“Animals and humans suffer and die alike. If you had to kill your own hog before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. To hear the hog scream, to see the blood spill, to see the baby being taken away from its momma, and to see the look of death in the animal’s eye would turn your stomach. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you. In like manner, if the wealthy aristocrats who are perpetrating conditions in the ghetto actually heard the screams of ghetto suffering, or saw the slow death of hungry little kids, or witnessed the strangulation of manhood and dignity, they could not continue the killing. But the wealthy are protected from such horror. . . . If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.”
479 million goats/year [1]🌱 574 million sheep/year [1]🌱 656 million turkeys/year [1]🌱 69,000 million chickens/year [1]🌱 1,500 million pigs/year [1]🌱 302 million cows/year [1]🌱 at least 900,000 million fish/year [2]🌱 at least 300,000 whales and dolphins in fishing bycatch/year [3]🌱 250,000 endangered turtles in fishing bycatch/year [3]🌱 salmon farms pass diseases to wild fish populations [4]🌱 carnivorous fish farms require even more wild fish feed [5]🌱 1/4 shark species threatened with extinction due to fishing [6]🌱 77% agricultural land for only 18% calorie/37% protein supply [7]🌱 livestock account for 31% of food emissions [8]🌱 twice as many emissions for livestock over crops for human consumption [8]🌱 only 6% of soy is grown for humans [9] 🌱 animal farmers given legal exception to bestiality laws [10]🌱 environmental racism of placing polluting animal farms in marginalized areas [11]🌱 65% lactose intolerance worldwide, higher in POC [12]🌱 right-wing ideologies predict greater acceptance of animal exploitation and more meat consumption [13] 🌱 milk and ties to nazis [14] 🌱 working in animal slaughter tied with PTSD, increased violent crimes [15]🌱 imported colonizer animals replacing native biodiversity[16] 🌱 farmed honeybees endanger critical native pollinaters and reduce species biodiversity [17]🌱 human slavery in fishing supply chain [18]🌱 amazon rainforest & indigenous homes destroyed for harvesting and feeding cows [19]🌱 watchdominion.com [20] 🌱 go vegan [21]
1 https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production 2 http://fishcount.org.uk/published/std/fishcountstudy.pdf 3 https://www.fishforward.eu/en/project/by-catch/ 4 http://www.eurocbc.org/Effects%20of%20Aquaculture%20on%20World%20Fish%20Supplies.htm 5 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0379
6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897121/
7 https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
8 https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions 9 https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/soybeans 10 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320208999_How_Meat_Changed_Sex_The_Law_of_Interspecies_Intimacy_after_Industrial_Reproduction
11 https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC1440786&blobtype=pdf 12 https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/lactose-intolerance/#frequency 13 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886914000944 14 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1373&context=asj 15 http://animalstudies.msu.edu/Slaughterhouses_and_Increased_Crime_Rates.pdf 16 https://ourworldindata.org/what-are-drivers-deforestation 17 https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/ 18 https://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Issue_Paper_-_TOC_in_the_Fishing_Industry.pdf 19 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/brazil-halt-illegal-cattle-farms-fuelling-amazon-rainforest-destruction/ 20 https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch 21 https://veganbootcamp.org/
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