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You are what you
eat
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Threat to the planet
Pollution
Water, grain, petrol,pesticide, drug usage
http://www.chooseveg.com/environment.asp
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Environmental impactwater usage
1. http://www.frysvegetarian.co.za/latest-news/meat-free-mondays-officially-launches-in-sa/
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Environmental impactland destruction and extinction
Rainforest destruction for grazing
1. http://www.chooseveg.com/extinction.asp
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Environmental impactland destruction and extinction
http://www.chooseveg.com/extinction.asp
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Environmental impactglobal warming
Raising animals for food generates more green-house gases than all the cars and trucks worldwide1
1. http://www.chooseveg.com/global-warming.asp Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars. UN News Centre, 2006.
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Relative fossil fuel usage
•Manure
• Cow burps and flatulence
• Fossil fuels
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Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms
Confined - can barely move
Veal calves chained by the neck in small stalls
Up to 13 hens crammed in a single cage
www.chooseveg.com
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Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms
Denied veterinary care - profitability
www.chooseveg.com
Hen with a diseased eye Many pigs die from untreated illnesses brought on by poor living conditions
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Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms
Mutilated without painkillers
www.chooseveg.com
De-beaking is very painful for chicks Piglets are castrated, have their teeth clipped and tails cut off without anaesthesia
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Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms
Slaughtered
www.chooseveg.com
Some cattle have their throats slit while fully conscious
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Support Meat-free Mondays!If each South African goes meat free 1 day a week:• 11,200 cows• 2 million chickens• 10,000 pigs• 22,300 sheep
saved WEEKLY1
1. Compassion in World Farming www.support.mtm.co.za
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Take a stand
Vegetarian or vegan diet
Buy responsibly produced products
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