13. Our environment also includes the animals killed for their meat. It has become an accepted face that today’s factor-farmed animals live short, miserable, unnatural lives…
14. Because it can cost hundreds of dollars per minute to stop the conveyor line, animal welfare comes second to profit. Over 150,000 animal are ‘’processed’’ every hour of every working day in Canada, according to Agriculture Canada. The picture gets uglier still. En route to slaughter, farm animals may legally spend anywhere from 36 to 72 hours without food, water or rest. They’re not afforded the ‘’luxury’’ of temperature controlled trucks in extreme summer heat or sub-zero cold. Agriculture Canada has estimated that more than 3 million Canada farm animals die slow and painful deaths en route to slaughter each year….
15. Although it is difficult to face these harsh realities, it is even more difficult to ignore them. Three times a day, you make a decision that not only affects the quality of your life, but the rest of living world. We hold in our knives and forks the power to change this world.
16. Consider the words of Albert Einstein; ‘’Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
17. Bon appetit.
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