associated with higher mortality in both
women and men, and with higher fracture incidence in women.
Milk protein is called casein and it is converted in our bodies
to Casomorphin which is highly addictive. Casein is found
in all dairy products, esp. cheese.
Casomorphin is a histamine releaser in humans,
causing various types of allergies.
*2014, Milk intake and risk of mortality and fractures in women
and men: cohort studies

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
When we eat eggs, our body produce a substance called
Choline that significantly increases the risk of cancer, esp.
prostate cancer.
In order to digest meat, our body needs to secrete large
amount of uric acid. High concentration of this acid in our
bodies leads to gout, kidney stones and diabetes.

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
Can Vegans get all the nutrition they need?
Omnivore

Vegan

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
Can Vegans get all the nutrition they need?
Omnivore

Vegan

10-15 min in direct

sunlight

Full of saturated
fat, trans fat, and
cholesterol
High risk of Heart
Disease

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Health
Can Vegans get all the nutrition they need?
Vegan
Omnivore
Too much animal
protein (2.4X):
=too much nitrogen
and calcium excretion:
Kidney Disease
Kidney Stones
Cancer
Osteoporosis

Too much sodium

(2X)
(The diet didnt
include salt)
High risk of Heart

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Why People Choose Veganism?

Conclusion
Vegans:
can personally save up to 95 animals a year, and thousands
during their lifetimes.
do not participate in animal cruelty by not paying money to
the meat and dairy industry.
help stopping global warming and world hunger.
consume a lot less water and land for their food.
sympathize with slaughterhouse workers.
have a 32% lower risk of heart diseases and 15% lower risk
of cancer incidence than non-vegans.
get all their nutrition from vegetables, fruits, leafy greens,
beans, nuts and seeds.
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Combatting world hunger

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